One-by-one explanation of what happened to Tenet
The plot of Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" is one of the most interesting mysteries of 2020. But with the film’s delay in reaching the coast of the United States this week, the problem has not been resolved: it turns out that Tenet’s plot is also a mystery to anyone who has seen Tenet. Thanks to fanatical cinematography, blinking and missed editing, and reliance on verbal explanations ruined by the film’s deep sound combination, even those who like this movie have to admit that they don’t know what happened half of the time. What happened. Therefore, as a useful reference for the audience, hoping to understand what they have just seen (plus those who feel uncomfortable and brave to multiplex but are still curious), I have created an explanation of this beat, what happened What is in Tenet. If you have only watched this movie once, this is not an easy task. I thank all the theorists of Reddit for their graphs and summaries.
Note: Because this movie does silly things, such as calling it the "leader", I will avoid the character's name altogether.
Before we start, there are two things that are not explained until the latter part of the film, but they are worth covering up. First of all, the whole movie takes place in a world where the future declares war on the present, because it is uneasy about climate change. To this end, it uses a technique called "reverse", through which objects and people can move backwards in the flow of time by reversing entropy. This means that the time travel in this movie operates according to the "closed loop" theory, that is, everything that happened in the past has already happened. Think of quotation marks, or Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, if you hate it.
Okay, so: John David Washington is a CIA agent looking for MacGuffin in a false flag terrorist attack at the Kiev Opera House. In the chaos, his life was saved by a mysterious figure in black. He killed an accomplice with a bullet moving backwards. But the cover of Washington was blown up, and he was caught by the bad guys. He took cyanide pills to avoid giving up his secrets.
Except that the suicide drug is actually a test! Washington woke up on the ship and his boss explained that his new task was to add something called Tenet, which we knew was the name of the movie, but he didn't. Then the CIA locked Washington in a windmill. The reason he wanted to live in a windmill was to get his current self out of trouble so that his future self could operate freely in this part of the timeline, but they did not explain this now. , So they seem to just want him to be really good at pull-ups.
After getting his Lats beautiful and powerful, Washington left the windmill and met Clémence Poésy from Harry Potter, who was tasked to provide some equally magical expositions. The bullet Washington encountered in the opera is just one of many "upside-down" objects that scientists have discovered to move backward in time. People moving in time can interact with them, but it's weird: to pick up an upside-down object, you have to imagine giving up on it yourself. "Don't think about it, feel it," Poesy said. This is the mission statement of the movie.
Washington traced the inverted bullet to an arms dealer in Mumbai. To have a meeting, he needs a deputy. Enter Robert Pattinson in a performance imitating the late Christopher Hitchens. (It’s not a joke. Or, if it is, it’s not me. Pattinson knows Washington’s favorite drink, even though it’s not listed on his hinge profile. Anyway, they bungee jumped into the fire dealer’s lair. There they learned three surprising facts: First, the reseller, played by Bollywood actress Deep Kapadia, is a woman! Second, she knows about Tenet. Third, She sold the bullets to the movie villain, the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh, who is currently a representative of the future. She explained that the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh passed to the "descendants" Leave a message to communicate with the future.
Because this is a Christopher Nolan movie, there is a scene where our hero has afternoon tea with Michael Kane. Kane explained that the way to go to evil Russia Kenneth Branagh was through his wife, Sad Elizabeth Debitsky who was blackmailing her husband and she sold him fake paintings. Kane gave Washington another fake painting so they could meet. It works, and sadly Elizabeth Debicki gave Washington her whole life story, including telling him a nice yacht trip in Vietnam, which ended when the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh told her, She can leave him as long as she doesn't mind never seeing her son again. She said that after she refused, she saw a mysterious woman jumping off the boat, envying her husband's so-called mistress for her freedom.
Then John David Washington beat some people with a cheese mixer.
As part of an exchange with Thad Elizabeth Debitsky, Washington and Pattinson decided to steal the fake painting. It is located in a free port at Oslo Airport (the rich can obtain the true status of valuables without paying taxes). They dressed up as fancy men, and their friend, played by Himesh Patel, from yesterday's hot guy, crashed a cargo plane to the airport. But before they got the painting, two masked men—one walking forward, one moving backward—appeared from a mysterious entrance in the vault of the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh. If you keep paying close attention to everyone's height, the identities of these guys should be clear, but we will get that. In any case, Washington will kill his people until Pattinson stops him. The mysterious masked man escaped, there is no painting in the vault anyway. How did the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh know they are coming?
All this is very confusing, but fortunately, they returned to Mumbai, and Dimple Kapadia explained this for them: the device in the vault is an invention from the future, called the revolving door, which allows people to reverse themselves and go backwards in time travel. Therefore, the two people in the vault are actually one person, and the moment he enters the device, he moves back and forth. Trippy! In addition, the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh was behind the terrorist attack on the opera, and he is still looking for MacGuffin.
Fortunately, Nolan gave us a break from the complicated scientific stuff, in the form of a 15-minute Mediterranean episode, where Tenet got dressed up in the talented Mr. Ripley tow-boating trip, cashmere polo, expensive The dress, how sacred. Washington got along well with the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh, first gave up mentioning the opera, and then saved him after Sad Elizabeth Debitsky threw him from the catamaran. Finally, it was proposed that he stole MacGuffin, who was obviously belonged to Plutonium. We also learned the behind-the-scenes story of the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh: He grew up in an abandoned Soviet nuclear facility, where he found a gold hideout and information from the future. (Washington witnessed that he received a batch of upside-down gold bars. This is how the future will pay him to do evil things in the present. It all happens on a yacht. Engine noise makes most of the conversation difficult to understand, but the sound combination is clear enough for us I heard the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh roaring like a tiger and telling Sad Elizabeth Debitsky, "If I can't have you, no one can.
Now things are starting to become very difficult to follow, so please bear with me. Washington and Pattinson succeeded in getting away from a highway in Tallinn, only to find that MacGeffen was not a pluton at all, but something that didn't last long. The evil Russian Kenneth Branagh and his accomplices appeared, and there was a car chase. They all wear oxygen masks and travel backward in time! The upside-down evil Russian Kenneth Branagh threatened to shoot Thad Elizabeth Debitsky, unless Washington included McGuffin in his case, and he did so. At the same time, an upside-down silver car untied and joined the chase. (You will remember it as a moment of the big show from the trailer. The upside-down evil Russian Kenneth Branagh tried to kill the sad Elizabeth Debitsky in a car accident, but Washington saved her. They were all captured by an associate of the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh. Pattinson said he was going to be called "Cavalry."
Washington woke up in a warehouse next to another revolving door, where the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh, who was upside down, used a walkie-talkie to translate his backward speech into ordinary English, just like he was in the recording of "The Spinner." It's the same as John Lennon. He said MacGuffin was not in the case and asked Washington where it was. Washington refused to tell him, so the upside-down evil Russian Kenneth Branagh shot and killed the sad Elizabeth Debitsky with an inverted bullet. (We were told that upside-down bullets are very dangerous to people in front, as if ordinary bullets are not. Washington lied that he hid MacGeffen in the glove box of the car. At this moment, an avant-garde version of the evil Russian Kenneth Brahman Na walked into the room, but before he could do more evil Russian things, he was chased into the revolving door by a squadron led by Aaron Taylor-Johnson. The upside-down evil Russian Kenneth Branagh Also walk back into the revolving door. (When you enter a revolving door and move forward, it looks like two people are sucked in; when you enter a back, it looks like two people come out of it.
Aaron Taylor-Jensen revealed that he and his army are "descendants"-soldiers who will work for the Tenet organization in the future. Washington wanted to know that the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh seemed to know what was going to happen, and he accused Pattinson of being a timid man. Taylor-Johnson explained that no, the bad guy actually sent half of his accomplices forward in time and half backwards to perform a "temporary pliers movement." strange! Anyway, Washington has a good idea to follow the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh through the revolving door: this way, he can get McGovern and sad Elizabeth De Biki will not die, because her body will be upside down, So it's just a normal bullet wound to the stomach, no big deal. The army gave him a crash course in Inversion 101: You must wear an oxygen mask because your inverted lungs cannot breathe normal air. No matter what you do, don't physically touch your past self. In addition, each heat transfer works in the opposite way. It’s just a physical problem, okay?
Therefore, Washington passed through the revolving door and began to retreat in time. He walked into a car outside the warehouse...it was the same silver car, before the chase! (A reversing person driving the car and turning the car upside down is one of the things you have to do. He reversed the car and replayed the previous chase, but this time we saw something we didn’t see in the first round: MacGuffin Jumped out of the silver car and fell in front of Washington-which means that while advancing, he threw it into his inverted silver car. The silver car then collided, and in the same collision, we see By the time the car was reversed earlier, while Washington tried to escape, the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh dropped the lighter upside down and set the car to fire.
Except because Washington is upside down, the heat transfer actually works the opposite, instead of being burned, he only gets hypothermia! He woke up on an empty-locked container ship. Pattinson, the sad and injured Elizabeth Debicki and some troops all traveled backwards for a week and returned to Oslo Airport so they could use the revolving door there. Let yourself go forward again. They talk about time travel and the grandfather paradox-if they try to prevent the future from killing them in the past, doesn't the fact that they still exist means they succeeded? They are determined not to think too much.
(Sidebar: We also learned that the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh’s team has MacGuffin, but we never saw how they got it. This fact has caused chaos in Tenet’s fan base. Not a small end. In the forward schedule, the last time we saw it was in the silver car next to the warehouse, Washington and his friends turned it upside down: the most likely bet is that those who are tit-for-tat in time The bad guy who was advancing in the movement, or the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh himself who was not upside down, was picked up from there.
Now back in Oslo, you might be able to guess what happened. The only time our heroes can sneak into the vault of the evil Russian Ganesh Brana is when they crash the plane into the airport, which means that once Washington enters the vault, he will face his past self, and we Get the same battle as before, but the opposite. Fortunately, because the future Washington is wearing a full chimpanzee suit, there is no physical contact. (We also understand more clearly why Washington seems to be shooting forward Washington: He is actually trying to empty this segment so that his past self cannot use it against him. Washington enters the revolving door, and then he and Pattinson fights in the past, Pattinson thinks he is the future Washington, but keeps the past Washington a secret, because it is too shocking. The upside down Pattinson and the upside down sad and injured Elizabeth · Debicki also returned to the revolving door, so now all our heroes are moving forward again. We have entered the finale. Everyone can go through the Go and collect $200, and heal to complete health.
Nolan took a page from J.K. Rowling's book and decided to give us the last exhibition before the climax. Washington caught up with Dipur Cappadia again, and this time she told him that McGeffen was actually one of the nine McGuffins. It piled up to form something called an algorithm, which has the ability to turn half of the earth upside down. , Thus ending the existence as we know it. (They stacked vertically; they called it "Shishki Bombs". The scientists who made the algorithm regret her creation, so much that she committed suicide, but before she died, she sent every part of the algorithm back to the past. , Hide them all over the world. Before you can say "Oh, it sounds like Hawkes," it turns out that the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh has collected all nine of the algorithm Pictures and are about to set off them. But... when?
The sad treatment Elizabeth Debitsky decided that she also wanted to participate in the business of this fair. She revealed that the evil Russian Kenneth Branagh suffers from terminal cancer and is going back to the past, looking for a happy memory to end his life. More importantly, he has an evil Fitbit that will trigger the algorithm to shut down at the moment of his death. (If he can't live, no one can. They realize that his happiest memory is a yacht trip to Vietnam, which happened at the same time as the opera attack and the unexplained explosion of the abandoned Soviet nuclear facility where he grew up. Geoff, that's it!
Some time later, when Happy Elizabeth Debiki sent her son to school, she got a premonition of danger and called her mobile phone. She was right-Dimple Kapadia was about to shoot her to tie the "loose ends". After receiving the news, the future Washington went to the exact time and place, and first photographed Kapadia, revealing that he was the mastermind behind the entire operation.
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Tenet is a locked puzzle box with nothing inside
In a film by Christopher Nolan called "The Latest Movie", two intelligence agents must travel through a high-level global conspiracy of nuclear weapons-the billionaire has learned how to change time. If this sounds ridiculous, um, yes: occasionally, despite its seriousness, Tenet feels like time science and superiority complex.
John David Washington, only known as the "protagonist", was taken into a top-secret cabal, trying to prevent the literal destruction of the earth by "inverting" the bomb. That is to say: in this world, objects, it turns out that people can actually exist on two planes and move forward and backward in time at the same time. This dynamic can be indulged, and some very bad people know how to do it-namely, Andrei Sator, who plays a stupid accent Kenneth Branagh as a Bond villain-like Russian mastermind. At least initially, this "tense reversal" is a generous platform for plot trickery and a better platform for action sequences. Bullets surge backwards, like a gun swallows them: hand-in-hand combat is rewind and fast forward: explosions can funnel their bombs back. This means a lot of grinding, creative sound design, because the wind is developing in the wrong direction, and the fragments fly in the opposite direction: the soundtrack is corresponding, and the beating is unpleasant. Its efficacy is hard to deny.
The opponent and his British compatriot Neal (a clumsy Robert Pattinson) fought in London, Mumbai and many other remote places through arms dealers and art forgeries to find and trap their people. Eventually it made a comeback in a variety of situations. They seek the help of Sator's estranged wife Kate, Kate, a well-shaped Elizabeth Debitsky as a Hitchcock-style blonde with a sleek, long-limbed body and true upper-limb chill. But Washington and Pattinson are the most eye-catching parts of the film. Through the sheer charm and the description of some carefully customized suits, they added some much-needed humanity and light to Nolan's lawsuit. Although the two are mostly ciphers, they bring enthusiasm to their characters in the Byzantine story. Especially Washington, from behind his performance in Spike Lee’s "BlacKkKlansman", proved that he is the heir to his father's crown, he is a man who owns debonair gravitas The movie star.
Some of Tenet’s best sequences are truly thrilling: brutal battles in the kitchen featuring a cheese mixer; tractor-trailer dust removal and reverse car chases, reminiscent of Michael Mann’s movies; perhaps the movie’s most exaggerated diversion strategy One involves a cargo plane and some gold bars. But when the conspiracy moves in concentric circles and curls—in a sense, upside-down—the novelty at first becomes more and more protracted. The time travel paradox, quantum physics, and "space-time pliers motion" are explained in increasingly boring explanation scenes (some even involving text visual aids), causing the audience to be confused, fall into indifference, and finally fall into boredom.
The spatiotemporal actions and slippage at work in Dunkirk—a movie about evacuation operations that move or lose it on multiple fronts—seem to Tenet to be more arbitrary and distorted its author The director's whimsical, he seems to have overestimated the audience's willingness to continue to decipher his mathematical narrative cycle. With the emergence of complex tasks, backwards, and new random rules, the movie becomes deliberately-almost abnormally-mysterious. The action began to feel offensive. In the last military-style raid, the parties became hopelessly entangled, replacing the novel senses with sensory bombing.
Complexity complexity seems to be at the core of Tenet. It is mostly entertaining, but it is undeniably puzzling: many people will return to its complexity to understand it. It is ready-made endless Youtube explanations and theories. Towards the end of the movie, "The Protagonist" tells Branagh's super villain that his problem is that he "does not believe in anything other than himself". Interestingly, Nolan is also committed to a similar reason: he is bewildered by his own cleverness, ready to slam and dazzle his audience to the poor submission. Anything that can be distracting, Tenet is a locked puzzle box with nothing in it.
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