Official T E N E T Thread

[TheAnointedOne]

Watching it a 2nd time still don't know what's going on.

The white girl is hot though. She's so tall.

This was prolly Nolan worst movie....

Might be. The confusing plot ruined it for alot of people. But folks here will pretend it's great because of the black protagonist.

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

The sound mix

 

[Renkz]

I'm very confused after watching this

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

I'm very confused after watching this

Whats so hard to understand?

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

Whats so hard to understand?

The dialogue

 

[MenacingMonk]

Finally watched. Very good film. I'm not trying to go deep with the space/time shyt, but this is basically a time traveling (even though they avoid calling it that in the movie) secret agent movie. I prefer Inception when it comes to mind fukk movies. Cinematography was great in Tenet too.

 

[daemonova]

Neal came back to life and caught the bullet?!?!?

Nolan: yeah, and the little kid is Neal too, didn't you see the backpack?

Shut yo ass up, I'm glad Warner Brothers dropped ya, have fun at Universal, see ya on the Peacock.

Neal: well, let me go back into this tunnel so I can die and save the day.

 

[CarltonJunior]

Neal came back to life and caught the bullet?!?!?

Nolan: yeah, and the little kid is Neal too, didn't you see the backpack?

Shut yo ass up, I'm glad Warner Brothers dropped ya, have fun at Universal, see ya on the Peacock.

Neal: well, let me go back into this tunnel so I can die and save the day.

Wait, that happened?

The more I think about this movie the more I hate it

 

[daemonova]

Wait, that happened?

The more I think about this movie the more I hate it

 

[CarltonJunior]

I still don't understand what I'm watching.

I didn't understand it in theaters either.

 

[daemonova]

I still don't understand what I'm watching.

I didn't understand it in theaters either.

He came back to life and caught the bullet, what part you don't get?

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

I still don't understand what I'm watching.

I didn't understand it in theaters either.

Nolan just fukking with people now. Let me find people with the thickest accents, now let me write the most convoluted and ludicrous script imaginable and just as an added bonus I will turn the music up so loud you will have no idea what the fukk is happening even with subtitles

 

[AnonymityX1000]

Nolan just fukking with people now. Let me find people with the thickest accents, now let me write the most convoluted and ludicrous script imaginable and just as an added bonus I will turn the music up so loud you will have no idea what the fukk is happening even with subtitles

 

[ciubaca]

Im watching this as we speak? One hour in... when does it start to make sense?
Im lost like a babe in the woods.
Am i an idiot?

 

[gluvnast]

He came back to life and caught the bullet, what part you don't get?

It's time inversion where everything flows both forward and backwards simultaneously. Neil was part of the inverted team while the Protagonist was part of the team going forward. The inverted team was supposed to cause a distraction to provide the illusion to Sator that the battle for the final piece was a success and that team TENET failed. The forward team that the Protagonist was on was suppose to get the final piece before it was detonated. While the Protagonist was going in to retrieve it, Neil saw them triggering a booby trap. He goes in to prevent that from occurring. The part that maybe confusing was WHEN he went from being inverted to progressive when doing through the inversion turn-style.

To understand this, you have to go the ending of the movie. At the ending of the movie, a non-inverted NEIL pulled the Protagonist out of the underground cave before it detonated. He told the Protagonist that he's returning back. So the Neil returns with the inverted Team despite him non-inverted. This mean there were TWO NEILS on the INVERTED TEAM: Neil created a cycle of himself in which he sacrificed himself to save humanity. Watch again and see at the same time Neil was shot in reverse, the other Neil was on the HUMVEE driving to where he could pull the Protagonist out.