TENET Explained! Full Movie Timeline & Final Scene Breakdown (Spoilers)

Tenet Timeline Breakdown! How does the “time inversion” in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet movie work, exactly? Go to expressvpn.com/newrockstars and find out how you can get 3 months free.
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Christopher Nolan’s Tenet Full Movie Explained! What is each main character’s timeline in the Tenet film, including John David Washington’s protagonist, Robert Pattinson as Neil, Elizabeth Debicki as Kat, and Kenneth Branagh as Sator? What is the deeper twist of the final shot of the film? What is the objective of the final battle in the movie? Erik Voss breaks down all of your biggest questions from Tenet - its concept, its characters, its chronology, and the deeper layer of meaning you might have missed. We apologize if you haven’t been able to see the movie yet due to restrictions in your area, but the millions of viewers who have seen this movie across the world are demanding answers. Be warned that this video does contain major SPOILERS for the entire plot of Tenet and its ending. If you haven’t seen Tenet yet, definitely bookmark this video and return to it after you’ve been able to see it!
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Erik here! To those venturing down into the comment section of this video, be warned, if you have not seen Tenet, you may accidentally scroll past a SPOILER for the film. We've done our best to make sure the video title, thumbnail, and opening moments do not outright spoil any major plot points. But we cannot guarantee the comments on the video won't be so careful in their discussion of the film's timeline. Tread carefully and we'll see you after you see Tenet!

[@Mr.CreamCheese69]

This movie. Is. Absolutely. Incredible.

[@Mr.CreamCheese69]

I saw it 3 times. And im going again and again and again until I got it down. I cannot let this go to vod until I've understood it

[@ccole99]

Wow!!! Good work!!! Very good video!!! The best hands down I have seen this movie explained so far!!!

[@TUNK92]

How often did you see the movie?

[@michaelkelsay4559]

Q Lo

[@MrManan10101996]

After watching this I realised that Inception was a piece of cake to understand.

[@sukiratgrewal]

My brain is fucked

[@alien4693]

hahahahaha! 😂

[@nitesh7322]

Inception was super easy to understand but this!!! Its been a week and m looking for answers!! My head hurts

[@moisesinfantes2797]

​@@sukiratgrewal I watched this movie today and I was confused to the bone.

[@PriteemBehera]

For me this is the only movie that topped my list above Inception. But inception is more than a movie, it's an emotion. Can't beat that.

[@Ajay-vv4sd]

Dark : it is difficult to understand Inception: hold my beer Tenet : beer my hold

[@jkatarn]

reeb ym dloh

[@MrAlcoholic007]

Tgat us indeed genius 😀

[@Grazie7]

🤣🤣🤣

[@ReaganWForrest]

Hold your own beer

[@RatBonez11]

Nolan's Memento is a mind bender as well. There's a video of Nolan explaining Memento and it is mind boggling. A lot of planning goes into such ideas and I feel the payoff is rewarding because the films are astoundingly unique.

[@alexdontmatter]

Why is nobody talking about the express vpn fuckery going on

[@iso_2013]

I'm convinced it was changed sometime in the last few months. Otherwise nobody would know what's going on 😂

[@jirivlcek3288]

Exactly what I was looking for I had to close my eyes and listen only because it was so confusing, and I just saw this movie just now for the first time, or last time?

[@Dingusmaningus]

Bring it up again and you'll be a Boeing whistle blower

[@TheOfficialDeVil]

Still needs fixin

[@vbdulrahim]

exactly!!

[@pejhosgatsiona6137]

Just rewatched this movie last night. Will watch it for the 1st time last year.Robert Pattinson is a phenomenal actor and I hope he doesn't get fantasy roles, like vampires, in the past.

[@willfisher857]

or like a crime fighting hero 10 years before now

[@bahirkakar6904]

damn

[@tmmnago2722]

What’s up with Pattinson and bats.

[@Daswaggermasta]

This comment was soo good

[@WitnessRAH]

Yes, you won

[@williammartinez60]

Saw this movie for the 2nd time today. Will see it for the 1st time tomorrow.

[@H4Jack]

Haha. *reads comment*

[@CosmicCitiZenOfficial]

!aaHaaH

[@raguel7407]

Can't wait to see this comment for the first time

[@northmilan3883]

One of the best comments I read ever! - I will become wealthy

[@_robyn_]

I am going to come across this comment in exact 342 days, I'll drop a like then

[@DomeTheory]

If they make a second tenet movie of protagonist recruiting neil it will simultaneously be the sequel and prequel for this movie 🤯

[@chenugent]

Mind = Blown, unless, my mind is unblowing? (Inception horn)

[@brontelee6726]

Would watch

[@lucyricardo8713]

Damnnnnnnnnn

[@amyyamilet6863]

This is facts

[@aadilshaikh2052]

0

[@flyppster]

The ending to this got me. Knowing your best friend is going to die for you and you can't do anything about it.

[@sirthursday6159]

Not only can you do nothing about it, you have to recruit your friend knowing he'll be killed because of it

[@captainradio5894]

Not only can you do nothing about it, but nobody in the movie theatre knows that or knows that he’s going to die or knows why they are in a sandy war zone.

[@98loud]

I mean tbf, you also know you have a ton of time left them with even after they die. It's comforting in a way, like you got the hard part over with first

[@davidrobinson9528]

Saw the movie and lost. Who is the friend that’ll die and why

[@MoneyTrees2012]

@davidrobinson9528 Robert Pattinson's character. Protagonist from the future recruits him, they become good friends but then he gives his life for younger Protagonist to succeed in their mission

[@Stumme-40203]

I love when Neil knows what drink the protagonist likes. At first it just seems like Neil did a lot of reading up on the protagonist’s file, when in reality it’s because they’re best friends. The protagonist just doesn’t know it yet.

[@cardboardbox9977]

I walked out the theater backwards just to troll people

[@TheColombianSpartan]

Madlad

[@oanabalaci1107]

Thought i was the only one

[@hassanfalah6255]

Me 2

[@DarkJak]

Considering they watched the movie, it would have been troll walking into the movie backwards.

[@cardboardbox9977]

@@DarkJak don't give me any ideas😂😂😂

[@arctan5837]

Robert Pattinson is such a good actor. I hope he doesn't end up being cast in a vampire movie.

[@-Idonotknow]

ikr i love his acting except for that movie

[@ayoolu179]

😁😁😁. Nice comment.

[@balazsmolnar8553]

:-D

[@nnamenearinze6086]

I see what you did there 🤣

[@briancoote7255]

I see what you did there.

[@richardomier5501]

There's also Kat's line about Max saying he's "everything." Not just a loving mother. But a clue that Max is Neil and Neil is perhaps the true hero of the film.

[@user-bp4qq7tt1u]

maybe the name protagonist is a play on this too.. protagonist thought he was the real and only protagonist but it was really neil the whole time

[@jafuni9349]

Whoa!!! 🤯

[@pukebigot]

I have to give mad props to Nolan for being able to put together and work such intertwined, yet individual timelines for all major characters. I also have to give YOU props for being able to understand and decrypt them all for us with this great vid! In the end, if Nolan decides to push the mindfreak complexity factor much past this is his future films, he may very well lose many of his fans. If it takes watching the film, watching an explanatory video, then rewatching the film again two or three more times before it starts to come together in your head, I’m betting most people won’t pay that price to recognize the genius in the plot and layout. Just my 0.02

[@filipbozic4303]

That's what I love about this "complex" movies. Keeps me engaged even after watching and makes it a good puzzle or brain teaser to think about and entertain you for much longer than the duration of the movie

[@CHEEEZ-UK]

Makes a great rewatch though I've seen in 3 or 4 times now over a few years and I'm still getting my head around it and the action scenes are unique enough to keep you engaged. This movie is hard to switch off also, if I catch a few minutes of it I have to finish it

[@LoganScottY]

Stanley kubrick didnt become a living legend by dumbing his movies down. 2001 : A Space Odyssey is a great example. It took a while for people to catch on. Tenet will be more appreciated in the years to come.

[@deluisterij]

Instead of an Oscar, I think Nolan was going for a PhD.

[@pvp214]

Lmao

[@kbg8206]

Deadly lmfao

[@BestInTheWorld365]

Well he wasn't going for box office hits. Bazinga!

[@PopoyDominguez]

LoL! 😂

[@danielmedeiros202]

😂

[@TheMajestic247]

Turns out this explanation video was what inspired Chris Nolan to produce the movie Tenet. True Story 🤯

[@billionairelifestyleclub1821]

That honestly makes the most sense!

[@chaosistic]

It’s like Back To The Future on steroids

[@perpetual_bias]

hahaha couldn't've said it better. you'd think the explanation video would be less complicated but tbf, if nolan let us hear what his actors were saying...

[@BadmanLu]

@@perpetual_bias facts I couldn’t hear shit 😂

[@sunkneee]

Comment of the year.

[@jeroldrojas671]

I think your video got mess up because its unsink at time stam of 7:24

[@JSmith-sm6fv]

Is this video also inverted 💀

[@davidmesler3718]

Facts 😭

[@muzhameerputra]

Tenet: hold my beer Inception: Our movie is the hardest movie to understand!

[@gummojunt]

underrated comment

[@ailiilegayo8013]

tenet: beer my hold

[@adebayokehinde1580]

I see what you did .. 😄

[@walimorris2406]

lol nice one.

[@saurabhsonic]

nice!!

[@simaooliveira7805]

Me finally understands "inception"* Nolan: hold my script

[@primeoctober]

LMAO this movie was wayyy crazier than inception imo

[@mikep197]

Perfect!

[@Bohemian0522]

Try "Memento", understand the whole plot in the first time.

[@wednesdaymorbs6508]

Okay!!!! Lol lol

[@ShaaasWorld]

LMFAOOO YUP😂😂😂😂

[@gracetam8858]

Is the voice and video off for anyone else?

[@iurk0_streaming]

Neil's advanced degree in physics served a singular purpose: Help Neil understand all the time inversion and overlapping of timelines he would need to do

[@TheRedspartan99]

Robert Pattinson performance in this was phenomenal, definitely made the ending better with their goodbye scene

[@sayanghosh520]

In upcoming 2-3 years Tenet will be recognised as Christopher Nolan's best movie and obviously one of the best movie of all time.

[@Colt8722]

@@sayanghosh520 how do you figure

[@sayanghosh520]

@@Colt8722 some people are thinking this film as confusing, they will slowly figure out that this is genius not confusing.....

[@Colt8722]

@@sayanghosh520 I understand it. Its genius. I just feel Rian Johnson's film "Looper" is similar enough to Tenet and I think from a story telling perspective Looper was superior.

[@Colt8722]

@@sayanghosh520 tenet is well made. Its different. But Looper succeeded in a way without overly confusing the audience. Tenet is designed to be seen multiple times. The more you see it, the more it will make sense. Looper can be understand rather easily watching it the first time.

[@Copacetic94]

I feel like Nolan had to explain the context of every scene like 10 times to each actor, and even then they were thinking “I’ll just do my lines and make this look cool”

[@dharmani_youtube]

Sadly it seems like this is what actually happened given the actors have expressed that they didn't understand the movie and just trusted his vision

[@SirMoeThe2nd]

Haha, like Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd in Trading Places. He said he just did the lines but couldn't understand a thing about trading.

[@jeromelawrence6746]

Hahahaha

[@OmgitsNeens]

Probably why the dialogue felt so wooden from literally every actor. The poor script probably played a part in that too though.

[@MollyFC]

The editors must have had a hell of a time.

[@wessamawad11]

I feel what would have made the movie a little bit more understandable is if Nolan included dates and time stamps in the movie to have a clearer view on things.

[@oliver_siegel]

Okay there's totally a scene missing where, in the future, an aged Protagonist recruits a young Neil, and is preparing him to spend several years of his life inverted... That scene would have really rounded out the movie, emotionally and logically.

[@oliver_siegel]

Or the whole movie from the perspective of Neil... 🤔

[@julianmoors47]

This film is the end of a long line of tenet films not yet created

[@chadpowell1832]

What I got from this movie “Don’t try to understand it, just feel it”

[@TheREALJohnL]

When that bass kicks in during the truck heist, you best believe I felt it in the IMAX theater.

[@spaghe7]

@@TheREALJohnL I was at the very top row of the theater and let me tell you... my soul was knocked of my body when that sequence played

[@legrandhanf]

I’m going to watch it in Dolby and am a bit scared for my health

[@cmcki2008]

John G same here. I sure missed the theater

[@jjoe7078]

@@legrandhanf saw it in imax and dolby. the bass just fills you. you will literally vibrate. I had a water bottle next to me and that was shaking like a motherfucker in the truck heist John was talking about.

[@joshuafugate9648]

I feel bad that Christopher Nolan clearly spent a lot of time carefully planning out this storyline, but nobody understands it.

[@slimezz4680]

Yeah I agree. And that's why everybody is saying the movie is trash..... They don't even take time to try understanding it lol

[@cloudygor8948]

As you've said Nolan clearly spent a lot of time on this, so he'd be very upset if you do.

[@thymn4384]

I agree, but he could have been a little clearer during the movie. If you mis 1 sentences it could lead to not understanding the entire movie.

[@NoNotanalien]

Most persons are easily confused

[@at_oussama]

the film clearly has an average storyline, but an elevated masterpiece level writing and concept. those two things can exist in the same universe, which is why i gave this film a 7/10, its ambitious but held down by spy genre tropes, and forgettable secondary and tertiary characters

[@Jabid21]

Makes me wonder how far back in time the Protagonist went to start Tenet. It seems the inversion goes at the same rate as forward timeline without a possibility to ‘jump’ between time so you cannot go back to ‘real time’ at all. Therefore, the protagonist had to wait for Max/Neil to grow old enough to recruit him then stay inverted long enough to go far back to start and grow the organization before the Kyiv/Stalsk-12 showdown.

[@i.am.10vely]

Btw the video is messed up from minute seven on, not sure what happened

[@Jarake]

Blame it on Express VPN.

[@YordaddyAlvarez44]

On my way to watch Tenet, it was a great movie.

[@Rebel940]

Did you put a invert reference here? You said “ on my way to watch Tenet,” ok. Then you say, “ it was a great movie” . So did you invert yourself to go back in time to the movie again? Heads up, don’t make contact with your past self.

[@JoJo-zd5tm]

🤯

[@ARDBOD13D]

HahHahah

[@nizarzulkafli719]

enjoy watching it reversely

[@juanrivascaban9108]

this NEEDS to be the top comment!

[@doublesatisfaction6566]

Nolan: Yes. Audience: Is this film about time travel?

[@fanboy5272]

Enod ylecin

[@kanutomer8102]

Desufnoc M'i

[@balajihendrix3324]

YOU GOT EXACTLY !!!

[@rog3rskunk84]

WOW

[@evansmeki4057]

what you did there i see

[@Jeminye511]

Crazy you mention Oppenheimer, just as I’m watching this on July 24 2023 as Nolan’s next film ‘Oppenheimer’ just premiered

[@wolverif6406]

Ikr and im looking for this comment too

[@legacytournament]

Oppenheimer was cited in the movie

[@havocspree]

I was waiting for the closing credits at the start of the movie

[@gamgammerz]

Scrolling upwards or downwards???

[@hurzband_]

The director must have asked the Actors to just play their role and Ignore understanding the full story-line because "Ignorance is our Ammunition"

[@alciortiziii]

Ignorance is also Christopher Nolan's ammunition

[@waseem7195]

Lol that really was their line

[@tanakacee6804]

lol good one

[@TsarOfRuss]

😂😂😂😂 an absolute bliss my brother!

[@chovue2363]

I've given up on understanding the ammunition, I just catch it.

[@patrickpierre4075]

I've never watched a movie where my brain cannot decide if the movie was good or bad. Was this even a movie? Am I even alive? Who is this?

[@AleksandarIvanov69]

Interesting fact, his daddy was the lead in a very similar movie. Coincidence ?

[@patrickpierre4075]

@@AleksandarIvanov69 That's right, I remember that movie. "Deja Vu" right?

[@AleksandarIvanov69]

@@patrickpierre4075 Yeap :) I liked it a lot and of course Denzel made it even better for just being in it

[@adamjones-ps]

I think it was good. Just can't understand it. If that makes sense.

[@marker710.]

😂⚰️

[@LuciferMorningstar-dp7by]

This movie is so far ahead of its time and that is the reason why it couldn’t reach the widespread popularity equal to that of inception and interstellar. Definitely my 2nd favourite Nolan movie after Inception. It’s a masterpiece and I hope with time people will understand it and give more respect to it….

[@AL-ej2oc]

"This movie is so far ahead of its time" - yes. In every meaning.

[@rafaelalodio5116]

This movie is basically Memento taken to the next level, Memento was composed of two narratives, one moving towards and other backwards, but they were solely narratives. This one the narratives are happening literally and simultaneously.

[@MoreConsole]

I still don't get it

[@finleymorris04]

MoreConsole didn't expect to see you here

[@SphereX253]

Ya, I’m dumb 😭

[@aryangupta1971]

you're not alone, friend.

[@twirlyalloy8952]

“Don’t try to understand it, just feel it”

[@miguelsanchez496]

A whole bunch of timey-wimey stuff.

[@anthonydilshanthamel6727]

Einstein: Time is relative Nolan: Time is my relative

[@alliwanttosayis2144]

Hahahahahhaahha

[@kevinportillo1971]

Ok this one is a good one lol

[@FractalCodex7]

Classic! :D

[@sudha4241]

In my opinion. Its easier than we think if we have clarity on what we want to do My option anyways

[@ejimmichael5768]

😂

[@wolff6592]

The video is screwed up. Watching another

[@TonyTylerDraws]

Upon watching the film again, I realized that the organization doesn’t need to exist past the end of the film. The protagonist could invert backwards for years, recruiting Ives, Neil, and the others, in the Protagonist’s past. The prior operations could have been trying to direct Sator to the other 8 pieces of the algorithm.

[@phaybianlivingston7981]

Holy shit my brain is butter after watching this.

[@israellai]

I thought this would help...but alas

[@RezaqqiMulki]

Haha try watch Dark series on Netflix then your brain will pop out 🤯

[@UGotRedOnU]

Lol, exactly!

[@zzdesolatezz]

I'm even more lost than when I started lol.

[@dodgersdoon1130]

Seriously 🤣🤣

[@IAnonymous3]

I understood the movie completely the first time I saw it. Made perfect sense to me. Said no one ever

[@Specsy2004]

.

[@naimas8120]

LMFAO

[@IAnonymous3]

@@naimas8120 Doc Brown is the only person who could potentially say this…. Perhaps we get him in front of that old Green chalk board and draw the lines out with an explanation. All enthusiastic like….

[@foggyfrogy]

I knew to some extent how it was gonna end but I don't know why it ended the way it ended... If this makes sense 😂

[@danieldussan3666]

God bless you bc that was almost impossible for me

[@pnmenon1522]

This should have been a mini series , if he took the time and explained the same through characters .. this would have been epic ... I was completely clueless what was happening even after watching it thrice.. until I came across your explanation ..

[@gshocksv]

Other Movies: This movie has a lot of plot twists. Tenet: These plots twists have a movie.

[@candygirl246]

I feel, in my heart, like I just watched one of the best movies I have ever seen, but I didn't know what was going on half of the time. 😂

[@mikthe2004]

No. It was confusing shit that no-one could understand. Terminator 1 and 2 - now those were time travel movies that you could understand!!

[@joseocampo7093]

@@mikthe2004 i feel sorry for how pathetic you are

[@mikthe2004]

@@joseocampo7093 I'm 60 and my wife is 43 and looks like Salma Hayek. We live near the beach with our 2 handsome and talented sons. I receive considerable royalties from an invention, so I don't have to work. Do you still feel sorry for me? Tenet was a piece of shit!!

[@stanshady3440]

@@mikthe2004 If you still feel sorry after watching this video I then you need Special ED... , which begs the question of what type of education led to your alleged "invention"?

[@mikthe2004]

@@stanshady3440 You don't need to be particularly smart to have a good idea. C'mon, Tenet was ridiculously pretentious!!

[@marcusr9876]

btw.. speaking at breakneck speeds while trying to explain complex concepts is really helpful champ

[@lukestevens1430]

Right??? I had to rewind so many times cuz he talked so freaking fast

[@kytv9000]

Had to watch it in 0.75 speed.

[@leedex]

Robert Pattinson filmed the movie without knowing what was going on 😂

[@belal650]

Trust me, no one other than Nolan understood it. Imagine the editors.

[@levikolone567]

The fact that Neil spent 30 years or so inverted to meet up with a young Protagonist just to die and then his kid self grows up and does it all over again is insane

[@thejericho]

and he also studied physics all over again, that's the hardest part lmao

[@kimjunguny]

@@thejericho what? he only studied physics once, he never did anything twice. Time is continuous, the movie just states that you can relatively move backwards against the flow of time of other objects. Its still relative, your time is still moving forward, just against everything else(while inverted). Meaning he only ever studies physics once, and does all of what happens in the movie once.

[@darthsilversith667]

My mind is a puddle after reading this

[@kasrashahsavari6451]

@@thejericho no he didn’t. He studied physics before inverting 30 years or maybe during the inversion. You don’t need to study physics again if you’re inverting.

[@IamG3X]

@@thejericho no wonder he so good at physics. He took it definitely.

[@Buzzalu]

TENET was awesome. Just waiting for Dunkirk and Interstellar to be released.

[@ramananbaskar6840]

I see what you did there

[@kapilreang]

I heard Nolan gonna make a movie called Inception too

[@xzzzzx5021]

@@kapilreang and he's gonna direct the batman series too

[@willzjohns556]

So we are going backwards huh

[@Buzzalu]

@@willzjohns556 .era ew seY

[@isaacbourn8031]

the only thing I found confusing was the bullet paradox. If you're hit by an inverted bullet, why do you suffer from an injury after the impact (before, in the bullet's timeline) and why do you only start feeling the injury moments before the impact, instead of your whole life ?

[@Gehir]

Because the bullet has inverted causality from the person's POV, but not the person. The person's inversed from the bullet POV. What you said would make sense if we saw a person and a bullet, both inverted, interact from our POV, and we weren't inversed ourselves.

[@ojaswiishani372]

This movie is so ahead of its time. May be people from future will understand it clearly.

[@ojaswiishani372]

@Jack Torrance 333 maybe

[@ojaswiishani372]

@Jack Torrance 333 like I understood the mechanism but I was unable to link all the parts of movie. Like why Neil said that the protagonist hired him.

[@SamS-sn4uu]

They understand it just fine because they made it

[@theeldenpost]

This movie was so great I can’t wait to go see it tomorrow

[@minhlevuhoang5289]

Maybe they will invert themselves to beat Nolan for making this

[@mdciv2010]

Bringing your brain to the cinema in order to watch CNolan’s movie is no longer enough, you must have a PhD in physics as well.

[@ivobo6227]

Or a spliff.

[@jonathan5067]

@@ivobo6227 or coke

[@MonaeJohnson]

right. I only have a few physics classes under my belt and this was still hard to follow.

[@bretellis]

No. He just makes the storyline and scenes bamboozlingly complex and overdramatized with philosophical dialogue to confused everyone. In actual fact if you had a PhD in physics you still wouldn’t understand it because inverting the entropy isn’t possible unless you’re able to control every atom in the universe . Every single piece of matter and point is connected and linked by cause and effect. You can’t reverse the entropy of individual objects or people. You would need to reverse the laws of physics, all forces etc too etc. It’s just possible. But sure, makes for an interesting movie if your brain doesn’t ruin it.

[@adrianma2758]

@@bretellis Lmfao

[@kinkykirby4798]

Thank you for this explanation! I knew the movie was good but couldn't keep up for the life of me. Will definitely be rewatching.

[@serenagregerson4747]

I just finished and came here to see if I caught on. I did a pretty good job understanding what was going on only because I could see time travel being just like this. The one thing I missed? Never thought the kid was Neil. Wow! And just to say John David Washington is going to be a great actor like his dad!

[@furrukhjamal00]

ok where can I find the video that explains this explanation video?

[@aftermath4096]

his future self will make it in the past

[@lionelprk4088]

lol

[@ilokaharrison1479]

😂😂😂

[@syfond]

Contact Adam from DARK ;p

[@sujalmaskey2444]

🤣🤣🤣.... nice one...i was looking for this comment...

[@user-xn5zk9ib1y]

The truth is in childhood Christopher Nolan's parents didn't give him toys to play so he started playing with clocks and time

[@deepad4546]

Lol

[@garvbakshi6873]

lol

[@KingGreqo]

Easily the best tenet video I’ve seen so far on here. Bravo

[@jaynefaitala-vatau3906]

Thanks for helping to explain. I guessed much of the movie and needed hubby to believe me. Great movie Chris Nolan!

[@klaudio07041985]

Memento and Inception: We're complicated! Tenet: !recnip laropmet ym dloH

[@Perririri]

eimroN

[@luzzafblanfranchi7450]

I ees tahw uoy did ereht

[@prakharsrivastava639]

I am from the non inverted world, Please dont reveal yourselves

[@thecollective2404]

ftw

[@IdentiMind]

Why would you want someone to hold your temporal pincer?

[@derealfantom443]

Christopher Nolan: Yes Producer: How much confusion do you want in this movie?

[@thestranger648]

Oh i get it

[@khoyrulislam]

👏🏽👏🏽

[@wellread8649]

Sey.

[@_denzy_6310]

Haaa

[@ilmanaizad6204]

brilliant!

[@trek7985]

One mistake u did is during the opera scene Neil inverts to the location but he himself is not inverted only his gun was so he never revert himself to Mumbai

[@IamSoylent]

Small thing I suppose but... the turnstiles are not "pincers". The "Pincer Maneuver" is the name given to the type of operation that starts from both "sides" of time and meets in the middle. It's what Sator is doing to always be a step ahead of everyone, but he doesn't know that it's *also* what the Protagonist is doing but on a "wider" timeline. I mapped everything out in a spreadsheet on the 2nd viewing but I have to admit, I completely missed that Max is Neil. Wow.

[@Irishhound]

How does max as Niel work though? He had to go back in time anywhere between 15-25 years. When did he have time to get his masters? He is still aging right so how does the time work? I don't think it does.

[@taegi3990]

This movie called me dumb for 2.5 hours straight. I wanted to understand it SO BAD but i couldn’t for the life of me 💀

[@DialecticRed]

👀 it isn't often I find someone in the KZbin comments with a channel XD

[@rudeboymon3177]

Its even worse if you smoke weed first. I was lost the entire time and I went in thinking the weed would help lol

[@RANA-tr6lf]

Same 🥺🙂

[@jhoserovi29]

It's because nolan failed to deliver the concept, too bad because the plot is actually awesome.

[@Darkness-ie2yl]

for decades hollywood always finds ways to explain everything for us nitwits. but not christopher nolan. no way buddy

[@elongatuspiranha]

This movie is so confusing, that the explanation is confusing.

[@ExcuseMyWeebRudeness]

For real, although it doesn't help that I haven't seen the movie. But people who thought inception was hard to understand is having their brain cells massacred right now.

[@elongatuspiranha]

@@ExcuseMyWeebRudeness Yeah I watched this explained before I even seen the movie. I never do this. I wasn't in the mood to be confused. Inception is nothing compared to Tenet.

[@MirV7]

Its so easy to understand lol. Whats so hard about it?

[@Andarovin]

@@MirV7 It's universally considered a highly confusing film to follow. Troll somewhere else.

[@thorny8013]

@@MirV7 if you think it's easy to understand, then you didn't understand it yet

[@BaldBeardAxeDad]

Watching this masterpiece again for Oppenheimer and I find it so funny that Oppenheimer is still a connection in this film!

[@IanBerg]

Thank you for giving the exposition in a straightforward way.

[@Th_Uslss_Indvdl]

Producer: “How much confusion do you want?” Christopher Nolan: “Yes.”

[@shayankhadem2667]

He's also the producer so.. 😂😂

[@chingkheimang4766]

.seY

[@thevoiceofknowledge176]

PLEASE HELP ME TO REVIEW MY VIDEOS CONTEN

[@akshayjagtap6036]

sey

[@sukiratgrewal]

@@shayankhadem2667 so producer the also he's

[@ryuk4142]

2 min silence for those who watched movie without Subtiles 😔...

[@PROJaiRU]

me...sadly

[@mahalak4383]

😔😔 that will be me

[@StRanGerManY]

While being not native english speakers

[@captainjacksparrow1518]

Lol 2 mins in and I just had to download subtitles.

[@tarunkundhiya5196]

I watched it again, just for understanding with subtitles. I still don’t understand.

[@victorsladkowski]

I really can't decide if this is a good movie or not. It's a fun one to unravel afterwards for sure, the plot is interesting, and some set pieces are great. But is it really all that good of a movie is very few people can follow along as they watch it? Like, very few. You really don't get enough from this movie to start piecing it all together until closer to the end and, even then, the movie gives you no time to catch up.

[@rejusubash5297]

Imagine convincing the producer with the script.

[@sinuslebastian6366]

Reju Subash his wife is the producer! So...

[@Abhinav99922]

wb gave nolan a blank check. Go nuts they said! and he did.

[@adkadk9041]

Nah .nolan simply says his name

[@akashgowda1134]

It’s his wife mate

[@forestvvoods577]

😂😂😂

[@maggotsxcl7403]

Did anyone else notice the broken mirror on the car when they got in it and thought something would happen with it

[@akindejohn7311]

Yeah, they kinda hinted at it. Like Chekov's gun

[@__zellet__1796]

Yes

[@MD-dw7yy]

I just watched the movie. If you’re referring to the broken window on the BMW they did do something with it. Sator’s inverted car hits the side of it when it’s introduced

[@dtable8229]

No

[@steveedmond9362]

100%. The camera made a point of showing it. Like Jurassic Park 'Objects in mirror are larger than they appear'

[@finbox6330]

6:35 if I remember right the mystery person that saves the protagonist in the opera didn’t have his wrists covered which were brown which makes me think it was the protagonist the whole time covering his past selves back. And he also put everything in motion so his past self will be introduced to tenet.

[@imnoone8532]

Ending was 🔥 Is it only me ? I find Christopher Nolan movie endings are the best and emotional.

[@nithinc8638]

I believe the reason why Nolan didn't got an Oscar is that none of the judges understand his movies

[@darlingsweetheart8146]

LMAO

[@mukulsharma1666]

They have a single screening for the jury so it's hard for them to take it all in at once...But yeah he deserves a directing nod anyway...This must've been the hardest movie to direct...

[@riakar586]

Prolly need a good grip in Physics lmao

[@hnguyen218]

Movie was big 🗑

[@mvsprabash]

That's correct, They need to study some subject (Physics)

[@AugustLight]

This will be Nolan’s most underrated film until The Prestige.

[@brandonellis8111]

I see what you did there 😏

[@JimHarm]

The Prestige was actually a great film though, with very real stakes for its characters.

[@narutouchiha5464]

The prestige is one of my favorite movies

[@AugustLight]

@@narutouchiha5464 it’s an excellent movie!

[@1BestEnemy]

@Greta Heisensoy did you just call Interstellar rubbish?

[@ektasaikia7153]

Blimey! It took me rewatching every little act twice or thrice, without moving forward with the movie, to understand this at one sitting. Good thing i couldn't watch it in theaters. I'd have gone bonkers!

[@rhodeschanslor545]

This video both helped me and gave me more questions

[@hershin]

Best movie I've seen this year. I can't wait to watch it.

[@RocksmithPdl]

Lmaooo

[@SwiftFighter]

Underrated comment

[@MegaLilei]

LOL

[@jaymagxc5996]

😂😂

[@eobardthawne6903]

It was the only movie I watched this year

[@austinamestoy2112]

The only people I’d trust to break down this movie

[@fjs0701]

Hi im erik voss hahaha

[@oranmcfarlane5307]

Yep

[@huawafabe]

I would also trust Alt Shift X

[@community647]

Could not resist being that 500th like

[@Nain617]

I agree

[@sctmcg]

I watched this video then inverted and went back to watch the movie - it REALLY helped!

[@scotthanson9563]

I saw inception recently and saw Tenet two days ago. I understand inception a heck of easier than this movie . Christopher Nalon is a master of unique storytelling.

[@obao131]

If someone says that they understood the film the first time, they are lying

[@360.Tapestry]

i understood it until they flipped it and reversed it in the final act. it was too much noise and color coding to follow

[@LOGAN-bf6xu]

Well I guess you have to be on a certain level of intelligence that not very many are on.

[@LOGAN-bf6xu]

@@Lovelylady2324 I pity you. This movie was a masterpiece.

[@360.Tapestry]

@@LOGAN-bf6xu you come off like such a stereotypically douchey 16yo right now lmao

[@LOGAN-bf6xu]

@@360.Tapestry thank you for the constructive criticism, but unfortunately I wasn't talking to you.

[@jamierobertson4139]

One of my favourite parts is the fact that at the end, they perform that ten minute pincer, meeting in the middle, and if you look at the word Tenet its a combination of the word "ten" both forward and inverted, meeting in the middle... so cool!

[@insydian]

Wow, Thanks for blowing my mind.

[@Vhifzvjif]

That’s badass

[@Justin_Credable]

Ah HAH!

[@user-en3yi3qt8b]

Ooouuuuh shit!!!

[@abc-ei3ik]

Palindrome.

[@krishanglover3658]

I'm struggling to understand the cause and effect thing. So if it wasn't for Neil inverting to the past, the protagonist would die at the opera. However, it's because of the protagonist that Neil is able to invert as they know each other in the future. So how can the effect (Neil saving the protagonist) come before the cause (the protagonist making tenet and recruiting Neil) in the sequence? Put another way, how can I travel back in time to save myself from death when I wouldn't be alive in the first place to be able to travel back?

[@TheBreezus]

Because you were always suppose to save yourself. I think this called a predestination loop/paradox or closed time loop. Just like I was always suppose to respond to this comment.

[@generalkenobi9473]

The thing that messes with your mind is the fact that you try to find what came before the loop. You have to realise that it is a never ending cycle with neither a start nor a finish. So this means that a version of you will always be saved by a future version of you and that same version of you will always travel back in time to save a younger version of you. The loop was always meant to happen so that the timeline ensures it's existence in the future

[@deeluve22]

Of all the Tenet Explained videos, this has come the closest to not giving me a migraine! So, thanks!

[@clairdelune9832]

But “Neil” backwards is Lien. So he must be lien about everything.

[@etv2]

that's the point, hes Lien in reverse, so he's telling the truth.

[@apurva6196]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@lburnham13]

It's short for neilimixaM

[@Theaveragegamer_12]

Lien? From RWBY?

[@shanegoody4298]

Lien is Standard Operating Procedure

[@yomasta4ever]

Robert Pattison’s career progressively gets worse in the past.

[@raidendwayne21]

Good one

[@3ndoku5h]

🔥🔥🔥

[@memorylanephotography3387]

hahahahhahaahhaaaahhaaaaaa

[@LevenScholar]

I’d agree but I feel like he was better in Harry Potter than twilight, which means he must have double backed at some point

[@potentialaccident8196]

Well, can't wait for batman now

[@teeada6858]

I am here after watching Tenet. That was such a good movie! But I'm glad that I watched this video to help fully connect the dots. That flow chart was awesome, thank you!!😄😄😄😄👍🏼👏🏽🙏🏼 Oh, yes and I didn't realize that the main character was Denzel Washington's son. I think that he did a really good job in this role.

[@dylanhilts7018]

The Oppenheimer reference lol

[@Toppu]

Year 2020: ends Everyone: phew! Year 0202: *allow me to introduce myself*

[@TheJtorres182]

IT WAS THE ALIEN ROMANS ALL ALONG

[@peparonny1058]

You mean 0S0S 😆😆

[@betiii]

@@peparonny1058 depends on the algorithm xD

[@HomerZorD]

lesym ecudortni ot em wolla ****

[@darlingsweetheart8146]

This funny and creepy at the same time

[@Dear_Avel]

You don’t have to understand the movie because ignorance is going to be your ammunition. Trust you! 😬

[@xbzl1795]

Oh my goooooopood😵

[@hadesofthehell4913]

😂😂😂😂

[@girinandhan1372]

OMG this is actually true.... Like when I put too much pressure to understand it I couldn't enjoy the movie... But when I was going with an ignorant approach trynna just feel it and not understand it I loved the movie

[@Jayashree-babu]

Soo true that's why l watched inception like some n times😂 reversing again and again and again .

[@dislike__button]

In that case I'm armed to the teeth.

[@zeshanhm]

Best explanation so far. Thanks for the history.

[@zacharywardlow7034]

I'm glad I waited until now to see this, at the time it came out I wasn't in the right mental state. Just watched it tonight I absolutely loved the film. Makes you think and was definitely unique. I really hope Nolan doesn't stop making these types of movies!

[@DrezzyEFTP]

I hope one day, Christopher nolan makes a movie starting from the end to the beginning.

[@chikechukwuogor4391]

Watch Memento by Christopher Nolan

[@cuLiref]

Memento

[@yospidey0078]

So Memento basically?

[@DrezzyEFTP]

@@yospidey0078 not exactly

[@luxurybuzz3681]

Memento does this

[@shomgarg6877]

I watched this movie twice in one day, I think my brain is inverted now.

[@saiheshs57verenkar50]

I can understand ur pain😂😂

[@swapnilganeshpure]

Watching for second time should have reverted it

[@RC-pc8cp]

This ACTUALLY happens!

[@bastenthemaker2455]

.won detrevni si niarb ym kniht I ,yad eno ni eciwt eivom siht dehctaw I

[@Waveaxe]

AHAHAHAHA

[@mohdrazif777]

You mentioned Oppenheimer at 1:48 which is Nolan's next movie while discussing about Tenet, Nolan's current movie.

[@comradebrucewayne2607]

This was such a great explanation video bravo

[@sammyriding]

The word "Neil" in Hindi means the color blue. And the blue team was moving back in time. So it's a hidden reference. Neil's character was always from the future and moving “backwards”

[@mahdihabibi6817]

In Persian we have a word called "Neilly" which is a kind of blue as well ! Wow I've got no words...

[@sammyriding]

Mahdi Habibi Oh really? That’s cool. I learned something today. Thank you!

[@jacobestrada4468]

It doesn't make up for bad script writing.

[@itsmeitsjakep2410]

Neil is Max. Kat's Daughter. Max is short for Maximilien Last 4 letters of Maximilien is Lien Lien reversed is Neil. *Max is Neil and Neil is Max*

[@ankitjoshi90]

Sorry but I don't think so....too far fetched idea.

[@vishantsolanki6267]

Neil can't take it Because he is not a hero , He is a silent guardian A watchful protector He is..... Batman

[@darksideishere]

Right on.

[@shuaibkhassin8701]

Waiting

[@garunack4664]

Yessir, vaccine is about to be distributed, not too far when we will be able to enjoy it in theaters on the very first day

[@gokulanil2539]

Ooooh, I see what you did there 👌

[@supernova1552]

I see what you did there🔥