The Genius of TENET (2020) Explained
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- Опубліковано 20 лют 2021
- Written and directed by Christopher Nolan and starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Dimple Kapadia, Elizabeth Debicki and Sir Kenneth Branagh, Tenet follows a secret agent who learns to manipulate the flow of time to prevent an attack from the future that threatens to annihilate the present.
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'Inception sure was mind bending, and confusing."
Tenet: "Hold my beer."
You mean: beer my hold
@@OlCheekyBastard dloh ym reeb :naem uoy
@@OlCheekyBastard FAK U BEAT ME TO IT 🤣👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@@krklee77 no I didn't beat you. It hasn't happened yet.
@@agentc7020 damn👍
I get the feeling Chris Nolan LOVES heist films but doesn't actually want to DO a heist film. So he makes it more interesting. We have to steal from a dream, we have to find a new planet, we have to get off the beach, we need to go back in time, we have to be Batman.
Last line killed me
That's a smart observation
he sees the heist subgenre as a means to explore complex ideas and concepts
Fr it's awesome
which movie do you mean by "we have to get off the beach" ?
"Do you understand now?"
"Yesn't".
lol
😂exactly🤣
😂😂
@@nofool9621 YeseY
Lmaooo
Nolan: Yes
*How confusing do you want this movie to be?*
There, did you what see I.
Oh, Man! That was BRILLIANT!!!!
@@funkymunky hahahaha!
Retteb eht gnisufnoc erom eht
Wouldn’t it be
Nolan: Yes
Didn’t you like how confusing this movie was
Neil was a Silent Guardian
A watchful protector
The Batman.
Bruh 😂😂😂
He is vengeance
That backwards fight scene was quite impressive.
Agreed
I'm still not sure how they did it.
With each version of the fighter improving his fighting as the time goes on, which is opposite to the other. (I'm not even sure I'm getting what I just said..)
@@BlackWing117 they learned the choreo forward and backward
I watched this having never heard of it and it was at that moment that I realized I was watching a Christopher Nolan film. It all just kind of clicked lol
Throughout the film all I could think is, how bad was the future, that they were willing to possibly destroy all of time to end it.
True..
That’ll be our species future but we most likely won’t have the turnstiles
but it was impossible to regardless so i guess that's the upside
The harsh part is because the protagonist wins that is the future.
It seems to me that the future is the product of the present, in which people destroy the future of their children out of pure selfishness and greed.
To quote Enrico Fermi "Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level.”
Of all the explanations of Tenet I’ve seen (and I’ve seen alot) this is the best one by far, awesome job
Thanks buddy!
Agree
I don’t know. This one was ok, but I found the one by New Rockstars more fluid. I love FilmComicsExplained, just got a little busy with the timeline superimposed on the clips from the film.
@@filmcomicsexplained I watched it 4 time's and I still couldn't explain it this well
100% agree
This was the first explanation of tenet that has fully made sense, I loved the whole diagram showing when they were going forward and backward in time!!!
Thanks Gracie!
Agreed!
I have watched this movie 3 times now and everytime I do, I find something new. It's just absolutely awesome and I see it as a masterpiece
@@npcimknot958 It was there because it always was
nah, if its effect first then cause, then that means the effect of a bullet hole would be in that wall infinitely backwards into time. Or it just magically appeared whenever the fuck nolan wants it to.
Yeah, I didn’t like the backwards bullets, backwards driving et al
I watched it 6 times
Same
Tenet is pretty much a more complicated version of the Bill and Ted rule: "Hey Dude, lets make sure in the future we go back in time to help ourselves now!"
I was thinking more Back to the Future on crack. There are so many time paradoxes and contradictions where it makes me wonder about the Infinite universe theory, where each choice creates a alternate timeline or universe where if you did not make a said decision and instead went with the opposite. Where Tenant keeps going in the past and create alternate universes to the point where I am amazed the timeline has not collapsed. Then again they Could've prevented Neil's death and went back to prevent the solider from ever killing him, but sill exist. Time Travel gets really headache inducing.
Looks like garbage🤔
@@Wanderer042 In my opinion, the film world doesn't exist in the alternate universes theory. People are either going forward or backward in the same timeline, and even if they think they are trying to go back and change things, it all ends up the same. "What's happened, happened." As Neil says. I think his younger self was told that his heroic sacrifice taking a bullet is what saves the world, so he is willing to meet his fate, and the other Tenet members aren't stopping him. To me, its one big infinite loop in the same timeline.
@@Wanderer042 "where each choice creates a alternate timeline or universe where if you did not make a said decision and instead went with the opposite" that's assuming you actually have a choice. What if life, our "decisions", are prescribed? This way you always have the same, one universe and one timeline. Going back in time is more like rewinding the tape and playing it from a certain point. Now, given that You moving back in time is not the same You as before, meaning two of You coexist now, it was this way in the first place, before you stumbled upon going back in time. So it always plays the same way. Might ask "How it all started? It must have a starting point.", but what if it was always like that? If I recall correctly, Predestination has this concept, but it was also in Harry Potter. It seems that the loop has a starting point, so "who rescued first travellers?" comes to mind, but the solution would be that it was all set to be like that.
Omg, being too verbose at this point. Hope it didn't get too vague :(
It doesn't help cause who are you helping the you from 20 minutes ago or the you from 20 minutes ago in an alternate time-line or the demon from hell that looks like you etc.
When Neil said at the end "this whole operation is a temporal pincer" - that should be the biggest give away about what's happening in the movie
What’s that?
@@gidope4076 to attack or corner from both sides, or the beginning and end
I recommend the Netflix series dark
@@saleimfinegan6622 oh that series is absolutely incredible isnt it?
…Neil is literally explaining whats happened by saying that
Anytime a movie dives into time travel my brain immediately melts
most of the time they do it it is horribly wrong anyway
@@lazysnipe yeah, because if you think about it whatever outcome you go back in time to stop, occurs despite you going back in time to stop it otherwise the event which triggered you going back in time would not happen therefore guaranteeing it to happen. So therefore when confronted with this type of situation the best thing you can do is nothing as anything you do would lead to the same outcome otherwise the situation would not have happened. my brain hurts now
@@testaccount4191 You my friend is the protagonist
But this melt my brain on a whole other level
@@testaccount4191 unless its a branching multiverse then anything you do in the past just results in a new alternate future
13:57 We see Neil first in Mumbai.
In Hindi, his name means “Blue”.
That’s a hint from Nolan about his direction in Time.
Brilliant 👏
That doesn't really make sense though , everyone is still always moving forward through time!
@@MegaCharns the more you think about the "Neil is Max" thing, the less sense it makes. I bet that was the original idea they had, but since it doesnt make much sense, they didnt go deep into it
This movie is so bizarre, and that's what I like about this.
That's Nolan for you.
That's Why I hate it
@@jothishprabu8 why?
@@hughes4263 This movie is pathetic to its core imo. It's okay If you don't agree with me.
@@jothishprabu8 I definitely see where you’re coming from screenplay wise, stories got a lot of plot holes and it seems like it’s confusing for the sake of being confusing however I still enjoyed it. I think pathetic is a strong word though, seeing as the music, acting, and cinematography is all top tier.
I watched this film 4 or 5 times trying to wrap my head around time inversion. Just when I think there was a plot hole, the film has an explanation that covers it. Also I like the concept of living backwards in time rather than jumping backwards.
The boat scene where the protagonist saves satori is a bit of a plot hole.. it works out but it is very bad lol
@@MegaCharns can you explain how it is bad
@@MegaCharns he could have let him die but he needed him alive to gain his trust and information before allowing him to die.
The way I think of traditional time travel (off the top of my head movies like bttf, terminator, and some others) is that time is a river always flowing at a constant (relativity being ignored, sorry Einstein) speed. Time travel is hopping out of the river and getting in at a different point. Tenet’s time I imagine as a line, and your experience of it as a piece of string. When you invert, you stick a pin in time and wrap your string around it and let it go backwards.
@@cosmicvoidtree nice
This is why I love this movie. It makes me think. I have watched it 3 times and have watched countless videos on the movie. I've dove into reading on entropy and time. Christopher nolan knows how to entertain and ask questions at the same time. My favorite director and in my opinion the greatest director of the modern day.
NOLAN IS ALSO MY FAVE DIRECTOR ALL TIME. MOMENTO, INCEPTION, BATS.. HIS CATOLOUGE ROCKS!!
People forget or don't know that Nolan wanted TENET to be a James Bond Science-Fiction movie with an original story. There is an organisation, a plot, a mistery, the characters are similar. He didn't wanted to make nothing other than a new cinematic experience from this movie based on his passion for time and science and on his job, film making. TENET is something else 👍
I'd take quantum of solace over this piece of shit
@@jothishprabu8 I'd take Casino Royal than *that* piece of shit movie you loved.
@@wills.e.e8014 Everyone would do the same too
@@jothishprabu8 I meant that I would take Casino Royale (and Tenet) over that POS movie Quantum of Solace.
gosh, makes me think how much better films like from russia with love or goldfinger are than this mess of a film.
What I love so much abour it is that there isn't a single scene that feels like fat. The pacing is one of the best I've seen in recent times, it always keeps you attentive. And thank God it didn't do any backstories and anything like that because it would have broken the flow of the movie.
The story itself is a backstory
@@nidhi4079 k
You must have been lucky enough to have snoozed through Michael cain and yacht races
I like how at exactly 11:06 the timeline starts inverting
Excellent analysis. This movie was amazing and I can’t understand why it doesn’t get more love. It was by far the best movie of 2020 and should be considered for Best Picture noms, yet it has been dismissed for less original fare. I feel that as time has gone by and more people have seen it multiple times, it is becoming more appreciated. I hope Nolan keeps up his genius output despite the backlash to his insistence that this movie be released in the cinemas at the height of the pandemic. A mistake? Not for me us in Australia as we were able to go to the movies from August. I saw it 3 times in the cinema :)
I’ve said to people that this movie will build a following and be considered a classic in time. I’m happy that I am how I am in how I watch movies. Whenever I go to the theatre or watch something I haven’t seen at home, my goal is never to scrutinize or dissect it or try to understand it on any deep level (though often our brains are trying to do much of that automatically) but to sit back and just experience the film.
I can recall sitting in the theatre watching Tenet and somewhere around an hour or so in thinking to myself, “I have no idea what the hell I’m watching but I sure am loving it!”
I enjoy having to stretch my brain and think. And while I didn’t fully grasp everything as I watched it, it didn’t bother me because I trust Nolan enough due to his past work that I know he will leave what I need there to put it all together, even if I need multiple viewings to do it
It’s too terse.
It came out at the worst possible time. So ALOT of people didn’t see it
I believe u are exaggerating or better say, u want to fit in the exaggerating groups who carry the award/honor of understanding the concept of the movie
It came out when the world was falling apart
For those wondering about Neil actually being Max from the future, here's what I believe is the most likely situation.Assuming Max is about 9-10 years old in Tenet, he would need to be around 22-23 years old(maybe even less if he proved himself to be exceptional in academics) for him to have obtained his Masters in Physics as he claims to have to the protagonist. While there is no definitive proof he is telling the truth that he has acquired a degree through conventional means, I am inclined to believe this simply because of the references he makes about "their suppression tactics" and "his drinking on the job" remark both of which were true but were not integral pieces of information for the job at hand but were said anyway for innocent banter between them, even before Neil revealed his true identity to the protagonist towards the end of the film, indicating a very different and jovial personality in contrast to the protagonist who believes lying is part of the job.
This means that after he obtained his degree while still being trained by the Protagonist and Tenet he was inverted using a Turnstile and now would need to go back in time by 13-14 years( again could be less based on when he was qualified) in order to reach the point of the opera siege at Kiev as that is his endgame.
Here comes the most crucial element of time travel in Tenet, even while you are inverted and time moves backwards around you, you still age normally. Meaning if you want to travel 14 years in the past you need to physically live in 14 years of backwards time to get to that point. So if you're 23 and travel back in time by 14 years you'll now be 37 but 14 years ago. Neil is a middle-aged man in this film so this very much holds true in terms of theory. Now as to actually living inverted for all these years, as depicted in the film you need to be constantly using inverted oxygen tanks or be living inside specialized containers and spending that kind of life for such a long time I can only imagine that as pure agony. Honestly the most brilliant character in the movie in my honest opinion.
Thanks for listening to my TED talk .
In order to avoid this discomfort, could a person move backward but occasionally revert, just as an example: move backward a week but then spend a day or 2 going forward as a sort of 'break'? Obviously this would make going back 14 years take a bit longer.
@@martyg8137 The thing is if you do the forward / backwards approach you don't go 14 years to the future. Instead you can hover in time, in theory with thousand of yourself in the same spacetime, which would take about 3 years to live in the one day there and back.
On the tenet Reddit the theory has now changed that Neil is not Max simply because inverting back in time that long for one person or even a whole team simply wouldn’t work. Neil is just another Tenet agent likely recruited in the “Past” which is the Protagonists “future” As they are all stuck in a time loop now.
I've just found out that the opera being played at the start of the film is called LULU, its a palindrome, and the second half is backwards.
Also..
The opening film company logos are blue and red.
@@jaythekid4728 that sounds more likely
A movie you have to see more than once. Kubrick would be proud.
Robert Pattinson’s floating smiling maze head is so funny for some reason lol “Ifff Iii Couuulddd Turrrnnn Baaccckk Tiiimmeee!!!”-Cher
This entire video perfectly sums up why I waited for the blu ray. I would of had to bring a notebook to the movie theater.
Well, you see it on the big screen to REALLY immerse yourself in the experience, then you buy the blu ray, that's what I did!! 🤔
Also, you'd need earplugs and subtitles at the theater anyway. I saw it in the theater and was filled with regret for having done so. With the Blu-ray, the audio is less abrasive and the speech is clearer. That was the most audibly harsh movie I have ever seen in a theater. Ever.
I love those kinds of movies that bring me new methods of thinking and perspective without trying to tell me how to interpret it. Wild video man, thank you for uploading.
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff - some bloke with a blue box
Allon-sy!
lol thats exactly what i thought when viewing this film
Neil and the Protagonist reminded me of River and the Doctor
One might say it’s a Jeremy beremy
Most people think time is like a river that flows swift and sure in one direction. But I have seen the face of time, and I can tell you, they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm. You may wonder who I am and why I say this. Sit down, and I'll tell you a tale like none you have ever heard.
Sorry, I'm more of a Prince of Persia guy than Dr. Who, but was expecting and glad to see all you here. The River was strong in Neil for sure.
hands down this is my favourite nolan film, i know its not perfect but the whole time inversion idea is executed perfectly for me
When the soundtrack “Meeting Neil” is played when Neil arrives, it was said in an interview that the weird eerie sound of the music is actually a depiction of the protagonist having a feeling of already having met Neil.
Christopher Nolan put a lot of thought into this. Well done. As a writer, I am jealous of the genius of this story.
I just watched this yesterday and was just saying how I still don’t understand it, thanks for the video :)
Now watch inception
This movie was fantastic, I feel it would have gotten a way better rating if more people watched an explanation video
Surely that's just poor filmmaking if you can't understand what's going on. I love ambiguity but this movie tries to confuse you
If you need an explanation video for a movie.....
The movie's shit.
@@jayvee4787 no that means you're shit at watching it, which doesn't exclude the fact that the movie is also bad, buf if you were competent enough to give it a fair assessment you wouldn't need the explanation in the first place
You can’t call theoretical physics or differential equations shit because you don’t understand it. It means your abstract comprehension does not meet the requisite. Tenet isn’t for those who want lowest common denominator Marvel movies.
@@Evanderj 🤓
Okay this seems really fucking cool and I'm disappointed in myself for believing the critics. Looks like he put a lot of thought into this, and it stands up to my hard sci-fi bullshit test. Watching it tonight.
you won’t regret it, hope you liked it
@@jacksonjones1141 It was really good aaaaaaaaaaaaa
@@hogquaffer4741 let’s goooo now you’re addicted to tenet like me hahahah
I’m a tenet Feen now
The only critic you should ever listen to is yourself.
Max is Neil just blew my mind , I've watched this twice and didn't pick that up , thanks it makes more sense now .
One problem with the Neil is Max theory is that Niel would have had to spend at least 10 years in a shipping container (or other sealed room) going back in time. Talk about taking one for team!
That is the major reason why most people dismiss this theory. It's still possible but very unlikely.
He could’ve put under an induced coma
I thought Predestination messed with my mind. This messed with my mind even more.
At 15:50, the question is asked how is Sator still alive to unfold his plan and to answer we need to get into philosophy. It's a fair bit simpler than that. It's possible because the one she killed is his future self. His present / past self is still alive just not on the boat. She even made the comment earlier that she saw "some other woman diving off the boat, and he'd vanished". That Sator was always the future one. The rest of the movie is past Sator moving (mostly) forward to become that future Sator. It's also possible that prior to killing him on the boat, there were 2 Sators running around for a while for an unknown amount of time leading up to that moment, since we don't know for sure at what point he stopped going in reverse to execute the plan on the city/algorithm.
Tenet is such a fun and intriguing film and this was such a fun and intriguing explanation. Thank you!
You’ve outdone yourself again Niyat. Thank you for this.
Sator wasn’t planning to detonate the algorithm; he was burying it under the hypocenter for the future partners to dig up and detonate in their time. Kat tells The Protagonist and Neil that they don’t understand because they believe he is burying it and waiting to send the email burst (or whatever communication). She tells them he is dying right now and he intends to kill himself and trigger the detonation from the future simultaneously. This would appear, in our eyes, as an instantaneous action. “Somewhere in the future a man in a crystalline tower flips a switch and simultaneously ends and begins humanity.” “We had our turn.” “Knowing this; do you still want to stop me?”
A few other pieces are off in your explanation, but I only had a chance to respond to the beginning. I’ll listen again last week and finish my comment.
This movie was so surreal
Bro i have seen many videos related to TENET
But you the only one who described neil's timeline 100% correct bro👌🏻
I always walk out of Nolan movies saying “well now I’ve never seen that before”…glad to be alive during these movies.
I love how casually you explain that Neil is Max. "After getting his masters in physics, he then is inverted (for about 25 years) to go back and safe the protagonist at the opera house."
How long Neil must have been inverted for that to make sense is a huge thing that you just breeze by
@@NoOne-wn9ju I bet they intended Neil to be Max, but since it doesnt really make sense they didnt bother getting deep into it. But the hints are there
@@slyder35 The last shot perfectly spells it out. That's show don't tell done right!
@@wiinterflowers4277 I agree, thats what they intend it to mean, but it doesnt really make sense if you think about it for two
minutes
@@slyder35 It's something that's left up to the audience's imagination. That's why I like Tenet and Inception so much. Because we the audience are left to piece together what happens after even after the story ends. Nolan definitely has the show don't tell method down pat in his NON Batman films.
@@wiinterflowers4277 in inception it's a simple question of is this reality or not, and therefore it works. what I'm saying (again), is that when left to our "imagination", this thing in tenet doesnt quite work
I finally get the damn thing, been bugging me since. I got every other Nolan flick at once but this one just flew over me. Thank You ❤️
This was excellent. It compelled me to create a folder labeled ‘ Explained’s ‘ because, let me tell you, this is among the best out there.
This guy is good. I'm almost there, with the understanding of this film, finally!
Sator DOES NOT go back on his deal with the future and trigger the algorithm himself. The purpose of the battle in Stask-12 was to bury the algorithm so deep that only the future could get it back out. When Sator kills himself, that releases a message for the future to find saying WHERE to go find the algorithm. If Sator has been successful in burying it, the multi-universe theory would allow for both the past to exist where Tenet failed the mission, AND for the past to cease to exist because the future would erase its existence. TENET’s objective was to convince Sator’s team AND the future that they were successful in obtaining the algorithm, and then find an empty shaft. This would allow Tenet to re-hide the pieces of the algorithm with the future at a complete loss about how to recover them again.
Wow this is the best breakdown of this movie so far
Such a great video! I'm really glad to see the general consensus of this movie shifting from "convoluted mess" to "complex proposition to think about the world differently"
Your visual for Neil's storyline was exactly what I needed. Great video, thank you.
This explanation is BONKERS for being so good!!!
Great job man! I’ve seen this movie like 20 and a half times and this is still tying up some loose ends I’ve had in my understanding of it!
Thanks a trillion!!!✊🏾🦉💯
This movie is impressive! I liked how they filmed everything backwards. I told my family this is how time travel is supposed to be. Done in a realistic way.
Yep
Imo, it is the most fitting and realistic example of time travel I’ve seen in any film. ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Probably the best breakdown I’ve seen, and I watched a ton of them after thoroughly enjoying Tenet. Kudos!
FilmComicsExplained is probably the only guy suited to breakdown this movie.
Such a great channel. Thank you much!
...adding new meaning the the phrase 'why are you hitting yourself?'
Lol Thank you
Other than being able to get "Neil" from the reversed spelling of "Maximilien", there's no evidence to confirm that Neil and Maximilien are the same person.
And it also only works if you don't spell it "Maximilian", which is the correct spelling.
@@npcimknot958 That could be nothing but a coincidence. It’s still nothing but a theory regardless of how likely/unlikely it is.
This would also imply that Neil spent the majority of his life inverted which would be kinda dumb
Once upon a time, people would stroke their beards, ponder the good book, and envisage meanings. Now they stroke their beards, ponder a Nolan movie, and envisage meanings. Same shit, different day.
Then why did Nolan have Pattinson speak in an accent he doesn’t have and die his hair the same color as Kat’s and the same color as Max? Maximilien is the correct spelling outside the United States.
You should also watch the closing scene and listen closely to Neil’s final monologue. Keep in mind that by the time of that scene, Neil is actually dead (unless he’s Max). His closing lines seem to be about Tenet stopping the future threat, but they’re also about _himself_ as a child walking out of school, right after his mother Kat was going to be assassinated. That is the huge reveal people miss.
VERY underrated movie. No lie
I was hoping that you'd make a video about this. This movie is awesome 😍
I love science and films that use real science to entertain use. While I think Nolan makes some exquisitely complex and tightly crafted films, I don't they're that complicated. I can't wait for Oppenheimer, reading up on the film I'm excited to see how they recreated the atomic blast with practical effects and diving into the effects breakdown of it. Oppenheimer is going to be epic with Cillian Murphy in the lead role, such an underrated actor.
I looked at time travel in this movie as like moving around and seeing the world and environment on rewind. Best explanation video on UA-cam thank you!
I must say, out of all the videos on this movie, yours is probably the one I thought was most explanatory. Thanks mate
Hands down the best explanation I've seen for TENET.
THIS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL
Never seen a smarter, entertaining and rewarding movie in my life, and I am a movie junkie.
I must've watched like 9 videos on this movie to help me fully understand it. This one was the best one.
Bro thank you so much for doing this movie so I can get a clear understanding. Keep up the great work 👍👍
I went through numerous 30 min videos on the same subject that really just retell the events of the movie and dont conclude anything more than what I did on the first viewing and yours is the first that is different and shorter than most. Thank you for actually making an EXPLANATION video on this complicated movie.
(The main point starts at Paragraph 3)
I love how you took notice to things about Tenet that inspires it and tries to make us think about the world in a new way, and you thought about Tenet in a new way. I love how tenet reflects off of the world in a great way because it is both certain and uncertain at the same time, a paradox.
The protagonist does not know as much as everyone else, he basically represents the audience trying to figure out more. Which is one reflection. People in the world do not know much about certain things that could be going on in the world at the very moment.
And to explain what I mean that things can be certain and uncertain at the same time is the timeline off screen. At the end of the day max being Niel is just a theory, it’s not confirmed, it’s possible and not possible at the same time. The main point is tho that HOW the events of the protagonist creating the tenet organization, his friendship with Niel, and what happened in the future is all up to interpretation. However it is certain that that did indeed happen. It is certain that the protagonist did find tenet, he did have a friendship with Niel and that the world did end up falling apart and needing to turn back. It’s just the specifics are uncertain, but the outlines are certain, just like how things in the real world work. The outlines of how the world’s geography changed over time for example is probably certain because we know that the worlds geography just could not be the same for millions of years. The specifics however are uncertain or only theoretical because we were not there at the time to observe the world change but it is certain the world changed so it is certain that the specifics did happen but we are uncertain as to how.
Paradox. Kinda... unless I’m just getting a bit ahead of myself :/
Great video non the less, very informative.
This was the only movie I saw in 2020 in a cinema
Me too. Bizarre and appropriately fitting at the same time. ⚡️⚡️⚡️
I was lucky enough to see Tenet and an Imax screening of Inception roundabout the same time!
Excellent video, really enjoyed your analysis and explanation
Excellent work. Thank you, Nihat. 👏👏👏👏
Excellent video. The Neil reveal about him being Kat's son makes a lot of sense and it's something I hadn't considered!
I know some people think the character aspects of this movie is not the strongest and i some what agree but the fact this is the only movie that makes time reversal understandable makes this movie remarkable!
Every time I come in to look at your work Danny I'm just so impressed and amazed and enlightened and inspired by the love of cinema that you share with so much thoughtfulness and depth of realization. Love it.
Who is Danny? I’m Niyat lol
This sailed so far over my head, but I was riveted. Very enjoyable video.
tbh the ending battle was really impressive to be honest.
I felt the complete opposite, the ending battle was the weakest part of the movie by far in my opinion.
Your repetitive sentence is kind of repetitive. 😉
Maybe because it was really the beginning battle?
To be honest to be honest.
@@dragonmares59110 It was such a cool concept, sure we didn’t see people bleed to death like in other war movies but it was a fucking amazing concept that ended with Neils death, a very good scene for me.
This movie, just like all of Christopher Nolan’s films is amazing. Christopher Nolan is definitely in the top ten directors of all time
FCE could quite possibly be the most underrated YT ever. I mean this is concise beyond perfection. I still have no idea what is going on in this movie, much like memento, but my god what a way to walk through this one.
Thanks Corey. I'm glad the video clicked with you :)
Best explanation yet. Seen it 4 times and this is really gonna help next time I pit it on. Thanks. Also hate that UA-cam unsubscribes me from channels, good thing I found this one again
Great explanation video. Its clear, consice and explained in a way that is accessible to a wide range of audience. Not to difficult to understand for people with limited knowledge on these advanced subjects and scientific theorys. But also not boring for the experts out there that have seen the movie a dozen times and watched a couple of videos on Entropy. Lol. Anyway good job as always. I will definitely keep sharing your videos with friends and family.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Watched this video in reverse 🤜🤛
Entropy is beautiful
This movie was very well put together. I saw it in theaters twice because I enjoyed it that much.
These are not dislikes, these are inverted likes
"Nolan suggests that the greater good for the world sits somewhere between the poles of knowledge and feeling for prosperity".
Thank you. I needed that context before I go back in to rewatch it.
I noticed that while blue and red in the film signify which direction they're going, Kat it wearing both colors during her last time with Sator. And I could not for the life of me understand why.
But maybe if blue, from present to future, is doing your best to feel out what to do next (the color she's wearing when we first meet her) and red, from future to past, is having all the knowledge of how that played out, her wearing both is feeling that anger she needed to kill him, while also knowing that killing him before the flare was still ok (she saw herself diving off the boat already, so it must've worked out).
Memento, Inception was intriguing and mind bending. But Tenet is 'Whoah', Nolan has taken it to a new level. Underrated, will always be underrated, it took me 5 viewing plus loads of UA-cam explanations to get my head round the subject matter.
This was helpful…best assessment I have seen so far.
If you’re fighting someone moving in the other direction, you either win in the very beginning, or you lose, so after first contact you’re always best off running away so they don’t have a chance to win in their beginning.
Some scenes of this movie were made in Estonia, love it when some great films have scenes made in my home country.
i. love. this. film. i also love any UA-cam channel that goes into the deeper workings of the film. thanks for this.
I subscribed thanks to you and your teams efforts here. Thank you and good work.
This video just cleared my mind after watching it more than 7 times. Really love it
Happy to hear that!
Wow! Legit just watched this movie Friday night and one of my fav explainer of things makes the video I needed to appear... AND on my day off. I think he is a time traveler. He read this comment in the future and so he released this video today so I could see it.
This is the best explanation channel
Thank you so much 😀
Astonishing work ! @FilmComicsExplained
6:03 "..he goes back on his commitment to those in the future.."
My understanding was that the future *wanted* the algorithym to be activated.
What'd I miss?
Genuinely Curious
cheers
this
So neil was wearing an oxygen tank for how many years? 🤣
Looked like they had plenty of environments where they had buildings setup to accommodate anyone going back. While Neil definitely played the long game, you have to remember, as a group, they were operating at all times, so he had plenty of ways to "live" his reversed life.
I would also go so far ss to say he didn't go straight back, but did it in jumps, going forward when necessary to keep the protagonist on his path or stopping whatever action was necessary before resuming again and finally meeting his end at the beginning.
All said, the dude was a fuggin boss on par with the protagonist to the last... Beginning.
@@darthvader1793 I'm easily entertained 🤣
@@Masenken so how old was he when joint tenet then. Cause he had to wait to get his PhD then join tenet then go back in time, that must have taken a long time
@@daviesugo7641 assuming he kept a decent relationship with his mom, he might've known since as early as his early teens and with events unfolding in exactly the way the Protagonist spelled it out, it probably didn't take much convincing to get him to join the cause. Even resort as he likely looked up to him like a best friend and father figure.
I’m glad this channel made an explanation video for this film! I personally enjoyed this film in theaters but not everyone were pleased with this film. Perhaps they ought to give this film another chance as it is a very complicated film that takes time to process
Best explanation on UA-cam so far!