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marthsheretoo posted...

How do you follow all those tenets?

It's an underrated movie tbh. I get why people don't enjoy it as much as Inception, Interstellar and the Nolan Batman trilogy. To be fair, I liked all of those movies more myself... but Tenet is great on its own and I think a lot of the backlash it's had is from the fact that it goes over a lot of people's heads.

There is an excellent forshadowing scene that really explains the nature of the plot if you're paying attention, and I was able to follow it enough to catch it on first watch (made more sense on 2nd watch though). During that "downtime" scene when they're on the ship in reverse-time, the windoshield-wiper things on the bridge's windows were moving back and forth, setting up the idea of a sort of pendulum element to time itself, with every beginning and end to the pendulum swing also being the end and beginning. I have not read any fan theories about this or anything official from the makers of the film, but I can't see that as a coincidence, especially given how the movie ends.

It's a big brain concept and I know I'm gonna come across as a copypasta with this opinion and probably gonna be meme'd here for it, but I actually really enjoyed the movie and I think I understood it as much as anyone is really meant to, and I had to watch it twice to even get to that point, but I appreciate it for what it is, and while it wasn't as enjoyable as Nolan's other films, in my opinion it's underrated.

And also this topic is now exclusively about the movie Tenet.