I took a few edibles before seeing this in theaters and I honestly couldn't tell you what it was about but for whatever reason I had an absolute blast watching it. I've never had that experience with a movie before. Instead of trying to understand wtf was going on, I just went along for the ride and it was one of my better theater experiences
Damn dude, that's pretty genius. I won't say I'm trying that next time I watch a convoluted movie, but I'm definitely trying that next time I watch a convoluted movie.
Oh my god I did the same. I was absolutely beyond understanding anything but had an absolute blast. I haven't rewatched it and I don't know if I want to. I can't really say I 'like' the movie because I've never understood it while watching it, but I sure did enjoy watching Tenet.
I did the same thing with Puss in Boots 2. I did it because it’s a kids movie and I was expecting it to suck. Ended up not remembering the film at but I remember feeling all the right emotions during the watch. Had to be told by my friends later how good it actually was
I feel like Tenet is seeing a resurgence in popularity this year which makes me so unbelievably happy. It's easily one of the most impressive films ever made, and by far the most underrated in recent memory.
@@noomadeTBH, most people simply could not grasp what was going on, it was a mumble jumble mess to them. This really is an intellectual movie. In other words, it went whoooosh over most heads.
@@tsartomato Tenet is a lot of things, but generic definitely isn't one of them lol. The internet honestly kind of ruined public opinion of this film. Lots of angry nerds who thought they were supposed to understand the halide breakdown at the freeport, rather than take in Pattinsons objectively flawless facial expressions. Tenet is so good the internet hates it...that's kinda fucking awesome.
I'm always happy to see creators who appreciate TENET as much i do. You have a new subscriber. And I'm sharing with all my friends and family that I have had such a hard time trying to explain this movie to for the last 4 years
36:16 I like how Inverted P is much more competant towards the end of 'his' fight as he learns more about what it means to be inverted. In normal time Protaganist gets owned when he first meets Inverted P, but towards the end of HIS fight he is doing better.
@@nostalgiaclive I don't understand why this scene manifests in a fight. I see it like this: R-Protagonist is trying to get to the turnstile, while F-Protagonist is trying to prevent him from leaving the building. The net force of this to F-Protagonist would be R-Protagonist accelerating away from him the more he tries to restrain him, before being sucked out of the building, while to R protagonist, F protagonist would be dragging him towards the turnstile as hard as he could. Hence, no fight should have occurred - from each other's perspectives, they both should have been inadvertently facilitating each other's movement, surely? What are your thoughts on this?
@@C.I... the problem with why this results in a fight can be explained by the protagonist's own nature. As pointed out he's cautious and paranoid. He wasn't expecting anyone to know they were going to be here. So from the moment R-Pro exits the turnstyle F-Pro is already attempting to subdue him. So the first thing that happens from his point of view is a stranger bumping into him at full speed while he's holding half of an assembled gun... that's his mistake that causes the fight moving forwards in time. He picks up the discarded gun thereby creating a universe where it must have been disarmed from him in the first place. He doesn't cause the fight to occur since the objects in the fight have reverse entropy but his decision to pickup the weapon means that there was always a fight over a weapon. From the R-Pro POV he goes in with a gun drawn and that's the mistake that causes a fight to happen. The gun ends up in F-Pros hands because of the shockwave of being blasted backwards by the reverse exploding engine. R-PRO knows how the fight went the first time even if he cant remember the exact steps and knows he's paranoid enough to do something stupid so long as he's holding a weapon so from his POV the entire fight isn't just to get to the turnstyle it's to prevent the gun from ending up in his former self's hands intact. So the R-PRO is obligated to provoke a fight moving backwards in time to keep the gun out of his own hands the fact the F-PRO assists in moving him towards his objective doesn't change the very real threat the gun possesses. And finally at the turnstyle he succeeds in disarming it but from the F-Pro POV the gun is being assembled and used to reverse fire bullets into his skull even though from the R-Pro perspective he was unloading it.
@@rockstermaniac Just realised I got it wrong. I had to break it down into two fights happening simultaneously to fix it in my head. In reverse, F protagonist attempting to pull him towards the turnstile to prevent him leaving would be a force pushing R Protagonist away. R protagonist has to push against this. Going fowards, R protagonist's pushing would manifest as a pull to F protagonist, further incentivising a pull from F protagonist. I think the struggle comes from the way it would end up being like trying to get past or pull on a brick wall, as they are both equally strong. Your points still stand, of course - that all makes sense too. I'm going to have to watch it over and over again to try to understand what each of the fight moves exert on each of them from the perspective of their respective time flows :/ What a fun film.
@@C.I... Inverted Protag is also trying to buy time. they tell us he can't enter the turnstile until he sees himself enter on the other side. the moment he saw himself pointing a gun in his face he likely had some general idea of what would happen. inverted isn't really trying to resist as he wants the fight to lead back to the room so I'm not sure if forces really apply for him specifically. their knowledge and goals in this situation are significantly different. F protag has clear intentions to apprehend this unknown and strange person while inverted protag just needs to resist enough to not die from a gunshot as the fight will lead him back to the room. once they are in the room with the turnstile he kept looking to see his other forward self enter.
The point of "knowledge divided" is slightly more than just trust issues. That's certainly part of it. Future P who founds TENET has learned ANY information can be passed on to "posterity", which is the Antagonist. Dividing up the information makes it hard to collect and save for posterity to learn about. Any time P does something that will be recorded in a newspaper or police report, Sator knows about it already because posterity knows from the records and will have told him. Posterity is not even aware that the hypocenter got attacked, because the explosion that was reported was their plan to bury the algorithm, and nothing about the operation was saved in records.
The protagonist of the present is the antagonist from the future (or from the future's perspective, the antagonist from the past is the protagonist of the future). I honestly thought Nolan was being extremely on-the-nose with calling the process of going backwards through time "inversion" (and literally having the Protagonist fight himself in the same scene, hence making him his own antagonist) since it can be applied to character roles, but here we are. I haven't seen anyone else notice.
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@@ClockworkGearhead interesting idea but I don't think it works. The Protagonist goes through all that, understands that whatever happened has happend and later decides to fight himself anyway?
@ Correct. His principles didn't change. He didn't change his mind. His position was always to fight for the survival of the _world that he lives in._ When he gets to the future, he still sees it as his own world, or, more accurately, the future world is his future self's present. More to the point? Who else could have orchestrated all the events that happened in the movie so they did happen?
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@@ClockworkGearhead I mean why wouldn't he know it's futile to try?
@ He doesn't know that. The movie demonstrates that objects reversing through time force causes to fit their effects (from the perspective of conventional time). It's likely a future inverted world can literally rewrite causes so it can exists as it travels back in time. Also, it's a fact the present world dies no matter what. This isn't a happy ending for the present world whether the future wins or loses. Either they win, and then over time become the future world and dies from pollution, or they lose and the future erases them. Either way, they die.
I love how challenging this movie is when you try to make sense of every aspect of it, but simultaneously how entertaining and exciting it is when you just watch it without trying to understand everything. This movie is so hard to pull off and I just love it exists. Few movies make me feel like I'm watching it for the first time like Tenet does every time I watch it. Great analysis and video; and so unexpectedly funny. You got a new follower.
One of the theory's that i love is that *NEIL* is Kat's son maximi *LIEN* . Which implies that when Max grows up he has to become Neil to protect the world and Priya from killing his mother in the past. Also a fun theory is that Michael Caine's character could possibly be Yves. Anyway this was a awesome quality video, thanks for making stuff like this for my favorite movie.
Heres the problem with that theory. The movie states and shows that inverted time moves at the same speed as conventional time. So Neil would have to stay inverted for like 15 - 20 plus years to be around when he is also a child. Think about it.
I happen to agree that Neil isn’t Max, but he wouldn’t necessarily need to be inverted for 15 straight years; if he goes back and forth regularly, he could more or less stay in the same time period forever.
@@Ryan-the-Rocketeer I happen to agree that Neil isn’t Max, but he wouldn’t necessarily need to be inverted for 15 straight years; if he goes back and forth regularly, he could more or less stay in the same time period forever.
@@nostalgiacliveSo you think Nolan choose the name Maximilen randomly and it just so happens to spell Neil backwards... also Neil knows P extremely well, too well. Look Nolan don't give a F, but he doesn't do random either. Neil is Max 100% but they didn't need to add that twist so didn't bother trying to explain it... There are a number of small details they didn't bother with in this movie but who cares for the most part it all works and is pure genius to pull off. Great vid btw. Also, Neil inverts at the end and doesn't immediately go back to the door.... He goes to the oprah house first, and some theorize he goes back even further in conventional time, reinverts, and gets cast in a teenage vampire movie.
Me too. I like it very much. Some days ago I saw it as part of a Nolan retrospective in a local cinema. At the end I had tears in my eyes and I was not the only one. In the row behind me I heard sobbing during the last scene with Neal and P. I love it and I loved it from the first view onwards (or backwards 😂)
How the heck hasn’t this gone viral? I swear I’ll need to watch this another 3 .. maybe 10 times before I fully grasp it all, but the work you’ve done is incredible and I love every minute of this.
@@DebraKeyesyour not supposed to use real world logic and physics when watching this movie, Nolan himself even said so, the fact that you have to try to ground movies to reality (unless its animated or a superhero movie im assuming) is extremely disappointing
People just like to overthink and over analyze all the technobabble. Much like any Nolan movie. You can understand his films in one sitting if you just immerse yourself in the world of the movie and not try to place the movie into our world
38:21 "Dad's your grandpa" - absolutely top tier joke, almost spat out my drink as I wasn't expecting it. Lot of great insights from a younger more handsome twin of David Mitchell. Also your red and blue lighting is an awesome subtle touch. Earned a sub, keep up the great work!
So… if someone is inverted and they were talking on an inverted radio… should someone who is not inverted be able to hear them on a non-inverted radio? Because a radio going backward in time should look like it’s absorbing radio waves and not emitting them right? Really there a lots of issues like this, this is just one I noticed
You deserve more subscribers. It was the best explanation ever anyone gave on tenet. I understood it after watching it more than 10 times but you made some of my confusion clear! Great job.
Guy with over a 100 subs does a video of some of the most complex and brilliant movies, that happens to be one of my favorites years after it released just as I was thinking about it again this morning/ sounds great, keep the great work and on point editing up king
I love your humour and intelligent analysis. I feel like I learned something while also being simply entertained for the length of the video. Great content!
Upon finding out that the door was unlocked, Neil would have realized that in order to preserve the timeline he would have to lock it. The timing of that lock would effectively synchronize time with inverted time, allowing a play to be made.
Tenet only makes any sense from the perspective of the viewer. Consider a bank robbery, where you reverse time, steal a duffle bag full of money from the counter, then leave. From the banks' perspective, there is an empty counter, a guy runs in backwards and sets a duffle bag of money down, then runs out the door again. Where did the dufflebag come from? Same thing with the reverse bullet holes. Did they suddenly appear that morning looper-style, were they built along with the building and nobody noticed?
This is subtly addressed in the movie. The bullet holes appear as the moment when they're made draws closer. Same with the mirror on the BMW. Moments before impact with the Audi it suddenly starts to get cracks in it, before it is "reverse damaged" by the collision.
It's somewhat addressed in the movie, and it supports the theory I have that "The Protagonist," is wrong and killed the world. The "grandfather paradox" is addressed as the reasoning from stopping the global inversion, because a future without a past simply doesn't exist, so its equivalent to killing everyone. But cracks form in mirrors and bullet holes appear. The paradox was solved (at least in this film) as inverted matter _making new causes and circumstances for themselves_ as they regress through time. Most of the time it fits into the usual cause-and-effect of matter, the times it didn't fit in it just made its own causes. In other words, it simply came from nowhere. Neil touches on this when he mentions two time streams pushing against each other. Eventually, all the events of Tenet would simply disappear anyway. Now, the twist here is the Protagonist gets to the future (in the conventional sense), fighting for the "present's" survival, and realizes the "future" world is dying anyway. Pollution. All that fighting to prevent the global inversion simply put into play the world's death, but it's not like the "protagonist's" principles have changed, he still fights for the world's survival _that he exists in._ Who else would know enough about Sator to sent into events of his life? _The Protagnist from the future._ Or, more precisely, _the Antagonist for the present,_ an _inverted Protagonist._ The reason he sent Neil to go save him in the past? Not to save his life, but to _remove Neil as an obstacle to hiding the algorithm._ He was still dressed in uniform, so that means two parts are unified together (if he still retained his piece and collected Neil's afterwards). The soldier with the third piece? He knows where he's going. The Protagonist inverted to Antagonist collected. How do I know this? Who else could have known where to collect it in the first place to tell Sator? And why did the movie end? The future collided into the present and stopped it (edit: the end of the reel/timeline, so to speak), the ultimate meta-statement metaphor about movies, something Nolan is fond of.
...can we start with Tenet Negative 1? Or wait... Inverted... but to invert a number, you swap the numerator and the denominator of the fraction form of it... So 1/1 which equals 1. This already is the inverted version of the movie. Well alright then, I think I have successfully convinced myself that Nolan should invert himself for a few years then finally make Tenet. Let's see if he does/did, shall we?
The way that inversion made sense to me was the idea of standing in a river. The water will always flow regardless of which direction you are facing. You're either going with, or against the flow of the water. I don't know if I read this somewhere or came up with it myself, but it makes sense to me.
I like your idea of the final lockpicking scene. Even if the door wasn’t “locked,” it takes the most skilled lock picker to use inversion itself as the lock picking tool
24:45 the interogation scene is the hardest to understand imo. I think it only works if as you say Sator is CONFIRIMING information, and using his full knowledge of reverse time to interrogate P, but it's very hard to conceptulise.
Yeah, I agree. He asks for confirmation, but he also does things to encourage P to give the initial answer: He threatens “the next one’s a bullet to the head” and counts, but with no intention of actually doing it (because he already hasn’t) but makes that threat so that P will think he will.
There's one other detail I love about the fight scene between P & himself. If you think about it, wrestling with an inverted person must be super easy. Like, if I'm inverted and I try to push on you, you're going to feel that more like I'm pulling you. Same goes for if you try to push on me. I'm gonna experience that as a pull. So the first time we see the fight, P is just trying to subdue what he believes to be a hostile assailant. He has no goals in terms of location, he just wants this guy restrained. However, when we see the fight a second time, P's goal is to get to the turnstile. He's essentially able to do this with no trouble. There are no detours in the route taken. Inverted P is able to go directly where he wants to go, because normal P is practically dragging him wherever he wants to go. The fight is so utterly insane, and so well thought out, I love it. This movie is riddled with stupid plot holes, but the stuff it does right, it does so absurdly right, I can't bring myself to care. I'm not joking when I say this is my favorite movie of all time, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
In my headcannon, Neil is Kat's son after having grown up. I don't know if the timeframe works out, but it explains some of Pattinson's acting choices where Kat's character is concerned. But it makes the end scene more poignant. And also casts P's oath to Kat in a new light: if he doesn't protect the boy, everything unravels and the Antags win. Edit: Actually thinking of how Entropy reversal works... Kat's son's actor was 9 or 10 when the film was released, so assuming the character is the same age, let's say he grows up, P as a sort of uncle figure, and finds out about TENET in his late teens or early 20's. He and P work together - maybe P even trains him specially for a couple of years. But in order for all of this to work out, Neil has to help P in the past. So the kid adopts the Neil persona and inverts his Entropy, starting the decade-long trek back. Robert Pattinson was 34 when TENET was released, so assuming a bit of age-fuckery because of inverting and reverting entropy during his time with TENET, the ages could work out. I'm sure there's plenty of evidence to tank this theory, but I still love it.
The incredible thing about that movie, in my opinion, is the fact that Neil is in five places at the same moment: 1) in the container during the explosion (backward), 2) dead when it explodes (backward), 3) saving P from the explosion (forward), 4) at the opera (forward), and 5) somewhere backward to go to the opera. What mesmerized me is the grandfather paradox caused by Neil saving P during the opera.
Yeah, very good! But for #2, his dead body is no longer in the hypocenter, it “reanimated” and exited. He IS however also inverted on the helicopter that’s reverse-entering the battle. There might even be more that I can’t comprehend.
You forgot to add that her son is Niel. There are so many clear hints and bread crumbs that Nola left to let the audience know that he is the Niel that will spend year growing up with the protagonist. His mother and himself was saved by the protagonist, thusly leading to him sacrificing himself for "P" as a thank you in the end of the movie
Nolan said somewhere that he wanted to challenge himself. "How do you win against a villain who wants to destroy the world who has a time travel device and already knows his plan was success?" Through that lens, the movie makes complete sense.
Your explanation on the red room, and the blue room makes the most sense out of everyone’s videos. I’ve watched so far. For the past four years, I’ve been bashing my head against the wall. Trying to understand it. Thank you so much. also, I don’t think we will ever fully comprehend this movie through and through because our brains are not designed to think forward and backward at the same time
I didn’t think it was confusing, I just thought it was pretentious and boring. It’s like a Calvin Klein commercial masquerading as a sci fi thriller. I usually like Chris Nolan movies but this was one was just shooting too hard to provide the Chris Nolan prestige, and that posturing was distracting rather than complimentary to the storytelling.
Surprised to see so few subs. Guess you're just starting out. I enjoyed every second. I'm sure your numbers will explode just like my mind just did. Subscribed
The algorithm (the YT one I mean) is working against the video here. Because of the swearing the video gets less exposure. That’s why many YTers bleep out their F’s.. Give it a try next time. It’s a video that should have done 2, 300k easy. It really is that good.
"Years ago for me. Years from now for you." Head Canon: Neil is Kat's son. P watches over him as he grows up, ends up training him as one of the few people he can trust, and they eventually "Get up to some stuff".
Honestly, while watching the video i had no idea that youve had 5k subs. The pfp, the editing, your loosnes infront of the camera all gave off an impression that this is a multi million subscriber channel. Hats off to you my good sir, keep it going and looking forward to your next videos!
Everybody missed one important giveaway during the sailing race: the orange safety string and the constant hip/womb camera shots of the woman, and one of Sator, all with the orange safety line. The meaning is that Neil, having an orange line hanging out of his backpack, is their son.
Man. GREAT job on this. Popped up on my recommended videos (speaking of The Algorithm) definitely because of all the Tenet related videos I've watched over these past few years. I think about this movie all of the time. When those thought trails start to be all-consuming and my social life suffers, I watch the movie again- then watch a bunch of UA-cam Tenet videos again. Then I can sleep and go on living my life until I start thinking about "But if Neil is Maximilien.... and Yves is Michael Caine...." You get it. Phenomenal job not just articulating plot points and theories but your writing, pacing, loads of homework and editing. Love this very much and am so pumped to know there are other Tenet sickos out there
Thank you so much my man, that means a lot to me 🙏🏻⭐️ And I can absolutely relate to that level of obsessive thought 😂 Also… controversial opinion… I don’t think Neil is Max or Ives is Michael Caine 😬
This movie was so underrated and I think missed by the general public because it requires the viewer to really think to understand what is happening. A nice break from movies force feeding everything to the viewer. I think it’s complexity is why it is see a slight revival.
great deconstruction! my memory of Tenet is seeing it on the big screen during the p-demic and really struggling to watch it for the first hour ... but enough sunk in that the entire second half was a massive pay-off to that setup even though i remained confused about characters and timelines etc, motivations and emotions were relatively clear, or cleared up.
I just realised that Sator's pacemaker email spam thing is a red herring, it's actually the splinter team getting the algorithm out of Stalsk-12 that saves them from the future Antagonists. Sator could die _at any time after_ the algorithm is buried in Stalsk-12 and then email spam the coordinates. The splinter team keeping the stolen algorithm secret is the most critical part of the operation. The only benefit to killing Sator around the same time as the explosion is that it reduces the chances that he interferes. He and his cronies have to believe that everything went according to plan and that he successfully committed suicide on the yacht in Vietnam. Maybe now you think it's a bit arbitrary that Sator would choose that moment to send the email spam when he could technically do it any time after, but in a sense, it was Kat who _caused_ Sator to think that how he would die would be committing suicide in Vietnam, because to Sator that seems like the only way he would've died. All he knows is that his worldline ends in Vietnam, so he builds a convincing story for himself that he must have committed suicide then.
Yeah, it didn’t turn out to matter at all. But I think Tenet’s thinking is that, if they fail in Stalsk-12, they might be able to keep Sator alive and come up with a backup plan?
Neil Inverts sometime after the fight ends, the he goes back to the cage with the bomb and already sees P struggling to open it, then he opens the lock and and quickly catches the bullet and dies. He is now dead and inverted so his body will keep decaying in reverse. That's why the blue henchmen in the bomb cage would have seen him dead while moving forward and when he wanted to shoot, Neil actually catches the bullet, becomes alive and moves out.
My dude! Excellent work! I watched Tenet last night for the tenth time. Still so much to enjoy and get out of it. One of Nolan’s finest 👌 and I love your analysis, the editing, really well done! Thank you for this! ❤
My brother and I love watching Nolan's movies! When we saw the movie in theater for the first time - My brother was trying to figure out what was going on but when I heard "Don't think about it" I trusted Nolan that it will make sense the more the movie goes on but you have to pay attention, so I understood more than my brother because a part of him was trying to understand while watching while I was just observing and taking in all the information!
@32:27 - the entire reverse dialogue is: “It’s in the back of the SAAB. Make sure that he is dead. Go pick up the algorithm at the freeport.” Source: ua-cam.com/video/_XFJpXQwanE/v-deo.htmlsi=qsTwWoiXpKGqWMqo This conversation happens after Sator sees the handoff.
I just imagine being the guy taking notes on Christopher Nolan's directives in good faith and then just abruptly stopping and looking at him in sadness as you realize what it is he is asking. Also I love how P lost both sides of the fight against himself
Great (re)production on one of my favourite movies. Not only do you come back on scenes like inversion in the original movie but also the subtle red/blue studio lighting. Well done.
What I figured out is this movie is going in a consistent loop the end is also the beginning where he realizes that he's got to send people back to His past to make this all works for the future to go on for him thus causing Neil to live in a loop
I’ve watched so many UA-cam movie breakdown videos and rarely have I seen any compared to this one. Incredible work! And I think I actually understand the movie a bit more.😂😂
@nomiretrying1451 I appreciate your comment! Engaging with my viewers is important to me. I'm here to assist with a wide range of tasks, answer questions, and generate ideas. How can I help you today?
its soooo cool to listen someone else talk about the little horror aspects of inversion/ and the movie, the first trailer for the film leveraged this tone so well, and inversion itself seems so unnatural and uncanny its super efective, Nolan has been sprinkling elements of horror in his films since id say, Interstellar maybe, and Dunkirk for sure, Oppenheimer has straight up horror scenes. Edit: i also love that you also noticed the obvious Zack Snyder cameo
This way this movie racks the brain is the main reason it is on my “Mt. Rushmore” of all time favs. The level of detail both cinematic and storytelling Nolan provides is amazing. Thanks for giving this movie your flavor and level of deep dive! Great breakdown. I subbed and I’m looking forward to more👍🏾
@TruSigma712 Thank you for your kind words! I do feel like, since there's so much to unpack, that the movie offers a little bit more each time I see it.
my take is that neil didn't unlock the door but he just went to lock it. if he's inverted, all he has to do is to push the door to lock it as he closes it. but since he's doing it inverted, for the people who are going straightforward, what they will see is an unlocked door unlock itself and get caught by the hand of the inverted neil who pushed it. just like all the debris that flies when you catch a bullet, the mechanisms of a lock will go in an opposite way to it gets unlocked, because what happened already did.
Absolutely! It's basically a James Bond movie where the bad guy has a powerful time-inversion device. The secret agent has to fight fire with fire, break into the lair, and use the bad guy's weapon against him. Straightforward. Seriously, a perfect movie.
I love tenet and its complexities and every time I try to show a friend the movie they walk away completely dissatisfied. You were able to put words to my thoughts brilliantly. Thank you
Glad somebody else found Tenet to be as straight-forward as I did. Couldn't figure out what bits confused people so much. Momento? Still not sure I understand most of what's going on. Primer? Took me two watches. Tenet? Got it in one. Subbed, btw.
I’ve been thinking about it a lot and decided that Neil always intended to make it into the bunker and lock the door. It was the only way to ensure the door would be opened and unlocked by the time the others got there. The locksmithing thing was a red herring
Thank you so much! Really glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻⭐️ With how many people said the explanation was just as confusing as the movie, I’m also glad to hear you say I succeeded in making it simple 😂
The reverse fight scene in the estonian freeport became amazing on rewatch. I realized that both the conventional and inversed Protagonist learned how to fight an inverted opponent. Both aree getting owned in the beginning while your opponent is getting more untrained while you fight.
45:28 It’s an analog, mechanical lock. So, the act of locking it, in inverted time, is the same act as unlocking it, in conventional time. He locked it so it would be unlocked at the right time. And the only reason he was able to do that was because he’d already done it - which is why the door was even open for him to slip in and wait.
It's also a straightbackward movie
I watched this video in reverse
The way it's meant to be watched
I liked this comment in reverse
@@MrMramirez23 oot em
And that's an Inception.
If you proceed to make videos like this, your channel will explode soon. Well done, Sir. Well done.
Wow, thank you so much, that means a lot! ⭐️
But it can only explode if it already has.
Well let's hope it did so that it will 🤞
This was top tier gg @@nostalgiaclive
Yeah, this was really fun and really well made. The expletive-laden frustration moments were pretty great laughs.
I took a few edibles before seeing this in theaters and I honestly couldn't tell you what it was about but for whatever reason I had an absolute blast watching it. I've never had that experience with a movie before. Instead of trying to understand wtf was going on, I just went along for the ride and it was one of my better theater experiences
Damn dude, that's pretty genius. I won't say I'm trying that next time I watch a convoluted movie, but I'm definitely trying that next time I watch a convoluted movie.
Watched it high in cinema and had similar experience - just feeling floored by the action and good pacing. Understanding came after the 3rd watch.
Oh my god I did the same. I was absolutely beyond understanding anything but had an absolute blast. I haven't rewatched it and I don't know if I want to. I can't really say I 'like' the movie because I've never understood it while watching it, but I sure did enjoy watching Tenet.
I did the same thing with Puss in Boots 2. I did it because it’s a kids movie and I was expecting it to suck. Ended up not remembering the film at but I remember feeling all the right emotions during the watch. Had to be told by my friends later how good it actually was
My buddy and I ate some shrooms before seeing it at the theater! We understood it but were still confused asf 😂😂😂
I feel like Tenet is seeing a resurgence in popularity this year which makes me so unbelievably happy. It's easily one of the most impressive films ever made, and by far the most underrated in recent memory.
Blame covid
TENET was not straightforward, it was twisty back- and forth movie.
@@noomadeTBH, most people simply could not grasp what was going on, it was a mumble jumble mess to them. This really is an intellectual movie.
In other words, it went whoooosh over most heads.
one of the most generic you wanted to say
even primer is stronger
@@tsartomato Tenet is a lot of things, but generic definitely isn't one of them lol. The internet honestly kind of ruined public opinion of this film. Lots of angry nerds who thought they were supposed to understand the halide breakdown at the freeport, rather than take in Pattinsons objectively flawless facial expressions. Tenet is so good the internet hates it...that's kinda fucking awesome.
I'm always happy to see creators who appreciate TENET as much i do. You have a new subscriber. And I'm sharing with all my friends and family that I have had such a hard time trying to explain this movie to for the last 4 years
Haha hell yeah 😎
Thank you for subscribing and sharing ⭐ I love to hear that the video actually helps people understand the movie better 🥹
I wanted to leave a nearly identical comment, but, I've given up on explaining the movie. It's just become "It's a masterpiece, trust me"
36:16 I like how Inverted P is much more competant towards the end of 'his' fight as he learns more about what it means to be inverted. In normal time Protaganist gets owned when he first meets Inverted P, but towards the end of HIS fight he is doing better.
Yeah, he does seem to be catching on when he fires off the rounds and deconstructs the gun for sure.
@@nostalgiaclive I don't understand why this scene manifests in a fight.
I see it like this:
R-Protagonist is trying to get to the turnstile, while F-Protagonist is trying to prevent him from leaving the building. The net force of this to F-Protagonist would be R-Protagonist accelerating away from him the more he tries to restrain him, before being sucked out of the building, while to R protagonist, F protagonist would be dragging him towards the turnstile as hard as he could. Hence, no fight should have occurred - from each other's perspectives, they both should have been inadvertently facilitating each other's movement, surely?
What are your thoughts on this?
@@C.I... the problem with why this results in a fight can be explained by the protagonist's own nature. As pointed out he's cautious and paranoid. He wasn't expecting anyone to know they were going to be here. So from the moment R-Pro exits the turnstyle F-Pro is already attempting to subdue him. So the first thing that happens from his point of view is a stranger bumping into him at full speed while he's holding half of an assembled gun... that's his mistake that causes the fight moving forwards in time. He picks up the discarded gun thereby creating a universe where it must have been disarmed from him in the first place. He doesn't cause the fight to occur since the objects in the fight have reverse entropy but his decision to pickup the weapon means that there was always a fight over a weapon.
From the R-Pro POV he goes in with a gun drawn and that's the mistake that causes a fight to happen. The gun ends up in F-Pros hands because of the shockwave of being blasted backwards by the reverse exploding engine. R-PRO knows how the fight went the first time even if he cant remember the exact steps and knows he's paranoid enough to do something stupid so long as he's holding a weapon so from his POV the entire fight isn't just to get to the turnstyle it's to prevent the gun from ending up in his former self's hands intact. So the R-PRO is obligated to provoke a fight moving backwards in time to keep the gun out of his own hands the fact the F-PRO assists in moving him towards his objective doesn't change the very real threat the gun possesses.
And finally at the turnstyle he succeeds in disarming it but from the F-Pro POV the gun is being assembled and used to reverse fire bullets into his skull even though from the R-Pro perspective he was unloading it.
@@rockstermaniac Just realised I got it wrong. I had to break it down into two fights happening simultaneously to fix it in my head.
In reverse, F protagonist attempting to pull him towards the turnstile to prevent him leaving would be a force pushing R Protagonist away. R protagonist has to push against this.
Going fowards, R protagonist's pushing would manifest as a pull to F protagonist, further incentivising a pull from F protagonist.
I think the struggle comes from the way it would end up being like trying to get past or pull on a brick wall, as they are both equally strong.
Your points still stand, of course - that all makes sense too.
I'm going to have to watch it over and over again to try to understand what each of the fight moves exert on each of them from the perspective of their respective time flows :/
What a fun film.
@@C.I... Inverted Protag is also trying to buy time. they tell us he can't enter the turnstile until he sees himself enter on the other side. the moment he saw himself pointing a gun in his face he likely had some general idea of what would happen. inverted isn't really trying to resist as he wants the fight to lead back to the room so I'm not sure if forces really apply for him specifically. their knowledge and goals in this situation are significantly different. F protag has clear intentions to apprehend this unknown and strange person while inverted protag just needs to resist enough to not die from a gunshot as the fight will lead him back to the room. once they are in the room with the turnstile he kept looking to see his other forward self enter.
This is one of those channels that you subscribe to at 2k, then 8 months later you check and they’re at 800k
Exactly!
Thank you 😊 I really appreciate the support ⭐
Went from 100 to 6000 in a month...
The point of "knowledge divided" is slightly more than just trust issues. That's certainly part of it. Future P who founds TENET has learned ANY information can be passed on to "posterity", which is the Antagonist. Dividing up the information makes it hard to collect and save for posterity to learn about.
Any time P does something that will be recorded in a newspaper or police report, Sator knows about it already because posterity knows from the records and will have told him.
Posterity is not even aware that the hypocenter got attacked, because the explosion that was reported was their plan to bury the algorithm, and nothing about the operation was saved in records.
The protagonist of the present is the antagonist from the future (or from the future's perspective, the antagonist from the past is the protagonist of the future). I honestly thought Nolan was being extremely on-the-nose with calling the process of going backwards through time "inversion" (and literally having the Protagonist fight himself in the same scene, hence making him his own antagonist) since it can be applied to character roles, but here we are. I haven't seen anyone else notice.
@@ClockworkGearhead interesting idea but I don't think it works. The Protagonist goes through all that, understands that whatever happened has happend and later decides to fight himself anyway?
@ Correct. His principles didn't change. He didn't change his mind. His position was always to fight for the survival of the _world that he lives in._ When he gets to the future, he still sees it as his own world, or, more accurately, the future world is his future self's present.
More to the point? Who else could have orchestrated all the events that happened in the movie so they did happen?
@@ClockworkGearhead I mean why wouldn't he know it's futile to try?
@ He doesn't know that. The movie demonstrates that objects reversing through time force causes to fit their effects (from the perspective of conventional time). It's likely a future inverted world can literally rewrite causes so it can exists as it travels back in time.
Also, it's a fact the present world dies no matter what. This isn't a happy ending for the present world whether the future wins or loses. Either they win, and then over time become the future world and dies from pollution, or they lose and the future erases them. Either way, they die.
I love how challenging this movie is when you try to make sense of every aspect of it, but simultaneously how entertaining and exciting it is when you just watch it without trying to understand everything. This movie is so hard to pull off and I just love it exists. Few movies make me feel like I'm watching it for the first time like Tenet does every time I watch it. Great analysis and video; and so unexpectedly funny. You got a new follower.
Absolutely, couldn’t agree more about it feeling new every time.
Thank you very much my friend! Welcome ⭐️
what part was confusing?
@@rockmandzxyes
One of the theory's that i love is that *NEIL* is Kat's son maximi *LIEN* . Which implies that when Max grows up he has to become Neil to protect the world and Priya from killing his mother in the past. Also a fun theory is that Michael Caine's character could possibly be Yves.
Anyway this was a awesome quality video, thanks for making stuff like this for my favorite movie.
Yeah, the backwards spelling of Maximilien is compelling 🤔 Never heard the Ives = Michael theory before!
Thank you for your kind words! ⭐
Heres the problem with that theory. The movie states and shows that inverted time moves at the same speed as conventional time. So Neil would have to stay inverted for like 15 - 20 plus years to be around when he is also a child. Think about it.
I happen to agree that Neil isn’t Max, but he wouldn’t necessarily need to be inverted for 15 straight years; if he goes back and forth regularly, he could more or less stay in the same time period forever.
@@Ryan-the-Rocketeer I happen to agree that Neil isn’t Max, but he wouldn’t necessarily need to be inverted for 15 straight years; if he goes back and forth regularly, he could more or less stay in the same time period forever.
@@nostalgiacliveSo you think Nolan choose the name Maximilen randomly and it just so happens to spell Neil backwards... also Neil knows P extremely well, too well. Look Nolan don't give a F, but he doesn't do random either. Neil is Max 100% but they didn't need to add that twist so didn't bother trying to explain it... There are a number of small details they didn't bother with in this movie but who cares for the most part it all works and is pure genius to pull off. Great vid btw. Also, Neil inverts at the end and doesn't immediately go back to the door.... He goes to the oprah house first, and some theorize he goes back even further in conventional time, reinverts, and gets cast in a teenage vampire movie.
I'm just glad someone out there loves this movie as much as I do.
Hell yeah brother 🤙🏻
it's honestly my favorite nolan movie. and i love that it's a buddy film at its core
This movie was terrible
Me too. I like it very much. Some days ago I saw it as part of a Nolan retrospective in a local cinema. At the end I had tears in my eyes and I was not the only one. In the row behind me I heard sobbing during the last scene with Neal and P. I love it and I loved it from the first view onwards (or backwards 😂)
Real
this was impressively high production quality, great editing, the whole nine. I hope to see more of this content!
Thank you so much! More on the way 🤫
How the heck hasn’t this gone viral? I swear I’ll need to watch this another 3 .. maybe 10 times before I fully grasp it all, but the work you’ve done is incredible and I love every minute of this.
Haha that's so awesome of you to say, thank you!⭐
Couldn't agree more. Watching now for the fifth time.
im still baffled
I feel very smart for being able to understand tenet because some people talk about it like it’s impossible
It's no way to understand this movie using actual logic and physics..
@@DebraKeyesyour not supposed to use real world logic and physics when watching this movie, Nolan himself even said so, the fact that you have to try to ground movies to reality (unless its animated or a superhero movie im assuming) is extremely disappointing
People just like to overthink and over analyze all the technobabble. Much like any Nolan movie. You can understand his films in one sitting if you just immerse yourself in the world of the movie and not try to place the movie into our world
@anonymous5401 the MCU exists...
No way I will ever be able to comprehend every scene)) I guess it means I am retarded)) but what can I do?)
bro, you are seriously underrated…first time watcher. This is fantastic. kudos!!!!
I really appreciate that, thank you! Stay tuned!
38:21 "Dad's your grandpa" - absolutely top tier joke, almost spat out my drink as I wasn't expecting it.
Lot of great insights from a younger more handsome twin of David Mitchell. Also your red and blue lighting is an awesome subtle touch. Earned a sub, keep up the great work!
I really appreciate it, thank you!
So… if someone is inverted and they were talking on an inverted radio… should someone who is not inverted be able to hear them on a non-inverted radio? Because a radio going backward in time should look like it’s absorbing radio waves and not emitting them right? Really there a lots of issues like this, this is just one I noticed
You deserve more subscribers. It was the best explanation ever anyone gave on tenet. I understood it after watching it more than 10 times but you made some of my confusion clear! Great job.
Thank you so much! I'm glad I could shed at least some light ⭐
Went to look at the other videos on this channel and shocked to see it’s not one of the big cinematography UA-cam channels. This will surely grow
Appreciate you ⭐
Holy crap how do you only have 97 (well 98 with me) subscribers ? This is top level content and top notch editing !
Thank you so much! ☺️🙏🏻
I want to sub, but you've never made videos like this before.
This a one-off? Or do you plan on making more content like this?
More like this on the way 👌🏻
congrats on over 1000 subs!!! killin’ it
Guess 2k subs in 2 weeks then lol
Guy with over a 100 subs does a video of some of the most complex and brilliant movies, that happens to be one of my favorites years after it released just as I was thinking about it again this morning/ sounds great, keep the great work and on point editing up king
I really appreciate that, cheers brother 🍻😊
Not brilliant
@@Jaredeva01 smooth brain
Best breakdown of tenet I’ve seen so far!!!!!!
Wow, thank you so much, very kind words my friend ⭐😊
why would you need a breakdown of a stupid action film?
I love your humour and intelligent analysis. I feel like I learned something while also being simply entertained for the length of the video. Great content!
Thanks you so much! I’m really glad you enjoyed it ☺️⭐️
Upon finding out that the door was unlocked, Neil would have realized that in order to preserve the timeline he would have to lock it. The timing of that lock would effectively synchronize time with inverted time, allowing a play to be made.
Tenet only makes any sense from the perspective of the viewer. Consider a bank robbery, where you reverse time, steal a duffle bag full of money from the counter, then leave. From the banks' perspective, there is an empty counter, a guy runs in backwards and sets a duffle bag of money down, then runs out the door again. Where did the dufflebag come from? Same thing with the reverse bullet holes. Did they suddenly appear that morning looper-style, were they built along with the building and nobody noticed?
This is subtly addressed in the movie. The bullet holes appear as the moment when they're made draws closer. Same with the mirror on the BMW. Moments before impact with the Audi it suddenly starts to get cracks in it, before it is "reverse damaged" by the collision.
It's somewhat addressed in the movie, and it supports the theory I have that "The Protagonist," is wrong and killed the world.
The "grandfather paradox" is addressed as the reasoning from stopping the global inversion, because a future without a past simply doesn't exist, so its equivalent to killing everyone. But cracks form in mirrors and bullet holes appear. The paradox was solved (at least in this film) as inverted matter _making new causes and circumstances for themselves_ as they regress through time. Most of the time it fits into the usual cause-and-effect of matter, the times it didn't fit in it just made its own causes. In other words, it simply came from nowhere. Neil touches on this when he mentions two time streams pushing against each other. Eventually, all the events of Tenet would simply disappear anyway.
Now, the twist here is the Protagonist gets to the future (in the conventional sense), fighting for the "present's" survival, and realizes the "future" world is dying anyway. Pollution. All that fighting to prevent the global inversion simply put into play the world's death, but it's not like the "protagonist's" principles have changed, he still fights for the world's survival _that he exists in._
Who else would know enough about Sator to sent into events of his life? _The Protagnist from the future._
Or, more precisely, _the Antagonist for the present,_ an _inverted Protagonist._ The reason he sent Neil to go save him in the past? Not to save his life, but to _remove Neil as an obstacle to hiding the algorithm._ He was still dressed in uniform, so that means two parts are unified together (if he still retained his piece and collected Neil's afterwards). The soldier with the third piece? He knows where he's going. The Protagonist inverted to Antagonist collected. How do I know this? Who else could have known where to collect it in the first place to tell Sator?
And why did the movie end?
The future collided into the present and stopped it (edit: the end of the reel/timeline, so to speak), the ultimate meta-statement metaphor about movies, something Nolan is fond of.
@@ClockworkGearhead Bro, that is the most amazing theory I heard about Tenet
@@ClockworkGearheadis there any clue to pollution ending the world in the movie?
@@Frodo1000000 It's the future's entire motivation for global inversion. Neil himself pointed it out.
Now all you need is Nolan to make Tenet 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 etc for this channel to blow up
🤞
And they can be made in any order.
Haha so true
Haa I came in here to reply something daft like they will be backwards or something as well 😂
...can we start with Tenet Negative 1? Or wait... Inverted... but to invert a number, you swap the numerator and the denominator of the fraction form of it... So 1/1 which equals 1. This already is the inverted version of the movie.
Well alright then, I think I have successfully convinced myself that Nolan should invert himself for a few years then finally make Tenet. Let's see if he does/did, shall we?
Hot damn, your channel is about to explode. Well done on this video. Looking forward to more film/game analysis.
I appreciate you, thank you!
The way that inversion made sense to me was the idea of standing in a river. The water will always flow regardless of which direction you are facing. You're either going with, or against the flow of the water.
I don't know if I read this somewhere or came up with it myself, but it makes sense to me.
Solid.
I like your idea of the final lockpicking scene. Even if the door wasn’t “locked,” it takes the most skilled lock picker to use inversion itself as the lock picking tool
I subbed hopefully you'll make it big soon, I enjoyed this video throughout
Thank you! 😊
24:45 the interogation scene is the hardest to understand imo.
I think it only works if as you say Sator is CONFIRIMING information, and using his full knowledge of reverse time to interrogate P, but it's very hard to conceptulise.
Yeah, I agree.
He asks for confirmation, but he also does things to encourage P to give the initial answer: He threatens “the next one’s a bullet to the head” and counts, but with no intention of actually doing it (because he already hasn’t) but makes that threat so that P will think he will.
@@nostalgiacliveExactly.
There's one other detail I love about the fight scene between P & himself. If you think about it, wrestling with an inverted person must be super easy. Like, if I'm inverted and I try to push on you, you're going to feel that more like I'm pulling you. Same goes for if you try to push on me. I'm gonna experience that as a pull.
So the first time we see the fight, P is just trying to subdue what he believes to be a hostile assailant. He has no goals in terms of location, he just wants this guy restrained. However, when we see the fight a second time, P's goal is to get to the turnstile. He's essentially able to do this with no trouble. There are no detours in the route taken. Inverted P is able to go directly where he wants to go, because normal P is practically dragging him wherever he wants to go.
The fight is so utterly insane, and so well thought out, I love it. This movie is riddled with stupid plot holes, but the stuff it does right, it does so absurdly right, I can't bring myself to care. I'm not joking when I say this is my favorite movie of all time, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
This channel deserves a lot of growth! Its really well made and funny
Thank you so much! ⭐️🙏🏻
Man, what an entertaining video! Please keep it up!
Thank you friend! ⭐
In my headcannon, Neil is Kat's son after having grown up.
I don't know if the timeframe works out, but it explains some of Pattinson's acting choices where Kat's character is concerned.
But it makes the end scene more poignant. And also casts P's oath to Kat in a new light: if he doesn't protect the boy, everything unravels and the Antags win.
Edit: Actually thinking of how Entropy reversal works... Kat's son's actor was 9 or 10 when the film was released, so assuming the character is the same age, let's say he grows up, P as a sort of uncle figure, and finds out about TENET in his late teens or early 20's. He and P work together - maybe P even trains him specially for a couple of years.
But in order for all of this to work out, Neil has to help P in the past. So the kid adopts the Neil persona and inverts his Entropy, starting the decade-long trek back. Robert Pattinson was 34 when TENET was released, so assuming a bit of age-fuckery because of inverting and reverting entropy during his time with TENET, the ages could work out.
I'm sure there's plenty of evidence to tank this theory, but I still love it.
last 4 letters of MaximiLIEN reversed is NEIL
Really love your humor and editing. Both stay fresh and snappy throughout the video. Subscribed and I hope to see more!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that ☺️
‘Straight forward heist movie’.
I genuinely can't believe your channel isn't much larger! Earned a subscriber
I greatly appreciate that, thank you! ⭐
The incredible thing about that movie, in my opinion, is the fact that Neil is in five places at the same moment: 1) in the container during the explosion (backward), 2) dead when it explodes (backward), 3) saving P from the explosion (forward), 4) at the opera (forward), and 5) somewhere backward to go to the opera. What mesmerized me is the grandfather paradox caused by Neil saving P during the opera.
Yeah, very good!
But for #2, his dead body is no longer in the hypocenter, it “reanimated” and exited.
He IS however also inverted on the helicopter that’s reverse-entering the battle.
There might even be more that I can’t comprehend.
Loved the tiny detail of the red and blue lighting on your face👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
You forgot to add that her son is Niel. There are so many clear hints and bread crumbs that Nola left to let the audience know that he is the Niel that will spend year growing up with the protagonist. His mother and himself was saved by the protagonist, thusly leading to him sacrificing himself for "P" as a thank you in the end of the movie
Didn’t forget 😉
I personally don’t believe that, but a lot of people certainly do.
@@nostalgiaclive fair enough good sir! Great video none the less
If you need 47 minutes to explain why the movie is "straightforward", it probably isn't.
I feel like you’re not getting it
@@Aces314 Okay, you can think whatever you'd like. My water still tastes the same.
@pavmx703 As in... I didn't boil it enough for you?
@@nostalgiaclive maybe you were inverted when you boiled it? (Sidenote - my ear is bleeding and I'm concerned)
Always possible (might wanna stop by the hospital if you're going out anyway)
Nolan said somewhere that he wanted to challenge himself. "How do you win against a villain who wants to destroy the world who has a time travel device and already knows his plan was success?" Through that lens, the movie makes complete sense.
Your explanation on the red room, and the blue room makes the most sense out of everyone’s videos. I’ve watched so far. For the past four years, I’ve been bashing my head against the wall. Trying to understand it. Thank you so much. also, I don’t think we will ever fully comprehend this movie through and through because our brains are not designed to think forward and backward at the same time
Thank you my friend, I’m glad to hear it ⭐️
And agreed, there’s only so far we can take it before we can’t comprehend it anymore.
I didn’t think it was confusing, I just thought it was pretentious and boring. It’s like a Calvin Klein commercial masquerading as a sci fi thriller. I usually like Chris Nolan movies but this was one was just shooting too hard to provide the Chris Nolan prestige, and that posturing was distracting rather than complimentary to the storytelling.
Surprised to see so few subs. Guess you're just starting out. I enjoyed every second. I'm sure your numbers will explode just like my mind just did. Subscribed
The algorithm (the YT one I mean) is working against the video here. Because of the swearing the video gets less exposure. That’s why many YTers bleep out their F’s..
Give it a try next time. It’s a video that should have done 2, 300k easy. It really is that good.
"Years ago for me. Years from now for you."
Head Canon: Neil is Kat's son. P watches over him as he grows up, ends up training him as one of the few people he can trust, and they eventually "Get up to some stuff".
Honestly, while watching the video i had no idea that youve had 5k subs. The pfp, the editing, your loosnes infront of the camera all gave off an impression that this is a multi million subscriber channel. Hats off to you my good sir, keep it going and looking forward to your next videos!
Thank you my friend, I really appreciate that ⭐️😊
Everybody missed one important giveaway during the sailing race: the orange safety string and the constant hip/womb camera shots of the woman, and one of Sator, all with the orange safety line. The meaning is that Neil, having an orange line hanging out of his backpack, is their son.
Man. GREAT job on this. Popped up on my recommended videos (speaking of The Algorithm) definitely because of all the Tenet related videos I've watched over these past few years. I think about this movie all of the time. When those thought trails start to be all-consuming and my social life suffers, I watch the movie again- then watch a bunch of UA-cam Tenet videos again. Then I can sleep and go on living my life until I start thinking about "But if Neil is Maximilien.... and Yves is Michael Caine...."
You get it.
Phenomenal job not just articulating plot points and theories but your writing, pacing, loads of homework and editing. Love this very much and am so pumped to know there are other Tenet sickos out there
Thank you so much my man, that means a lot to me 🙏🏻⭐️
And I can absolutely relate to that level of obsessive thought 😂
Also… controversial opinion… I don’t think Neil is Max or Ives is Michael Caine 😬
This movie was so underrated and I think missed by the general public because it requires the viewer to really think to understand what is happening. A nice break from movies force feeding everything to the viewer. I think it’s complexity is why it is see a slight revival.
dude thank you so much. this is hands down the best TANET explanation video I've wathced and I watched A LOT of them.
Thank you so much my friend 😊⭐️
Tenet is so underrated. Great video man!
Thank you! ⭐️
I'm glad at least someone is still talking about this movie. I felt like I was the only one obsessed with Tenet when it first came out
Hell yeah 😎
great deconstruction! my memory of Tenet is seeing it on the big screen during the p-demic and really struggling to watch it for the first hour ... but enough sunk in that the entire second half was a massive pay-off to that setup even though i remained confused about characters and timelines etc, motivations and emotions were relatively clear, or cleared up.
I just realised that Sator's pacemaker email spam thing is a red herring, it's actually the splinter team getting the algorithm out of Stalsk-12 that saves them from the future Antagonists. Sator could die _at any time after_ the algorithm is buried in Stalsk-12 and then email spam the coordinates. The splinter team keeping the stolen algorithm secret is the most critical part of the operation.
The only benefit to killing Sator around the same time as the explosion is that it reduces the chances that he interferes. He and his cronies have to believe that everything went according to plan and that he successfully committed suicide on the yacht in Vietnam. Maybe now you think it's a bit arbitrary that Sator would choose that moment to send the email spam when he could technically do it any time after, but in a sense, it was Kat who _caused_ Sator to think that how he would die would be committing suicide in Vietnam, because to Sator that seems like the only way he would've died. All he knows is that his worldline ends in Vietnam, so he builds a convincing story for himself that he must have committed suicide then.
Yeah, it didn’t turn out to matter at all. But I think Tenet’s thinking is that, if they fail in Stalsk-12, they might be able to keep Sator alive and come up with a backup plan?
I've waited so long for someone to make a full, comprehensive video about this amazing movie😂
Happy to oblige 🫡☺️
Memento pulls this exact same trick of being a simple movie masquerading as a mindfuck. He's good at this.
Memento so good. That one has a few tricky bits too 🤔
This is amazing. You have a great style for presenting this stuff.
Thank you billions my friend, that means a lot 🙌🏻⭐️
The first two seconds hooked me perfectly - excited to watch your channel blow up, not that i know anything about what’s coming…
Haha thank you kindly! ⭐️
Neil Inverts sometime after the fight ends, the he goes back to the cage with the bomb and already sees P struggling to open it, then he opens the lock and and quickly catches the bullet and dies. He is now dead and inverted so his body will keep decaying in reverse. That's why the blue henchmen in the bomb cage would have seen him dead while moving forward and when he wanted to shoot, Neil actually catches the bullet, becomes alive and moves out.
Niel damned himself. He'll be stuck in a loop for eternity. He'll always have to go unlock that door. Ultimate sacrifice.
My dude! Excellent work! I watched Tenet last night for the tenth time. Still so much to enjoy and get out of it. One of Nolan’s finest 👌 and I love your analysis, the editing, really well done! Thank you for this! ❤
Thank you! ⭐️ Glad you enjoyed it! ☺️
My brother and I love watching Nolan's movies! When we saw the movie in theater for the first time - My brother was trying to figure out what was going on but when I heard "Don't think about it" I trusted Nolan that it will make sense the more the movie goes on but you have to pay attention, so I understood more than my brother because a part of him was trying to understand while watching while I was just observing and taking in all the information!
Yeah, I think my experience was a bit of both 😅
19:51 I cannot hear this music without thinking of the content daddy Knudsen. great ode to a great creator
@32:27 - the entire reverse dialogue is:
“It’s in the back of the SAAB. Make sure that he is dead. Go pick up the algorithm at the freeport.”
Source: ua-cam.com/video/_XFJpXQwanE/v-deo.htmlsi=qsTwWoiXpKGqWMqo
This conversation happens after Sator sees the handoff.
Tenet is basically like watching a movie on a VCR forward and reverse at the same time.
_TENET_ is the only movie I have gone to see three times in the same week.
Judging by the comments you uploaded this with 90 something subs. Well done video, well deserved! I subbed 🙏🏾
Sure did! And thank you so much 😌
I just imagine being the guy taking notes on Christopher Nolan's directives in good faith and then just abruptly stopping and looking at him in sadness as you realize what it is he is asking. Also I love how P lost both sides of the fight against himself
I know right? Poor bastard.
That's a good point 😆
Criminally underrated channel. Great video!
So kind of you, thank you 😊
Great (re)production on one of my favourite movies. Not only do you come back on scenes like inversion in the original movie but also the subtle red/blue studio lighting. Well done.
Thank you very much sir, much appreciated! ⭐
I’m going to have to rewatch this breakdown every time I rewatch TENET now. Good job describing it
Thank you! I'm always extra happy to actually have been of some help 😂
This is great! Please keep up these types of videos. Very cool.
The humor is great also!
Thank you so much, appreciate it ⭐️☺️
tenet is my favorite movie of all time, and this has got to be my favorite yt video of all time. nice editing and script
Wow, that's so nice of you! Thank you! ⭐ I'm really glad you enjoyed it 😌
After 4 years and watching countless video breakdowns. I feel confident I understand about 70% of what TENET is trying to tell me.
What I figured out is this movie is going in a consistent loop the end is also the beginning where he realizes that he's got to send people back to
His past to make this all works for the future to go on for him thus causing Neil to live in a loop
I’ve watched so many UA-cam movie breakdown videos and rarely have I seen any compared to this one. Incredible work! And I think I actually understand the movie a bit more.😂😂
Wow, thank you so much! ⭐️
And I’m very happy to have to shed even a little light 😄
And your responding to every response classy as long as this is not AI😂🪦🤷🏽♂️
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its soooo cool to listen someone else talk about the little horror aspects of inversion/ and the movie, the first trailer for the film leveraged this tone so well, and inversion itself seems so unnatural and uncanny its super efective, Nolan has been sprinkling elements of horror in his films since id say, Interstellar maybe, and Dunkirk for sure, Oppenheimer has straight up horror scenes.
Edit: i also love that you also noticed the obvious Zack Snyder cameo
Uncanny is the perfect way to describe it.
And of course, had to give a shout out to my boy 😃
This way this movie racks the brain is the main reason it is on my “Mt. Rushmore” of all time favs. The level of detail both cinematic and storytelling Nolan provides is amazing. Thanks for giving this movie your flavor and level of deep dive! Great breakdown. I subbed and I’m looking forward to more👍🏾
Facts, mine too, even now there are thought communities trying to answer what it all means
@TruSigma712 Thank you for your kind words! I do feel like, since there's so much to unpack, that the movie offers a little bit more each time I see it.
my take is that neil didn't unlock the door but he just went to lock it. if he's inverted, all he has to do is to push the door to lock it as he closes it. but since he's doing it inverted, for the people who are going straightforward, what they will see is an unlocked door unlock itself and get caught by the hand of the inverted neil who pushed it. just like all the debris that flies when you catch a bullet, the mechanisms of a lock will go in an opposite way to it gets unlocked, because what happened already did.
Absolutely! It's basically a James Bond movie where the bad guy has a powerful time-inversion device. The secret agent has to fight fire with fire, break into the lair, and use the bad guy's weapon against him. Straightforward.
Seriously, a perfect movie.
44:28 I think it’s exactly as you’ve pointed out, “just have to feel it” and the “feel” is that he unlocked it.
I always said Tenet was basically a spy movie wrapped up in a sci-fi plot device.
@@MoneyGist Exactly! It's like Nolan's Bond film but with an element you've never seen before in a movie. And it's epic!
The Red letter media “proto gonist” got me 😂 lol
I love tenet and its complexities and every time I try to show a friend the movie they walk away completely dissatisfied. You were able to put words to my thoughts brilliantly. Thank you
Thank YOU! Glad I could help ⭐️
Nolan grasp of time travel stuff always amazed me. I love when I can watch movie couple of times and appreciate it more every time.
I saw Tenet in the theater, one time. It just makes sense to me. There were things that were not clear as I was watching, but were clarified later.
Glad somebody else found Tenet to be as straight-forward as I did. Couldn't figure out what bits confused people so much.
Momento? Still not sure I understand most of what's going on.
Primer? Took me two watches.
Tenet? Got it in one.
Subbed, btw.
I’ve been thinking about it a lot and decided that Neil always intended to make it into the bunker and lock the door. It was the only way to ensure the door would be opened and unlocked by the time the others got there. The locksmithing thing was a red herring
Yeah could be. Hmm… but the red herring is revealed before it’s done being a red herring… an inverse red herring
So finally had time to watch this. This video is amazing. Describes every scene as simply as can be described. Loved it
Thank you so much! Really glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻⭐️ With how many people said the explanation was just as confusing as the movie, I’m also glad to hear you say I succeeded in making it simple 😂
I like how you light the right side of your face red and the left blue
Haha thank you 🤙🏻🔴🔵
The real challenge in Tenet is not understanding the time travel stuff but understand a word anyone's saying.
the break down weve all been waiting for...
Appreciate you 🙏
Insane to watch that in reverse, Neil just stands straight in front of a bullet
The reverse fight scene in the estonian freeport became amazing on rewatch. I realized that both the conventional and inversed Protagonist learned how to fight an inverted opponent. Both aree getting owned in the beginning while your opponent is getting more untrained while you fight.
45:28 It’s an analog, mechanical lock. So, the act of locking it, in inverted time, is the same act as unlocking it, in conventional time.
He locked it so it would be unlocked at the right time.
And the only reason he was able to do that was because he’d already done it - which is why the door was even open for him to slip in and wait.
Neil locked the door in reverse and when its forward time he picks the lock and opens it
Anyone who takes on Tenet in good faith has my respect. Subbed
I appreciate it 😆 Thank you!