TENET isn’t just a movie, it’s an experience . I Cannot for the life of me explain what is going on at any point in the movie cause I have a smooth butter brain but I loved it!
@@sarandangas I really feel sad for director when people like you directly criticize movie by saying its non sence, just think about the hard work of director.
The explanation was wrong anyway. They didn't describe how inversion actually works. Neil dies inverted and remains so for all eternity, buried in the hypocenter explosion. He doesn't relive the events of tenet infinitely as the host says he does.
Neil doesn’t get stuck in a time loop... he goes back into the Tenet battle backwards and dies. Basically, this time around, he goes back in starting from the end of the battle, and only lives a few minutes before he is shot in the head. So, from his perspective, the first time he fights in the battle starting from the end, goes about halfway towards the beginning, then switches to normal forward progression of time. The battle ends, he switches back to reverse time, and participates in the last few minutes of the battle again (for the purpose of opening the door for The Protagonist) before he is killed.
EXACTLY ! Neil go back in backward time and open the gate and then died taking the bullet, letting his bag on the ground when the protagonist enter the center of the underground base.
Wrong... Neil is in a time loop. Neil is the one that saves the Protagonist at the Opera house by taking the bullet. Which is were Neil was going when he said “This is the end of a beautiful friendship” Neil did this twice in the cell and the opera house.. Why ...because The protagonist recruited Maximilien (Neil) to Tenet because he protected Kat but realized he would not live long to do so. So the Protagonist recruits her son, thus the emotional good by for Neil and the protagonist.... “Don’t think about it, feel it”...
@@Gologo7 That's a copy of Neil in a different point in his life. There are multiple versions of the same person at any given time during the events of the film. Even the protagonist has at least 3 copies of himself during the Opera heist, each of which is at a different event of their lifetime. Once Neil dies, that's the end of his timeline.
Neil isn't 'backwards Neil' when he drags them out. He started the assault backwards, but flipped when he saw his comrades would be trapped by an explosion at the entrance.
@@magicbrit That was to re invert himself hence making him normal forward. But at last when he will go back to open the lock he will enter the machine again hence die while inverted.
Ya. And he isn’t in a time loop. I didn’t understand that part of their explanation. He dies while in reverse entropy but it’s not a loop. He just dies and his story ends there. It doesn’t start up again.
SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS All of these words appear in the movie and this palindromic Sator Square can be found in the ruins of Pompeii that Max was visiting.
Christopher Nolan is my all-time film director and saw this movie yesterday and it's an amazing film, he never let's me down. Some of his films need a "second or third viewing" to understand it more and his trademarks are very unique and complexed!
@Nick I remember taking my ex to see "Inception" and she complained that movie required critical thinking after I told her numerous times that it's one of Christopher Nolan's trademarks.
Neil is Max from the future. He has the same color hair, and the final line with the shot I would say indicates that. The fact that he didn't say goodbye to Kat before the mission and her saying "I wish I had seen him one last time" is not a coincidence. How Neil talks to Kat seems very familiar and calm to him Also, I would imagine that Max's full name is Maximilien. Lien is the reverse of Neil. And the fact that Neil asks the protagonist if he's going back to Kat. Why would he ask that unless he knew that he would and probably become like a surrogate father figure to him?
Love that! It seems like it's an ending and beginning of a Trilogy. I believe this is a tip of an entire story eventhough Nolan doesn't really do Sequels Time is perceived as linear. Theirs tech that reverses the flow of time. You can erase (time travel) bad events AFTER it happens. One guy learned that if enough material to reverse time is in the past (our present) then the world will destroy... SPOILER ALERT 🚨 BATTANSON is from the future, & was hired to start the movie and maybe change the person who hired him future. I'm guessing he's dead in the future and this prepared him to change it... GIVE ME A TRILOGY ‼‼‼👍 I LOVED IT, a lil slow
How do you explain the way Max got to the past? He would need to become adult first (in order to be trained and briefed properly by the Protagoinst). Then he would need to spend equal amount of time in inversion state, wearing the oxygen mask all the time. What I mean is that Niel ought to be way too old to resemble Max
@@maxlavrov1255 I mean, yes. This is not a typical agency so I can see that they could have recruited him around when he was 18. They do have contained room that can keep inverted people safe. Also, he can be inverted back to normal if he goes into one of the machines. So, I believe he joined Tenet in his late teens, and has been backwards and forwards for half of his lifetime. And the only person who he had was The Protagonist, which he was the next to teach him all the theoretical knowledge of time travel and locksmithing during that time.
Was looking for this comment. They misstate multiple things. Neil “stuck in a time loop” for example. Also, they say interstellar ends at the beginning. Umm, correct me if I’m wrong but he came out of the 4th dimension decades into the future, with his daughter now older than him. Still didn’t hate the video though
I was lost the whole movie bc I literally couldn’t hear what the actors were saying. It’s a shame bc I was really looking forward to this movie yet I hated watching it.
Zatana 1878 I saw it in RPX theater and the sound was obnoxiously loud and not well tuned, I’ve been to RPX loads of times before and it’s never been that way, I almost walked out to the front desk to suggest they may have the sound messed up but didn’t wanna be ‘that guy’
@@kennethpresley9173 totally unrelated, but how has an RPX stacked up in your opinion vs other theaters/auditoriums. I know it’s Regal’s version of IMAX, but I’ve never been to one. I’m curious what sort of audio they run in there (Dolby Atmos, etc) Is it worth the price hike?
you can't understand it when you see it for the first time, especially since some of the confusing events in the first part of the movie are only explained at the end, and some are not, so you can't go back to certain scenes in your mind and think "yeah, that makes sense now", especially since when you see the movie you don't know what the red and blue colors mean or who is the one that set up all of this, you are being told at the end who is but he set up more than neil tells him, it's all his plan and idea from the future
Funny how a story known so well probably by everyone who have seen the movie can be so clearly hidden that only very few people will work it out, scene for scene.
My theory is that Neil is Max, Kats son but also the older gentlemen who apparently rescued the Protagonist in the beginning who first gives him the word Tenet. It’s a tiny detail but Nolan never misses details, the man in the beginning makes an identical gesture of tangling his fingers together(an engagement if you will) that Neil makes later in the film when explaining inversion to The protagonist. Neil tells him that he recruited him, but if Neil is max then clearly he is able to move through time through inversion and exist as different versions of himself at the same time to fulfill his later purpose. Sort of like the grandfather theory, the protagonist makes him but he has to go back to make the protagonist.
I was in Puerto Rico for a few months, so glad I went to see this on the big screen. Almost empty theater. One of the best experiences during a very rough time of 2020.
so here's a super oversimplified version from what I gather. there are two sides in time: the red side is cause and effect while the blue side is effect and cause. correct?
correct? there are two sides in time: the red side is cause and effect while the blue side is effect and cause so here's a super oversimplified version from what I gather
What is so great about this movie is that it challenges viewers who are so used to thinking about time in a linear way that only moves in one direction: forwards towards the future. The way I imagine the movie is that there are two separate linear timelines, like rivers if you will. We are used to seeing someone kayak down the river of time from point A to point B using the river's natural current to assist them. Now imagine that the river completely reverses itself and flows upstream from B to A instead. The kayaker would have to follow the river's current and they would appear to be moving backwards to a point they had already passed by. But if someone had been kayaking AGAINST the river's current before the river reverses it's course, you would then see the river traveling backwards from B to A and the kayaker appearing to continue down the river to new and uncharted destinations once the shot got reversed. That is what is happening in Tenet. Many of the shots were done by having actors walk backwards while physical effects are happening all around them and then inverting the shot so it appears it is actually the surroundings that are traveling backwards from B to A against the natural flow of time and not the characters themselves. The movie ends with the Protagonist only appearing to move forwards through time, but he is actually on the reverse river flowing backwards through time, not the original river flowing towards the future. He does this to protect humanity from temporal threats in the past. "No one cares about the bomb that never went off." Well, for all we know, the bomb would have gone off had the Protagonist not been traveling backwards in time to disarm it.
I absolutely LOVED Tenet & especially the experience of watching it. The score, John David’s incredibly charismatic performance, score & action. Such epic action. Even though i didn’t get everything on the way... I pretty much got it by the end. That last scene between Protagonist & Neil was BEAUTIFUL. Hope there’s a sequel so we can see that “beautiful friendship” & more incredible action. The very first line of Tenet is in Russian: WAKE UP AMERICANS. The movie about future where climate change has brought the planet to near apocalyptic end... this seemed like a clear message / statement to audiences. Like ForceAwakens first line was “this will start to make things right”.
After watching it twice in 5 days two scenes i noticed had someone else in the background that stood out. 1. Neil running to use the turnstile at the final battle, on the right hand side of fhe screen there is 1 person running from one of the 2 teams, but both teams shouldnt be anywhere near there, they're all near the end of their 10 minute time limit. 2. This is a maybe, but when he meets priya again before the final assault a person in white walks from the left to the right who has the same gait as our protagonist. I honestly wouldn't be surprised that they shot parts for a sequel/prequel during the original
3:08 this isn't true. Neil isn't stuck in a time loop at all. What happened was definitive, and the timeline occurs quite linearly as it occurred. Him catching the bullet doesn't carry into him saving JDW and Yves, and it isn't meant to happen over and over again - otherwise the movie would break its own logic. It's just an inverted scene that already happened. It's his end just inverted and at the same time as JDW and Yves are going forward. No one experiences it twice and Yves doesn't come from it inverted into the end right before sacrificing itself.
That is correct: Neil goes through all these events only once, it is just that for some of these events he is travelling back in time, and in others he is travelling forward in time. Equally, the Protagonist and Ives don't experience Neil's sacrifice more than once - they just witness that sacrifice playing back in reverse, just as Neil witnesses their actions playing out in reverse just before he is killed. He only knows that he has to do this because someone has already told him that this is what he does, not because he has already lived through this event before.
neil goes back thru and opens that door for the protagonist, and then he is killed and his role ends...people don't understand this, it's not an infinite loop, it's a closed loop, inverted neil meets the protagonist in mumbai and then guids him thru the whole movie and dies at the end when he opens that door, after that the protagonist only moves forward, into the future
@@badsnowman many people are saying that Tenet is a close version of Inception. If that is the case, then I liken Neil as totem who is there to plant the idea of Tenet for the Protagonist. Thats why its the "end of the a beautiful friendship" because like the Protagonist states after he shoots Priya..."mission accomplished." It was Neil's sacrifice that allowed him to complete the mission that his future self set out to do.
Also Washington only trust Pattinson at below than 50% with lots of distrust, doubtful & lack of confidence but Pattinson trust him at the level of 1000% of confidence & respect throughout the entire mission. He even took a bullet to the head & died for him during the 10 minutes of the Red & Blue battle. This is the true friendship that actually go beyond gold, blood, life, earth, universe & time itself. Very powerful movie. Kudos to all teams & Christopher Nolan who made this total awesome masterpiece movie that far different & new in latest film industry.
02:30 is wrong. Neil is not inverted on the car scene. Before this scene, he leaves his group during the battle and sees an enemy coming out of a building backwards. There is an inversion machine in the building. He goes in and reverses his inverted self back to the timeline of the red team. The last scene of the battle approves this. When the protagonist sees Neil walking towards him and Ives, he says to Neil 'I thought you were inverted'.
Very useful! One thing I think you should have mentioned: at the end, Kat remains blissfully ignorant that the protagonist has just saved her life. The whole thing is an analogy for the image change problem. If we, by our actions now, save the world from future disaster, we will be heroes, albeit unacknowledged ones. The most important actions are the ones the QUIETLY PREVENT future catastrophe.
In the scene where the Protagonist is fighting with the masked character, who we later find out is the Protagonist in reverse, the logic just doesn't make sense. There are THREE versions of the Protagonist at the same damn time: 1)The reverse masked character he's tangling with, 2)the forward masked character Neil lets get away, and 3)himself, that was fighting the reverse character. That's a major hole in the movie's logic, TWO forward-moving Protagonists at the same time.
This was such a brilliant film. My eyes were glued the entire time. Christopher Nolan is a Genius ! Can’t wait to watch it again. John David Washington and the entire cast were amazing !
yes it is, the bad guy who blackmails his wife in order for her to never see her son again, in the rest of the movie maybe he does a job for the right reasons but if you're travelling into the past you should try to save the world, now destroy it before it fucks itself up, the hero always finds a way to save the world without destroying it, isn't that what every movie has taught us?
In the opening of this video, you see Neil and the protagonist running into the hanger as the firefighters are moving back as everyone is in reverse. So from the firefighters point of view, two people are running out of the hanger in reverse. In reverse. WTF
In the end Nolan gives his take on the paradox by having Sator's attempt to take his life be the dysfunctional suicide pill, thereby showing that he would have never been able to take his life and that the world could never have been ended.
Sator doesn't know how the Algorythm works. Only people from the future can activate it. Sator's plan is to broadcast its location through time once the dead drop is done, so the future people can dig it up and activate it. Therefore Sator was hired by this future organisation whose goal is to destroy the past. The Protagonist with Tenet comes to stop this from happenning. The film's stake is that who will be the Protagonist by the end.
See I don’t understand the objective of the antagonist organization though. They aren’t destroying the past, they were destroying the standard flow of time. However in doing so the algorithm would combine both states of entropy simultaneously which would result in an annihilation reaction (this is a real thing, but combing states of entropy is sci fi). Basically in my opinion the movie illustrates inverted phase reacting with the world as anti-matter. When anti-matter comes into contact with matter it results in an annihilation reaction in which the charges of particles are cancelled and matter essentially eliminates itself resulting in the only know reaction that yields 100% energy release. Long story short the algorithm would destroy all matter on earth and result in nothing (hence why the tag line for the movie is time runs out as in following the reaction nothing exists). This makes the actions by the future organization result in a zero sum game of which their actions have no inherent benefit to whatever their cause is. Why they would put themselves in this situation doesn’t make any sense to me.
Tenet does not refer to the ten minute battle istg, it refers to faith..... For this show it's the main character's faith in the mechanics of the universe. It's also the central word for the sator square, of which the other 4 words of the square are littered around the movie
The protagonist didn't eliminate all the major players of Tenet. Kat(the version to whom he gave a mobile and asked to communicate in case she feels threatened) is still alive and will move forward along with him. She knows the whole operation as Neil explained it to her while they were inside the container, going to Oslo.
I'm not even half-way through, and to date (Sept/12/20) this is the best summary on the Inter-webs. Kudos Insider! Not only have you described the movie, but you've opened up several new avenues for appreciation of this film.
I saw it twice and it felt like a Palindrome metaphorically with Neil saving the Protagonist in the beginning and the end. It is very much a repeating time loop with Paradox coming into play with foreshadowing of what has already happened and repeating it again. I especially loved the ending with the distinguishing of the red soldiers and blue soldiers with red moving forwarding in time while the blue soldiers are moving backwards in time. Neil's first introduction was the same Neil that saved the Protagonist at the Opera house which I knew right away during the start of the film. I think the ending with the Protagonist saving Kat and her son created a new rebirth. You even had little bit of a John Wick Easter Egg which was very quick where one of the bodyguards during the fight sequence in the Kitchen was played by Jackson Spidell who is Keanu Reeves stunt double and also part of the 87 eleven stunt team founded by Chad Stahleski and David Leitch directors of the John Wick franchise.
That's not a John Wick "easter egg" my man... more like a sidenote, trivia, or little tidbit. It's just a stunt guy getting a paycheck in another movie lol.
-A Theory suggests Max's full name is maximilen , If u inverse the last 4 letters, it would be NIEL -Moreover, He knows Estonian , In the movie when he said it's Estonian in reversed -In the very last scene, when Ives told them not to cross path again , Neil asks the protagonist if he is going to see kat again? Even from far...Which he replied NO, But did exactly the same while killing priya NEIL already Knew every step of him, That's what the future Protagonist already told him...So Neil is in a loop of going back in time and dying while the protagonists journey is halfway when the movie ends
I literally just watched this movie and it was AMAZING, when I watched the trailer I thought it was going to be boring but I enjoyed it so much and 1000% recommend
When Kat first met the Protagonist in the restaurant, she told him she saw a lady jumped off the boat 10 days ago during her fight with Sator in Vietnam. In which, later the movie revealed that lady was actually Kat herself jumping off the boat after killing Sator. If that's the case, how did Sator appeared on the boat later questioning Kat who is the Protagonist even before time machine has been discovered. Sator was supposed to be dead since 10 days ago.
beard there's plenty of evidence what are you talking about? Look at the end shot, kat and max in view of the protagonist. Hes gonna protect them for the rest of his life. Why do you think he says the person behind the phone is called "posterity", hes protecting her posterity. Neil even says this is the end of a beautiful friendship but the start of another one. Implying he will become friends with neil in the future. It all makes sense. Neil is max. Their hair is even the same. You think nolan just randomly put that in there?
From my point of view, Tenet is the best movie since Start Wars IV and Matrix. This overview is one of the best I've found. I've looking to understand all details in this movie by watching it few times but also watching UA-cam reviews. My personal opinion is that - We will have to wait long from now on to see a movie like this one , or like the two I've mentioned before. Related to Nolan, I liked Dunkirk and Interstelar or even Inception, but this one is his best!
The last observation, with the mother and son being one inverted and the other being normal knowing this by their clothes colours, is a very good one I didn’t observed it.
Actually Neil is Kat's soon. He came from the future to save the Protagonist at the starting. "You Know me from a long time" explains this in the last scene. Also that's the reason Neil was a master in Physics and even in the movie Kat's son name was not told. Please like. I got this while watching the Film.
Opera scene was more confusing thqn the ending. Please explain this to me if you have watched the movie🥺 if opera scene was a test, then why Niel protected protagonist? What was inverted in the opera scene? Niel or bullet? Because Niel turned backward not walked backward after shooting which shouldn't be the case when he was inverted. The person who was shot dead by the Niel, why he said "you don't need to kill these people". When in fact the protagonist was saving them and those are the ones who are planting the bombs. That scene was also confusing when they exit opera after the explosion in the van and the person pointing the gun to the protagonist What was the point of the whole opera scene??
The opera scene was needed so the protagonist could get recruited into "tenet". Neil had to protect the protagonist so he could take the suicide pill later on in the torture/train scene, thus getting recruited into tenet. In the opera scene Neil shot an inverted bullet. H e wasn't inverted. you can shoot inverted bullets when you're not inverted yourself; remember the scene the protagonist shot the bullets from the rock?
Red doesn't JUST mean he is going forwards in time. As he already went backwards in time before when he comes out of that(entering turnstile machine and exiting at red again) then he will be in past anyways and the time he exists blue and enters red depends on how much time he spent on blue side. So you see it's far more complex than just going forward or back in time.
it took me a while to realize what happened but when i did, i saw how good the movie was( i only watched the vid to see if i was right and i was mostly)
this movie is something we might never see again.a 200 mil dollar original sci fi movie not adapted from any book,or not belonging to a franchise
And a black lead
@@HoopsRaccoon true
Christopher Nolan doesn’t miss man... it’s only expected
You need to watch Dark from netflix then. It has similar time loop but also mind-blowing twist
@@HoopsRaccoon
Black leads means nothing
I’m so looking backward to this movie.
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Touche, sir.
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After watching the movie, I told myself: don’t try to understand it, feel it...
I told myself that during it and I followed it
Me too😊and so glad i did...
Did try to understand then Migrane hit me hard.
You're right, I probably shouldn't watch clips like this one :-)
The thing that we should do when watch Nolan's movie
Anyone else fresh out of the cinema?
Right here 😜
10 minutes ago, Studio Movie Grill, Roswell Ga
2nd time for me
Nope! Straight online baby !
Amalia Pascual del Riquelme YES! Just watched it in 70MM IMAX and I loved the movie but didn’t understand it lol
This is the only movie, ever, in which "spoilers" do not exist.
Neil dies, I guess that's a spoiler
No one including the director himself will understand the movie
Not. yet. 😉
@@majapamajapa175 Idk man. On a rewatch I bet many more people would get it.
Neil dies
i just watched this tomorrow and the movie was awesome
lmao.
I’m confused
Good one bro!
I just movie this tomorrow and awesome the movie was
It’s worse movie I ever seen you will understand at all
You know the story is confusing when Insider has problems explaining it.
They also get it wrong in spots. No such thing as a time loop in Tenet.
The only mistake you can make while watching a Nolan movie is to Blink
TENET isn’t just a movie, it’s an experience . I Cannot for the life of me explain what is going on at any point in the movie cause I have a smooth butter brain but I loved it!
Don't worry it's same for us all 😜
because it doesn't make any sense
@@sarandangas I really feel sad for director when people like you directly criticize movie by saying its non sence, just think about the hard work of director.
Even after this explanation, I still don't understand. Anyway, it was a good film. Can't wait for the trailer!
Ingenious
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The explanation was wrong anyway. They didn't describe how inversion actually works. Neil dies inverted and remains so for all eternity, buried in the hypocenter explosion. He doesn't relive the events of tenet infinitely as the host says he does.
After watching the movie I walked backwards to the box office waiting for the money to flow back into my wallet
Epic 😂😂
Neil doesn’t get stuck in a time loop... he goes back into the Tenet battle backwards and dies.
Basically, this time around, he goes back in starting from the end of the battle, and only lives a few minutes before he is shot in the head.
So, from his perspective, the first time he fights in the battle starting from the end, goes about halfway towards the beginning, then switches to normal forward progression of time. The battle ends, he switches back to reverse time, and participates in the last few minutes of the battle again (for the purpose of opening the door for The Protagonist) before he is killed.
They don't know what they're talking about.
I agree this is what I took from it. That Neil goes back in time to sacrifice himself.
EXACTLY ! Neil go back in backward time and open the gate and then died taking the bullet, letting his bag on the ground when the protagonist enter the center of the underground base.
Wrong... Neil is in a time loop. Neil is the one that saves the Protagonist at the Opera house by taking the bullet. Which is were Neil was going when he said “This is the end of a beautiful friendship” Neil did this twice in the cell and the opera house.. Why ...because The protagonist recruited Maximilien (Neil) to Tenet because he protected Kat but realized he would not live long to do so. So the Protagonist recruits her son, thus the emotional good by for Neil and the protagonist.... “Don’t think about it, feel it”...
@@Gologo7 That's a copy of Neil in a different point in his life. There are multiple versions of the same person at any given time during the events of the film. Even the protagonist has at least 3 copies of himself during the Opera heist, each of which is at a different event of their lifetime. Once Neil dies, that's the end of his timeline.
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directed by-chistopher nolan
concept by-christopher nolan on cocaine and lsd
Inspired by Red Dwarf 😂
@@1000000man1 Nolan Christopher-By Directed
Neil isn't 'backwards Neil' when he drags them out. He started the assault backwards, but flipped when he saw his comrades would be trapped by an explosion at the entrance.
@Masemeno Nasaku there was a machine on-site. You see Neil go through it.
@@magicbrit That was to re invert himself hence making him normal forward. But at last when he will go back to open the lock he will enter the machine again hence die while inverted.
Ya. And he isn’t in a time loop. I didn’t understand that part of their explanation. He dies while in reverse entropy but it’s not a loop. He just dies and his story ends there. It doesn’t start up again.
SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS
All of these words appear in the movie and this palindromic Sator Square can be found in the ruins of Pompeii that Max was visiting.
Wow. Further explain ol' chap. Good deduction I say. I'll have you know im very impressed mate.
@@tokyo6ix606 Thank you, my good sir.
Good shit!
@@____uncompetative indubitably sir!
You just copy pasted it xD nice one tho
Christopher Nolan is my all-time film director and saw this movie yesterday and it's an amazing film, he never let's me down.
Some of his films need a "second or third viewing" to understand it more and his trademarks are very unique and complexed!
And then you got dumbasses claiming it sucks because they’re too stupid to understand it
Nick Stoker yeah lol
Just about to watch inception again cause I can’t remember what happened
@Nick I remember taking my ex to see "Inception" and she complained that movie required critical thinking after I told her numerous times that it's one of Christopher Nolan's trademarks.
Think he broke my brain with this one. And to think I was 30 seconds late seeing Memento, had no idea wtf was going on for the next 2 hours.
Neil is Max from the future. He has the same color hair, and the final line with the shot I would say indicates that.
The fact that he didn't say goodbye to Kat before the mission and her saying "I wish I had seen him one last time" is not a coincidence.
How Neil talks to Kat seems very familiar and calm to him
Also, I would imagine that Max's full name is Maximilien. Lien is the reverse of Neil.
And the fact that Neil asks the protagonist if he's going back to Kat. Why would he ask that unless he knew that he would and probably become like a surrogate father figure to him?
Love that!
It seems like it's an ending and beginning of a Trilogy.
I believe this is a tip of an entire story eventhough Nolan doesn't really do Sequels
Time is perceived as linear. Theirs tech that reverses the flow of time.
You can erase (time travel) bad events AFTER it happens.
One guy learned that if enough material to reverse time is in the past (our present) then the world will destroy...
SPOILER ALERT 🚨
BATTANSON is from the future, & was hired to start the movie and maybe change the person who hired him future. I'm guessing he's dead in the future and this prepared him to change it...
GIVE ME A TRILOGY ‼‼‼👍
I LOVED IT, a lil slow
Hey it's possible!
How do you explain the way Max got to the past? He would need to become adult first (in order to be trained and briefed properly by the Protagoinst). Then he would need to spend equal amount of time in inversion state, wearing the oxygen mask all the time. What I mean is that Niel ought to be way too old to resemble Max
@@maxlavrov1255 I mean, yes. This is not a typical agency so I can see that they could have recruited him around when he was 18. They do have contained room that can keep inverted people safe. Also, he can be inverted back to normal if he goes into one of the machines. So, I believe he joined Tenet in his late teens, and has been backwards and forwards for half of his lifetime. And the only person who he had was The Protagonist, which he was the next to teach him all the theoretical knowledge of time travel and locksmithing during that time.
@@StevenFlorak2 seems legit
The voice of the narrator is also moving backwards ...
I hate her voice...
@@supertony4708 stfu
Nolan is such a legend
I watch your videos
I commented "Finger This"
Facts
Massive misunderstandings in this vid. Beware.
Was looking for this comment. They misstate multiple things. Neil “stuck in a time loop” for example. Also, they say interstellar ends at the beginning. Umm, correct me if I’m wrong but he came out of the 4th dimension decades into the future, with his daughter now older than him. Still didn’t hate the video though
Yeah "Tenet comes from the ten minute fight" I already knew they didnt research the Sator square thats full of palindromes
“Warning, Spoilers ahead"
This is one of the movies where it doesn't make a difference.
I knew the word TENET was a palindrome but I never though about the word being Ten in forward and backward both converging
Mind blowing
Not only that. Originally, TENET is a diagonal word from the Sator square.
At the end of the day, all Sator wanted was the love of his wife. He was a sad case
I was lost the whole movie bc I literally couldn’t hear what the actors were saying. It’s a shame bc I was really looking forward to this movie yet I hated watching it.
Zatana 1878 I saw it in RPX theater and the sound was obnoxiously loud and not well tuned, I’ve been to RPX loads of times before and it’s never been that way, I almost walked out to the front desk to suggest they may have the sound messed up but didn’t wanna be ‘that guy’
Kenneth Presley It wasn’t the theater. It was the pompous film making, they really don’t prioritize sound mixing and that’s just crazy to me.
@@kennethpresley9173 totally unrelated, but how has an RPX stacked up in your opinion vs other theaters/auditoriums. I know it’s Regal’s version of IMAX, but I’ve never been to one. I’m curious what sort of audio they run in there (Dolby Atmos, etc) Is it worth the price hike?
Same :(
Na you just need to listen properly lol
Whoever watched this movie for the first time and understood this movie has the brain of Albert Eistein
you can't understand it when you see it for the first time, especially since some of the confusing events in the first part of the movie are only explained at the end, and some are not, so you can't go back to certain scenes in your mind and think "yeah, that makes sense now", especially since when you see the movie you don't know what the red and blue colors mean or who is the one that set up all of this, you are being told at the end who is but he set up more than neil tells him, it's all his plan and idea from the future
Even Einstein wouldn't understand it first time watching. There's a lot of holes in the movie that don't make sense.
I think the best twist was the protagonist actually ended up being Denzel Washington's son! BOOOM!
Real life is not a movie lmao
I've never heard of Mr.Washington's son and while watching Tenet I was like, dude has the voice of Denzel for sure. And turn out he is. Damn!
I didn't know he is Denzel's son until I've finished watching the movie. His surname got me thinking "Is he related to Denzel?"
This was the most confusing movie I’ve ever seen and I’m not easily confused about anything
Sameeee
And have you watched inception it’s pretty confusing as well
Saje 735 I think Inception is a lot less confusing than Tenet
Saje 735 I understood inception after the first viewing. This.... I still don’t get it.
Funny how a story known so well probably by everyone who have seen the movie can be so clearly hidden that only very few people will work it out, scene for scene.
My theory is that Neil is Max, Kats son but also the older gentlemen who apparently rescued the Protagonist in the beginning who first gives him the word Tenet. It’s a tiny detail but Nolan never misses details, the man in the beginning makes an identical gesture of tangling his fingers together(an engagement if you will) that Neil makes later in the film when explaining inversion to The protagonist. Neil tells him that he recruited him, but if Neil is max then clearly he is able to move through time through inversion and exist as different versions of himself at the same time to fulfill his later purpose. Sort of like the grandfather theory, the protagonist makes him but he has to go back to make the protagonist.
@Cameron Koons nope he does not die only depiction of his bag with that orange thingy is given, it is completely possible.
This summarizes Neil: "Time Isn't the Problem, Getting Out Alive Is the Problem". SPOILERS: He won't.
one version of him doesn't at least :)))
7:16
Insider: Kat's outfit is blue
Kat's outfit: Am I a joke to you?
It's clearly just grey
It could pass as a shade of blue
Actually they didn’t use the last scene, even tho they are talking about it. But in the actual scene she has a blue outfit.
@@lucydiaas8421 no one likes a smart ass
Kevin Foendoe sry i was just trying to help. No need to be rude...
didn’t even think of the Doppler Effect thing. brilliant!
I remember this movie becoming a major blockbuster soon
I was in Puerto Rico for a few months, so glad I went to see this on the big screen. Almost empty theater. One of the best experiences during a very rough time of 2020.
What if Kat's son is Neil recruited by protagonist to save his mother
This explains a lot of things I missed!
I'll definitely need to see it again - Neil moving through time was the hardest thing for me to figure out.
When ever i think ..i understand this masterpiece.. new consept opens...
This is masterpiece of Christopher Nolan 🙏🔥
so here's a super oversimplified version from what I gather.
there are two sides in time: the red side is cause and effect while the blue side is effect and cause.
correct?
correct?
there are two sides in time: the red side is cause and effect while the blue side is effect and cause
so here's a super oversimplified version from what I gather
@@AlmightyFilms you have my undying respect dude, have a good one.
Just watch the movie
What is so great about this movie is that it challenges viewers who are so used to thinking about time in a linear way that only moves in one direction: forwards towards the future.
The way I imagine the movie is that there are two separate linear timelines, like rivers if you will. We are used to seeing someone kayak down the river of time from point A to point B using the river's natural current to assist them. Now imagine that the river completely reverses itself and flows upstream from B to A instead. The kayaker would have to follow the river's current and they would appear to be moving backwards to a point they had already passed by. But if someone had been kayaking AGAINST the river's current before the river reverses it's course, you would then see the river traveling backwards from B to A and the kayaker appearing to continue down the river to new and uncharted destinations once the shot got reversed.
That is what is happening in Tenet. Many of the shots were done by having actors walk backwards while physical effects are happening all around them and then inverting the shot so it appears it is actually the surroundings that are traveling backwards from B to A against the natural flow of time and not the characters themselves.
The movie ends with the Protagonist only appearing to move forwards through time, but he is actually on the reverse river flowing backwards through time, not the original river flowing towards the future. He does this to protect humanity from temporal threats in the past. "No one cares about the bomb that never went off." Well, for all we know, the bomb would have gone off had the Protagonist not been traveling backwards in time to disarm it.
@@hypnoharlequin3546 so that's the textbook version to my oversimplified version huh? not bad.
I absolutely LOVED Tenet & especially the experience of watching it. The score, John David’s incredibly charismatic performance, score & action. Such epic action.
Even though i didn’t get everything on the way... I pretty much got it by the end.
That last scene between Protagonist & Neil was BEAUTIFUL.
Hope there’s a sequel so we can see that “beautiful friendship” & more incredible action.
The very first line of Tenet is in Russian: WAKE UP AMERICANS.
The movie about future where climate change has brought the planet to near apocalyptic end... this seemed like a clear message / statement to audiences.
Like ForceAwakens first line was “this will start to make things right”.
The Americans** if you may.
After watching it twice in 5 days two scenes i noticed had someone else in the background that stood out.
1. Neil running to use the turnstile at the final battle, on the right hand side of fhe screen there is 1 person running from one of the 2 teams, but both teams shouldnt be anywhere near there, they're all near the end of their 10 minute time limit.
2. This is a maybe, but when he meets priya again before the final assault a person in white walks from the left to the right who has the same gait as our protagonist.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised that they shot parts for a sequel/prequel during the original
Nolan has said that all of his original films are not made for prequels or sequels.
3:08 this isn't true. Neil isn't stuck in a time loop at all.
What happened was definitive, and the timeline occurs quite linearly as it occurred. Him catching the bullet doesn't carry into him saving JDW and Yves, and it isn't meant to happen over and over again - otherwise the movie would break its own logic.
It's just an inverted scene that already happened. It's his end just inverted and at the same time as JDW and Yves are going forward. No one experiences it twice and Yves doesn't come from it inverted into the end right before sacrificing itself.
That is correct: Neil goes through all these events only once, it is just that for some of these events he is travelling back in time, and in others he is travelling forward in time. Equally, the Protagonist and Ives don't experience Neil's sacrifice more than once - they just witness that sacrifice playing back in reverse, just as Neil witnesses their actions playing out in reverse just before he is killed. He only knows that he has to do this because someone has already told him that this is what he does, not because he has already lived through this event before.
I think probably Kat's son is Neil from the future came to the past to save his generation
the way Neil could be the son of Sator and Kat!!
You tube channels explaining Tenet: Spoilers ahead
Me: you got be kidding me
Completely random fact:
One 18-inch pizza is more pizza than two 12-inch pizzas.
-SciFacts
This is information the public needs to know
If that piece or random information was in this film then I would have enjoyed it more.
18 inch pizza: area (pr (squared)) - 256 square inches
2*12 inch pizza: 2* (pr (squared)) - 226 square inches
That’s actually quite interesting 🧐
r/humansbeingbros
3:07 is he really stuck reliving that same moment over and over again??? I need more elaboration on that part. Man, talk about sacrifice.
Nah I don’t think he is. I think he’s finally killed at the end just to open the door.
neil goes back thru and opens that door for the protagonist, and then he is killed and his role ends...people don't understand this, it's not an infinite loop, it's a closed loop, inverted neil meets the protagonist in mumbai and then guids him thru the whole movie and dies at the end when he opens that door, after that the protagonist only moves forward, into the future
@@badsnowman many people are saying that Tenet is a close version of Inception. If that is the case, then I liken Neil as totem who is there to plant the idea of Tenet for the Protagonist. Thats why its the "end of the a beautiful friendship" because like the Protagonist states after he shoots Priya..."mission accomplished." It was Neil's sacrifice that allowed him to complete the mission that his future self set out to do.
And reversed music
Also Washington only trust Pattinson at below than 50% with lots of distrust, doubtful & lack of confidence but Pattinson trust him at the level of 1000% of confidence & respect throughout the entire mission. He even took a bullet to the head & died for him during the 10 minutes of the Red & Blue battle. This is the true friendship that actually go beyond gold, blood, life, earth, universe & time itself. Very powerful movie. Kudos to all teams & Christopher Nolan who made this total awesome masterpiece movie that far different & new in latest film industry.
02:30 is wrong. Neil is not inverted on the car scene. Before this scene, he leaves his group during the battle and sees an enemy coming out of a building backwards. There is an inversion machine in the building. He goes in and reverses his inverted self back to the timeline of the red team. The last scene of the battle approves this. When the protagonist sees Neil walking towards him and Ives, he says to Neil 'I thought you were inverted'.
Very useful! One thing I think you should have mentioned: at the end, Kat remains blissfully ignorant that the protagonist has just saved her life. The whole thing is an analogy for the image change problem. If we, by our actions now, save the world from future disaster, we will be heroes, albeit unacknowledged ones. The most important actions are the ones the QUIETLY PREVENT future catastrophe.
I've watched the movie yesterday. Need to watch 10 times to close the loop 😏
In the scene where the Protagonist is fighting with the masked character, who we later find out is the Protagonist in reverse, the logic just doesn't make sense. There are THREE versions of the Protagonist at the same damn time: 1)The reverse masked character he's tangling with, 2)the forward masked character Neil lets get away, and 3)himself, that was fighting the reverse character. That's a major hole in the movie's logic, TWO forward-moving Protagonists at the same time.
the movie has nothing to do with Doppler effect, the person who made this video seem to understand nothing in physics
This was such a brilliant film. My eyes were glued the entire time. Christopher Nolan is a Genius ! Can’t wait to watch it again. John David Washington and the entire cast were amazing !
One of the best. When it hits the middle of the film is where everything clicks.
This movie is amazing, but you can’t answer the “villian” question
yes it is, the bad guy who blackmails his wife in order for her to never see her son again, in the rest of the movie maybe he does a job for the right reasons but if you're travelling into the past you should try to save the world, now destroy it before it fucks itself up, the hero always finds a way to save the world without destroying it, isn't that what every movie has taught us?
0% Nudity
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In the opening of this video, you see Neil and the protagonist running into the hanger as the firefighters are moving back as everyone is in reverse.
So from the firefighters point of view, two people are running out of the hanger in reverse.
In reverse. WTF
avenger endgame : 😎
tenet : hold my beer...
endgame : 😮
Going to watch tenet tomorrow what a great movie it was
In the end Nolan gives his take on the paradox by having Sator's attempt to take his life be the dysfunctional suicide pill, thereby showing that he would have never been able to take his life and that the world could never have been ended.
Jumping off the boat and drowning after he discovered the pill didn't work would achieve the same result.
Just when I thought I had recovered from Predestination, this leaves me in the same state I was before.
I watched the movie backwards to understand it 😂
Do u?
@@khalisaisar1119 unfortunately nope. Wat i wrote was meant to be a tongue in cheek lol
Sator doesn't know how the Algorythm works. Only people from the future can activate it. Sator's plan is to broadcast its location through time once the dead drop is done, so the future people can dig it up and activate it. Therefore Sator was hired by this future organisation whose goal is to destroy the past. The Protagonist with Tenet comes to stop this from happenning. The film's stake is that who will be the Protagonist by the end.
See I don’t understand the objective of the antagonist organization though.
They aren’t destroying the past, they were destroying the standard flow of time. However in doing so the algorithm would combine both states of entropy simultaneously which would result in an annihilation reaction (this is a real thing, but combing states of entropy is sci fi). Basically in my opinion the movie illustrates inverted phase reacting with the world as anti-matter. When anti-matter comes into contact with matter it results in an annihilation reaction in which the charges of particles are cancelled and matter essentially eliminates itself resulting in the only know reaction that yields 100% energy release.
Long story short the algorithm would destroy all matter on earth and result in nothing (hence why the tag line for the movie is time runs out as in following the reaction nothing exists). This makes the actions by the future organization result in a zero sum game of which their actions have no inherent benefit to whatever their cause is. Why they would put themselves in this situation doesn’t make any sense to me.
Brian because they’re crazy, that’s why they’re the bad guys.
Tenet does not refer to the ten minute battle istg, it refers to faith..... For this show it's the main character's faith in the mechanics of the universe. It's also the central word for the sator square, of which the other 4 words of the square are littered around the movie
The protagonist didn't eliminate all the major players of Tenet. Kat(the version to whom he gave a mobile and asked to communicate in case she feels threatened) is still alive and will move forward along with him. She knows the whole operation as Neil explained it to her while they were inside the container, going to Oslo.
I'm not even half-way through, and to date (Sept/12/20) this is the best summary on the Inter-webs. Kudos Insider! Not only have you described the movie, but you've opened up several new avenues for appreciation of this film.
Great explanation and thanks for breaking it down for us every thumbs up well deserved!
I saw it twice and it felt like a Palindrome metaphorically with Neil saving the Protagonist in the beginning and the end. It is very much a repeating time loop with Paradox coming into play with foreshadowing of what has already happened and repeating it again. I especially loved the ending with the distinguishing of the red soldiers and blue soldiers with red moving forwarding in time while the blue soldiers are moving backwards in time. Neil's first introduction was the same Neil that saved the Protagonist at the Opera house which I knew right away during the start of the film. I think the ending with the Protagonist saving Kat and her son created a new rebirth. You even had little bit of a John Wick Easter Egg which was very quick where one of the bodyguards during the fight sequence in the Kitchen was played by Jackson Spidell who is Keanu Reeves stunt double and also part of the 87 eleven stunt team founded by Chad Stahleski and David Leitch directors of the John Wick franchise.
That's not a John Wick "easter egg" my man... more like a sidenote, trivia, or little tidbit. It's just a stunt guy getting a paycheck in another movie lol.
Amazing movie best movie of the last few years
I can tell you judging by this, this movie will would have been a great success -- all the cinemas will would be packed with people.
-A Theory suggests Max's full name is maximilen , If u inverse the last 4 letters, it would be NIEL
-Moreover, He knows Estonian , In the movie when he said it's Estonian in reversed
-In the very last scene, when Ives told them not to cross path again , Neil asks the protagonist if he is going to see kat again? Even from far...Which he replied NO, But did exactly the same while killing priya
NEIL already Knew every step of him, That's what the future Protagonist already told him...So Neil is in a loop of going back in time and dying while the protagonists journey is halfway when the movie ends
Me yesterday: Wow....
Me now: I know
Me 10 yrs in the future: Tenet will be awesome..
I literally just watched this movie and it was AMAZING, when I watched the trailer I thought it was going to be boring but I enjoyed it so much and 1000% recommend
yea, the trailer make me not want to watch it, but after listening to the plot it sounds really cool, I'm going to watch it this week.
When Kat first met the Protagonist in the restaurant, she told him she saw a lady jumped off the boat 10 days ago during her fight with Sator in Vietnam. In which, later the movie revealed that lady was actually Kat herself jumping off the boat after killing Sator. If that's the case, how did Sator appeared on the boat later questioning Kat who is the Protagonist even before time machine has been discovered. Sator was supposed to be dead since 10 days ago.
Ya missed that NEIL is very likely Kat's son MaximiLIEN
He know the whole plan too
Well that can't be true 😉😂
I been seeing this everywhere there is no evidence.
@@tarakmehta2984 why cant it be true?
beard there's plenty of evidence what are you talking about? Look at the end shot, kat and max in view of the protagonist. Hes gonna protect them for the rest of his life. Why do you think he says the person behind the phone is called "posterity", hes protecting her posterity. Neil even says this is the end of a beautiful friendship but the start of another one. Implying he will become friends with neil in the future. It all makes sense. Neil is max. Their hair is even the same. You think nolan just randomly put that in there?
Very good explanation.
I love this channel, very good content.
From my point of view, Tenet is the best movie since Start Wars IV and Matrix.
This overview is one of the best I've found. I've looking to understand all details in this movie by watching it few times but also watching UA-cam reviews.
My personal opinion is that - We will have to wait long from now on to see a movie like this one , or like the two I've mentioned before.
Related to Nolan, I liked Dunkirk and Interstelar or even Inception, but this one is his best!
Just got a Tenet ad before this 😌 can’t complain
Great video today keep it up your doing amazing job
May brain is thinking what happens if I watch the full movie again in reverse 😉
Tenet needed to be a mini series on Netflix. It's good, but too dense for a single movie.
Yeah exactly. Too many false climaxes
The last observation, with the mother and son being one inverted and the other being normal knowing this by their clothes colours, is a very good one I didn’t observed it.
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Actually Neil is Kat's soon. He came from the future to save the Protagonist at the starting. "You Know me from a long time" explains this in the last scene. Also that's the reason Neil was a master in Physics and even in the movie Kat's son name was not told. Please like. I got this while watching the Film.
Kat's son name is Max.
@@amanjaiswal9389 his another name was neil
@@mvineeth7174 I know. You said that her son's name wasn't mentioned. I was just telling you that it was.
@@amanjaiswal9389 ya right I understand thnx for correcting my mistake
Opera scene was more confusing thqn the ending. Please explain this to me if you have watched the movie🥺
if opera scene was a test, then why Niel protected protagonist?
What was inverted in the opera scene? Niel or bullet? Because Niel turned backward not walked backward after shooting which shouldn't be the case when he was inverted.
The person who was shot dead by the Niel, why he said "you don't need to kill these people". When in fact the protagonist was saving them and those are the ones who are planting the bombs.
That scene was also confusing when they exit opera after the explosion in the van and the person pointing the gun to the protagonist
What was the point of the whole opera scene??
The opera scene was needed so the protagonist could get recruited into "tenet".
Neil had to protect the protagonist so he could take the suicide pill later on in the torture/train scene, thus getting recruited into tenet.
In the opera scene Neil shot an inverted bullet. H e wasn't inverted. you can shoot inverted bullets when you're not inverted yourself; remember the scene the protagonist shot the bullets from the rock?
Red doesn't JUST mean he is going forwards in time. As he already went backwards in time before when he comes out of that(entering turnstile machine and exiting at red again) then he will be in past anyways and the time he exists blue and enters red depends on how much time he spent on blue side. So you see it's far more complex than just going forward or back in time.
Amazing vid, best vid on this movie yet.
It is intriguing to think how Neil actually closed the door at the hypocenter for it to be opened for the protagonist.
This movie felt so authentic in my mind. Enjoyed it very much.
it took me a while to realize what happened but when i did, i saw how good the movie was( i only watched the vid to see if i was right and i was mostly)
15th explanatory video today. Brain melting
My future self told my present self that I will never understand this movie .
Christopher Nolan is a Genius Guy 🔥
The reason why the future wants to annihilate the past holds true in reality "Their oceans rose and their rivers ran dry"
I feel bad for Pattinson in this movie 😞😖
Everytime Nolan release a new movie, all I can though is "how can be this man having idea to make this kind of movie?"
I feel this movie has more in common with predestination. With it all being a time loop.
Love that movie!
as much as i want a sequel this was a perfect movie.i watched it twice will watch it again.
If you think tenet is a reference to the battle you are sorely mistaken my son.
Neil is Kate’s son. Thats why he was protecting them to close the plot ;)