Thanks to you both for making this video, it was awesome! 😁

Agreed.

This man is Protagonist, he will fight... an Antagonist. :P

Good to see you here CJ, it’s important to support your less successful siblings

Or is it a man about a movie?

This.

That's hilarious because I am also black, and when he brought up JDW being black in the movie, it felt like I just realized it.

"He must not like the look of me" "The look of you is fine" It is brought up once.

literally nothing to do with the plot at all. very refreshing. JDW is just as amazing an actor as his father man

@@sheeplastname430 Here's the thing ,there were certain dialog (as the one you mentioned) that would suggest it was there , however because of the scenes in which those dialog were written it leaves room for other interpretations .

more like Skrrrt Skrrt

Time goes emiT

Dunkirk: time goes slow, fast, and faster.

@@thomastmc no in Dunkirk, there are 3 events happening at different times at the same time.

@@random-jn8ec Each story takes place over 3 different lengths of time. It seems both the comment and film went over your head.

Oh, that’s a great point!

HOLY SHIT

You're right, rewatching it is a pincer maneuver!!!

how did you know what was going to happen? Seems like you just assumed it was going to be a happy ending

wtf? daaaamn

He's one of those directors who refuse to dumb down his films for the audience, and I love him for that.

@@RickReasonnzpeople tend to forget that artists make art for themselves first & foremost, they just allow us to experience it.

you shouldnt have to watch a movie multiple times to understand it. Appreciate yes, but understand? no it costs money and time to watch a movie. If a person has to watch a movie 3 times to understand it, its not a good movie. Shit is expensive. But if people rewatch a movie to appreciate it, then the director did a good job of conveying their vision the first time Also I love Nolans works, but think Tenet is his weakest. And no, it doesnt make someone "intellectual" if they "understand" Tenet. No one will be impressed by it. It wont get you a job lol

@@giantqtipz6577 boring take

@@justinmercier293 spoiled kid

Because of this comment I had to go and watch the movie.

Oh no……

@@mastah2494 That comment got me really curious, it reminded me of 12 Monkeys, 1 of the characters is trapped in a loop watching himself dying.

@@sabreaion6074 ulala, I havent heard from that movie in a while, Ill watch again today. Great taste there mate

Agreed. I felt the loss when i realized what was inevitiable.

fucking genius hahahaha

I laughed far too loud for 03:45 in the morning.

And let's not forget 5:11 haha

It had Neil dying too 😢

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thinks this. Tenet hit me in the feels harder than I think any other movie has. Not only because of what you mentioned (which was already incredibly effective on me personally due to the uniqueness), but also because: 1. We realize Neil had to spend the last (months?) he had with his best friend acting as though they were complete strangers. "The end of a beautiful friendship" indeed. 2. PT now has to go hire and befriend Neil *knowing* that doing so has already gotten Neil killed. Especially since Neil got killed *saving PT,* I can't imagine what kind of guilt one would have to harbor the entire time they're friends. Not to mention the dread that would come from knowing exactly when Neil dies.

I just don't get the enjoyment of trying to make sense of something that doesn't make sense... All with dialogue that sounds like the actors are under water. Because you know... art.

are you open to a talk about this movie?

I’m sure you feel like a proud dad, as a father

Awesome

{insert smart comment here}

We don't pay you to think!

James have you stopped paying ben money and now are paying him in confidence

When I heard it I stopped the video to literally shout: "YES THAT'S THE PERFECT DESCRIPTION FOR HER"

Another description was "she looked like a man".

Goddess? Has the bar been that bastardized?

@@cjewe1z that’s the more accurate

@@randomdude189, monstrosity would be accurate. But, then again, that is to be expected from someone that is trying to convince the world that this film is some sort of sophisticated puzzle. The selling point of this film and a lot of Nolan films is the gimmick. If you see past the gimmick there is a very simple story. Having said that, he deserves respect for making spectacular blockbuster films that aim for profundity.

It was interesting to rewatch and notice the scene where they talk about Oppenheimer in Tenet, and how "the woman" who created "the algorithm" is essentially her generation's Oppenheimer. It's as if we saw the seed of Nolan's own idea to make his latest film without realising. And it's also like Oppenheimer is a prequel to tenet!

I see what you did there with the first and last sentence of your comment, lol

isnt that directly stolen from doctor who? doctor whos wife travels backwards in time

The more you think about Neil, the more emotional the movie becomes, reaching its full emotional climax when you think about Ives saying, "We end our lives. It's the only way to be sure. But as to *when*... maybe that's every man's decision to make for himself." Neil's decision is to die for his friend. When a gun is pointed at his head, Neil's decision is to step in front of the bullet. That's how he chooses to die. "For me, this is the end of a beautiful friendship."

like a firetruck???

who cares

@@bullpup1337 It's also 'stolen' from the story of King Arthur, given that Merlyn lives backwards through time. It even has its own TVtropes page - 'Merlin Sickness'

Blacks are always the criminals, poor, in the background, asking questions and subordinate in Hollywood movies. Its an agenda. The China film administration is better than Hollywood.

The best are the scenes with his mom.

Sorry to disagree, but It's not that he's moving in a different direction, it's that he inverted after years (maybe TEN years?) to meet PT back at the beginning so he already knows everything, his entire life is a pincer. Once he un-inverts though that version of Neil is going in the same direction as PT for the duration of the movie except for the pincer battle. We only see the original Neil once, and it's in the opera house in Kiev when he saves PT's life while inverted. One could assume that this is the Neil that went back 10 years (or however long) and that this was the end of that part of his journey backwards, then he un-inverted and a week later met PT in Mumbai (from PT's perspective, for the first time), then continued with him in the same direction(s) for the whole movie. For example, he follows him through the turnstyle both of the next two times, until the battle when they separate. Sorry to be pedantic, it's just that the Neil we're with in the movie is for sure moving in the same direction as the protagonist. FWIW I'm also of the Max=Neil school, it's just too perfect not to fit.

First watch is from The Protag's perspective Subsequent rewatches are all from Neil's perspective

Exactly! @@eugenefullstack7613 If he wasn't, he'd need a oxygen mask the whole time.

Broooo this is really a good take.... Haven't thought this way until now😅

@@sankrut02 Whoah. I didn't realise people had seen this comment. But anyway, I forgot to add that this is why the film is so unpopular. People watched it for the first time and hated it because they only saw half a film but to them it was a full film that simply didn't make sense and was all over the place. And then because they hated it, most people didn't bother to watch it a second time and thus they missed out on genuinely great movie. Such a massive shame.

…..HUH

No amount of explaining this movie as “you just don’t get it” ever outweighs the fact the movie does not make sense, linear or otherwise. Its “smart people cope.” It’s a dumb movie meant to confuse ppl of avg intelligence and draw smart ppl into explaining it away as “too smart.” It’s dumb temporal schlock.

@@ferrarriohh Mate if you think the film still doesn't make sense after it being explained, you're the only one who's dumb enough not to get it😂. It just sounds like you're insecure about not getting the film and now you're taking it out on everyone else that does get it. What's wrong with people enjoying a complex film? Nolan was being ambitious for sure, maybe overly ambitious, but what makes it wrong for him to make intelligent films that make people think? That's his passion and that's just who he is. And people enjoy his films and enjoying it is the whole point. What the hell is wrong with ye?

2 seconds in and already ITS A CLASSIC

COLLAB WHEN

I say two videos ah week and more in the future

I was confused by your comment cause I know this isn't Ben's first video essay. But then I remembered that it was on a different channel.

I hope you've watched his video about Moneyball on Mr Sunday Movie's channel, it's really great...makes me glad he has his own channel now

One of the really interesting things about the movie is that we never find out who the people from the future who want to use the algorithm are. It could easily be the characters in the film, if they changed their minds later on!

If you guys never notice that Neil was basically the main plot

@@Nation_of_Imagination not upon first viewing.

@@Nation_of_Imagination Neil's entire life is a pincer maneuver. It gets even gnarlier if you assume he is also Max (it's arguable, but I do).

Your TENET hype's never going to end, is it? (Don't blame you, Jack ;)

at the begging he knows nothing, but at the end he knows everything...which means at the beginning, he knows everything...he just doesn't know it yet

@@arogueburrito *Mind-boggling*

@@arogueburrito He truly is the protagonist

Bro was lost taking orders from himself 😂

Well what’s cool about it is that he experiences the events. Commits himself to ensuring that the events continue to unfold that way. Then sends a team to move backwards in time with all of the information he has. Sends another team to ensure that he himself is committed to the mission so that a loop is created to preserve time as it is.

You guys are really not that smart, and call "genius' anything that is thrown at you, in red vs blue team do you even know who or what they are fighting? no, you never see them, they are never on the screen, never explained or introduced, u just see things blowing and unblowing without knowing who, why or what the red or blue team is fighting in two different direction of time, whole thing doesn't make sense.

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Nah. What it highlights is that if there is free will, it's limited to specific moments. The dropping of the bullet might be "free will", but the catching of it, while it's going backwards in time, at that particular moment there is no free will. And I've seen this taken to an extreme in Latin and Southern European cultures. They'll argue most all of the things we go through are fated, but there's little exceptions , that enforces religious devotion, that maybe through the mercy of the Virgin Mary, you may escape your fate, by some miracle, once in a while. It's a sort of psychological survival strategy for people with hard, miserable life, who are often drawn into immoral decisions for the sake of feeding your family. To counter that, in sharp contrast, is the American belief not only in free will, but free will all the time. Every crime is a free choice to be punished, every buck earned is reward for making so many good decisions. Your comment is insightful as far as how audiencesmight feel their belief in free will is threatened, but then you make excuses, explaining that free will can be shoehorned in. And certainly the film invites viewers to think about such question. But basically the pincer manoever itself suggests free will is at least constrained quite a bit, and I'm suggesting audiences are not just threatened, mostly subconsciously, because it goes against mainstream philosophy, but because it might be the truth. Everything is fated, we're just in this for the ride, kinda living behind our eyes in mobile prisons where we might be horrified by what we ourselves do.

That's not what it highlights at all. It's just about going through the motion of having dropped it, basically matching the bullet's reversed arrow of time.

@@tahunuva4254 no, it does both and free will is explicitly addressed here. that scene literally has the protagonist immediately ask "what about free will?" after he "uncatches" the bullet, and the scientist responds "that bullet wouldn't have moved if you hadn't put your hand there. Either way we run the tape, you made it happen". It happens so fast and its like 3 lines but I think most people miss that free will is still apparent even with time inversion

@@3htthexy Oh, that's a good point. But that's going by a very non-standard version of free will (and a kinda based one, as it implies any agent has it, even "inanimate" objects). When most people use the term, they're talking about it as a kind of uncoupling from the causal chain. Like, "I'm not subject to my environment, I'm a free thinker" kind of bs. But "you made it happen" is almost the opposite of that, because it's completely ignoring the question of the protagonist's sovereignty in favour of fitting him into the chain. If the bullet jumped, and he _didn't_ catch it, *that* would be proof of his unfettered will.

me too, wasn't ready for this one XD

The real friends was the Tenet you made along the way.

The real tenet is the new friends you already had.

@@peteryouth what in the fuck.........I am dying

@@peteryouth the real tenet is the friend he has

I realised on my second viewing how affecting was the last talk between these two. Pattinson knows he must return an die, Washington just realises it too, and he knows that he can't do (and MUSTN'T DO) anything about it and it almost brings tears to his eyes (and to my eyes as well).

Something about the idea of him needing to drink to handle meeting the Protagonist for the "first" time just hits me in the most heartbreaking way 🥺

I can't be the only one thinking that the kid at the end is a younger version of Neil. (Somebody came up with the idea that "Max" was short for "Maximillien" and if so, "Neil" is the last four letter's of Max's name backwards.)

@@eddiejc1 this^!!!

There is no emotion in that movie. It's a bad action movie overlayed with techno mumbo jumbo

Because Nolan deliberately made the audio trash. What an awful movie...

Loved him in ballers glad he’s getting his big break

This is Denzel Washingtons son right

@@mittendemon4493 Yes

whaa. I didn't know that

I love this video because I don’t like tenet but I completely understand why it works for him.

Now thats a temporal pincer movement

You alreeady did.

This totally doesn't make you sound like a person that is easily swayed. /s

@@thetechsite9619 Never learn from other people kiddo. Never change your opinion, doesn't matter how much the new details make sense. Stay ignorant. /s

that this is underrated makes it actually overrated if you think twice about it

@@Charizardlison An underrated/overrated pincer maneuver.

@@TheMusicalFruit 🤣

interracial tension between him and the guys wife

It used to be that way in the 70s and 80s before universities became completely corrupted by an ideological cult

So accurate lol

Yo

Nice try, but nope. TeneT is a palindrome, it's spelt the same way forwards as it is backwards. That's it.

I like that!

@@j.f.l.bousquet1998 why is it called Tenet then

@@daniellaniganohara2456 bruh he already answered

Blacks are always the criminals, poor, in the background, asking questions and subordinate in Hollywood movies. Its an agenda. The China film administration is better than Hollywood. Hollwood really Hates Black on Blacks Love.

For me it was “I don’t know what’s going on and I can’t stand it”

Man was denied his hot sauce!!

He really is a brilliant fucking actor. I am finding myself drawn more and more to films with less dialogue and more non-dialogue based acting. I saw JDW in Black Klansman, and, although his approach feels similar (that "aggression" as you call it), he certainly picks his moments, so to speak, very well. I am stoked to see him in more traditional movie roles (I could not get through the writing in that one he did with Zendaya.)

Damn dude well put! I definitely had a similar thought; a lot of JDW’s action has an ‘explosive’ quality - especially the kitchen fight - where you can tell he’s sizing everything up and then he goes HAM for maximum effect

I really liked that about the first Bourne movie, conservation of movement and efficacy.

True, but - unfortunately - his facial expressions don't reflect that. He often comes off as a wide-eyed, fish-out-of-water protagonist, even when it doesn't suit the scene.

is Chef worth the watch? i dont really care for Jon Favreau

@@dorianjareth9198 a predictable fairytale movie but is a feel good one. If you're having a bad day, go for it. I also watch weird movies but they make me feel good, like garden state on a gloomy monsoon day

@@dorianjareth9198 it’s a fun movie, worth at least one watch. Nothing too deep, just a good detox movie if you’ve been watching heavy stuff

When I watched it the first time, I was expecting the inverted soldier to be one of Sator’s henchman as I was still wrapping my head around the mechanics of inversion. When he got blown through the shutter door and right into the hands of his past self, it was the biggest jaw drop I’d ever gotten from a movie.

@@richos07 i watched this first time, high as a giraffes vagina, i dont think ive ever been so flabbergasted

Yeah I really hated the film because I watched it in the cinema and the sound mixing was soo god awful I couldn't understand what they were saying enough to only understand what was going on a very superficial level.

@@impyrobot I've seen some analysis of the film on here talking the sound mixing and after seeing that, it's understandable and it actually fit in well when you see it at that perspective

I did exactly this.

“Too wtf to grasp in real time…” - ive never heard a more perfect alternate expression for the term “confused”

This movie is extremely insulting to the intellect. It's contrived nonsense. Pattinson was great though.

FUCK YEAH FIRETRUCKS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fuck yeah, go fire trucks! They really fuck up those fires !

Lol

YESS!!!😅

the most outside interstellar for me, it's true love in a brotherly way

@@uchihagaeshi1169 word

makes me tear up everytime

FULL AGREE

For me it was the complete opposite. Loved the first half, confused by the second but totally in awe. It should've been simplified a little imo.

@@Sujay95 That's a bit hard to achieve here I think. Perhaps the plot might've been a bit too long for the movie, and it's already 2 and a half hours long. I've watched it 5 times I think, needed to watch the second time to actually connect all the dots.

I believe it to be a deliberate act by Christoper Nolan that the film needs be watched multiple times in order to observe, and absorb all the layers of pardox happening. Almost like red and blue team, your brain is required to already know what's going to happen, in order to see what you missed last time.

@@stonedvillain79 honestly that's not a good thing. If you're required to watch a movie several times just to understand the basic plot, then that's a major flaw in my eyes. Especially since people were saying (at the time this was coming to theaters) that this movie would need to be good to keep theaters alive. Thankfully this movies plot didnt kill off theater because of other easily understood movies coming out lol.

and he sent his friend to be an ally of his past.

That is really interesting when you compare it to a series like Counterpart. In counterpart, which deals with parallel dimensions instead of time travel, the central tenet (heh) seems to be that multiple versions of the same person would inevitably go to war if their timelines didn't progress equally (ie a man's wife dies, but he knows she is alive and well in another dimension with his counterpart. So, rather than accepting her death, he attempts to go to the other world and replace his doppelganger).

Lmao

🤣🤣

Benoit Blanc

@@dennisreynolds6196 LMAO yes

Calling this movie a masterpiece is silly. It makes no sense at all. Why would a person need to watch a movie 50 times to catch meanings? Meanings that probably have nothing to even do with the movie. If you don't understsnd what on earth a film is showing you, and all you see and hear are images and noise, then it has failed in its mission to tell a story. This means it is a bad film. A movie that can't fulfil that simple criteria, of communucating what it is showing you, means the director lacks the descriptive skill to present what he wants to say. I think Chris Nolan just couldn't translate his vision. That is all. And so it is a bad movie. Simple..

may i ask you a question about the inverted bullets? i rewatched the movie yesterday and i just can't wrap my head around how the inversion works. i really like the idea of the movie but i feel like a lot of small things just don't make any sense and it kinda ruins it for me. for example, before the inverted fight at the oslo airport takes place, the protagonist already sees bullet holes in the window. but HOW did they get there?? from his perspective the fight hasn't taken place yet..from his future self's perspective the fight is already over, but...like...you know what i mean?? is it meant to not make any sense? i just find it hard to like the movie if it's not even explained how the bullet holes can already be there if the past protagonist hasn't been in the fight yet. i feel like i might be thinking too much about it or that im just too stupid to get it..

@@myrk_ you're not stupid at all, these are legitimate questions, and don't beat yourself because you're not thinking about time reversal, that's exactly why I loved the concept, it breaks your mind when you try to make sense of it, so don't, just accept it ;) but - of you're really into understanding it, there are great explanations out there.

​@@myrk_ it's going to confuse you even more if I'll try to explain it in text without drawings but the explanation goes like so: inverted bullets were shot in the inverted future and they "go back" into the gun in the normal (non inverted) future. Same as - normal objects just existing in the inverted world are going into the past, it's a passive ability of this space. When you take objects from the inverted plain into the normal plain it seems as if they go back, but actually, from their perspective - it's their 'inverted' future, which from the perspective of the normal plain would look like reverse existence. It really does make sense, but only if you start thinking about everything with a temporal-vector for a lack of a better term. Hope I could help lol

@@burgulize thanks for the encouraging words xd i think i might just have to rewatch it again but this time have a pen and paper with me..i know that what you're saying defo makes sense, but i'm racking my brain here haha i do appreciate it though!

COWBOY SHIT

I did BUT he has done a lot of movies as a badass so wasn’t baggage to me

Crazy how Aaron Taylor Johnson as Ives looks nothing like he did in Kick-Ass

You hit the mail on the head with this one. Tenet absolutely has to be watched twice to fully appreciate what’s going on. The first time I watched it I was ambivalent towards it, the second time I watched, I was riveted. This is an excellent film, I wish more people gave it that much needed second viewing.

@@danilejai7801 It’s a bit like The Prestige, once you know how the trick works you see the movie completely differently. You realize you weren’t watching closely, like you were told to in the beginning. Nolan is the GOAT.

@@the5thgeneral That movie was better than tenet.

You're giving me way too much credit in knowing what was going to happen the 2nd time watching it.

Nice

Yes, Nolan uses blue and red before making it explicit for the final battle

Aaaaaah well spotted. And I am dumb

Also women in red coat before the meeting 14:33 - its intentional The whole movie has this blue red color coding clues On the second movie watch it is very noticeable from the very beginning For small example bag with artefact in Opera is Blue balaclava mask on "terrorists leader" is clearly Red - and if it seems random - look at all colors and objects in each scene all colors dimmed but some specific things sometime has color accent

I doubt you're reading too much into it. Knowing Nolan, even the most minute detail is probably intentional

it should be 31% stupid and 69% smart

Hey, TimTom! (first by the way lol)

Except whether parallel universes exist, has never been proven.

Not really.

Its not about parallel universe its about time reversing concept. There were two timelines moving simultaneously but in opposite directions.

Actually you don't at all, TENNET's concept is different from the (in my opinion) overused, just as unbelievable and nonsensical concept that is parallel universes. It's all bs time only goes in one direction.

I didnt care for tenet, and something nerd writer did reminded me why. "When spectacle eclipses story"

@@DegenerateSpeculator Neil Degrasse? Why does he always say that

This does not make it a good movie. The story is bullshit, the characters and their motivations is bullshit. Therefore, the whole movie is bullhit. It's easy.

At the end, the reversed Blue Team action sequences have a reversed music soundtrack

I think you like the word "temporal" more than you understand the word "paradox"

Then watch Primer. When I finally thought "wait a second, this is starting to make sense" the end credits began to roll. 😂 It's the best movie about time travel I've seen (not counting Tenet), and it had a ridiculously low budget. And the acting was also great for a bunch of amateurs. Don't worry if you understand very little on your first watch, this is normal, do some research online before watching it again if you want, download a timeline chart, whatever you might think will help you.

Blacks are always the criminals, poor, in the background, asking questions and subordinate in Hollywood movies. Its an agenda. The China film administration is better than Hollywood.

Ditto to all of the above 😊

He probably knew that, considering his latest track is a very well made electronic track, likely he just didn't wanna get incredibly technical lol

I'm pretty sure the base sound is actually orchestral strings played backwards?

It’s actually one of the technics that made Daft Punk so inspiring for a whole generation of producers (electronic music or not). The Robots didn’t invent Sidechaining, but they did it so freaking well and so on point that it made the brains of actual connoisseurs implode all over the world. It takes a lot of music (and branding) knowledge to understand how much care and perfectionism these guys have put into every single detail of their craft. To the point of not looking like sane human beings. A bit like Fincher or Nolan: everyone can tell they’re good and enjoy their pieces, but one needs technical knowledge about the craft to understand how good they actually are. It’s funny because besides being worldwide famous and globally recognized beyond their music genre and even beyond their art form (having worked with or for some great movie directors, photographers, Haute Couture brands, etc) Daft Punk are still kind of underrated by the masses.

@@GuillaumeRx AMEN

I’ve been wondering how this has been done for years, thanks for finally helping me put a term to it!

Ami!!

@@jonbaxter2254 my

That shot hit so hard in the theatre, particularly IMAX. It's a favourite of mine for that reason as well, it's so damn good. And man, it's a bummer how many people write the movie off after one viewing, you literally can't appreciate it only having watched it once, I was so insanely confused after my first go but in a way that made me want to understand. I didn't even start really understanding the mechanics until the fifth watch, and I only figured out the interrogation room and how that worked on like the 8th watch. But it's so damn worth it to rewatch until you understand, then once you do you wonder how you didn't get it. I wish I could wipe my memory and watch it again for the first time.

...why? It makes no point about why this movie is supposed to work in his opinion.

It makes the point that the hype-o-meter is cranked up to 1000 amidst the whole time-reversal mindfuckery and that conveys a genuine feeling of excitement about the movie that contributes to how the movie worked for him and a lot of other people

Calling this movie a masterpiece is silly. It makes no sense at all. Why would a person need to watch a movie 50 times to catch meanings? Meanings that probably have nothing to even do with the movie. If you don't understsnd what on earth a film is showing you, and all you see and hear are images and noise, then it has failed in its mission to tell a story. This means it is a bad film. A movie that can't fulfil that simple criteria, of communucating what it is showing you, means the director lacks the descriptive skill to present what he wants to say. I think Chris Nolan just couldn't translate his vision. That is all. And so it is a bad movie. Simple

@@stactionsmedia3318 ok you're entitled to that opinion but in mine the film does accomplish telling a story by the end, and that story (which is very complex) becomes clearer on a second watch for the reasons I said. If you're going to argue that good films shouldn't need to be re watched for a deeper understanding then I don't know what to say because that's pretty much untrue. It's not as simple as it seems, you just didn't enjoy it and that's perfectly fine. Maybe don't click on a video praising it then

@@chanceseverson Ahhhh I must disagree with you my buddy. A good film needn't be watched twice to understand it. A good film conveys its message, with accuracy and definitive direction the moment you finish it. That is why people get goosebumps. That is why audiences cry, or make gestures of amazement, or gasp at a thrill, or are outraged when the hero dies, or fall in love with the characters. You can watch it a second time, to catch things you missed, yes, but to say you didn't understand it at all, and still give it a pass, in hopes that subsequent viewings might unravel what you just witnessed? Isn't what I think a directors intention is my friend. I think it is somewhat unfair to the audience. It's like you are putting them through an obstacle course, when really they want to be on a roller coaster ride, and be taken along on an interesting, compelling journey. That is the beauty of cinema. It can make the most complex theories....Inceptions dream within a dream, Mementos short term amnesia, Jokers parrallel joke regarding Bruce Wayne, Back to the Futures time travel.....and make them all FUN. Emotionally relatable. That is the magic Tenet is lacking. I don't think it was fun at all. It was like a project you were tasked to solve, with one catch......you aren't told what THE QUESTION TO THE RIDDLE IS...... If you don't know what they are asking of you, how on earth can you solve it, let alone have fun even if you tried.

@@stactionsmedia3318 yeah, you have no idea what you're talking about. If you "understand" a film after seeing it once, it's garbage. This doesn't even have anything to do with Tenet, it's just a fact. Every good film requires investigation, any director would tell you that. Sorry, your opinion is objectively wrong and childishly silly.

@@DetectiveTrupo203 If your.... theory....had anything to go by, this would suggest that the majority of all the good movies that were created since the inception of the movie business; Gone with the wind The sound of music The Godfather Rocky Scarface Goodfellas Jerry McGuire Shindlers list ....all these good movies suffer the same fate of incomprehension, that this mess of a film Tenet has lol. So in your mind, Jerry Mguire, an Oscar nominated movie, that everyone knows is good, about a sports agent played by Tom Cruise, needs to be watched a second, third, and fourth time, for audiences to comprehend what is going on or they will be confused? Hahahaha if you believe this, then you must be a "class A" fool.

Only two films I know have done that; The Fountain and Tenet.

Til this day, I have not seen more than 2 soldiers from Andrei Sator's army. Red team & blue team pretty much running & shooting at No one.

@@mr8883 no, they were obviously hired by two competing siblings in a gravel mining empire to duke it out between themselves perpetually using clones, weird teleportation devices and rockets

For me the Villain was absolutely suburb. By far the best part of it.

Also known as sidechain.

He was great as Batman but sucked as Bruce Wayne.

Tbf he was larping Christopher Hitchens which helps. look him up, hes....got a way of speaking thats very very distinct Pattinson clearly took inspiration

Lighthouse 100% got rid of the Pattinson baggage for me.

​@@OoJohnisbackoOhe was talking the way Debicki speaks and also dyed his hair to be more like hers. It's part of an implication that he's her son Max.

Yea same

I also love how the music in that scene feels kinda ‘nostalgic’ if thats the right word. It doesnt seem to match the idea of their first meeting, but of course its because this is a reunion

@@watchdominion00 YES!!! It's the Neil's theme music in the movie, it is nostalgic all the time whenever his scenes come and it only makes sense because for him everything is just revisiting old times! :'D

Yeah, I remember that, that’s when he meets Neil for the first time, but Neil has known him for so much longer

Did you notice when they “met” in the theater opening scene? During the raid and ensuing gun battle, an unknown agent shoots one of the immediate threats to the protagonist and promptly turns and walks away, like he had just shown up to shoot that one guy. Notice his backpack as he turns to leave.

@@ReadABookAndLearn That was actually the last guy he shot. On a third watch, I realized Neil was the one picking key shooters off in the background. He shoots 2+ people chasing Protag, so he can successfully collect the bombs.

I lost a lung laughing

SKRRT SKRRT

Someone’s gonna have to essplain dis one out for me…

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I concur...

And that book is called The Peripheral by William Gibson. Not exactly, but sort of.

I wish they would make a book out of it