TENET Temporal Pincer Explained And The True Meaning Of The Ending

TENET Temporal Pincer Explained And The True Meaning Of The Movie's Ending. We breakdown the biggest plot device in TENET which is the Temporal Pincer. We explain how it works and why the full movie is really one going on before our eyes.
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Temporal Pincer Explained
Ok so the Temporal Pincer is used at two key points in the film. Firstly we see it happen during the car chase and then at the end of the film at the battle of Stalask-12. However the film itself is also a Temporal Pincer in some ways with two major characters carrying one out across the decades.
Now before going into everything we have to talk about how time in the film works. It's a relatively simple concept and though it's often referred to as time travel, in many ways it's not.
We experience time moving forward in a sequential direction. This is typically referred to as cause and effect. You roll a pen forward it moves forward. These are the laws of the universe. However, those in the film who become inverted witness it moving backwards and thus the effect is viewed as being the cause. So for them time moves backwards with everything returning to it's source rather than expanding from it.
Now everything that will happen has happened and it is impossible to change things because there only exists one version of the events. So when the pen moves forward it always moves forward and because we saw it move forward and know that that is what will always happen, when we invert it must always move back.
During the car chase which we'll get into more detail in a bit when viewing things normally, we witness inverted cars moving backwards, it's because the driver in them is going forward through time.
However, when we see things inverted, they are the ones that experience the cars driving backwards because for them time is moving in the opposite direction and thus the cars return to where they were the moment before continuously seeming to go backwards.
It's basically like playing a movie, you watch it play out in a specific way but if you hit the rewind button you will see the events play out exactly the same, only this time backwards. You cannot alter or change them because that is how they happened and thus the characters in the film are very much like us, viewers, seeing things play out.
Now this idea of predestinations and things always happening the way that they're supposed to very much plays into the first real Temporal Pincer that we see.
A Temporal Pincer is basically the idea that one can use knowledge of the present and past and then invert and go into the past and participate in the events exactly how it happened.
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[@TaskForce_911]

I can watch this 2nd time. 😁

[@varunkryadav]

Another reason Monsieur Nolan made it a closed loop is probably because of causality. As you mentioned in your video about causality. Causality is also linked to spacetime. Spacetime explains gravitation.If you mess with causality you mess with spacetime and hence effecting gravity itself!

[@sety5591]

"the effect is the cause". This remind me of coincidences or synchronicity, where the future is the cause of coincidence, or fate. Like soulmates are supposed to be together so their lives pulls them toward to be together. The outcome is the cause.

[@gaznann6503]

I believe this movie is like total recall, source code, and inspection with hence of terminator I believe artificial intelligence was tested on the protagonist and like total recall the main character wanted to be a spy and the protagonist in this movie is a spy and the AI created this reality for him just like inception people putting things into other people dreams to abstract information and I believe there was a glitch in the AI and has the protagonist caught in a time loop that will never end and just like the movie source code the protagonist want to find out how to escape the loop he was traped this is why you are seeing so many characters having different time laps in the movies

[@That-Google-Guy]

“If you haven’t had time to watch Tenet” HEYOOOO I love it brotha!

[@zufed]

Just finished TENET can't wait for Nolan's next film Dunkirk!

[@CNNBlackmailSupport]

Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.

[@DirectorDC.]

Hope he does a space travel

[@arsemagica]

No, you just finished watching TENET backwards, and now you can't wait to watch Dunkirk backwards.

[@mangoesfly1594]

Tenet played with time in such a beautiful way. Hopefully Nolan messes with time some more.

[@thesorrow4664]

😆

[@emmanuellaflamme]

I've now spent more time watching videos about TENET than time watching the movie itself!

[@2kmichaeljordan438]

I still don’t understand more than half the movie

[@bendmadio]

This is the 3rd explaination vids i've watched

[@PrashantMaurice]

@@bendmadio i am 7th down, and still too many holes to plug

[@rocketsmall4547]

i can top that. i clocked over 100hrs on videos dissing new star wars movies. and 0 hrs watching the movies

[@rocketsmall4547]

@@2kmichaeljordan438 the blk guy he founded the tenet division in the future. the womans kid grows up to travel back in time to help the blk guy. so he pretty much knows everything but cant tell the blk guy. and the blk guy cant tell the kid. otherwise it would change things. so the old version of kid only really know something when i said everything. and the bad guy was the 2nd person to time travel. the blk guy wants to stop him. why they save the woman or why woman shoots bad guy is just bad writing

[@akshaydaga327]

Tenet needs an extended cut. This movie has to be 3+ hours to fully comprehend all those expositions.

[@mohammedfahd8908]

Akshay Daga dude 2 seasons worth of content

[@GrownManPat]

It really isn't much to explain. They tell and show you everything you need to know.

[@ps-gh3hu]

@@mohammedfahd8908 actually a good idea. Tenet - webserie

[@westmcgee9320]

@@GrownManPat it’s extremely compressed. Important elements are barely mentioned. If you missed the dialogue, which some found garbled, you could be confused about various things.

[@Maloha486]

@@westmcgee9320 I think that's another argument for having better sound editing and perhaps subtitles, not so much the plot itself :)

[@SuperASHUTOSH777]

One more thing, the opening WB logo was in Red and ending one was in Blue.

[@fluffyfeather39]

damnnn

[@youthsootra]

OMG

[@sasajc05]

Damn I just returned the movie back to redbox 😫

[@madhatten00]

yeah cause now the protagonist is sending himself back in time to meet young neil and have fun

[@yoofiannan3591]

Does that mean that the we should watch the movie backwards then?

[@brittsmith4049]

A Temporal Pincer is definitely one of the coolest and most original concepts put to film in a long time

[@360.Tapestry]

bill & ted

[@Jsfilmz]

bill and ted

[@fromchaos6354]

what lol

[@iterationzero5570]

Kryptonite Bill and Ted is a time travel movie, just like Back to the future and others. Tenet isn’t. If you think it is, you haven’t understood it.

[@voltrono4166]

@@iterationzero5570 the concept is based on traveling through time, forward and backward-- as the narrator of this video states "goes back time". Perhaps you don't understand it

[@Xd-vt8fw]

Just saw the movie . Can’t wait for the trailer.

[@evilmorty7226]

The trailer is amazing time for the title now :3

[@JohanReinholdz1980]

Haha

[@EmmadCheema-gv6iu]

waiting for the teaser trailer now

[@paulnolan4971]

Christopher Nolan just announced his new movie will be Tenet. The End.... of the beginning; Loop closed.

[@blakeaustin4250]

@@paulnolan4971 just watched interstellar wonder what he'll come out with next?

[@grandsome1]

Christopher Nolan movies are about filmmaking: Memento = screen writing Inception = directing a film Tenet = becoming insane on the editing floor

[@leem.5917]

Just imagine how the insane the cuts left out would’ve been

[@jacknolan5450]

Prestige is about tricking the audience

[@katherinebarbosa-ariza6303]

😂😂😂

[@shashankyadalamharikishore10]

What could he possibly do next?

[@karthik2166]

On a movie completely shot on celluloid film camera. They should've had a blast editing this movie.

[@ghostfox4]

The one part I haven’t seen too many people talking about is how Kat saw herself jumping off of the yacht and not realizing it was her future self. In the restaurant after the protagonist brings her the painting she had the flashback to Vietnam and how she came back to the boat with her son and saw another woman jumping off the boat, and noted how she was envious of the “other woman’s” freedom to leave. What she didn’t realize was that she was the one who essentially freed herself from Sator. Genius writing from Chris Nolan. Genius.

[@idmann17]

Wow. That's amazing...

[@skaetur1]

She fully knew it was herself. She was referring to her other self’s freedom.

[@idmann17]

@@skaetur1 I don't think that she knew when she was on the boat that it was her but she knew before she jumped off the boat that she was the woman she had seen at that time...

[@isaiahgere9283]

@@skaetur1 no she didn’t

[@jarradscarborough7915]

@@skaetur1 she didn't know about time inversion when she saw that, so she could not have known it was herself. but it is nice that she was envious of the 'other woman' and wanted to be her, and it turned out it was herself, so she ended where she wanted to be

[@mahirgangwal1665]

Great portrayal by Robert Pattinson. Absolutely love him.

[@ZENIGMATV]

Glad to see him shake off that Twilight silliness.

[@andrewreeds1524]

@@ZENIGMATV "We live in a twilight world"

[@mshk1989]

@@andrewreeds1524 LOL they just had to say that in the movie, almost as if taunting him

[@billyfarmerii1669]

ZENIGMATV I was today years old when I realized that he was the guy from Twilight... Thanks to you of course lol I never actually saw Twilight either

[@MomasBoyOnline]

'Good Times' was the film that made me realise how good of an actor Pattinson is, he was excellent in The Lighthouse too

[@Scrapluv]

When it came to watching this film, I followed the advice from one of the characters early in the film, "Don't try to understand it. Feel it."

[@XDarkBrotherhoodHD]

Feel Like that was super important bit of dialogue right to the audience

[@martialbro5]

Except I couldn’t feel it. It seemed like it was more important to understand it.

[@emiliaganchorre]

@@martialbro5 Just saw this in IMAX a few hours ago and I completely agree.

[@justinlevy274]

Its not that hard to understand you just shouldnt think very hard about it being any kind of reality. Its science fiction not science. They magically allow objects to reverse chronology in comparison to objects around it. If you can just accept the premise (as a premise, not as a plausible reality) the movie is much more enjoyable. It touches on fatalism and free will amongst other topics.

[@udkc]

@@justinlevy274 Free will. I was thinking about what Nolan's views on free will was almost throughout the entire movie. I wish I wasn't so fucking high while watching it, but it really helped with one thing though: I didn't try to "understand" the inversion part of the movie - just flowing along observing what was happening.

[@anilgajbhare9674]

The only mistake you can make while watching a Nolan movie is to blink.

[@jacobdesmondaryon1558]

Genius

[@DA-bm2mj]

Or to go to a toilet "just for a minute" lol

[@anilgajbhare9674]

@@DA-bm2mj lol yeah.

[@euphoriaashoor7348]

Or breath

[@anilgajbhare9674]

@@euphoriaashoor7348 lol yeah.

[@aliciadickson4564]

So Neil is actually the true protagonist since he is the chosen one that was recruited and sent on a save the world mission to accompany the protagonist

[@amiradicoolisa8407]

Did you think the romance was a bit forced?

[@aliciadickson4564]

@@amiradicoolisa8407 Yes indeed, although it was subtle and we knew he needed her for the plot, the romance part was unnecessary.

[@isaiahgere9283]

Oh my God, you are right

[@sogron007]

Well he is Nicole's son.

[@Girlilla]

Yes, even Priyah confirmed, when TP said "im THE protagonist" she replies with no "your A protagonist", and also Kat speaking of Max theorised to be Neil she says "Hes Everything". Neil is truly the central player

[@adamczartoryjski9001]

anyone else find that inverted reverted explosion of the tower aesthetically appealing at the battle of Stalsk 12

[@ComeAndSee101]

It was badass

[@chefajmwz3492]

one of the best scenes

[@saadomar1101]

how did they shoot that scene ?

[@thestudentofficial5483]

@@saadomar1101 Nolan, that's how.

[@emiliaganchorre]

Soooooooo good

[@totallymirage9513]

During the scenes from Blue Teams POV, the music is even reversed!

[@when_life_gives_you_limes]

I especially love that part of the score! Total genius.

[@MGBranco]

The score is fantastic!

[@jferguson5340]

wmaOOOOamw reversed is still wmaOOOOamw

[@MrChipMC]

And it helps a lot, I must say!

[@davidnavarro4821]

Wow! I didn’t catch that!

[@xivok]

I wish Einstein was alive to watch tenet and explain to us through his youtube channel. Dayum, that would have been something.

[@nithulnath9331]

@A M I disagree. I think Nolan changed his style from creating well-executed dramas to creating mind-bending unique experiences. We can see that change from Dunkirk. There's no story or drama in Dunkirk. Just the experience of being on that beach at that point in time. He did the same in this one. There are a lot of time-travel movies with entertaining drama aspects and well-written characters, but I can't think of any other movies which succeeded in creating the hallucination-inducing experience of time-travel like this one ( I can think of Dark btw :) ). And the reason I have noticed this because there's a director who does movies in my mother tongue that took such a shift in his making. Most of his movies are made around the story-drama- character orientation in a very unique way but for the past 3 movies, he took a similar approach like this, i.e taking an aspect or concept and making it into an experience without giving much importance to the story and characters. And his latest movie is nominated from here to compete in oscar for the foreign film category.

[@nithulnath9331]

@A M I will agree on certain points you made. Even I feel that this movie can be forgettable since it won't make any emotional connection at all. But calling it a total BS will be a little to harsh. Because it's still a crazy experience even though one can't understand much from it. Anyway like you said, let's agree to disagree.

[@nithulnath9331]

@A MYou are right about the insensible plot twist and all ( I have only watched it once, don't know if I'm going to get anything more on rewatching). In that department, it literally felt bland for me. But I'll give a 9/10 on the experience part of the reverse entropy/time travel aspect. Other one's had the emotional quotient in it, but this one nailed the pure experience part. I say that because of that other movie which made in my locality with a similar style. There's no plot in it other than a Buffalo escaping from the slaughter house in a village and creating havoc everywhere while the villagers try to catch it. That one too got the same kind of criticism from audience, but it was like a roller-coaster experience on the big screen. People who went for a plot driven movie cursed it to the core, but for the others it was an unforgettable experience. BTW I'm from India, where are you from, man?

[@nithulnath9331]

@A M Thanks mate, we'll sure do our best 😊. It was good talking to you.

[@bill8383]

c2 m = e

[@quietearthMT]

I just finished Tenet and I can’t wait for it to start!

[@ezekielorebiyi8619]

I will go back in time to tell you about it😁

[@mugsymo07]

!trats ot ti rof tiaw t'nac I dna teneT dehsinif tsuj I......... your comment just got reverted

[@emorypardun856]

What if one of the reasons Nolan hired John David Washington was so that that Denzel Washington could play the older version of the protagonist in the sequel.

[@kim1570]

Even before watching the movie, and knowing how Nolan plays with the concept of time, I was hoping that Denzel would make a surprise appearance in the film, the way Matt Damon did in Interstellar.

[@MrChipMC]

Hi doesn't look like Denzel Washington at all, except hi is also black ) So there is no point in that casting choice. And Nolan doesn't make sequels

[@NicodemusChan]

You can just use makeup to age him.

[@johnreynolds7996]

@@MrChipMC Yes he does. Three Batman movies, to be precise.

[@MrChipMC]

@@johnreynolds7996 I am talking about his original stories

[@Steven_Segura]

Ive been thinking heavy about this movie lmao

[@XDarkBrotherhoodHD]

Everyday, it’s weird

[@That-Google-Guy]

Same here fam. I keep having moments where I am imagining time running backwards when I see certain things out of place at my house or my office at work lol. This movie has been such a blessing to my imagination.

[@ludakidboy]

Me too. My sister in law had a huge party yesterday, the day I saw this, and the whole time we were playing beer pong and taking shots but I really wasn’t in the moment, I was actually thinking about the movie during the party and how the plot screwed with me. Lol

[@ludakidboy]

All of you guys are like me lol. Wait do we know each other. Lmao

[@kingseiryu929]

BLACKTACULA97 they are you a day and a month later

[@VonDoggo]

When the protagonist meets Neil for the first time and Neil orders drinks, the protagonist tells Neil he is “well informed” to know he doesn’t drink on the job, but he prefers soda water to actual soda. However, if you’ve already seen the movie you then you realize it is much more than Neil being “well informed” when Neil tells the protagonist he doesn’t actually prefer soda water. It is experience since Neil is moving in the past. Subtle detail like that is crazy in this movie.

[@paullebon323]

That's no big deal. I know what my step-dad liked to drink too.

[@zokunafc]

The first viewing was difficult to understand but after a while you get hyped to see it for the first time

[@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 moving back in time

[@OhRightPictures]

It's Maximilien (that little boy) Lien reverse is Neil

[@YuGiOhDuelChannel]

Makes no sense man

[@aarongutierrez7705]

I thought you needed to produce your own oxygen if your moving back in time according to this movie?

[@AgentDoomIIIV]

@@aarongutierrez7705 yea Sato didn't have that as well when he went back to the past

[@denzilhaniel115]

@@AgentDoomIIIV sator could have just inverted to that point and could have just univerted himself before going to yacht.

[@retrohillzone1267]

The more I think about this movie the more I realize how genius it is

[@wegissilveira3313]

Nolan has always been a mind blower, but with tenet he outdid himself. Each time I blinked as I was watching it I had to go back at least two scenes.

[@seanriopel3132]

I think he should be charged for the total mind phuck it was... although me continuing to watch the movie was giving him permission. I never said "NO"

[@JasenTDavis]

Michael Cain’s character is also the soldier with the beret. That’s why he knows so much. It’s why the soldier with the beret, and Cain, are so nice to the Protagonist. They’ve been friends for years.

[@DirtyPoul]

8:08 You're not far off. Sir Michael Caine is, in fact, referred to as Sir Michael in the movie.

[@grimsquad273]

Haha

[@DanielKwan]

In a way, Neil was continually taking two steps back, one step forward.

[@colemartin9230]

he's stuck in an infinite loop lmao

[@cprw10]

@@colemartin9230 It's a sad "destiny"... Neil always knowing that he has to complete his time loop or he would create a paradox, always dying the same way. The beauty of it is that he's willing to do it because a) he knows that what's at stake is bigger than him (saving the world) and b) to save the protagonist life bc he needs to create Tenet in his future but also because the protagonist is his friend.

[@aidangreen7006]

The movie is getting nowhere near as much love from audiences as it deserves - but I guess that’s not surprising considering how uncompromisingly smart it is. It’s an absolute masterpiece, my favorite film in years.

[@randokaratajev2617]

In what part of milky way galaxy does this movie not get recognition? You sure you from earth?

[@seandabest4329]

A movie that released in cinemas in the midst of a global pandemic isn't getting much attention? Who could have guessed? Besides, I'd say the reason it's not getting much attention is that, beyond the inversion and editing, it doesn't have much going for it. The characters and plot aren't the most interesting or engaging (your average "spy saves the world"), it's all about how inversion can be seen and how it can be used for action scenes. That's not to say the inversion wasn't incredibly impressive, but its not enough in my eyes. For me, it also doesn't help that since there is no instance in the movie proving time can be changed, the "save the world stakes" are non-existent. The bad guys can't succeed in destroying the world because the world is still standing. It is the job of the main good guy to save the world, so if the world is still standing, the main good guy must have succeeded in killing the bad guy. Doesn't give much indication of true free will if all of our actions are predetermined.

[@aidangreen7006]

@@randokaratajev2617 It only has a 73% or so on Rotten Tomatoes, and the general consensus from critics on KZbin averages around a B or so. To me, it was INCEPTION-level mind-blowing, and unexpected the discourse around TENET to be just as enthusiastic as it was around INCEPTION in 2010. But it just doesn’t seem to be. So yeah, it somehow feels underrated still.

[@anishmall7853]

@@randokaratajev2617 He said love not recognition

[@jetcustomsdbz5821]

Tenet is the movie primer woth an actual budget

[@jevaun-deanlinton3285]

bruh, think about it, Niel doesnt have a future because he will always be going backwards in time. What a legendary sad fate

[@msakbar12345]

nope, niel does have a future, but his destiny is locked to this event

[@jevaun-deanlinton3285]

@@msakbar12345 yeah I suppose that’s true, but I feel like from an outward perspective its sad and incredible at the same time

[@madhatten00]

he has a future, for whatever long 20 something years till he came back to this loop and got killed

[@TheFilipaze]

I don't think so. I don't understand why everyone is saying that Neil went back in time. Maybe I'm wrong, but this is how I understand it: The Protagonist went back in time, built Tenet and recruited Neil, but Neil never had to go back. He got all the information from the Protagonist and that's why he knows so much. At the end of the movie he dies, so he has a normal timeline. He got recruited by future Protagonist and did his mission, no loops.

[@ThePamastymui]

If you know, you better die a hero than a coward.

[@mahirgangwal1665]

Tenet is one of the best movies!!!

[@heavyspoilers]

Yeah so so good

[@andreymaruha1151]

Idc about when people say it's confusing or inconsistent. I love it. It's Chris nolan what not to miss. Ready to buy the Blu Ray now

[@brentulstad3275]

Absolutely! I just saw it for a 2nd time tonight & was much more satisfied and closer to a full understanding than my 1st showing. The sound quality seemed much better especially the dialogue & general audio mix than previously, though you do have to rise to the challenge and exercise a degree of focus and attention that is rarely tested especially for a big budget spectacle action movie.

[@wjhung2]

@@brentulstad3275 I loved the feeling of not understanding what was going on in the movie, but knowing that something cool was happening!

[@naiemteghlobi136]

I would love to see a video explaining Neil’s multiple inversions and timelines in the end battle

[@thejuniorseas7683]

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[@markj702]

The use of Red and Blue throughout this movie is deliberate and helpful...

[@DaniG._.German]

This video helped a lot because I watched Tenet tomorrow and was confused.

[@dominicanfrankster]

Damn. Neil MVP. Does that mean that Neil had to travel back in time for literal YEARS to arrive in the time of the film (since it's assumed that he is Maximillien) ?

[@GeneralTaco155555a]

Yes. He would have to stay inverted the same amount of time he wanted to travel back, and then go through a turnstile in order to revert.

[@bryanglenn2107]

@@GeneralTaco155555a I believe that as well, however why hasn’t he aged? Assuming of course he was an adult when he was recruited then traveled back decades.

[@GeneralTaco155555a]

@@bryanglenn2107 we don't know how far in the future Neil traveled back from or how old he is 🤷‍♂️ Also, since it's somewhat implied to be the son, maybe he was only recruited by the protagonist when he was, say 20, and was trained and did other missions/ temporal pincers until he made it all the way back to the events of the movie. The relationship between Neil and the Protagonist is most likely reversed too, so they meet up for missions over the years, and from the Protagonist's perspective, Neil keeps getting younger until the date he is recruited/sent back.

[@rejectedideas1827]

Correction: sator does not want to bury the algorithm so that future can find it. he wants to destroy the entropy of time then and there

[@13Doses]

It's ironic that this film was meant to be enjoyed and analyzed like 2 years after its release.

[@kaybrzy3367]

Who gets the message? Posterity.

[@evm6177]

Yeah, The Descanted .. 🍷

[@XeaRae]

My brain is still struggling to understand this concept. Confused AF.

[@mnikhk]

Just keep in mind its a loop, you will understand more as we move backwards

[@2wardruid2]

I can't understand why the Protagonist required to wear a mask to go the car chase and Niel is not wearing mask

[@jassykat]

@@2wardruid2 because Niel reversed himself again being already inverted. So a forward version of him is in the past.

[@2wardruid2]

@@jassykat Oh, now I see, thanks !

[@samanetha89]

@@jassykat so because they went through a second turnstile in the past, that cancelled out their inverted selves allowing them to move forward in the past?

[@azaluvemlanjeni7173]

I'm in awe of how incredible this movie is.

[@MylonasFilms]

So you listened to my advice & posted this video. Good job.

[@skinnypx1949]

I just watched tenet again and remember in the first 5 minutes of the movie when that swat guy figured out the protagonist is a fake swat and someone shoots the swat guy. But before he shoots him it shows a bullet hole go back to normal then he gets shoy. When they show who shot him the guy is already turned around and he has a red chord hanging from his backpack. It was fucking neil. That's why he said I'll see you at the beginning at the end of the movie. He was literally talking about the beginning of the movie. Mind blown!

[@BillykOTW]

Which also means the protagonist in the future must of told him where he was gonna be at in order to save his life. No telling how many times he actually saved the protagonist in the past before they officially meet.

[@MGBranco]

Neil is the kid!

[@DB-ev5ep]

He meant that to set up the sequel.. Nolan is telling the story backwards. The end of TENET is the end of the plot/story. The world is saved but there’s still questions that need to be answered, the sequel/s will answer that. The beginning = the beginning of the journey/plot.

[@BillykOTW]

@@MGBranco Neil can't be the kid really. Time inversion would mean that if Neil is the kid... He would have to wait to grow up to be, let's say, 30. Then he would have to invert himself... Wait more 30 years to go back to the beginning of Tenet. That would make him 60. So I don't see Neil being the kid.

[@mawmawa4116]

William James Neil IS the kid he is Sator son that’s why he takes care of kat so well when she’s injured cause that’s his mom and if you pay attention he knew the exact date of the trip on the yatch cause he was their as a child The kid grew up then protagonist hired him then sent him back to guide him in the past

[@adamcfada5071]

Great video. Other vids I've watched missed the point about the explosion needing to happen so Sator believes he wins.

[@user-sy4ec3em5o]

"I get it now. What's happened has happened." -The Protagonist

[@yasirqazi2853]

meaning the protagonist knew that neil was going to die when he recruited him in the future?

[@madhatten00]

meaning the protagonist knew neil would die when he sent him back he knew neil wouldn't come back that's why neil too said this is an end of a friendship so my guess is neil knew he would die too

[@tgosiaco]

Saw this movie on Monday and haven't stopped thinking about it, thanks for the content!

[@Future_BayBay]

I liked how the "time travel" was still linear, it just mattered which direction they were going. There wasn't displacement, like Back to the Future.

[@juliantschope9672]

Already watched it twice, already planning my third watch! Another masterpiece by Nolan.

[@AK.__]

It will end the same. There are many good books to reads, no need to spend a time rewatching a pop movie.

[@juliantschope9672]

@@AK.__ What about letting other people spend their freetime however they want? Tenet is literally made to be re-watched. I've discovered so many details up to my 4th time.

[@AK.__]

@@juliantschope9672 My comment was with bit of sarcasm. You can re-watch any video / movie as you like. But, the fact that individual rewatches something, doesn't really tell that the is masterpiece. I do like the movie, and I do like some other Nolan's works. However at the bottom line, considering everything - it just another action movie with great actor's play, visual effects and thrill elements.

[@jamesren4665]

I've watched Tenet twice and still can't stop thinking about after all these weeks!

[@ChezzyKnytt]

Great explanation! I never thought about the fact that Sator would probably know about the explosion that occurred. Christopher Nolan seems to think of everything. Definitely my favourite director :)

[@360.Tapestry]

there isn't actually an army. neil just inverted and reverted himself a thousand times over. he aged a year to pull off those 10 minutes

[@OgunDaMan]

explain??

[@sudha4241]

Who told u

[@nolenheinrichs4964]

I think it’s just a joke

[@AdiusOmega]

I love you get the impression that the "cavalry" are incredibly comfortable with the mechanics. Like this is something that has been going on for a LONG time now.

[@arenzoober201]

One of the most revealing explanations I've been able to find! Thanks.

[@somethingsomeone5305]

Me: thinking of commenting great video Also me: Only 2 minutes in

[@heavyspoilers]

Looool

[@rige229]

It's actually impressive how you can come up with so many dad jokes in every single video

[@kaybrzy3367]

seriously

[@j.how3ll858]

Best breakdown I’ve watched. Keep up the great work my friend!

[@bonnysinha1229]

Imagine making a movie where the scenes take place in a dream within a dream. The protagonist has to rescue a person on Miller's planet (Interstellar). But on reaching there, he finds that he is minutes late. So he inverts himself to rescue the person. Nolan: Challenge accepted!!

[@Gary_DeAfrique]

I was firstly extremely grateful for being able to see this in IMAX, I really missed cinema, on average I go to the cinema at least 3 times a month, depending on what’s showing. So the last 6 months was a big gap. And then the movie itself was great, I really enjoyed it. Nolan is very brave with his complex plots. I tried not to overthink the physics because that will break my brain. Also loved the score, I’ve actually listened to it a few times now, and so impressive considering this had to be done remotely with all musicians working from home.

[@SebbyDiggs]

Shut you’re lips

[@stephytv1953]

Yessss some more Tenet videos 😁

[@mwaabamugala6535]

Just finished TENET, Can't wait to be born!

[@nicolasa.q3301]

Just finished watching TENET and waiting to watch INCEPTION....

[@welshboy30uk]

The best explation on KZbin, a few more of the jigsaw pieces are now in place!

[@tesotoo]

I think you missed that a pincer maneuver is military maneuver used to isolate a group of soldiers. In this case the temporal pincer was used to isolate Sator into blowing himself without taking the world with him. Basically isolating sators timeline from the protagonist timeline

[@hadara69]

Excellent breakdown! Regarding the “Free-will” issue: When the Protagonist is first briefed with the bullets, and asks this, the scientist woman says, “It wouldn’t have moved if you hadn’t put your hand there.” This is REALLY important to understanding the “physics” of this movie (and the physics of film itself as a medium). Nevermind what might have happened had the events not unfolded that way, they did. This is most obvious in the “Art vault” fight. It HAD TO go exactly that way, and the Protagonist’s future-self understood this.

[@semperfidelis1550]

Best explanation/clarification of the whole premise of Tenet! OUTSTANDING VIDEO!…🔥🔥🔥

[@yoyosekai]

I understand the Pincer and trying to see the movie as a glimpse of the time loop. My only problem is... how were they able to save the world the first time? The future protagonist couldn’t travel back in time to save the world because everyone should have died. And since there is no way to move to the future just backwards then it makes no sense to me. Unless I missed something in the convos. I guess thinking about it could be the future protagonist realized the plan of whoever was sending messages to the past. Recruited Neil and travel back in time to prevent it. Which means that the fact that the future protagonist was still alive means they were successful in stopping it and you can’t change the “present.” Because by everyone still being alive in the present means that they didn’t die in the past. And the movie is just showing us part of the “loop” timeframe when this took place meaning it always took place... Man, this is playing with my brain but I think I finally get it.

[@ianochieng4541]

What's happened happened.

[@kybercrow]

You nailed it by the end of your comment but the confusion stems from looking at time linearly which is hard to shake. The film doesn't do us any favors in this regard because inverting against linear events is a large part of the plot; effectively, we're being forced to see time linearly while being told that we shouldn't lmao. Inversion doesn't flip time itself, it just flips the inverted object's perspective of time (their entropic direction). There is only one way this could've happened because what happened happened. There is no version of reality in which Sator and the future succeed otherwise we wouldn't be watching any of these events play out. Maybe in a parallel universe which is what the future is banking on (hence negating the grandfather paradox) but not in this one. When we move "forwards" in time our future is the future's past, and when we move "backwards" in time our past is the past's future. So all we're seeing in Tenet is a glimpse of events which couldn't have been any different, meaning that while we watch these characters "struggling" for the conclusion that they want, they're actually just characters playing out their temporal roles in a deterministic drama. Of course, a character like Sator didn't realize he was the losing party in this drama until the moment Kat showed him her scar. In a way, it renders the film pointless because everything we see is exactly as it has to be and literally can't go any other way LOL! Now my head hurts as well 😅 P.S. I think the absolute best way to understand any of this is to stop perceiving time as objectively moving forwards and backwards, but rather, as merely a function of our perspective.

[@h.culinaryartist6905]

If tenet part 2 is made then its gonna be the prequel of this part 1 where protagonist recruits neil 🤯🤯

[@karlojosipvukic5138]

Thank you for explaining, it helped me so much in understanding the movie. Awesome video!

[@ericdraven7922]

Just finished watching Tenet can't wait to start watching Tenet

[@ankitdas6620]

Barry Allen: I am the only one who can screw with timelines. Christopher Nolan: Hold my temporal pincer.

[@maxxn5451]

I noticed that Neil is similar to Kyle Reese in Terminator: Both sent from the future to complete their missions.

[@zacharysipzner1003]

Great video- awesome explanation!

[@penelopelaw7851]

Fantastic video! Would love to own that collection, and hopefully add tenet when it does to DVD ☺️

[@tyronefisher2259]

One of the scenes I was struggling to grasp was the Michael Caine scene. So this helped a lot 🙌

[@johnreynolds7996]

True. Until I watched this video I hadn't noticed that the Kiev siege was taking place at the same time as the assault on Stalsk-12 and the Kat/Sator confrontation on the boat.

[@therunkumar]

Nolan's Following movie was really lit and underrated. Just finished starting of the first scene.

[@jda8176]

Just finished watching the movie. Cant wait to watch it.

[@henmaydostuff8338]

really helpful video, thank you!

[@Khangbng]

I think the Protagonist is the one that went back in time and recruited the young Neil. Neil only participated in the temporal pincer on the scene while the Protagonist was the one that made this entire big temporal pincer off scene. Since Neil said that: “you have a future in the past”

[@ClockworkGearhead]

You mean The Antagonist?

[@MGBranco]

Just came out of the theater and man...what a movie! It's not for everyone but Nolan's fans will love it! For sure I need a second watch to catch all the timeline and to appreciate it more consequently...it's hard to understand it all with one go but, like you said, when you catch it it's a wonder to watch! Good one Nolan! Not the best but close!

[@rahulr8964]

Mind bending as always!!

[@Quivver77]

Just finished watching the credits, reversing threw the video and really enjoying the eivom.

[@GyanAddict]

Pincer Movement is a move from the Art of War written in 500BC. Now a 21st century filmmaker took it to the next level. Kudos Sir Nolan.

[@drewboden6981]

You've been a big help after watching the movie lol

[@mishrarahul]

One of the best explanation I found on youtube.

[@jeffbronner5059]

thank you!! great video. i've watched 10 of these and yours is the clearest i've seen. i've watched tenet 2x and had no idea this is what was going on! thank you.

[@namithcilex798]

Nolan : yes Audiences and fans : sir, is this movie all about time travel ?

[@veemon9280]

Question.....so for a person who needs to invert back to 10 years.....how do they get back to 10 years ? Do they literally have to live out 10 years of their life watching things happen in reverse ?

[@jeremyngo7606]

@@veemon9280 yes they are forced to relive the past again but the thing is they come back to the present in the exact time they entered the time machine in the first place. They’re a buffer when you go in the machine, I just don’t know how long you get sent forward but I know for sure there’s a buffer time.

[@loseyourself2143]

Nice video, I really like this film.

[@heavyspoilers]

Cheers

[@jerusalem4492]

LOL love it. In other videos about Tenet, Michael Kaine's character is referred to simply as 'Michael Kaine' hahaha

[@vishj90]

Great video. Thanks for explaining this, super confusing at the best of times!

[@Saffron-sugar]

Tenet finally came out on KZbin and Amazon....I can finally watch all of these Tenet videos Heavy Spoilers has been putting out over the last 3.5 months!!!

[@prashanthhn5040]

In one of the scenes with in the lab, the researcher says "Either way you look at the tape, you made it happen. Don't try to understand it, feel it." I think Nolan is making this point to us - the audience which applies to the whole movie itself. He calls move as an experience..... So, just feel it, don't understand it.

[@st3althyone]

I see what you did there Paul, the beginning loops into the end which restarts the loop, you’re getting good at this! 👍🏻✌️🏻

[@CineChix]

This explains so much! Thank you!

[@brenamal]

has anyone else been walking backwards or pretending to speak backwards to mess with friends now?

[@kaankoksal1412]

Yooo

[@abdulsameeh_666]

Lollll

[@xolanincube6902]

bro i pretend that i'm inverted and everything around is moving backwards

[@_Zeus01]

Just watched it for the 3rd time

[@heavyspoilers]

What did you think

[@_Zeus01]

@@heavyspoilers Probably my 2nd favourite movie from Chris. But thank you videos i understood it fully.❤🙏

[@kaybrzy3367]

same. and It may not be the last.

[@maxdcruz87]

Very informative, thank you!

[@UziNineMillomeetah]

Best explanation I've found. Future me is going to send me a link to this sooner!

[@hadara69]

I often say, "your welcome" to future-me whenever leaving a gaff tape roll end folded.

[@iputyouinmyoveni5541]

convinced that those trying to explain it dont actually understand themselves

[@vumazwesiziba4103]

Like this dude. He said Neil is from the future that is why he knows things about JDW

[@earth14rocco36]

"unsubscribe?" How DARE u even suggest such uh thing

[@kurtneytodman9360]

I would only unsubscribe while time is inverted

[@earth14rocco36]

@@kurtneytodman9360 while time is inver... 🤔... 😶... 🙃

[@OhRightPictures]

blasphemy

[@earth14rocco36]

@@OhRightPictures u gd rite

[@krrishna0406]

I've seen it twice, I'm going again tomorrow. Learning what I learnt, it'll only get better

[@fredbarriskell6578]

Thanks. I watched this explanation video last year so it helped me to understand the movie.