KravenMorehead™
Barrel Brothers.®
Brehs, I’m trying to analyze the car scene and it still doesn’t make sense.
At first, it looks like the brehs are in the BMW going with the flow of traffic with the Audi going in reverse.
Then in a split second, the BMW is in reverse, with the Audi and Saab headed in the right direction. The Audi hits the Saab, it flips, and now the BMW is behind the Saab trying to avoid it. The BMW and Audi were both last seen speeding away from the crash!
The Saab then reverses its crash clearly going in reverse when its back to normal.
Are they existing at two periods of time at the same time?
A small theory about one scene in the trailer
FAN THEORY
I have a small theory about the time mechanics of the film, based off of one scene in the trailer. Keep in mind this is just me spitballing, and of course we know very little about what's going on in the story, but it's fun to theorise.
I have seen a lot of people talking about how the isolated 'time rewinds' may be some kind of gadget/device that JDW's character may acquire from the spy agency he is working for. However, based off of the trailer, I don't think the time fluctuations are a thing the main characters are doing, as much as it is something that is being done to them.
Towards the end of the trailer we see Pattinson and JDW driving backwards down a freeway, engaging a car in a chase. The car then flips, and we close this trailer on a shot of the car crash reversing back into functionality. Pattinson and JDW look at the wreck with some surprise. I think the way the trailer presents this information, it seems like they're driving backwards in a chase, then the car flips, and then they drive away. But that's not what's happening. At the end of the trailer they're arriving at the scene of a car crash they haven't caused yet.
Pattinson isn't driving backwards to chase the crashed car. He's driving forwards, in order to escape the car that he just caused to crash. It's not the car that is reversing through time, but actually just Pattinson and JDW.
I think the time manipulation works like this: the car isn't being made to go back in time, or reverse in any way. The car is moving 'forwards', but JDW is moving 'backwards' through time, whilst still processing information in a linear, 'forwards' manner. To him, it would all look like it's going in reverse, even though he's the one travelling backwards whilst still processing the information in the usual way. JDW is being chased by the men in the car, and to the men in the car, they are being chased by JDW. Just like the palindrome of the title, I think we will experience scenes like this from both temporal directions: forwards, thinking linearly, and backwards, also thinking linearly. The bad guys are doing the usual thing of trying to thwart the good guys pursuing them: but actually, the good guys are just being introduced to this new situation, which to their perspective, has already concluded. They're trying to get to the start of the car chase, not the end.
Furthermore, I think the premise of the film will be this: at the very beginning, or near enough the 'beginning', JDW will save the day and avert whatever WW3 crisis is about to happen. But, as a result, he is now moving backwards through time, and must work to solve the mystery in reverse order. He's already stopped the bad guys plan, but now he has to carry that information backwards through time to understand who he's just stopped and why.
Finally, I've seen someone, quite derisively, calling this a blunter and less sophisticated version of Memento. But, really, Memento's trick of moving backwards was about memory and the audience experience, not literally moving backwards through time, which I think this film will do.
TENET's structure will be a Palindrome. An example of a Palindromic structure film
Well, I saw the trailer and prologue yesterday and I was blown away completely. It's a no brainer that Christopher Nolan loves to try out new and innovative structures while making a film. MEMENTO was a film in reverse to show the POV / mental state of the character whereas THE PRESTIGE's structure was a magic trick. The title in this case itself is a palindrome. TENET might have the same beginning and end but in true Christopher Nolan fashion, he may start two-branched narratives. One from the begging to the halfway point and the other from the halfway point to the beginning only for us to realise in the end that they both start and end at the same place.
Back in 2017, during my college days, I did try to make a Palindromic structured short film with no budget. The story was about a man who wasn't able to decide whether it was his fault that his girlfriend broke up with him or his own. I tried to show the film from both perspectives by reversing the visuals and dialogues. It's not the greatest film or something, just an attempt by a student who loves films. You guys can check it out if you want and show some love. Will leave a link here.
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Goddamn understanding this shyt gon unlock our third eyes and allow us to travel through the 4th dimension brehs 
Thank you Nolan
Thank you Nolan
You saved me time and money from having to sit through an IMAX Star Wars.
Black Bolt
Superstar
Nolan's a bit gassed as a director but props for having a breh in a lead - 1st day
NobodyReally
Superstar
I don't want to analyze the trailer to death or even see another one. I just want to see this damn movie now. I'm going in blind after this. Hoping this is more like Inception instead of Interstellar.
EDIT: Is anyone else getting Matrix vibes from this trailer? Not in terms of storyline, but that Nolan is teasing something that can't be explained in a fukking trailer but that's probably gonna be game changing?
EDIT: Is anyone else getting Matrix vibes from this trailer? Not in terms of storyline, but that Nolan is teasing something that can't be explained in a fukking trailer but that's probably gonna be game changing?
Saysumthinfunnymike
VOTE!!!
We're trying to avoid World War III breh
KravenMorehead™
Barrel Brothers.®
I think forward time and backward time are two realities, or the same reality existing two ways.
I also believe the Intelligence agency is called "Afterlife", and it has or gains the scientific ability to traverse them both.
And they use it to solve crimes.
Only other palindrome style storytelling I can recall is Watchmen (the original comic by Alan Moore/ Dave Gibbons), which was palindromic, but on a visual level.
I also believe the Intelligence agency is called "Afterlife", and it has or gains the scientific ability to traverse them both.
And they use it to solve crimes.
Only other palindrome style storytelling I can recall is Watchmen (the original comic by Alan Moore/ Dave Gibbons), which was palindromic, but on a visual level.
Nigerianwonder
Superstar
My guess.
The spy company he is working for has some gadget that allows them to project themselves or consciousness 10 minutes into the future. They experience the world in reverse as their conciousness catches up to the present time from when they originally projected. Or something like that.
SadimirPutin
Superstar
Nolan's rep as a director is well deserved
North by northwest meets inception
The Coli
Interstellar was incredible..
That movie moved my soul
That movie moved my soul
Saysumthinfunnymike
VOTE!!!
The Coli
Well this is a place where a bunch of people said Scorsese was just a guy because they were mad he didn't like comic movies
ultraflexed
Superstar
How great can he be when he ONLY makes one type of movie....Italian mob movies