What makes Inception great is that is it absolutely critic-proof. You can make a clear justification of it being a straight forward movie, or that it's all a dream. It's all intentionally ambiguous so even that plot holes are questioned if it's really a plot hole or intentional? It has the one of the best misdirection which is the spinning top, and even the hidden misdirection of the wedding ring, yet the contradictions of everything due to Cobb is an unreliable narrator.
Tenet is harder to digest because Nolan has stop force feeding people to understand his movies. You literally have to know what time inversion and entropy, because he's not going to explain it fully. Then Nolan stopped caring about character development because in his eyes, "what's the point". Why care about a person's background, or even character arc? Or even NAME for that matter? We just know the main guy, the protagonist, is the good guy. How do we know that? Because of his actions. It was set up at the beginning of him being a good guy that cares about his team, will not snitch, willing to die for the mission, and care about the safety of civilian lives. And Nolan saying that's all we need to understand. Or the need to character depth of the villain. We just need to know that he's an a$$hole of epic proportions that feels because he's going to die anyway, the rest of the universe goes with him as the ultimate F-UCK YOU. And I can understand how that would rub people wrongly who wants their films full of character study and assessible. And Nolan at this stage doesn't CARE. He want to make movies that he always wanted to make. A spy, James Bond, type thriller but with strong science fiction elements to it.
And Nolan has a habit of blending genres when people assume it's one thing, and it rub people off initially, but become fan favorites in later years. The Prestige is a prime example, because people came in thinking in a period piece, but did not expect any actual sci-fi to come into play and it messed people's opinions up at the time. Or with Interstellar, thinking it's a hardcore science film, but once it gotten to the tesseract and the mysticism is inputted into the film, people's opinions again were messed up.... both films years later are viewed as people's FAVORITE Nolan films.
I think Tenet may end up in that vein of being one of the fans favorites, because it's one of the Nolan-esque type of movie. Movies like Insomnia and Dunkirk are his most forgettable films, yet more critically praised...due to them being less Nolan-esque.
Tenet is harder to digest because Nolan has stop force feeding people to understand his movies. You literally have to know what time inversion and entropy, because he's not going to explain it fully. Then Nolan stopped caring about character development because in his eyes, "what's the point". Why care about a person's background, or even character arc? Or even NAME for that matter? We just know the main guy, the protagonist, is the good guy. How do we know that? Because of his actions. It was set up at the beginning of him being a good guy that cares about his team, will not snitch, willing to die for the mission, and care about the safety of civilian lives. And Nolan saying that's all we need to understand. Or the need to character depth of the villain. We just need to know that he's an a$$hole of epic proportions that feels because he's going to die anyway, the rest of the universe goes with him as the ultimate F-UCK YOU. And I can understand how that would rub people wrongly who wants their films full of character study and assessible. And Nolan at this stage doesn't CARE. He want to make movies that he always wanted to make. A spy, James Bond, type thriller but with strong science fiction elements to it.
And Nolan has a habit of blending genres when people assume it's one thing, and it rub people off initially, but become fan favorites in later years. The Prestige is a prime example, because people came in thinking in a period piece, but did not expect any actual sci-fi to come into play and it messed people's opinions up at the time. Or with Interstellar, thinking it's a hardcore science film, but once it gotten to the tesseract and the mysticism is inputted into the film, people's opinions again were messed up.... both films years later are viewed as people's FAVORITE Nolan films.
I think Tenet may end up in that vein of being one of the fans favorites, because it's one of the Nolan-esque type of movie. Movies like Insomnia and Dunkirk are his most forgettable films, yet more critically praised...due to them being less Nolan-esque.
