Official T E N E T Thread

[HHR]

How was pattinsons acting?

Excellent. But, he's an excellent actor, so

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Why would I be mad?

You tell me

 

[null]

The more I think about it, the more some rules of inversion don't make sense and it feels Nolan has been arbitrarily applying or ignoring rules to fit his concept.

Spoiler

When JDW goes through the door the first time after the highway attack he gets in a car and drives to the scene backwards in time. That created and instant and real paradox since JDW is moving backwards in time but drives a vehicle that should be moving forward in time. There is no reason to assume the car is inverted (this goes for any normal vehicle being driven by an inverted person).

In theory what would happen is that as the car is driven, the car moves forward in time in correlation to the driver moving backwards in time, creating a growing rupture of spacetime as the two drift further out of time sync the more they spatially move.

Practically this situation could really only cause a complete standstill, like two opposing forces pulling away from each other at equal force. Nothing happens as long as the person traveling back in time tries to move a forward moving object through space.

The entire concept of the film pretty much stands by an acceptance of the idea that the universe around us adapts/morphs to account for the space-time displacement, eg. the moment JDW gets in the car the entire vehicle becomes inverted, thus it recovers fuel as it is driven and wear and tear on tires would be equally reversed.

Except that Nolan has Neill specifically state that forward movement is the universe's natural momentum and thus pushes back against reverse flow of time. If that is true, JDW shouldn't have been able to push the car into moving backwards in time, the car would push JDW to start moving forwards in time again, slowly undoing the artificially implemented inversion to his being.

The science .. yeah but ...

Spoiler

Isn't that just the same principle as with moving the inverted bullets with the gloves on in that lab.
i.e. You can rewrite the past of an object by "feeling that you did something" to make it happen.
So when driving the car backwards he is just rewriting the past of that vehicle (i.e. how the vehicle got to where he found it).
Can a bullet / vehicle have more than 1 past. The rules of TENET allow for this - hence the many words conversation.
If a non-inverted person came out 1 minute later they would find the vehicle there.
What if he destroyed the vehicle? Then he wouldn't have found it there in the first place. That's the implied causality relationship.
So it's not that the car is inverted as much as it is him doing what "he felt" happened to get the car there in the first place - which also happens to be how it did get there.
Casual dependency loop? Yes but the film's rules allows for that.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

If it were a painting of a man: its focus would draw the eye to the backdrop, and the man would be no more than a stick figure, somewhere in the distance, as if he wasn't even there. And nobody would be any the wiser that it was a painting of a man, at all.

Every Nolan film. Ever.

 

[BadBoy]

This ain’t leak on hd yet

 

[el_oh_el]

Movie was flames

 

[Zero]

So this was a dud?

 

[KING WILL]

For those that went to see it.

Was the Fred Hampton trailer shown?

 

[Fallacy]

For those that went to see it.

Was the Fred Hampton trailer shown?

yeah.

btw the movie was mid.

 

[Starman]

So this was a dud?

No, just clearly not Inception good. Not to me, anyway. I still plan on seeing Tenet again.

 

[FlyRy]

This is god damn near the only movie playing for the next month and brehs coming in here asking if they should see it.

 

[TheGodling]

This is god damn near the only movie playing for the next month and brehs coming in here asking if they should see it.

There's new shyt released on Netflix every week, breh.

Hell, I bet none of you fukks have bothered to check out Fanny Lye Deliver'd yet.

 

[FlyRy]

There's new shyt released on Netflix every week, breh.

Hell, I bet none of you fukks have bothered to check out Fanny Lye Deliver'd yet.

We've been home for 6 months lol. It's this new mutants unhinged David Copperfield or broken hearts gallery. I think the choice is obvious.

Never saw it on our VoD Platforms

 

[TheGodling]

We've been home for 6 months lol. It's this new mutants unhinged David Copperfield or broken hearts gallery. I think the choice is obvious.

Never saw it on our VoD Platforms

Put some respect on the David Copperfield film, it's written and directed by Armando Ianucci.

 

[gluvnast]

The movie gets better after each viewing. I am loving the hidden nuggets that are placed in here. What's wild is that

Spoiler: Michael Caine

Sir Michael pretty much spoil the entire thing to the Protagonist the entire time, because what happened ALREADY happened.