Another point towards this is that it would cost a fortune to run Tenet. After Sator died, Kat would inherit his billions and therefore be able to afford the operation.
Neat idea! Love your videos...seems like we enjoy this movie to a similar degree. Suggestion: doing an explanation of the bullets in the wall would explain one of the main sticking points people have in the movie and be very useful for understanding a temporal pincer.
*Heavy Spoilers* Since you're making videos about Tenet's theories, Can you make a video that explores the idea/Theory that Neil is the real protagonist? PLEASE, I've seen this theory in many comments and even though he died and therefore he can't be the protagonist of the future, but the theory is about Neil being low-key the protagonist of this movie..
Agreed, everytime I tell people on Twitter that I’m doing a new video on it I can guarantee I’ll get comments saying ‘why? it’s crap’ think it goes over a lot of people’s heads but it’s very well made
@@heavyspoilers Oh 100%! Don't let those people stop you from making these videos, because these videos will age like a fine wine! And the argument I don't get that I keep hearing is "You shouldn't have to watch a movie multiple times to understand it all," and I'm like, that should be the goal of every movie! To make the film somehow get better with multiple viewings like this one. And its not boring either. Its honestly a perfect film!
I can see Kat funding the orginization, but how Neil speaks about the protagonist tells me he is the head. The disrespect shown to him throughout the film is because he is moving towards who he will be, but is inexperienced. His scene at the end is a glimpse at who he will be. Priya is terrified of him because he's becoming THE protagonist and she was blindsided because he's holding the cards now.
I would say it is one of the most complex and confusing movie I have ever watched. I am actually shocked because I would think that the movie audiences only want cgi and super hero’s
@@bigums21 correction, she is 6'3 " there are many actors taller than her, many! Her character in the movie is what he was talking about and she wasn't the tallest character either
C'mon, I just watched it for the 3rd time and only catch a slightly better understanding each time. Kat? She does kill Sator. But I agree she would have kept Neil alive if he was her son--and I believe he was. Is. Whatever. I'm so confused.
Ok what do you think of this theory? Scientist from future recruits Future Protagonist and tells him everything. Future Protagonist recruits Neil and tells him everything as well as what he needs to in the past in order to save them future. Neil recruits Priya and tells her about the scientist and the algorithm. Maybe he did this under the alias of Max if he is to be Kat's son. Priya recruits Ives and tells him about the scientist and the algorithm. Ives recruits Wheeler and Tenet soldiers and tells them about the turnstiles and inverted entropy but not about the algorithm. Neil tells Fay & Barbara from the CIA about Tenet and inverted items. Fay brings in current Protagonist.
The whole mission being a temporal pincer move is for the sake of the Protagonist since he's present for every major event. He had to experience it which is why he's mostly being led throughout. His actions are dictated by feeling as shown in the opera siege where he saves everyone in the cheap seats. Kat would have missed too many parts of the mission to effectively plan it the way it is.
I'll be honest I've watched every TENET video you've made, and i'm still no closer to understanding how anything in this movie works nonetheless what the sequence of events are. To no fault of your own obviously, time travel is just really confusing.
You can tell the lack of quality films we got in 2020 just by the amount of Tenet videos you've posted since it's release. Don't get me wrong though, I love them. Keep em coming!
But her leaving him a message was his suggestion if she ever felt watched or in danger. He knew Priya was gonna take her out and he wanted to prevent that. I felt the opposite, that finally he was ready to call the shots, and that he wouldn't let anybody choose his fate after that point. Also I had the feeling that after that incident, he got into a romantic relationship with her and a father figure for Max (Neil). Though you might disagree due to the "would you ever take a kid hostage"-thing that Neil says.
I feel like this theory doesn't change much about the meaning of anything in the story. The only story thing that I think matters is that Neil has some relationship with P. In future years, P and Neil clearly spend time together. Whether the big boss of Tenet is P, Kat, Neil, or just some other random person either during the era of the movie events or some time many years into the future, I don't think it really matters. I don't see how that changes much about the impact of the story or the characters in the movie. If Kat or P is the big boss of Tenet, they don't know it yet during the movie, so it doesn't really affect anything, imo, and I don't think it affects much about how we are supposed to relate to their characters. Also, during the beginning of this video, you mentioned that people don't show P much respect, but that would make a lot of sense if the nature of the organization is such that people don't know the identities of everyone in the organization. It would make a lot of sense if P (or Kat) was the leader and yet never made that directly known to any of the characters seen in the movie. In fact, the original interpretation most people have is that P is the leader of Tenet, yet he never makes it known to his past self until maybe Neil tells him as much towards the very end of the movie
This is why Nolan is brilliant. Interstellar & Inception can also be left to the imagination where each viewer's preferred theory or interpretation is right. Another amazing video!!! 💕
If she was the architect behind it all, she would not have been surprised when the protagonist was seen leaving the kitchen out the back door after their first meeting.
Been watching videos and the movie as a way to deal with my mom being in ICU with Covid. She's finally home and this isnthe most appealing theory Ive seen so far. Thanks mate for the escape these past several weeks!
I have a mini theory like, I know it's not a big thing but I think the painting which Sir Michael gave to the Protagonist was actually sent from the future, since it was the link for the Protagonist to connect with Kat in the first place and it played an important role, the painting was exceptionally similar to that because Kat/Protagonist sent that back.
OKAY, so if I believe Neil is Max that would mean Kat is okay with him going through his loop just to set her free...OMG 'she was okay with giving up her son for a split second', you mad lad that makes sense. Gawd I love this movie and your theories. Keeping Max safe was a topic she brought up often, to ensure his roll plays out as needed, maybe?
She's just a gorgeous strong character who is developing throughout the movie (and she didn't know about Sator's operations in detail). Even though Protagonist called himself a trigger, he took initiative and sometimes charge in every operation he came across before the finale: opera ("it's mine now"), finding Priya, saving Kat, car chase etc. To help Kat in the end is also his idea. The realisation he's in charge of Tenet logically concludes this chain. As a movie Tenet is simple (relatively lol) and this is a part of its beauty. Nevertheless, Kat funding the organisation makes sense.
I'm not sure I agree there is a single protagonist in TENET. It's clear that all of the main characters have their own "journey" and make decisions that affect the outcome for themselves and for others. But this video has helped me see Kat's role in the story in a new light, since my last (4th) viewing two days ago! Hopefully there will be sequels and I'm sure Kat will play a more direct role in events. While the movie we saw follows The Protagonist and Neil most closely, we don't actually see that much of Sator, who is just as much a protagonist as the others but just not on-screen as much. In the boat on the way back, Neil tells Kat and The Protagonist that Sator was at the opera the day of the Stalsk 12 explosion. He (Sator) flew off the yacht on a helicopter only to return a short while later. This suggests that Sator's timeline is just as complex as Neil's, as he (Sator) was at being killed by Kat on the Yacht off the coast of Vietnam while also being at the Kiev Opera siege, which took place on the same day. This parallels how Neil was at both Kiev and Stalsk 12 at the same time. I'll be the first to admit that TENET is very confusing, so I may be completely wrong in my theories here. Any help making sense of it is appreciated :-)
I just finished watching the movie and I didn't think of the red blue colors until this video. In spectroscopy there is red and blue shifting of light. Objects moving away from us are defined as red shifted while objects moving towards you are said to be blue shifted.
Neil/ Max is a big boy, he has a choice over what he does with his life, he's a hero, he saved the human race. Only a selfish person would choose to live Vs saving humanity (mother his mother included). Also the film explicitly says Neil is the only one capable of doing various things.
It should also be noted that the protagonist in the novel often drives the plot, but isn't controlling the events of the story. The writer does. Kat could be the author of the narrative in the future.
I think this theory works. Especially considering the fact that the Protagonist isn’t given a name. The Protagonist can be anyone eve Kat. He is a symbol. Well made theory, great job!
Ooeeh, can't wait to see your video. Nice to see somebody else who is just as obsessed with Tenet as me! Thought I was going crazy. Just watched the movie for the 3rd time after your last upload! Keep 'm coming friend.
@@heavyspoilers I watched your vid and really liked it! I was wondering what your take is on the scene on the yacht (2de half). Where there is a dialoge with Kat and the protagonist. And she says that she knows Sator is an armsdealer (quite naïve) and the protagonist answers with "he is so much more". Is it not possible she is oblivious about sator's role until that point? Again I really liked your theory about Kat and the reference to 007 and M.
Not just blue and red, but Yellow as well! Even scene hues and object colors are yellow. It is more subtle, like the timer clock at the end. Im convinced the painted ship sign in the boat has more meaning than just art because certain words are in these three colors.
This is the best theory that makes the most sense to me. I’ve only seen it 3 times so far but playing it through in my head and I definitely see and agree with your findings!
Christopher Nolan has said, “all [his] films are personal”. To that end, I think the film may be a giant metaphor for filmmaking itself...and If that were true, could it be possible that Nolan is this unseen god-like protagonist?
I went back and watched this scene again and paused to get a good look. I have the digital copy on Amazon and when paused it has a feature where it says which actors are currently on screen. Sure enough, it says that Ives is present, but it doesn't look like him. @Heavy Spoilers what do you think?
I think what you missed to understand is that the protagonist in this movie only get’s to know of the organization that he will invent in the future. so of course he doesn’t have a clue about what is going on and he doesn’t give the orders in this event but later in the future he becomes the head of the organization because he is inventing it and then he gives the orders that lead to the events which she experienced when he got to know of his situation in the past.
This theory makes sense because she is one of the characters that knew who, where and when Sator was in the past. The protagonist and Crosby being the others. I thought it odd that the protagonists would select some random Russian citizen to be the antagonist. But only Kat and the protagonist knew he had to be the antagonist. And maybe Neil if you think he was Kat’s son.
When Sator dies, his heart-rate monitor triggers the email blast to let the future know where they can find the algorithm. His death does NOT trigger the algorithm. Remember his line about a man in a crystalline tower throwing a switch in the future?
.I haven’t seen your videos until today ,and I do enjoy them immensely finding them after a back-to-back double viewing I enjoYed today .I think theres a bit more scenes and I think there are a few other future protagonist scenes in the beginning of the film and running throughout ,where I’m not so sure it’s s all a single timeline for him throughout the movie .It’s just a theory, but there are a few scenes during the second viewing that noticed or I was left wondering at the very least ,if that was the future protagonist because he hinted to the idea that he already had certain things covered, or leave the details to him. And it did look like he already new what was coming. I do want to say it was almost like getting a sequel and introduction all in one film... and I hope there will be another, I loved this mlif.
100% true and then some. The use of exaggerated color grading the first time Kat's introduced, Greek-style perfect white grading and composition on the boat and more so with the statues on the Ravello cliffs, Priya's masculine quote, her newly acquired money, even her exaggerated height above Sator and the protagonist, but most importantly the protagonist's failures point to Kat being the true leader of tenet. The fact that the only time the protagonist cleanly pulled the trigger was on Priya (Nolan chose not to have him kill the two Ukrainian soldiers, safely unload the mag in the turnstile, and hesitate enough to cost Max his life were big key points) shows not only that she was his true mission, but I believe her true intent at the end of the film was to kill Kat to take over tenet and recollect the algorithm. Hoytema's use of the triangle and sharp edges in Priya's composition as well as the very subtle but ominous blocking by Sanjay when she first introduces herself showed me the "two antagonists" line had the classic Nolan truth to its exposition ("It's a double that comes out of the other end, I promise you.") Max (Neil) sees the protagonist as his father figure, he helps Kat raise him, she uses her billions to build tenet, he teaches Max how to be a spy. Ordering his drink doesn't say they're just coworkers, that says that they're like family.
A few thoughts... Let’s assume Neil is Max for this. TP at Opera scene is the Future Protagonist who is at the end of the mission and (indeed) kills himself. That silver pill is the “scotch tape” of the Möbius strip. He “wakes” on the boat as the 30 yr old protagonist. He goes through the timelines as far forward as Talinn. Then, after Talinn he doubles back to take care of Priya, collect Max and head back 10 years to 2010 with Max. Then, from 2010 to 2020 “Neil” goes forward until his death. TP is 50 at the Opera and knows everything will play out. Neil speaks Estonian because he lived inverted outside Talinn for 10 years and probably got some “shore leave” in regular time. TP has no trace of having his teeth ripped out because that happened at the end of his life. After the “the 14th” battle, TP has access to the turnstile in Talinn (so he has unlimited access to resources) but until his death there is a danger but not really because he goes back, dies and seals the loop.
I think this is actually true, Paul. I like that this also adds further Agency to Neil being Max as well. I think you've nearly uncovered the final secret to this film! Or rather, take comfort in that your future self has it all figured out.
Another question I have to ask is what were the implications for Sator and his organisation after HE gave the order to have his own son, if it was Neal, "shot in the head". With access to the tech why did he not see this, what was the blind spot here that Tenet (the organisation as entity) saw?
it's actually brilliant, I don't see Nolan making a sequel but if he wanted to he set up multiple protagonists running multiple operations around the world.
The Protagonist and Kat obviously has a relationship with each other in the future, and in turn, bonds a friendship with Max who we all know is Neil. That's why there was a bit of a knowing smile when he asked TP"..not even from afar ?", when referring to TP saying he was gonna keep away from Kat. TP, basically Is a father figure to Max/Neil and together with Kate, they start Tenet .
It must be hard for her to learn one day that Neil is living with a bullet embedded in his skull that has the opposite inversion to the rest of Neil so she has to send him to the final battle to die (from Neil's perspective, he locks the gate and then a bullet explodes out of his skull and he dies.)
@@EmilyIsabel oh yeah that does put a wrinkle on it. It would have been good if he beeped and then he produced a medical cert to say he has a plate in his head. Otherwise when he revives and absorbs the bullet from our perspective maybe the shot was a through and through and the bullet comes to rest in his helmet. Although if you get issued a helmet with a bullet in it and you are blue team DON'T PUT IT ON!
kat call's protagonist, because he gave her the phone. the protagonist isn't very important at the time where movie show's us, he becomes important after this movie and the kill scene at the end, show's him taking control and learning how to play the game.
Two objects with their entropy traveling in 2 different directions will only be visible to each other for a breif second shared, as the future can not be seen no matter what direction being traveled
Not mentioned in the video, but it showed a clip with Sator with the silver pill as he was contemplating suicide, which we learned was a fake at the beginning. So had she not killed him, he was about to attept suicide, and would fail.
Priya has an air of arrogance because - unlike the Protagonist - she already knows how it ends. Think about it: from the Protagonist's PoV he is living through an experience that starts at the Kiev Opera before going off to meet Priya, then engaging in a heist in Oslo, then travelling to Tallin, then reverting back in time to eventually participate in that heist (again) before finally ending in a bizarre backwards/forwards battle in Siberia. Wibbley-Wobbly Timey-Wimey stuff, but from HIS PoV he experiences it all as a linear flow of time. Not so for Priya because she never wibbley-wobbles nor timey-wimeys. So from HER PoV both the Kiev Opera siege and the big battle in Siberia have already happened ("on the 12th" as Sir Michael Caine said in his posh voice). So when she meets the Protagonist she knows both how this starts and how it ends. Not so the Protagonist; when he talks to Priya the Kiev Opera siege is in his past, but he is completely unaware of how this ends in "his" future. That disparity in knowledge is enough to make anyone smug and arrogant.
In the opera scene, he told others what to do. The task failed because “somebody talked” but tP saved a bunch of people from blowing up in their sleep because he changed their plan. “Multiple protagonists” doesn’t mean they’re in control. If Kat was running things. Do you think she’d have been ok with her son sacrificing himself? Come on.
Arepo holds the strings. He is the God like figure in the movie. Father of Neil. Symbolizing God, Spirit (no hands an legs, as Kat said; not a physical human being) while Neil is the sacrificial Jesus, God reincarnated. Kate symbolizes Mary. The film hints that Arepo lost his limbs because of Sator. But is it so.. Tenet 2 and 3 will make this more clear I think. Nolan is raised in a Christian context. He went to catholic school and has told that Christianity has influenced his movies. This is all just a theory. Interesting concept, quite far fetched.
Kat went from asset being used, and wife being held hostage, to an equal to the protagonists. Empowered, in the know, helpful to the mission. The Protagonist is God-like. Neil is her son and he recruited him from childhood. At least that's what Nolan was going for until he realized that would be impossible. They showed the closeup of the boy's backpack at the end because it was supposed to have the tag and ring that Neil had when he died. "Are you sure you're not going to go back to London to see Kat?" It was a hint. He either visited often or became Kat's S/O and raised Neil.
If the 'Kat from the future' kills Sator in Vietnam, who is the Sator that appears for the first time during the film in Amalfi ? The 'regular Kat' also remembers the event of the 'mysterious woman' diving from the boat and of Sator disappearing when she tells the story to the protagonist. She should be a widow since that event in Vietnam. How could Sator reappear instead ?
It's a bootstrap paradox: Future protagonist tells past Neil how things are gonna be developed and then he move backwards in time to the moment of the opera seige which is the first contact with past protagonist. So this future Neil helps the past protagonist in order accomplish his mission and realized he's the one pulling the strings of the entire operation so in the future he can train Neil to tell him in the past and so on and so forth...
Kat chooses a future for her son. Thus sacrificing the future of humanity so that Sator (my protagonist) doesn't kill their son along with the Climax's/Expeditions timeline; in order to allow the world to have a future beyond this Temporal Pincer Maneuver. Every human being on the planet is eternally trapped in this time loop because of Kat's maternal nature.
This doesn't necessarily indicate anything regarding this theory, but there's something very big (and very subtle) that gets revealed when she murders Sator. Throughout the movie, she's portrayed as a docile, powerless, battered wife. But when she gets on the yacht, she undoes the safety wires, sprays down the deck and lubes up her husband's back, knowing full well how to dispose of his body. It's likely that she's far more capable than she was letting on.
I don't think Kat is the "true protagonist", however, it would make sense that the protagonist and herself form Tenet together and she is simply another protagonist, as Priya said there is more than one. Kat has money and an understanding of inversion after Neil/Max explains it to her while on the stretcher. The protagonist also has this understanding and has experience with the effects of inversion and how it can be used to influence events. Together they'd use her money and their combined knowledge to form Tenet and recruit Priya, Ives and his soldiers, Neil/Max, and several others. Now, what's happened has happened, so if Max really is Neil they can't change his death. TP- "But can we change things if we do it differently?" NEIL-"What's happened's happened." Kat, now with an understanding of inversion would know that her son has to sacrifice himself to see the world is saved. For her to have that time with him away from Sator at the end of the movie she knows he'll eventually have to go back and sacrifice himself. Or, she dies at some point after forming Tenet and the protagonist is left to raise Max, educate him etc. Max travels forward 12 years from when we first see him as a boy, learning with the protagonist along the way, getting his physics degree, continuing to build Tenet together, "we get up to some stuff" missions. He then inverts as a young man and travels back 12 years to the point where he meets a young protagonist, only now as a man and a mentor of sorts. Neil/Max learns 5 years into the inversion that the future protagonist had ended his life and hidden his part of the algorithm. This is why he gives young protagonist a lingering and wide eyed look before introducing himself. ".......................I'm Neil." He is seeing his deceased best friend and father figure for the first time in years. The part that made it "a beautiful friendship" is that the protagonist raised him, trained him, educated him, and cared for him, before ultimately having Neil/Max invert himself. Neil learns he'll sacrifice himself from the future protagonist but isn't told when. He realises when during the last scene of the battle, this is why he gives the protagonist his piece of the algorithm. Young protagonist even says in the film that he'd rather Neil's death be his decision. And ultimately it is, because in the future he sends him back to his death.
This gets better every time and it makes sense since she has everything to gain first.. or last.. plus, everyone who exhibits free will, even though their dates may be to stop the 'bomb', they choose differently and get to live and allow a future where people still exist.
Is it a great movie but isn't it a time loop at the end ? It's like the protagonist starting the beginning of timeline at the end of the movie Rotas square doesn't have an end but just a begining no matter where you look at the edge .
Kat has another desire beyond just protecting her son. She admits to it when she says she envied the woman who jumped off the yacht for her freedom. She admits that she considered giving up her son for her own freedom. Ultimately, Kat decides to take a measure of freedom even though it risks ruining the mission. She achieves the freedom she yearned for. She doesn't just do what's necessary for the mission, which is what all of the other characters would have done in her place. She takes a chance to choose freely for the sake of her own humanity and her own sanity, rather than subsume her own needs for the sake of others. That's what Kat's character is all about. She's the real protagonist of the movie. She has an "I want". She has real character struggles and monumental character growth. She is the one who is emotionally devastated by set backs, and who has the hardest time pushing through to pick herself up and try again and again. Tell me the hopes and dreams of any other character. Tell me the struggles that emotionally taxed any other character. Tell me the daunting obstacle that any other character ultimately overcomes to great satisfaction.
The irony is she says he has terminal cancer and then claims she can't get away from him. Guy would have been dead in a few months, this idea that she was stuck with him was total manipulation on her part.
not related to this video specifically, but it has always bugged me, the pincer battle at the end, all that ammo and munitions flying around, where are all the enemy soldiers?
This theory also loses steam when you think about the idea that maybe the deadman switch was false all long. Also the line that there are many protagonists seems more of a node to the metaphysical not there being multiple physical individuals who are "protagonists". Another thing is that the movie is supposed to represent a closed loop. What happened in the past was a result of tampering from the future and the future is only reached when the past occurred as it did (like going back in time and killing your parents before they have you). This is shown when Kat recalls the free woman jumping from the boat, not realizing that it was her future-self she had seen. Seeing that woman caused great turmoil in their relationship and was directly tied to her eventually being that very same woman.
I'm one of the geeks that watches 'Tenet' every week. Another great 'Tenet' video! One question I can't figure out is how did Priya find out the information about the scientist creating the algorithm in the future and hiding it in the past? I agree that the scientist from the future could be Barbara. Would Barbara not be older though if she had travelled back in time across decades? I also can't figure out who the real founder of tenet is. Maybe the scientist from the future? Next 'Tenet' video I'd love to see would be what you think the hierarchy and organizational structure of the tenet organisation actually is and the characters roles within that structure. I'm sure you could think of a more succinct title for that video than the long-winded one I've suggested!
I think Priya knows it already just as how all the members of the TENET do. She just doesn't decide to share it with the protagonist in his first and second meeting with her (which isn't actually the first and second) because TP unknowingly hints in their second last meeting that she didn't reveal anything major and just persuaded him to investigate the matter by himself which made him move forward and do some key things which are necessary for the mission. Now to make those things happen the exact way as they did, Priya took the hint and did her part in not revealing much about the history of inversion to TP in their initial meetings. And the answer for your question regarding the actual founder of TENET, it's the protagonist. It's revealed in the movie itself at the end.
@@archiskulkarni1971 Ok what do you think of this theory? Scientist from future recruits Future Protagonist and tells him everything. Future Protagonist recruits Neil and tells him everything as well as what he needs to in the past in order to save them future. Neil recruits Priya and tells her about the scientist and the algorithm. Maybe he did this under the alias of Max if he is to be Kat's son. Priya recruits Ives and tells him about the scientist and the algorithm. Ives recruits Wheeler and Tenet soldiers and tells them about the turnstiles and inverted entropy but not about the algorithm. Neil tells Fay & Barbara from the CIA about Tenet and inverted items. Fay brings in current Protagonist.
Hey man great vid.....you should do another video on tenet, just sayin no 1 goes into detail about the film. Most people only do a couple i just dont wana see my favorite channel not do enough tenet videos. 😉😉😉. Another great vid brotha.
Another point towards this is that it would cost a fortune to run Tenet. After Sator died, Kat would inherit his billions and therefore be able to afford the operation.
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Neat idea! Love your videos...seems like we enjoy this movie to a similar degree. Suggestion: doing an explanation of the bullets in the wall would explain one of the main sticking points people have in the movie and be very useful for understanding a temporal pincer.
It’s on the tip of the nose with Kate being as tall as an “angel”
Nice interpretation. Why would Kat let Neil sacrifice himself after protecting him for the entirety of the movie?
*Heavy Spoilers* Since you're making videos about Tenet's theories, Can you make a video that explores the idea/Theory that Neil is the real protagonist? PLEASE, I've seen this theory in many comments and even though he died and therefore he can't be the protagonist of the future, but the theory is about Neil being low-key the protagonist of this movie..
This movie is ironically so far ahead of its time. It won't get the respect it deserves for quite a while. This is how movies should be made.
Agreed, everytime I tell people on Twitter that I’m doing a new video on it I can guarantee I’ll get comments saying ‘why? it’s crap’ think it goes over a lot of people’s heads but it’s very well made
@@heavyspoilers Oh 100%! Don't let those people stop you from making these videos, because these videos will age like a fine wine! And the argument I don't get that I keep hearing is "You shouldn't have to watch a movie multiple times to understand it all," and I'm like, that should be the goal of every movie! To make the film somehow get better with multiple viewings like this one. And its not boring either. Its honestly a perfect film!
@@heavyspoilers I agree with Mitchell. You should keep making these videos.
Love watching them as always.
I guess people havent watched primer yet.
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I can see Kat funding the orginization, but how Neil speaks about the protagonist tells me he is the head. The disrespect shown to him throughout the film is because he is moving towards who he will be, but is inexperienced. His scene at the end is a glimpse at who he will be. Priya is terrified of him because he's becoming THE protagonist and she was blindsided because he's holding the cards now.
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@@AllenJohn Thank you! I'll change it but I wanted to let you know this comment helped!
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I agree
Exactly! It was his first mission in a whole new world. He isn't going to have all the answers.
The beauty in Nolan's films is that you would keep watching and watching every year and decades later you would still find something new.
I would say it is one of the most complex and confusing movie I have ever watched. I am actually shocked because I would think that the movie audiences only want cgi and super hero’s
"I begin to see things in a new perspective." = "I have finally gone insane."
Now you’re getting it 👎🏻
Also, she is the tallest character.
Well of course she is the protagonist because she is the tallest, makes perfect sense, only tallest people can be protagonists,
She has an inversed Napoleon complex
Correction, she is the tallest actor
@@bigums21 correction, she is 6'3 " there are many actors taller than her, many! Her character in the movie is what he was talking about and she wasn't the tallest character either
Invader Zim makes angry invader noises
I swear this channel has me trapped in a loop rewatching Tenet over and over for eternity.
Lmao
Watch it backwards
It's a fuckin good movie.... Wish it got a well deserved rating.
@@JinKee Bruh
You have to stop and move forward with your life! I had to do it too, which is why I'm watching this video, and making this comment. 🤔 dammit!
Nolan wanted to be a physics teacher ended up being a director 😂
Dude a new tenet video every week? I’m here for it lol
Hahah yeah I keep spotting new stuff every time I watch it and just can’t help myself
C'mon, I just watched it for the 3rd time and only catch a slightly better understanding each time. Kat? She does kill Sator. But I agree she would have kept Neil alive if he was her son--and I believe he was. Is. Whatever. I'm so confused.
We'll just ask the stars
Or he told her to call him if she ever needed saving and she did and he did just that. I still believe he was the protagonist.
Ok what do you think of this theory?
Scientist from future recruits Future Protagonist and tells him everything.
Future Protagonist recruits Neil
and tells him everything as well as what he needs to in the past in order to save them future.
Neil recruits Priya and tells her about the scientist and the algorithm. Maybe he did this under the alias of Max if he is to be Kat's son.
Priya recruits Ives
and tells him about the scientist and the algorithm.
Ives recruits Wheeler and Tenet soldiers and tells them about the turnstiles and inverted entropy but not about the algorithm.
Neil tells Fay & Barbara from the CIA about Tenet and inverted items.
Fay brings in current Protagonist.
bravo man!! you made everything crystal clear just through some lines and here all the videos explaining the plot couldn't forward this theory
You just brought in the "Who's the Boss?" Paradox to Tenet. I think even Abed from Community would be proud!
It took you 797 times to finally figure it all out? I had it by 650. Geez, you’re slow...😏
Me and Christopher seem to think alike. First viewing. I understand it. Not to flex lol jk
@Josh but your number isn't a palindrome
It only took me one time using a temporal pincer movement
The whole mission being a temporal pincer move is for the sake of the Protagonist since he's present for every major event. He had to experience it which is why he's mostly being led throughout. His actions are dictated by feeling as shown in the opera siege where he saves everyone in the cheap seats. Kat would have missed too many parts of the mission to effectively plan it the way it is.
I'll be honest I've watched every TENET video you've made, and i'm still no closer to understanding how anything in this movie works nonetheless what the sequence of events are. To no fault of your own obviously, time travel is just really confusing.
Look at time circular, not in straight line
how many times have you watched the movie ?
Think both linear and concurrently
You can tell the lack of quality films we got in 2020 just by the amount of Tenet videos you've posted since it's release. Don't get me wrong though, I love them. Keep em coming!
Looooool yeah for real, glad we at least got this though, dunno how many more times I could’ve talked about birds of prey
But her leaving him a message was his suggestion if she ever felt watched or in danger. He knew Priya was gonna take her out and he wanted to prevent that. I felt the opposite, that finally he was ready to call the shots, and that he wouldn't let anybody choose his fate after that point.
Also I had the feeling that after that incident, he got into a romantic relationship with her and a father figure for Max (Neil). Though you might disagree due to the "would you ever take a kid hostage"-thing that Neil says.
I feel like this theory doesn't change much about the meaning of anything in the story. The only story thing that I think matters is that Neil has some relationship with P. In future years, P and Neil clearly spend time together. Whether the big boss of Tenet is P, Kat, Neil, or just some other random person either during the era of the movie events or some time many years into the future, I don't think it really matters. I don't see how that changes much about the impact of the story or the characters in the movie. If Kat or P is the big boss of Tenet, they don't know it yet during the movie, so it doesn't really affect anything, imo, and I don't think it affects much about how we are supposed to relate to their characters.
Also, during the beginning of this video, you mentioned that people don't show P much respect, but that would make a lot of sense if the nature of the organization is such that people don't know the identities of everyone in the organization. It would make a lot of sense if P (or Kat) was the leader and yet never made that directly known to any of the characters seen in the movie. In fact, the original interpretation most people have is that P is the leader of Tenet, yet he never makes it known to his past self until maybe Neil tells him as much towards the very end of the movie
What a fucking movie... So many things can be interpreted... 🔥🔥🔥
This is why Nolan is brilliant. Interstellar & Inception can also be left to the imagination where each viewer's preferred theory or interpretation is right. Another amazing video!!! 💕
I wouldn't be mad if you keep making Tenet videos until the end of time
If she was the architect behind it all, she would not have been surprised when the protagonist was seen leaving the kitchen out the back door after their first meeting.
Good point.
Been watching videos and the movie as a way to deal with my mom being in ICU with Covid. She's finally home and this isnthe most appealing theory Ive seen so far. Thanks mate for the escape these past several weeks!
Glad she was able to go home!! Hugs
The reason she made The call is because he told her to call if she felt worried. Also, he isn't the protagonist in the beginning, but he is in the end
This is a type of movie where it really allows you to think beyond and only the writers and director exactly knows what's going on
I have a mini theory like, I know it's not a big thing but I think the painting which Sir Michael gave to the Protagonist was actually sent from the future, since it was the link for the Protagonist to connect with Kat in the first place and it played an important role, the painting was exceptionally similar to that because Kat/Protagonist sent that back.
This film can have so many sequels/ prequels it’s crazy
OKAY, so if I believe Neil is Max that would mean Kat is okay with him going through his loop just to set her free...OMG 'she was okay with giving up her son for a split second', you mad lad that makes sense. Gawd I love this movie and your theories. Keeping Max safe was a topic she brought up often, to ensure his roll plays out as needed, maybe?
And also he shouts at the protagonist for saving kat instead
Blew my mind. Now I have to watch it again. You made a lot of good points here, I believe it way more than the “Neil is Max” theory!!
She's just a gorgeous strong character who is developing throughout the movie (and she didn't know about Sator's operations in detail).
Even though Protagonist called himself a trigger, he took initiative and sometimes charge in every operation he came across before the finale: opera ("it's mine now"), finding Priya, saving Kat, car chase etc. To help Kat in the end is also his idea. The realisation he's in charge of Tenet logically concludes this chain.
As a movie Tenet is simple (relatively lol) and this is a part of its beauty.
Nevertheless, Kat funding the organisation makes sense.
You make the coolest breakdown videos! Keep it up! 🤘🤘
Thank you
Love your Tenet videos! The breakdowns in your videos really helped open things up for me I never would’ve thought or caught.
I'm not sure I agree there is a single protagonist in TENET. It's clear that all of the main characters have their own "journey" and make decisions that affect the outcome for themselves and for others. But this video has helped me see Kat's role in the story in a new light, since my last (4th) viewing two days ago! Hopefully there will be sequels and I'm sure Kat will play a more direct role in events.
While the movie we saw follows The Protagonist and Neil most closely, we don't actually see that much of Sator, who is just as much a protagonist as the others but just not on-screen as much. In the boat on the way back, Neil tells Kat and The Protagonist that Sator was at the opera the day of the Stalsk 12 explosion. He (Sator) flew off the yacht on a helicopter only to return a short while later. This suggests that Sator's timeline is just as complex as Neil's, as he (Sator) was at being killed by Kat on the Yacht off the coast of Vietnam while also being at the Kiev Opera siege, which took place on the same day. This parallels how Neil was at both Kiev and Stalsk 12 at the same time.
I'll be the first to admit that TENET is very confusing, so I may be completely wrong in my theories here. Any help making sense of it is appreciated :-)
I just finished watching the movie and I didn't think of the red blue colors until this video. In spectroscopy there is red and blue shifting of light. Objects moving away from us are defined as red shifted while objects moving towards you are said to be blue shifted.
Another great Tenet video! Love it! :)
So she sends her son (Neil) to his death? Nah, just Nah.
If he is her son
Neil/ Max is a big boy, he has a choice over what he does with his life, he's a hero, he saved the human race. Only a selfish person would choose to live Vs saving humanity (mother his mother included). Also the film explicitly says Neil is the only one capable of doing various things.
abortion ,, at a futuristic level. LEL :o
Great theory! Rewatch it and pay attention to the color yellow this time. Where red and blue mean red and blue shift, yellow indicates “neutral”.
It should also be noted that the protagonist in the novel often drives the plot, but isn't controlling the events of the story. The writer does. Kat could be the author of the narrative in the future.
I can finally see. It all makes sense again
I've watched it a few times and still need help. Thanks for the videos to wade through the content.
I think this theory works. Especially considering the fact that the Protagonist isn’t given a name. The Protagonist can be anyone eve Kat. He is a symbol. Well made theory, great job!
Ooeeh, can't wait to see your video. Nice to see somebody else who is just as obsessed with Tenet as me! Thought I was going crazy. Just watched the movie for the 3rd time after your last upload! Keep 'm coming friend.
Ey no problem, got a couple more ideas for stuff so I hope you enjoy it
@@heavyspoilers I watched your vid and really liked it! I was wondering what your take is on the scene on the yacht (2de half). Where there is a dialoge with Kat and the protagonist. And she says that she knows Sator is an armsdealer (quite naïve) and the protagonist answers with "he is so much more". Is it not possible she is oblivious about sator's role until that point? Again I really liked your theory about Kat and the reference to 007 and M.
Fun concept. But they won’t tell us Washington’s character is the protagonist without him being it.
Not just blue and red, but Yellow as well! Even scene hues and object colors are yellow. It is more subtle, like the timer clock at the end. Im convinced the painted ship sign in the boat has more meaning than just art because certain words are in these three colors.
That makes sense. I always wondered why TP was going way out of his way to save kat for a third of the story.
Theory- Sator was being killed by cancer from the radiation of inverted objects and inverting himself
No, it was explained why he actually got cancer
He worked at radioactive waste sites as a teenager that's why he gets the cancet
This is the best theory that makes the most sense to me. I’ve only seen it 3 times so far but playing it through in my head and I definitely see and agree with your findings!
Christopher Nolan has said, “all [his] films are personal”. To that end, I think the film may be a giant metaphor for filmmaking itself...and If that were true, could it be possible that Nolan is this unseen god-like protagonist?
His wise Emma is the true protagonist in his career
Has anyone else seen Ives in the dinner scene, where the protagonist first meets Satire?
I went back and watched this scene again and paused to get a good look. I have the digital copy on Amazon and when paused it has a feature where it says which actors are currently on screen. Sure enough, it says that Ives is present, but it doesn't look like him. @Heavy Spoilers what do you think?
I think what you missed to understand is that the protagonist in this movie only get’s to know of the organization that he will invent in the future. so of course he doesn’t have a clue about what is going on and he doesn’t give the orders in this event but later in the future he becomes the head of the organization because he is inventing it and then he gives the orders that lead to the events which she experienced when he got to know of his situation in the past.
I've been trying to get myself to watch it again. The colors are something in going to definitely look out for.
This theory makes sense because she is one of the characters that knew who, where and when Sator was in the past. The protagonist and Crosby being the others. I thought it odd that the protagonists would select some random Russian citizen to be the antagonist. But only Kat and the protagonist knew he had to be the antagonist. And maybe Neil if you think he was Kat’s son.
When Sator dies, his heart-rate monitor triggers the email blast to let the future know where they can find the algorithm. His death does NOT trigger the algorithm. Remember his line about a man in a crystalline tower throwing a switch in the future?
.I haven’t seen your videos until today ,and I do enjoy them immensely finding them after a back-to-back double viewing I enjoYed today .I think theres a bit more scenes and I think there are a few other future protagonist scenes in the beginning of the film and running throughout ,where I’m not so sure it’s s all a single timeline for him throughout the movie .It’s just a theory, but there are a few scenes during the second viewing that noticed or I was left wondering at the very least ,if that was the future protagonist because he hinted to the idea that he already had certain things covered, or leave the details to him. And it did look like he already new what was coming.
I do want to say it was almost like getting a sequel and introduction all in one film... and I hope there will be another, I loved this mlif.
Great theory. Definitely will be looking at it from this perspective this week
100% true and then some. The use of exaggerated color grading the first time Kat's introduced, Greek-style perfect white grading and composition on the boat and more so with the statues on the Ravello cliffs, Priya's masculine quote, her newly acquired money, even her exaggerated height above Sator and the protagonist, but most importantly the protagonist's failures point to Kat being the true leader of tenet.
The fact that the only time the protagonist cleanly pulled the trigger was on Priya (Nolan chose not to have him kill the two Ukrainian soldiers, safely unload the mag in the turnstile, and hesitate enough to cost Max his life were big key points) shows not only that she was his true mission, but I believe her true intent at the end of the film was to kill Kat to take over tenet and recollect the algorithm. Hoytema's use of the triangle and sharp edges in Priya's composition as well as the very subtle but ominous blocking by Sanjay when she first introduces herself showed me the "two antagonists" line had the classic Nolan truth to its exposition ("It's a double that comes out of the other end, I promise you.")
Max (Neil) sees the protagonist as his father figure, he helps Kat raise him, she uses her billions to build tenet, he teaches Max how to be a spy. Ordering his drink doesn't say they're just coworkers, that says that they're like family.
Great vid!
A few thoughts...
Let’s assume Neil is Max for this.
TP at Opera scene is the Future Protagonist who is at the end of the mission and (indeed) kills himself. That silver pill is the “scotch tape” of the Möbius strip. He “wakes” on the boat as the 30 yr old protagonist. He goes through the timelines as far forward as Talinn. Then, after Talinn he doubles back to take care of Priya, collect Max and head back 10 years to 2010 with Max. Then, from 2010 to 2020 “Neil” goes forward until his death. TP is 50 at the Opera and knows everything will play out.
Neil speaks Estonian because he lived inverted outside Talinn for 10 years and probably got some “shore leave” in regular time.
TP has no trace of having his teeth ripped out because that happened at the end of his life.
After the “the 14th” battle, TP has access to the turnstile in Talinn (so he has unlimited access to resources) but until his death there is a danger but not really because he goes back, dies and seals the loop.
I think this is actually true, Paul. I like that this also adds further Agency to Neil being Max as well.
I think you've nearly uncovered the final secret to this film! Or rather, take comfort in that your future self has it all figured out.
Another question I have to ask is what were the implications for Sator and his organisation after HE gave the order to have his own son, if it was Neal, "shot in the head". With access to the tech why did he not see this, what was the blind spot here that Tenet (the organisation as entity) saw?
it's actually brilliant, I don't see Nolan making a sequel but if he wanted to he set up multiple protagonists running multiple operations around the world.
The Protagonist and Kat obviously has a relationship with each other in the future, and in turn, bonds a friendship with Max who we all know is Neil. That's why there was a bit of a knowing smile when he asked TP"..not even from afar ?", when referring to TP saying he was gonna keep away from Kat. TP, basically Is a father figure to Max/Neil and together with Kate, they start Tenet .
Ha ha “alright let’s do this one more time”
I love that this movie has so many possibilities.
Isn't that established at the end when she meets/becomes the woman she said wished she could be from her past?
This theory fits nicely with her son being Neil
It must be hard for her to learn one day that Neil is living with a bullet embedded in his skull that has the opposite inversion to the rest of Neil so she has to send him to the final battle to die (from Neil's perspective, he locks the gate and then a bullet explodes out of his skull and he dies.)
@@JinKee so how does he get through the metal detector at the free port?
@@EmilyIsabel oh yeah that does put a wrinkle on it. It would have been good if he beeped and then he produced a medical cert to say he has a plate in his head. Otherwise when he revives and absorbs the bullet from our perspective maybe the shot was a through and through and the bullet comes to rest in his helmet.
Although if you get issued a helmet with a bullet in it and you are blue team DON'T PUT IT ON!
kat call's protagonist, because he gave her the phone. the protagonist isn't very important at the time where movie show's us, he becomes important after this movie and the kill scene at the end, show's him taking control and learning how to play the game.
Two objects with their entropy traveling in 2 different directions will only be visible to each other for a breif second shared, as the future can not be seen no matter what direction being traveled
Nolan: write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well Nolan did rip off Paprika 2006 for his Inception 2010
Not mentioned in the video, but it showed a clip with Sator with the silver pill as he was contemplating suicide, which we learned was a fake at the beginning. So had she not killed him, he was about to attept suicide, and would fail.
I love these TENET videos. I've watched the film 3 times already. It so good
Priya has an air of arrogance because - unlike the Protagonist - she already knows how it ends.
Think about it: from the Protagonist's PoV he is living through an experience that starts at the Kiev Opera before going off to meet Priya, then engaging in a heist in Oslo, then travelling to Tallin, then reverting back in time to eventually participate in that heist (again) before finally ending in a bizarre backwards/forwards battle in Siberia.
Wibbley-Wobbly Timey-Wimey stuff, but from HIS PoV he experiences it all as a linear flow of time.
Not so for Priya because she never wibbley-wobbles nor timey-wimeys.
So from HER PoV both the Kiev Opera siege and the big battle in Siberia have already happened ("on the 12th" as Sir Michael Caine said in his posh voice). So when she meets the Protagonist she knows both how this starts and how it ends.
Not so the Protagonist; when he talks to Priya the Kiev Opera siege is in his past, but he is completely unaware of how this ends in "his" future.
That disparity in knowledge is enough to make anyone smug and arrogant.
In the opera scene, he told others what to do.
The task failed because “somebody talked” but tP saved a bunch of people from blowing up in their sleep because he changed their plan.
“Multiple protagonists” doesn’t mean they’re in control.
If Kat was running things. Do you think she’d have been ok with her son sacrificing himself? Come on.
I’ll have to watch this for the third time, but (since the audio was so poor) with subtitles to catch all the details.
Arepo holds the strings.
He is the God like figure in the movie. Father of Neil. Symbolizing God, Spirit (no hands an legs, as Kat said; not a physical human being) while Neil is the sacrificial Jesus, God reincarnated. Kate symbolizes Mary.
The film hints that Arepo lost his limbs because of Sator. But is it so..
Tenet 2 and 3 will make this more clear I think.
Nolan is raised in a Christian context. He went to catholic school and has told that Christianity has influenced his movies.
This is all just a theory. Interesting concept, quite far fetched.
The ambulance scene near the end he takes off his safety gloves twice
Ives show up out of no where because Neil #2 send called for back up at the end of highway scene, so Ives & Neil#1 showed up from the future
Kat went from asset being used, and wife being held hostage, to an equal to the protagonists. Empowered, in the know, helpful to the mission. The Protagonist is God-like. Neil is her son and he recruited him from childhood. At least that's what Nolan was going for until he realized that would be impossible. They showed the closeup of the boy's backpack at the end because it was supposed to have the tag and ring that Neil had when he died. "Are you sure you're not going to go back to London to see Kat?" It was a hint. He either visited often or became Kat's S/O and raised Neil.
If the 'Kat from the future' kills Sator in Vietnam, who is the Sator that appears for the first time during the film in Amalfi ? The 'regular Kat' also remembers the event of the 'mysterious woman' diving from the boat and of Sator disappearing when she tells the story to the protagonist. She should be a widow since that event in Vietnam. How could Sator reappear instead ?
Niel is the is the "Protagonist." Which would make more sense since Niel has known from the beginning what would eventually would happen.
It's a bootstrap paradox: Future protagonist tells past Neil how things are gonna be developed and then he move backwards in time to the moment of the opera seige which is the first contact with past protagonist. So this future Neil helps the past protagonist in order accomplish his mission and realized he's the one pulling the strings of the entire operation so in the future he can train Neil to tell him in the past and so on and so forth...
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Kat chooses a future for her son. Thus sacrificing the future of humanity so that Sator (my protagonist) doesn't kill their son along with the Climax's/Expeditions timeline; in order to allow the world to have a future beyond this Temporal Pincer Maneuver. Every human being on the planet is eternally trapped in this time loop because of Kat's maternal nature.
This doesn't necessarily indicate anything regarding this theory, but there's something very big (and very subtle) that gets revealed when she murders Sator. Throughout the movie, she's portrayed as a docile, powerless, battered wife. But when she gets on the yacht, she undoes the safety wires, sprays down the deck and lubes up her husband's back, knowing full well how to dispose of his body. It's likely that she's far more capable than she was letting on.
I don't think Kat is the "true protagonist", however, it would make sense that the protagonist and herself form Tenet together and she is simply another protagonist, as Priya said there is more than one.
Kat has money and an understanding of inversion after Neil/Max explains it to her while on the stretcher. The protagonist also has this understanding and has experience with the effects of inversion and how it can be used to influence events. Together they'd use her money and their combined knowledge to form Tenet and recruit Priya, Ives and his soldiers, Neil/Max, and several others.
Now, what's happened has happened, so if Max really is Neil they can't change his death.
TP- "But can we change things if we do it differently?"
NEIL-"What's happened's happened."
Kat, now with an understanding of inversion would know that her son has to sacrifice himself to see the world is saved. For her to have that time with him away from Sator at the end of the movie she knows he'll eventually have to go back and sacrifice himself. Or, she dies at some point after forming Tenet and the protagonist is left to raise Max, educate him etc.
Max travels forward 12 years from when we first see him as a boy, learning with the protagonist along the way, getting his physics degree, continuing to build Tenet together, "we get up to some stuff" missions. He then inverts as a young man and travels back 12 years to the point where he meets a young protagonist, only now as a man and a mentor of sorts.
Neil/Max learns 5 years into the inversion that the future protagonist had ended his life and hidden his part of the algorithm. This is why he gives young protagonist a lingering and wide eyed look before introducing himself. ".......................I'm Neil." He is seeing his deceased best friend and father figure for the first time in years.
The part that made it "a beautiful friendship" is that the protagonist raised him, trained him, educated him, and cared for him, before ultimately having Neil/Max invert himself. Neil learns he'll sacrifice himself from the future protagonist but isn't told when. He realises when during the last scene of the battle, this is why he gives the protagonist his piece of the algorithm. Young protagonist even says in the film that he'd rather Neil's death be his decision. And ultimately it is, because in the future he sends him back to his death.
I’m not sure how much I agree with this but it will make me watch from a different perspective.
This is a very convincing theory. I definitely need to watch Tenet again with this perspective in mind!
This gets better every time and it makes sense since she has everything to gain first.. or last.. plus, everyone who exhibits free will, even though their dates may be to stop the 'bomb', they choose differently and get to live and allow a future where people still exist.
Is it a great movie but isn't it a time loop at the end ? It's like the protagonist starting the beginning of timeline at the end of the movie
Rotas square doesn't have an end but just a begining no matter where you look at the edge .
Really good theory! Would love to dive more into the details!
Kat has another desire beyond just protecting her son. She admits to it when she says she envied the woman who jumped off the yacht for her freedom. She admits that she considered giving up her son for her own freedom. Ultimately, Kat decides to take a measure of freedom even though it risks ruining the mission. She achieves the freedom she yearned for. She doesn't just do what's necessary for the mission, which is what all of the other characters would have done in her place. She takes a chance to choose freely for the sake of her own humanity and her own sanity, rather than subsume her own needs for the sake of others.
That's what Kat's character is all about. She's the real protagonist of the movie. She has an "I want". She has real character struggles and monumental character growth. She is the one who is emotionally devastated by set backs, and who has the hardest time pushing through to pick herself up and try again and again.
Tell me the hopes and dreams of any other character. Tell me the struggles that emotionally taxed any other character. Tell me the daunting obstacle that any other character ultimately overcomes to great satisfaction.
The irony is she says he has terminal cancer and then claims she can't get away from him. Guy would have been dead in a few months, this idea that she was stuck with him was total manipulation on her part.
This is the kind of movie that ages better over time
I'll wait the sequel to be sure. Nolan must have some exciting development for the sequel, one that is hard to discover.
not related to this video specifically, but it has always bugged me, the pincer battle at the end, all that ammo and munitions flying around, where are all the enemy soldiers?
If there was a TENET sequel what would it look like? More "TimeCop" possibility or another James Bond setup with a Sator like supervillian?
You missed the part with the trains where he gets his teeth pulled. Notice the trains jumps in time and thier identical?
Interesting theory and is a testament to the genius of the film. Trust in Nolan.
Makes sense. This movie blew my mind but it was sooo goooood
This theory also loses steam when you think about the idea that maybe the deadman switch was false all long. Also the line that there are many protagonists seems more of a node to the metaphysical not there being multiple physical individuals who are "protagonists". Another thing is that the movie is supposed to represent a closed loop. What happened in the past was a result of tampering from the future and the future is only reached when the past occurred as it did (like going back in time and killing your parents before they have you). This is shown when Kat recalls the free woman jumping from the boat, not realizing that it was her future-self she had seen. Seeing that woman caused great turmoil in their relationship and was directly tied to her eventually being that very same woman.
Kat also gives the order for the protagonist to kill Priya by leaving the voicemail... Kind of
I'm one of the geeks that watches 'Tenet' every week. Another great 'Tenet' video! One question I can't figure out is how did Priya find out the information about the scientist creating the algorithm in the future and hiding it in the past? I agree that the scientist from the future could be Barbara. Would Barbara not be older though if she had travelled back in time across decades? I also can't figure out who the real founder of tenet is. Maybe the scientist from the future?
Next 'Tenet' video I'd love to see would be what you think the hierarchy and organizational structure of the tenet organisation actually is and the characters roles within that structure. I'm sure you could think of a more succinct title for that video than the long-winded one I've suggested!
I think Priya knows it already just as how all the members of the TENET do. She just doesn't decide to share it with the protagonist in his first and second meeting with her (which isn't actually the first and second) because TP unknowingly hints in their second last meeting that she didn't reveal anything major and just persuaded him to investigate the matter by himself which made him move forward and do some key things which are necessary for the mission. Now to make those things happen the exact way as they did, Priya took the hint and did her part in not revealing much about the history of inversion to TP in their initial meetings.
And the answer for your question regarding the actual founder of TENET, it's the protagonist. It's revealed in the movie itself at the end.
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Ok what do you think of this theory?
Scientist from future recruits Future Protagonist and tells him everything.
Future Protagonist recruits Neil
and tells him everything as well as what he needs to in the past in order to save them future.
Neil recruits Priya and tells her about the scientist and the algorithm. Maybe he did this under the alias of Max if he is to be Kat's son.
Priya recruits Ives
and tells him about the scientist and the algorithm.
Ives recruits Wheeler and Tenet soldiers and tells them about the turnstiles and inverted entropy but not about the algorithm.
Neil tells Fay & Barbara from the CIA about Tenet and inverted items.
Fay brings in current Protagonist.
@@MaxiEliShorter This is a good theory, man. I just need some time to go through all this neatly until I get back.
Hey man great vid.....you should do another video on tenet, just sayin no 1 goes into detail about the film. Most people only do a couple i just dont wana see my favorite channel not do enough tenet videos. 😉😉😉. Another great vid brotha.
Cheers mate, gonna do one soon about the opening
@@heavyspoilers lol i wouldn't doubt it man, great vids tho. All of em. Good puns 2