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I Think I became subscriber number 1680. Let’s hope it get higher since you have a very calm way about you that is very advantageous when you are explaining subjects that needs calm and not fast phased videos as elsewhere. It’s so much more enjoyable and easy to understand. Thanks he work of these concepts and timelines.
You are such a great explainer so it’s only right that you get recognized for that. Have your thought about the period between the future and the time they go back from ? What did they do in all those years
Hey TeaBear I enjoyed your video, however for the sake of accuracy which I am sure you will appreciate, there is chronological error on your timeline for this video. Surprisingly it is at the very beginning and it is quite alright to be honest as you did a good job articulating the rest of the inversions. K enough with my digression: here is a nice paradox that really dovetail the whole movie thematically the Opera Scene in Kiev, Kat’s Sator hit-job proceeded by her elegant 40 ft Olympic class victory dive in Vietnam, and the denouement at the hyper center @Stas-12 all occurred on the same day; hence the palindrome TENET which resonates the beginning is the end and vice versa. This sentiment is echoed by Neal, i.e. younger maxmiLIEN, @ the end right b4 he goes to invert one last time to close the loop when he reveals to the Protagonist: “ this is the end of a beautiful friendship for me.... But for you it is just beginning.” Apologies if came across too critical,‘that wasn’t my intention. I liked the view and your voice plus the delivery and just figured you wouldn’t want a discrepancy on a video you did.
I've been going through a weird complex thought that it there was to be a second movie it would be a prequel to the first with the plot being the recruiting of Neil and The Protagonist telling him his mission to go back years so he could prevent what has happened in the first movie. So basically Tenet is the sequel to Tenet 2, which is the prequel to Tenet😰🤯🤯😵whew thats complex but only if there will be a sequel which I doubt
The plane crash scene was epic, because it looked so real unlike 90% of such scenes in similar movies...because it kinda was real. Very powerful scene!
Finally, a solid freakin' explanation on UA-cam thus far, Good God the others were edited in such a horrible manner. This is the only way to explain Tenet, by showing us literally, a TIMELINE. Awesome one guys!
I loved the explanation. I would sit through even a 2 hour detailed explanation from this channel, since every detail is put straightforward. Good job TBFR!
Sator didn't picked up the piece of algorithm himself after the car crashed. There was no piece in the car when inverted Sator found the car with protsgonist inside and burned it. He simply knew by seeing protagonist in the car that the piece is back in the future so he delivered this information to his normal flow team which goes then in paralel with normal flow protagonist and Neil to pick up the piece after the reversed protagonist walks in reverse back ito the turnstile. It's Sator's temppral pincer movement. Other than that great chronology!
This was actually way easier to understand than some more in depth videos that make their own models etc. Well done! Thank you for taking the time to do this.
Yes, the actual algorithm retrieval at the location takes 10 minutes however the entire mission takes a full hour, including travelling to and from the location, that is why I have written it like that in my example :)
Well actually the reason the movie's named TENET is because of the "Sator Square" which is a latin sentence and a palindrome just like the word itself that has been around for hundreds of years. On the left the square and on the right the reference in the movie: S A T O R | Name of the Antagonist A R E P O | Name of the Spanish Artist T E N E T | Well, you guessed it O P E R A | Movie starts at the Opera R O T A S | Construction company / Freeport As you can see, the sentence read backwards is exactly the same as read forwards and the word TENET can be read left to right, right to left, top to bottom and bottom to top.
@@yasin5040 Yes, but we can't reasonably assume that the Sator Square exists in-universe because it would be far too meta. We then have to either come to the conclusion that the Protagonist named the operation/organization Tenet because of the actual definition of the word, or the pincer strategy to obtain the algorithm.
Thanks for the helpful and straightforward video. One clarification: "time inversion" absolutely IS a form of time travel. Indeed, it's time travel reduced to its essence: eliminating the anisotropy of time, i.e., making the "arrow" go both ways. Time travel to the past does not necessarily require the creation of multiple realities/timelines. In fact, the most philosophically rigorous conceptions of time travel to the past do not permit changes to be made; rather, time travelers simply participate in past events without altering the ways those events are known to have happened. See *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban* for a surprisingly good illustration of this principle. This is the version of time travel to the past that *Tenet* postulates.
Great video. One correction. Sator doesn't pick up the 241 at the SAAB crash site. By that point it's back in the BMW, in it's case. He just tells the forward moving half of his pincer team that it will be in the SAAB for them. Off screen, all the forward moving half of his team would need to do is wait for the SAAB to uncrash, reverse it's way back to where inverted Protagonist got in. And wait for the inverted Protagonist to reverse walk out if the SAAB and into to the turnstile. And just pick it up at that point.
We just watched Tenet on digital release and were totally blown away by it and loving it! I absolutely love your vids on Tenet as they helped me be immersed in the movie more now that you've explained it well. I liked, commented, and subscribed! I'm hoping your efforts here will springboard your channel as your works have been amazingly stellar!
My favorite scene is the final scene in which The Protagonist kills Priya's heavy and Priya herself. It doesn't appeal to me because of the killings, but rather because of the clarity of thought that The Protagonist expresses during the scene. Cheers, Michelle.
My favorite scene in Tenet is during the car chase.. in awe seeing the four cars surrounding the vehicle then the one in front abruptly breaking-- it was exciting! I enjoyed the rest of the sequence too however the 4 cars moving into place shot from a bird's eye.. that was visually beautiful, got my heart to race.
You switched the teams when explaining the temporal pincer. Blue goes backwards, red goes forwards. Blue reports what will happen to red, because they are coming from the future into the past. Red goes into the mission with that knowledge. Those colors are used consistently throughout the movie to indicate time-flow direction. The rooms in the turnstile have red/blue lighting, plaques in their doors, and even characters will use red/blue tones in their costumes to help the viewer understand what is going on
I thought Blue Team and Red team are the same people just inverted from each other. When the Protagonist tells Kick-Ass he wants to be in the team that disables the bomb he tells him there is no other team "it's just us."
He tells him that because only Ives and The Protagonist will be in charge of retrieving the algorithm. Members of both red and blue team do not know the purpose of the mission. They haven't been told about the algorithm because they don't know who to trust. Blue and Red team need to be different people otherwise they will affect each other when travelling in opposite times.
I think the hypothermia scene confuses me, unless he was still inverted and so was Neil, so the real timeline in chronological order would be: 1: Inverted Neil rescues Inverted Pro from the burning car, both are heading back to the heist scene. 2: At the start of the car chase, Inverted Pro has hypothermia from the fire, which then starts and Inverted Sator un-triggers it, then Inverted Pro un-crashes the car and that's seen in the end of take 1 of the car chase. 3: Interrogation scene. Also you got the colours inverted in the temporal pincer movement scene. To me it looked like: 1: They all start inverted and walk into the turnstile to go to the normal timeline. The blues have just come from a fight, and they tell the red soldiers what happened, then they don't fight, but their inverted selves are un-loaded onto the blue crates. 2 - The blue and red crates are put on the battlefield. The teams both have a counter going from 10:00 to 0:00, but from blue perspective 10:00 is the end while from red 10:00 is the start of the countdown. 3: At 5:00 the invertedly destroyed building is un-destroyed but destroyed again... so it was always destroyed... confusing. Also the red soldier who gets caught in an inverted explosion is trapped in a wall, also confusing. 4: Some stuff with Neil happens. 5: The forward soldiers (both red and blue) continue their normal lives, probably working for Sator and avoiding their previous selves.
Phenomenal execution. I kinda just stopped at simply reviewing it for the time being on my channel, but having seen this, I seriously don't think I can top y'all. Wonderful job, Michelle, and congrats on all these new subs as a result! Keep on keeping on!
The fact that I’ve had to binge like 15 different timeline and explainer videos just to figure out what I watched, to me, really gets at what I think is a huge problem with Nolan now. There’s a difference between ‘treating the audience with respect’ and ‘treating the audience as though they’re all nuclear physicists.’ Tiny clues seen for ~1 second two hours before are meant to be instantly remembered when they pay off, important exposition is buried under heavy layers of score, and needing a spread sheet to keep track of scene events is just a chore
The important thing to learn about the movie is that at the start when the Russian catch the Protagonist, The train is moving backwards meaning the time is inverted and in the next scene the train starts moving forward, which means that that is where the character actually dies in the past
I also have one doubt. How did the scientist who created the 9 algorithms go back in inverted time to hide them in different locations? And secondly, how did the descendants (the future humans) contact Sator?
3:20 Sator didn't got the algorithm from flipped saab. Forward timeline: The inverted saab car comes back to life then protagonist throws algorithm into inverted saab. Inverted timeline: From warehouse/turnstile inverted protagonist drives inverted saab to the car chase scene we see algorithm flies back to the BMW or neil's car then sator rams the poor saab causing it to flip upside down. So the algorithm was actually just there in the inverted saab sitting next to inverted protagonist all along. So people might get confused like "why didn't protagonist just looked inside the car or if he actually saw it why didnt he just took it walked away." It's because time inversion differs from time travel you can't just go back in time and steal something and then go back to the present like nothing happened. In time inversion you have to ensure the future you have to do something for it so your desired future will occur just like the ending where were thinking why didn't neil just go with protagonist and have some coffee. Sad ending btw I'm assuming Sator told his men where it is because he now knows the protagonist was lying since he was going back to the past to ensure the algorithm in the future. TL;DR: Algorithm piece is just there inside the saab car from the warehouse/the turnstile and that's where Sators men took it.
You don't expect this from a very small channel. Nice job! The only thing I'd change is your lighting, as it's a bit harsh. You could get an even more professional look with a soft box or pretty large LED panel. And in post you could maybe adjust the WB a bit, get those blues and magentas a little lower. Sorry, I'm just not happy until I give UA-camrs, who are actually doing everything right, unsolicited advice. xD Oh, and I love the mic, used to have it, too, the little Death Star. :D
Correction. Volkov grabs the piece from the other end of the timeline (the end of the pincer) after the cavalry invert since if Sator takes the piece from the over turned I-Saab because it's no longer in the I-Saab after it is flipped over.
Thanks for a very good explanation. I do however miss the bigger timeline, meaning Neal's adventures before (and after) the opera house and him and The Protagonist meeting and working together. The big temporal pincer movement. :)
So explain how the Protagonist can just "wake up" after eating the suicide pill? Why wouldn't Sator's men dismember him or burn him or something? And this is not the timeline of the movie. The final scene explains that Neil and The Protagonist are old friends and met long before Mumbai and that the entire Temporal Pincer Movement / Defeat Sator was the Protagonists mission. Explain that too.
@bullsi20 Dude, no offence, but anyone who leaves rambling, 500+ word replies on UA-cam probably didn't like the Joker because it cut a bit too close to the bone.
Sator's timeline is difficult precisely because not a lot of it is shown. To analyse his timeline closely I think I would need to have the film on DVD to make sure I hear everything and put the scenes I see him in on a timeline. What we do know is that as a young adult, he volunteered for a mission to retrieve plutonium, which turned out to be a piece of the algorithm. We know he needs to collect all the pieces and gets given gold and instructions on how to do so. We know he is terminally ill. We know the fit bit is linked to the bomb and algorithm that ends the world. We know he has been using inversion to bamboozle our heroes. We do not know how the turnstile machines he uses got there, if he got instructions on how to make them. We do not know his connection with Priya, they may be associates. We do not know where he is exactly during some scenes. We do not know who he is hired by and the fact that he says the "twilight world" phrase might link him to actually being hired by The Protagonist. This is just a theory though.
@@TeaBreakFilmReviews thank you for going through this! i just saw tenet for the second time, this time not in imax so i could actually understand the characters. i saw that young sator opened the plutonium case and there was a typed letter addressed to him. do you know who that letter is from? i thought it was his future self writing his younger self a letter, but maybe it was his future partners giving him instructions on how to assemble the algorithms. i also did not make a connection (until reading your reply) between him finding plutonium and ending up with cancer.
Thanks for this easy-to-follow video; it really helped me understand the movie better. :) My favorite scene was during the car chase, when Sator's vehicle comes raging up the highway backwards, toward the Protagonist and Neil. It looked so real yet unnatural, and left me shaking from how unnerved it made me feel. Another moment was during the Stalsk-12 battle, when some Blue Team members were running through a hole in the wall of a building, when suddenly the inverted explosion occurs, restoring the wall and trapping at the last Blue member inside. That was a pretty cool example of the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that Nolan has become famous for. Would you consider doing a quick video on the Tenet timeline from Neil's perspective? I'm really confused by his chronology, especially during the last battle.
One of the best explanation I have seen..I felt that blue and red separation is opposite to what u said..but brilliant explanation 🥰❤...kudos...love from India ❤...#chris nolan fan ❤😍
In the temporal pincer movement: the blue team is the one inverted. My question is this: why not use just one team (color not important) to start the attack at stalsk-12, experience first hand what happens-> then invert themselves and go back in the past just before the attack, change gears in the turnstile so that they can run the attack again in forward time (and not inverted)? Wouldn't that be easier?
Sir Michael Cain says that on the same day of the Opera seige, they get an explosion in Stalsk-12. So ideally, the last sequence and opera house are on the same day. No?
I'd just like to see a timeline for Sator alone. If he was killed on the boat before the opera house, how did he do all the things that happen after that?
Sator’s goal was not to activate the algorithm. his goal was to use his death to trigger the explosion that hid the capsule. they had timers counting down because they knew the time it goes off as it was reported on in the news. The algorithm was meant to be hidden in a time capsule for the future people to unearth and then activate.
if his death triggered the algorithm than anything after that would cease to exist, i.e. why the beginning of the first half of the movie exists. He believed at his death that we would seal the fate of the world for the future to find the algorithm. that’s why after the kiev explosion/his death time continued as it was his past self with kat and the protagonist from his death forward.
I don't know that I agree there's not multiple timelines. The paradox is what creates the separate timelines. There are timelines that end, where others continue, because of the paradoxes.
This is the best video currently available which explains movie plot and concepts with full clarity that too in calm and composed manner. All the other channels with millions of subscribers are making it complicated by talking hastily and throwing random concepts here and there and further complicating things. I strongly recommend this video for people who are looking for good movie explanation.
nice explanation of sequence of events but i have one correction @2.33 --> sator doesnt tip Protagonist on plutonium transportation, protagonist requests for sator help
I have a confusion here... At first meeting, Protagonist had a dinner with kat in which she revealed that she saw a woman jumping off from the yatch and Sator went missing after that. But later in the movie she invited him on yatch and Sator was their already their.
Kat was shot with inverted bullets, she was not inverted right? What I dont get is if they Inverted Kat in Oslo, how come they are understanding her speaking in the ambulance? Someone please explain.
I have the answer to you question. In the Tallinn Turnstile, inverted Sator shoot Kat with inverted bullet and as we know that an inverted bullet is very much fatal to a person moving in forward direction of time flow ( already told in the movie ) , so to save Kat , Neil and the Protagonist inverted themselves along with Kat and they started moving backwards in time ( because a normal bullet is less fatal than an inverted bullet to a forward moving person , so when they are moving backwards the injury wasn't that much a big deal to Kat ... It's just like a normal bullet injury ). What I'm trying to say is that inverted bullet will act just as a normal bullet in case of inverted Kat and with nice hospitality from Neil, Kat heals up gradually. Now as they were moving backwards through time, so in order to get back to normal timeflow ( forward direction ) they have to get re-inverted in a turnstile. So they decided to move to Oslo ( because in Oslo there was a turnstile in the Freeport vault ) and get themselves re-inverted i.e. moving in forward direction again. P.S.- They took the advantage of the chaos during the plane crash and made it in there where they had a fight with the Protagonist's past self only from a different perspective.
Love the video. Please i would love it if you could explain the mission from Neil's perspective. I don't understand how he picked the lock. Thanks so much.
So Neil must enact the save at the Opera house before his sacrifice at the explosion site? Also I think the blue team are the inverted ones so they will going from the later time to the earlier.
Here's something to chew on... Neil is actually Max all grown up and is recruited by the Protagonist in the future and inverted after being told what needs to happen, and the Algorithm is actually intended by Tenet for Sator to find in order to make sure that all the events play out as they're supposed to, eliminating Sator, saving the world, and Kat, with the single sad truth that Max/Neil will eventually need to sacrifice himself in order to save the world/Protagonist.
Hold on, if the protagonist saw himself come out the inverter and fought him, then carried on to the point where he has to go back to that inverter and fight his earlier self, then that means his earlier self is continuing forward to loop back to the point where kat gets shot and has to go back to that same inverter again, so wouldn't it be a never ending loop?
The plot aside, I'm still unable to grasp the concept of entropy. Reverse entropy is used in the film where we see the effect before the cause. So, for instance, in the opera house siege, when we see the inverted bullet for the first time, someone had shot the bullet there. But who and why? And during the climax, we see Neil saving the protagonist but that means he went down there and came in front of the protagonist to save him in the inverted world. We see that in the normal world happening in reverse.
So when Sator says "we live in a twilight world" and The Protagonist answers "Is that Whitman?", it's just Protagonists humor right? Because he used that twilight world quote at the opera house, but opera happened before Protagonist and Sator met. He could not learn this poem/quote from Sator and started using it afterwards..?
I think it's just him being funny and trying to figure out what Sator's plan is so doesn't want to give away that he knows the phrase. Nolan makes us question every damn thing! Haha.
Someone, please tell me if Neil died in the end! The way I see it, he took a bullet for the protagonist whilst unlocking the cage door. So he must've inverted himself after getting the complete algorithm to unlock the cage so the mission was a success and the loop was complete. But at what point did he invert to save the protagonist at the opera house???
So time traveling and inversion are two separate possible things here? E.g. Kat went back in time but was not inverted? (so she didn't need to wear a mask when killing Sator on the boat?)
But, if Sator died in Vietnam which chronologically is the earliest plotline, how did he appear in subsequent scenes? Is that the "future Sator"? I can't remember.
I'm sure Nolan is fully aware that the audience rewatching the film has a sort of 'inverted' experience the send time around. You know what happens and can watch the film from a different perspective. It's all very meta, but whether the movie is actually any good I'm not sure about yet.
The whole inversion thing could’ve been left out and the movie just would’ve been about traveling back in time to change things. The inversion thing with things going backwards really didn’t add anything to this movie. Just neat scenes.
Good catch lol. Now that you have put it that way -- the movie is very easy to understand lol. This whole inversion shit is what I still can't understand at ALL!!! I don't even think the movie even fully explain how is the inversion being triggered in the first place. I don't know. Too complex for an average guy like myself! But still love the movie though, oddly enough? LOL
You say there's no time travel but you are describing a process that goes backward and forward in time. For example you start off with opera House and then later go back to a period before then ie the Vietnam hol. Why does the cars side mirror crack when it's not actually hit by anything? Do fridges work with reverse entropy? They convert heat to cold don't they? Bullets may invert back into the gun - then why don't they invert back to bullet factory. Could Nolan have made this film easier to understand? Did he make it deliberately hard to understand? 1) by making the dialogue so hard to hear 2)by having the characters speak in very vague language 3)by having so much of the story being unseen.
Just two questions that has been bugging me since I saw it: are there two characters of the protagonist and Kat in the same timeline since they inverted that far back? And how do they go back that far inverted? How would they eat and drink, or does inverted go back faster than normal time
YES, there are 2 Protagonist and 2 Kate. But the relevance of the Protagonist from the past has not started for the plot (or as some say, he was in that moment at the Opera), while the Protagonist of the future was at the battle. The Kat from the future, was lying to Sator as if she were the Past Kat. And bot Kats meet briefly when future Kat jumps from the Yatch and Kat from the past sees her, thinking Sator has an afair.
Ok. A quick question for you.. How this timeline works based on the fact that sator did in kate flashback and if he was dead all along how that didn't affect that world? Think about that!!
Thanks for the video! Question - If you go through the turnstile and start to move backwards in time say for a 365 straight days, you'll be a year in the past. But at the end of that year of moving backward through time, you go through another turnstile, you'll change direction in time (you start to move forward with everyone else around you), but you'll still be a year in the past, correct? The turnstiles allow you to change direction in time, backward or forward, but you can't jump forward or backward in time to a specified date. So at the end of the film, the Protagonist, Kat, etc, must move forward one day at a time until they "catch up" to the point at which they originally started to move backwards? Wondering if you feel this is correct? Thx!
But if Neil gets killed by taking that bullet in the cave (which is in the past relative to other events), doesn't it give us the answer to the grandfather paradox in the Tenet universe? As in, the plan of reversing time wouldn't have killed the future "bad guys", right?
How did a once inverted kat get to her “present” self with her son to deliver a message of posterity to the protagonist? If someone inverts how do they catchup with themself?
The result of all this running around in the time is that, in the end, it must exist multiple copies of a bunch of the characters, a problem that is not addressed in the movie or by everybody that tries to explain it.
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I Think I became subscriber number 1680. Let’s hope it get higher since you have a very calm way about you that is very advantageous when you are explaining subjects that needs calm and not fast phased videos as elsewhere. It’s so much more enjoyable and easy to understand. Thanks he work of these concepts and timelines.
You are the best 💓😘 Go ahead girl
You are such a great explainer so it’s only right that you get recognized for that. Have your thought about the period between the future and the time they go back from ? What did they do in all those years
Hey TeaBear I enjoyed your video, however for the sake of
accuracy which I am sure you will appreciate, there is chronological error on your timeline for this video. Surprisingly it is at the very beginning and it is quite alright to be honest as you did a good job articulating the rest of the inversions. K enough with my digression: here is a nice paradox that really dovetail the whole movie thematically the Opera
Scene in Kiev, Kat’s Sator hit-job proceeded by her elegant 40 ft Olympic class victory dive in Vietnam, and the denouement at the hyper center @Stas-12 all occurred on the same day; hence the palindrome TENET which resonates the beginning is the end and vice versa. This sentiment is echoed by Neal, i.e. younger maxmiLIEN, @ the end right b4 he goes to invert one last time to close the loop when he reveals to the Protagonist: “ this is the end of a beautiful friendship for me.... But for you it is just beginning.” Apologies if came across too
critical,‘that wasn’t my intention. I liked the view and your voice plus the delivery and just figured you wouldn’t want a discrepancy on a video you did.
Tenet 2 was a bit more twisted, saw it tomorrow
I've been going through a weird complex thought that it there was to be a second movie it would be a prequel to the first with the plot being the recruiting of Neil and The Protagonist telling him his mission to go back years so he could prevent what has happened in the first movie. So basically Tenet is the sequel to Tenet 2, which is the prequel to Tenet😰🤯🤯😵whew thats complex but only if there will be a sequel which I doubt
L8 Rapid the first Prequel/Sequel in one movie ever
I just saw it as well. I wonder when the trailers are coming out.
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Okay no problem I'll see that yesterday....
I spent the past 2days watching tenet explainers and this is the only one that actually makes sense!! FINALLY I GET THE MOVIE 🍿🍿
jehanr omg! Big fan, I say :P
@@cheezyme2984 aha awesome. PS do you get tenet
@@jehanr OMG! thanks ever so much for replying back! And about Tenet, no it's very confusing! DX
SAME!
Agree with you.
Nolan: Crashes an entire Boeing plane for the film
Everyone: CHEESE GRATER!!!!
We've reached the point of diminishing returns of big, live action set pieces. No one cares about a big plane without an emotion punch behind it.
So true
Toonna Obi-Okoye I feel like the realism of it and the music gave it enough impact and emotion to be both badass and powerful
The plane crash scene was epic, because it looked so real unlike 90% of such scenes in similar movies...because it kinda was real. Very powerful scene!
@@josuastangl7140 didn't know it was real but i was amazed when i saw it. It looked very realistic. Were there no added animated effects?
I love that you call everyone their character names, except Sir Michael Caine, because he is Sir Michael Caine lol
To be fair, his character in the film is also called Sir Michael haha
@@AaronWeight because he is Sir Michael 😂
Finally, a solid freakin' explanation on UA-cam thus far, Good God the others were edited in such a horrible manner. This is the only way to explain Tenet, by showing us literally, a TIMELINE.
Awesome one guys!
Well done. By far the best explanation I’ve watched thus far. Thank you!!
Thank you! I am glad I could be of help.
I loved the explanation. I would sit through even a 2 hour detailed explanation from this channel, since every detail is put straightforward. Good job TBFR!
Sator didn't picked up the piece of algorithm himself after the car crashed. There was no piece in the car when inverted Sator found the car with protsgonist inside and burned it. He simply knew by seeing protagonist in the car that the piece is back in the future so he delivered this information to his normal flow team which goes then in paralel with normal flow protagonist and Neil to pick up the piece after the reversed protagonist walks in reverse back ito the turnstile. It's Sator's temppral pincer movement. Other than that great chronology!
This was actually way easier to understand than some more in depth videos that make their own models etc. Well done! Thank you for taking the time to do this.
It was ten minutes though, not an hour
Ten forward and ten back... hence Tenet
Yes, the actual algorithm retrieval at the location takes 10 minutes however the entire mission takes a full hour, including travelling to and from the location, that is why I have written it like that in my example :)
The mission was an hour long, but the overlap between red and blue teams was 10 minutes.
Well actually the reason the movie's named TENET is because of the "Sator Square" which is a latin sentence and a palindrome just like the word itself that has been around for hundreds of years.
On the left the square and on the right the reference in the movie:
S A T O R | Name of the Antagonist
A R E P O | Name of the Spanish Artist
T E N E T | Well, you guessed it
O P E R A | Movie starts at the Opera
R O T A S | Construction company /
Freeport
As you can see, the sentence read backwards is exactly the same as read forwards and the word TENET can be read left to right, right to left, top to bottom and bottom to top.
Keith Churchill wasn't the blue team the ones who were in inverted time? But she said the red team were using the inverted time
@@yasin5040 Yes, but we can't reasonably assume that the Sator Square exists in-universe because it would be far too meta. We then have to either come to the conclusion that the Protagonist named the operation/organization Tenet because of the actual definition of the word, or the pincer strategy to obtain the algorithm.
Thanks for the helpful and straightforward video. One clarification: "time inversion" absolutely IS a form of time travel. Indeed, it's time travel reduced to its essence: eliminating the anisotropy of time, i.e., making the "arrow" go both ways. Time travel to the past does not necessarily require the creation of multiple realities/timelines. In fact, the most philosophically rigorous conceptions of time travel to the past do not permit changes to be made; rather, time travelers simply participate in past events without altering the ways those events are known to have happened. See *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban* for a surprisingly good illustration of this principle. This is the version of time travel to the past that *Tenet* postulates.
I started watching this video tomorrow, still watching it
Best explaination I have seen through all of UA-cam. Best ever explaination of TENET is here.
Can somebody explain to me when I left the theater after the movie, I saw myself walking in to watch the movie?
Explanation: The movie theater was a Turnstile.
P.S: Please get an oxygen mask before you pass out.
This video was so much more clear than the ones with millions of views
Great video. One correction. Sator doesn't pick up the 241 at the SAAB crash site. By that point it's back in the BMW, in it's case. He just tells the forward moving half of his pincer team that it will be in the SAAB for them.
Off screen, all the forward moving half of his team would need to do is wait for the SAAB to uncrash, reverse it's way back to where inverted Protagonist got in. And wait for the inverted Protagonist to reverse walk out if the SAAB and into to the turnstile. And just pick it up at that point.
We just watched Tenet on digital release and were totally blown away by it and loving it! I absolutely love your vids on Tenet as they helped me be immersed in the movie more now that you've explained it well. I liked, commented, and subscribed! I'm hoping your efforts here will springboard your channel as your works have been amazingly stellar!
My favorite scene is the final scene in which The Protagonist kills Priya's heavy and Priya herself. It doesn't appeal to me because of the killings, but rather because of the clarity of thought that The Protagonist expresses during the scene. Cheers, Michelle.
My favorite scene in Tenet is during the car chase.. in awe seeing the four cars surrounding the vehicle then the one in front abruptly breaking-- it was exciting! I enjoyed the rest of the sequence too however the 4 cars moving into place shot from a bird's eye.. that was visually beautiful, got my heart to race.
best Tenet time explanation.
only stating things that are needed and no BS.
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You switched the teams when explaining the temporal pincer. Blue goes backwards, red goes forwards. Blue reports what will happen to red, because they are coming from the future into the past. Red goes into the mission with that knowledge. Those colors are used consistently throughout the movie to indicate time-flow direction. The rooms in the turnstile have red/blue lighting, plaques in their doors, and even characters will use red/blue tones in their costumes to help the viewer understand what is going on
I thought Blue Team and Red team are the same people just inverted from each other. When the Protagonist tells Kick-Ass he wants to be in the team that disables the bomb he tells him there is no other team "it's just us."
He tells him that because only Ives and The Protagonist will be in charge of retrieving the algorithm. Members of both red and blue team do not know the purpose of the mission. They haven't been told about the algorithm because they don't know who to trust. Blue and Red team need to be different people otherwise they will affect each other when travelling in opposite times.
@@TeaBreakFilmReviews oh well If Nolan could just prioritize the dialogue over the music and SFX I would know better! lol
Wow, best explanations yet on this channel - I'm slightly less confused now. thnx! :D
Was waiting for someone to tackle the timeline. Thanks.
I strongly recommend this creator’s Tenet Explained. It’s awesome.
I think the hypothermia scene confuses me, unless he was still inverted and so was Neil, so the real timeline in chronological order would be:
1: Inverted Neil rescues Inverted Pro from the burning car, both are heading back to the heist scene.
2: At the start of the car chase, Inverted Pro has hypothermia from the fire, which then starts and Inverted Sator un-triggers it, then Inverted Pro un-crashes the car and that's seen in the end of take 1 of the car chase.
3: Interrogation scene.
Also you got the colours inverted in the temporal pincer movement scene. To me it looked like:
1: They all start inverted and walk into the turnstile to go to the normal timeline. The blues have just come from a fight, and they tell the red soldiers what happened, then they don't fight, but their inverted selves are un-loaded onto the blue crates.
2 - The blue and red crates are put on the battlefield. The teams both have a counter going from 10:00 to 0:00, but from blue perspective 10:00 is the end while from red 10:00 is the start of the countdown.
3: At 5:00 the invertedly destroyed building is un-destroyed but destroyed again... so it was always destroyed... confusing. Also the red soldier who gets caught in an inverted explosion is trapped in a wall, also confusing.
4: Some stuff with Neil happens.
5: The forward soldiers (both red and blue) continue their normal lives, probably working for Sator and avoiding their previous selves.
Thanks a lot. This is the clearest explanation I found on this movie.
Hi.I am a japanese viewer.This lady's (michele?) english is very easy to hearing for non-english speaker.Easy to understand as well. Thanks.
Phenomenal execution. I kinda just stopped at simply reviewing it for the time being on my channel, but having seen this, I seriously don't think I can top y'all. Wonderful job, Michelle, and congrats on all these new subs as a result! Keep on keeping on!
I can't wait to see inception, i think it will be a great movie
The fact that I’ve had to binge like 15 different timeline and explainer videos just to figure out what I watched, to me, really gets at what I think is a huge problem with Nolan now. There’s a difference between ‘treating the audience with respect’ and ‘treating the audience as though they’re all nuclear physicists.’ Tiny clues seen for ~1 second two hours before are meant to be instantly remembered when they pay off, important exposition is buried under heavy layers of score, and needing a spread sheet to keep track of scene events is just a chore
The important thing to learn about the movie is that at the start when the Russian catch the Protagonist, The train is moving backwards meaning the time is inverted and in the next scene the train starts moving forward, which means that that is where the character actually dies in the past
I also have one doubt.
How did the scientist who created the 9 algorithms go back in inverted time to hide them in different locations?
And secondly, how did the descendants (the future humans) contact Sator?
Wow i found this channel at the beginning of 2021 best explore so far!
3:20 Sator didn't got the algorithm from flipped saab.
Forward timeline: The inverted saab car comes back to life then protagonist throws algorithm into inverted saab.
Inverted timeline: From warehouse/turnstile inverted protagonist drives inverted saab to the car chase scene we see algorithm flies back to the BMW or neil's car then sator rams the poor saab causing it to flip upside down.
So the algorithm was actually just there in the inverted saab sitting next to inverted protagonist all along.
So people might get confused like "why didn't protagonist just looked inside the car or if he actually saw it why didnt he just took it walked away."
It's because time inversion differs from time travel you can't just go back in time and steal something and then go back to the present like nothing happened. In time inversion you have to ensure the future you have to do something for it so your desired future will occur just like the ending where were thinking why didn't neil just go with protagonist and have some coffee. Sad ending btw
I'm assuming Sator told his men where it is because he now knows the protagonist was lying since he was going back to the past to ensure the algorithm in the future.
TL;DR: Algorithm piece is just there inside the saab car from the warehouse/the turnstile and that's where Sators men took it.
You don't expect this from a very small channel. Nice job! The only thing I'd change is your lighting, as it's a bit harsh. You could get an even more professional look with a soft box or pretty large LED panel. And in post you could maybe adjust the WB a bit, get those blues and magentas a little lower.
Sorry, I'm just not happy until I give UA-camrs, who are actually doing everything right, unsolicited advice. xD Oh, and I love the mic, used to have it, too, the little Death Star. :D
Isn't the red team moving forwards in time and blue is inverted?
Correction. Volkov grabs the piece from the other end of the timeline (the end of the pincer) after the cavalry invert since if Sator takes the piece from the over turned I-Saab because it's no longer in the I-Saab after it is flipped over.
Thanks for a very good explanation. I do however miss the bigger timeline, meaning Neal's adventures before (and after) the opera house and him and The Protagonist meeting and working together. The big temporal pincer movement. :)
So explain how the Protagonist can just "wake up" after eating the suicide pill? Why wouldn't Sator's men dismember him or burn him or something?
And this is not the timeline of the movie. The final scene explains that Neil and The Protagonist are old friends and met long before Mumbai and that the entire Temporal Pincer Movement / Defeat Sator was the Protagonists mission. Explain that too.
@bullsi20 Dude, no offence, but anyone who leaves rambling, 500+ word replies on UA-cam probably didn't like the Joker because it cut a bit too close to the bone.
I’m giving this film a 10/10 and then I’m going to go watch it
The most puzzling is Sator's timeline, which is not explained here, or anywhere else. Any ideas about that?
Sator's timeline is difficult precisely because not a lot of it is shown. To analyse his timeline closely I think I would need to have the film on DVD to make sure I hear everything and put the scenes I see him in on a timeline.
What we do know is that as a young adult, he volunteered for a mission to retrieve plutonium, which turned out to be a piece of the algorithm. We know he needs to collect all the pieces and gets given gold and instructions on how to do so. We know he is terminally ill. We know the fit bit is linked to the bomb and algorithm that ends the world. We know he has been using inversion to bamboozle our heroes.
We do not know how the turnstile machines he uses got there, if he got instructions on how to make them. We do not know his connection with Priya, they may be associates. We do not know where he is exactly during some scenes.
We do not know who he is hired by and the fact that he says the "twilight world" phrase might link him to actually being hired by The Protagonist. This is just a theory though.
@@TeaBreakFilmReviews thank you for going through this! i just saw tenet for the second time, this time not in imax so i could actually understand the characters. i saw that young sator opened the plutonium case and there was a typed letter addressed to him. do you know who that letter is from? i thought it was his future self writing his younger self a letter, but maybe it was his future partners giving him instructions on how to assemble the algorithms. i also did not make a connection (until reading your reply) between him finding plutonium and ending up with cancer.
Thanks for this easy-to-follow video; it really helped me understand the movie better. :) My favorite scene was during the car chase, when Sator's vehicle comes raging up the highway backwards, toward the Protagonist and Neil. It looked so real yet unnatural, and left me shaking from how unnerved it made me feel.
Another moment was during the Stalsk-12 battle, when some Blue Team members were running through a hole in the wall of a building, when suddenly the inverted explosion occurs, restoring the wall and trapping at the last Blue member inside. That was a pretty cool example of the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that Nolan has become famous for.
Would you consider doing a quick video on the Tenet timeline from Neil's perspective? I'm really confused by his chronology, especially during the last battle.
Excellent explanation of the timeline. I saw the movie twice just to catch the little details. The third time I put it all together. Great movie.
One of the best explanation I have seen..I felt that blue and red separation is opposite to what u said..but brilliant explanation 🥰❤...kudos...love from India ❤...#chris nolan fan ❤😍
In the temporal pincer movement: the blue team is the one inverted. My question is this: why not use just one team (color not important) to start the attack at stalsk-12, experience first hand what happens-> then invert themselves and go back in the past just before the attack, change gears in the turnstile so that they can run the attack again in forward time (and not inverted)? Wouldn't that be easier?
Sir Michael Cain says that on the same day of the Opera seige, they get an explosion in Stalsk-12. So ideally, the last sequence and opera house are on the same day. No?
I'd just like to see a timeline for Sator alone. If he was killed on the boat before the opera house, how did he do all the things that happen after that?
Great video, i think the time of the battle was 10 minutes for each team but otherwise this video was very easy to follow and has great graphics!
Sator’s goal was not to activate the algorithm. his goal was to use his death to trigger the explosion that hid the capsule. they had timers counting down because they knew the time it goes off as it was reported on in the news. The algorithm was meant to be hidden in a time capsule for the future people to unearth and then activate.
if his death triggered the algorithm than anything after that would cease to exist, i.e. why the beginning of the first half of the movie exists. He believed at his death that we would seal the fate of the world for the future to find the algorithm. that’s why after the kiev explosion/his death time continued as it was his past self with kat and the protagonist from his death forward.
Outstanding video...thanks!!!!
I don't know that I agree there's not multiple timelines. The paradox is what creates the separate timelines. There are timelines that end, where others continue, because of the paradoxes.
This is the best video currently available which explains movie plot and concepts with full clarity that too in calm and composed manner. All the other channels with millions of subscribers are making it complicated by talking hastily and throwing random concepts here and there and further complicating things.
I strongly recommend this video for people who are looking for good movie explanation.
Damn, such a good video ! Finally I can sleep well and get better understanding of the movie.
nice explanation of sequence of events but i have one correction @2.33
--> sator doesnt tip Protagonist on plutonium transportation, protagonist requests for sator help
So far the best explanation. 👍🏻
I love the way you explain ♥️😍You made it easy very easy to understand
I have a confusion here...
At first meeting, Protagonist had a dinner with kat in which she revealed that she saw a woman jumping off from the yatch and Sator went missing after that. But later in the movie she invited him on yatch and Sator was their already their.
Kat was shot with inverted bullets, she was not inverted right? What I dont get is if they Inverted Kat in Oslo, how come they are understanding her speaking in the ambulance? Someone please explain.
I have the answer to you question. In the Tallinn Turnstile, inverted Sator shoot Kat with inverted bullet and as we know that an inverted bullet is very much fatal to a person moving in forward direction of time flow ( already told in the movie ) , so to save Kat , Neil and the Protagonist inverted themselves along with Kat and they started moving backwards in time ( because a normal bullet is less fatal than an inverted bullet to a forward moving person , so when they are moving backwards the injury wasn't that much a big deal to Kat ... It's just like a normal bullet injury ). What I'm trying to say is that inverted bullet will act just as a normal bullet in case of inverted Kat and with nice hospitality from Neil, Kat heals up gradually.
Now as they were moving backwards through time, so in order to get back to normal timeflow ( forward direction ) they have to get re-inverted in a turnstile. So they decided to move to Oslo ( because in Oslo there was a turnstile in the Freeport vault ) and get themselves re-inverted i.e. moving in forward direction again.
P.S.- They took the advantage of the chaos during the plane crash and made it in there where they had a fight with the Protagonist's past self only from a different perspective.
Love the video. Please i would love it if you could explain the mission from Neil's perspective. I don't understand how he picked the lock. Thanks so much.
So Neil must enact the save at the Opera house before his sacrifice at the explosion site? Also I think the blue team are the inverted ones so they will going from the later time to the earlier.
Here's something to chew on... Neil is actually Max all grown up and is recruited by the Protagonist in the future and inverted after being told what needs to happen, and the Algorithm is actually intended by Tenet for Sator to find in order to make sure that all the events play out as they're supposed to, eliminating Sator, saving the world, and Kat, with the single sad truth that Max/Neil will eventually need to sacrifice himself in order to save the world/Protagonist.
Great review... I can clearly see the amount of work that u hav put into it
Hold on, if the protagonist saw himself come out the inverter and fought him, then carried on to the point where he has to go back to that inverter and fight his earlier self, then that means his earlier self is continuing forward to loop back to the point where kat gets shot and has to go back to that same inverter again, so wouldn't it be a never ending loop?
The plot aside, I'm still unable to grasp the concept of entropy. Reverse entropy is used in the film where we see the effect before the cause. So, for instance, in the opera house siege, when we see the inverted bullet for the first time, someone had shot the bullet there. But who and why?
And during the climax, we see Neil saving the protagonist but that means he went down there and came in front of the protagonist to save him in the inverted world. We see that in the normal world happening in reverse.
Excellent explanation!! Thanks a lot!
You've got a new subscriber from me! Great explanation.
This was a wonderful video. Thank you for making it!
So when Sator says "we live in a twilight world" and The Protagonist answers "Is that Whitman?", it's just Protagonists humor right? Because he used that twilight world quote at the opera house, but opera happened before Protagonist and Sator met. He could not learn this poem/quote from Sator and started using it afterwards..?
I think it's just him being funny and trying to figure out what Sator's plan is so doesn't want to give away that he knows the phrase.
Nolan makes us question every damn thing! Haha.
What does the phrase actually mean?
Great video! Loved that you managed to make it thid short
Someone, please tell me if Neil died in the end! The way I see it, he took a bullet for the protagonist whilst unlocking the cage door. So he must've inverted himself after getting the complete algorithm to unlock the cage so the mission was a success and the loop was complete. But at what point did he invert to save the protagonist at the opera house???
2:02 the cheese grater is iconic
curious.. what did you use to edit the plot points on this video? it's so smooth
So time traveling and inversion are two separate possible things here? E.g. Kat went back in time but was not inverted? (so she didn't need to wear a mask when killing Sator on the boat?)
So she gets inverted to go to the holiday but then is inverted back to normal time to kill Sator, hence no mask needed
But, if Sator died in Vietnam which chronologically is the earliest plotline, how did he appear in subsequent scenes? Is that the "future Sator"? I can't remember.
Question... If Sator disappeared before in vietnam how is he present to meet the protagonist later on the timeline?
I completely missed the fake handoff in the car chase scene. Where is that shown?
One minor problem, during the final battle, it's the red team moving forward in time and the blue moving backward
best explanation video so far
I'm sure Nolan is fully aware that the audience rewatching the film has a sort of 'inverted' experience the send time around. You know what happens and can watch the film from a different perspective. It's all very meta, but whether the movie is actually any good I'm not sure about yet.
Excellent explanation. Straightforward and no gimmicks. Thanks
Thank you!
Amazing explanation!
This is so good. Can you please breakdown other Nolan movies like Interstellar, Inception and Memento.
THANK YOU :) Clear and simple. I love a good visual of time! (Really helps.)
The whole inversion thing could’ve been left out and the movie just would’ve been about traveling back in time to change things. The inversion thing with things going backwards really didn’t add anything to this movie. Just neat scenes.
Good catch lol. Now that you have put it that way -- the movie is very easy to understand lol. This whole inversion shit is what I still can't understand at ALL!!! I don't even think the movie even fully explain how is the inversion being triggered in the first place. I don't know. Too complex for an average guy like myself! But still love the movie though, oddly enough? LOL
@@metalnat27 I didn’t get what was going on until I watched videos to tell me what was going on.
You say there's no time travel but you are describing a process that goes backward and forward in time. For example you start off with opera House and then later go back to a period before then ie the Vietnam hol.
Why does the cars side mirror crack when it's not actually hit by anything?
Do fridges work with reverse entropy? They convert heat to cold don't they?
Bullets may invert back into the gun - then why don't they invert back to bullet factory.
Could Nolan have made this film easier to understand? Did he make it deliberately hard to understand?
1) by making the dialogue so hard to hear
2)by having the characters speak in very vague language
3)by having so much of the story being unseen.
Just two questions that has been bugging me since I saw it: are there two characters of the protagonist and Kat in the same timeline since they inverted that far back?
And how do they go back that far inverted? How would they eat and drink, or does inverted go back faster than normal time
YES, there are 2 Protagonist and 2 Kate. But the relevance of the Protagonist from the past has not started for the plot (or as some say, he was in that moment at the Opera), while the Protagonist of the future was at the battle. The Kat from the future, was lying to Sator as if she were the Past Kat. And bot Kats meet briefly when future Kat jumps from the Yatch and Kat from the past sees her, thinking Sator has an afair.
Thanks. Now the film starts to make sense to me.
If he gets capture and interrogated by Sator's man at 1:00, how is that a test and who is testing him then?
Ok. A quick question for you.. How this timeline works based on the fact that sator did in kate flashback and if he was dead all along how that didn't affect that world? Think about that!!
Thanks for the video! Question - If you go through the turnstile and start to move backwards in time say for a 365 straight days, you'll be a year in the past. But at the end of that year of moving backward through time, you go through another turnstile, you'll change direction in time (you start to move forward with everyone else around you), but you'll still be a year in the past, correct? The turnstiles allow you to change direction in time, backward or forward, but you can't jump forward or backward in time to a specified date. So at the end of the film, the Protagonist, Kat, etc, must move forward one day at a time until they "catch up" to the point at which they originally started to move backwards? Wondering if you feel this is correct? Thx!
But if Neil gets killed by taking that bullet in the cave (which is in the past relative to other events), doesn't it give us the answer to the grandfather paradox in the Tenet universe? As in, the plan of reversing time wouldn't have killed the future "bad guys", right?
I do not get how Sator could be killed in the past in Vietnam and still do all the stuff he did in the future? Could someone explain?
How did a once inverted kat get to her “present” self with her son to deliver a message of posterity to the protagonist? If someone inverts how do they catchup with themself?
Although doesn't TP kill priya just before he meets Kat outside the school (the "1st" time)
The result of all this running around in the time is that, in the end, it must exist multiple copies of a bunch of the characters, a problem that is not addressed in the movie or by everybody that tries to explain it.
Doubt: How's the algorithm is in Opera House if they split it in the very first place?
Ik that's a dumb question but I'm so confused
Best explanation hands down and I've seen many 🤣