Wtf is tenet. I don't understand 🤣

[Gobbeldegook]

As above 🤣 can someone explain?
That's 2 hours ish I won't get back 🤣

If you find out let me know. It gave me a migraine.

The second half is the first half backwards. I thought it was amazing. I understood it much more after watching it for a second time and went back for a third viewing as well. Definitely worth trying again.

I liked it but didn't really understand 😆

Watch it again and you’ll either understand it or you’ll have lost four hours. 🤷‍♀️ I liked it but not as much as Inception. I do like a Christopher Nolan film 😁

I cannot watch another Christopher Nolan film- such pretentious tosh! I persuaded everyone to watch the Eurovision - fire saga tonight and much laughs were had.

I had to watch a couple of YouTube videos to explain it all then re-watch it again. I’m still not sure I get it, it’s mind bending but it’s still a great movie.

Oh god I can't watch it again 😭 someone explain please 🤣 I didnt even understand the first half, never mind the backwards bit 😂😂

I more or less understood it the first time. Second time around I was more confused!

Wobbly wobbly timey wimey

What is it that confuses you?

You can read the synopsis (somewhere like Wikipedia will have it) which will help if you couldn’t follow the basic plot. Then you need to remember that the technology makes things (and people) move backwards in time.

Did you note the guy wearing a red toggle at the beginning and the end, who saves the protagonists life each time? That’s probably the most noticeable example of the whole thing being structured like the palindrome of the name.

I'm delighted to have the opportunity to share this. Every so often there is a line from a movie review that's so great that I want to pass it on. This was from Anthony Lane's review of Tenet in The New Yorker. I really disliked the movie, so enjoyed the review all the more.

Word has it that Christopher Nolan’s new film, “Tenet,” is hard to understand. Not so. It’s a cinch—no more difficult than, say, playing mah-jongg inside a tumble dryer, while the principles of quantum mechanics are shouted at you in fluent Esperanto.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/14/tenet-is-dazzling-deft-and-devoid-of-feeling

@Gobbeldegook
don't try to understand just enjoy it! haha
I couldn't follow the car chase but other than that I think I got what Nolan was trying to do.
I can summarise characters individual stories for you if you like.

I refuse to watch another Christopher Nolan film after the astronaut in the bookcase film. I do not understand it and I won't respond to it. 😂

I thought it was dogshit.

I think I'm done with Christopher Nolan.

Wouldn't kick the main guy out of bed though.

Time travel and Kenneth Brannagh talking backwards was about the gist of it IIRC.

Sometimes, not everything has to make sense. Sometimes things are better left to the viewer to interpret them.

You should watch the TV series of Westworld next OP. You'd love it!

I enjoyed it but didn't quite understand what was going on really liked the lead actor.

We enjoyed it. Second viewing definitely recommended.
I found this funny visual timeline, which might make you laugh (even if the film is still impenetrable )

It’s clever, but it’s not good. What is infuriating, however, is the fact that when you say that you thought it was not good those who did like it do a patronising head-tilt and say ‘ah, you didn’t get it’. I got it. I understood it perfectly. It spent too much time being clever and not enough time making me care about the characters.

@TheWeeDonkey

I refuse to watch another Christopher Nolan film after the astronaut in the bookcase film. I do not understand it and I won't respond to it. 😂

One of the best (and most scientifically accurate) films EVER. It’s utterly faultless. They even proved the event horizon of a black hole would look like that a couple of years ago. 💕

Omg I loved it!

Absolutely loved it!

Hope there is a sequel.

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER

At the end when that person said it was the end of their friendship but the beginning of his. Or words to that effect ... was a squeeeee moment.

Very Dr Who - RIversong.

I got the main part but was lost at the very end. Any explanation much appreciated.

The protagonist gave inverted Kat the mobile phone and the implication is that after the destruction of the algorithm the main players never met again.

so how come the past Kat with her son has the mobile phone and knows to use it??

The Kat with Max on the boat has zero idea about anything.

And if inverted Kat somehow passed it to earlier Kat and told her to use it when she was at risk surely she'd use it about 100 times over the course of the film before the final scene. Or does she but that's a parallel timeline we don't see? And where did inverted Kat then go?

Urgh I was getting it till that point & it wasn't even needed for the plot!

Personally I wanted Neil to be Max and still think he was. I know it's unlikely that a dark haired kid grows up to blond hair r-pats but hardly think that's where credibility is being stretched here!

thinkabloiuttommorrw Yeah I need to watch again to get the mobile bit!

I stole this off another site, but still not convinced.

Neil takes characteristics from both his parents, Kat and Sator. He mirrors Kat with his English accent and fancy English style of fashion that he flaunts throughout the movie. Kat is English and fashionable.

Neil is also English and fashionable. Another gold nugget detail with Neil includes him ordering a vodka tonic with a lime in his empty glass at the Bombay Yacht Club. Rewind to Kat's dinner with Protagonist and it looks like she's drinking a vodka tonic (or soda) with lime.

Neil also shows similarities to Sator in his understanding of the Estonian language. When Neil and the Protagonist are driving along the highway, Neil corrects the protagonist by stating that the language on the radio is not simply Estonian, it’s Estonian backwards. How else would Neil know that unless he had been taught Estonian as a kid. Another example of Neil being the link between his parents.

@NakedBanana thanks. My guess is the ambiguity leaves room for a sequel. Which I'm happy about, even if the phone thing annoyed me.

I definitely need to watch it again. I can't believe there's such a glaring mistake in it as the phone seems, so I must be missing something.