PROTAGONIST: "But can we change things? If we do it differently?"
NEIL: "What’s happened’s happened. Which is an expression of faith in the mechanics of the world, not an excuse to do nothing."
PROTAGONIST: "Fate?"
NEIL: "Call it what you want."
PROTAGONIST: "What do you call it?"
NEIL: "Reality."
And this is basically the cusp of the entire film. I get that people dislike this movie because of their own personal feelings they have from it and that's fine. I do not think this is the type of movie that should be pleasing for a general audience. Most people want to be entertained and turn their brains off and see cool shyt on screen and NOT try to work themselves until frustration trying to understand what the fucck's going on. So, I get it and I have no problems with anyone shytting on this film for their reasons. But for me, and the reason why I am a die hard Nolan fan through and through, is that I love movies like this. I love movies that has philosophical and metaphoric meanings. I love movies that I may be ignorant on the subject matter, I can go and look up what it is and bring me a bigger appreciation in how it was interpreted onto film. It makes me grow intelligently into certain fields of study that I've never before would of thought about. In this, I learned about the temporal pincer, entropy, a deeper understanding of fatalism vs free will and with that the Grandfather paradox.
The entire film of Tenet is paradoxical and even though it's not the first time and really Nolan's 2nd time he done this, but it is one of the rare times where you can watch this film both forwards AND backwards. Plus, all the symbolic Easter eggs peppered throughout the entire film, from the red and blues shown in each scene, to certain pieces of the score going forward and backwards, of course the 10 minutes forward & backwards in the 3rd act which equals to the palindrome word "tenet". Even when Neil did the countdown cluing us that we are in the EXACT midway time of the entire movie. It is those many things which I love about this movie. I am a sucker to rewatch to try to find a lot of these hidden gems and find more deeper meanings to certain parts of the movie.
But again, for those who dislike it. It is cool, because this isn't a film I expect people in general TO like. It's for diehards like myself who love movies like this. The one thing I do not like with Nolan which is contradictory to the movie itself, is his relentlessness these days to not give people what THEY WANT and do things that only he likes. Then have the nerve to put WB in a corner to force them to put his movie into theaters during a pandemic because his ego wouldn't accept it to be push back any longer or place on the small screen. And it's how he now direct. He isn't thinking like he done with Inception in trying to assist people into understanding what's going on, he no longer gives a fucck these days, and Tenet is a prime example of that. And it don't bother me personally, because of what I already explained. However, if you intent to do a summer big movie, you GOT to please the viewers over pleasing yourself and that's my one criticism.
hell, even before that. The shyt where they basically bungee jumped off that building and walked into a busy crowd... and NOBODY looked up?
glad y'all enjoying-ed it.
