'Inception sure was mind bending, and confusing." Tenet: "Hold my beer."

I get the feeling Chris Nolan LOVES heist films but doesn't actually want to DO a heist film. So he makes it more interesting. We have to steal from a dream, we have to find a new planet, we have to get off the beach, we need to go back in time, we have to be Batman.

"Do you understand now?" "Yesn't".

Nolan: Yes *How confusing do you want this movie to be?*

Neil was a Silent Guardian A watchful protector The Batman.

That backwards fight scene was quite impressive.

Throughout the film all I could think is, how bad was the future, that they were willing to possibly destroy all of time to end it.

To quote Enrico Fermi "Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level.”

I have watched this movie 3 times now and everytime I do, I find something new. It's just absolutely awesome and I see it as a masterpiece

Of all the explanations of Tenet I’ve seen (and I’ve seen alot) this is the best one by far, awesome job

This was the first explanation of tenet that has fully made sense, I loved the whole diagram showing when they were going forward and backward in time!!!

Tenet is pretty much a more complicated version of the Bill and Ted rule: "Hey Dude, lets make sure in the future we go back in time to help ourselves now!"

13:57 We see Neil first in Mumbai. In Hindi, his name means “Blue”. That’s a hint from Nolan about his direction in Time.

This movie is so bizarre, and that's what I like about this.

Anytime a movie dives into time travel my brain immediately melts

When Neil said at the end "this whole operation is a temporal pincer" - that should be the biggest give away about what's happening in the movie

This is why I love this movie. It makes me think. I have watched it 3 times and have watched countless videos on the movie. I've dove into reading on entropy and time. Christopher nolan knows how to entertain and ask questions at the same time. My favorite director and in my opinion the greatest director of the modern day.

I watched this film 4 or 5 times trying to wrap my head around time inversion. Just when I think there was a plot hole, the film has an explanation that covers it. Also I like the concept of living backwards in time rather than jumping backwards.

Excellent analysis. This movie was amazing and I can’t understand why it doesn’t get more love. It was by far the best movie of 2020 and should be considered for Best Picture noms, yet it has been dismissed for less original fare. I feel that as time has gone by and more people have seen it multiple times, it is becoming more appreciated. I hope Nolan keeps up his genius output despite the backlash to his insistence that this movie be released in the cinemas at the height of the pandemic. A mistake? Not for me us in Australia as we were able to go to the movies from August. I saw it 3 times in the cinema :)

People forget or don't know that Nolan wanted TENET to be a James Bond Science-Fiction movie with an original story. There is an organisation, a plot, a mistery, the characters are similar. He didn't wanted to make nothing other than a new cinematic experience from this movie based on his passion for time and science and on his job, film making. TENET is something else 👍

What I love so much abour it is that there isn't a single scene that feels like fat. The pacing is one of the best I've seen in recent times, it always keeps you attentive. And thank God it didn't do any backstories and anything like that because it would have broken the flow of the movie.

Robert Pattinson’s floating smiling maze head is so funny for some reason lol “Ifff Iii Couuulddd Turrrnnn Baaccckk Tiiimmeee!!!”-Cher

I like how at exactly 11:06 the timeline starts inverting

A movie you have to see more than once. Kubrick would be proud.

For those wondering about Neil actually being Max from the future, here's what I believe is the most likely situation.Assuming Max is about 9-10 years old in Tenet, he would need to be around 22-23 years old(maybe even less if he proved himself to be exceptional in academics) for him to have obtained his Masters in Physics as he claims to have to the protagonist. While there is no definitive proof he is telling the truth that he has acquired a degree through conventional means, I am inclined to believe this simply because of the references he makes about "their suppression tactics" and "his drinking on the job" remark both of which were true but were not integral pieces of information for the job at hand but were said anyway for innocent banter between them, even before Neil revealed his true identity to the protagonist towards the end of the film, indicating a very different and jovial personality in contrast to the protagonist who believes lying is part of the job. This means that after he obtained his degree while still being trained by the Protagonist and Tenet he was inverted using a Turnstile and now would need to go back in time by 13-14 years( again could be less based on when he was qualified) in order to reach the point of the opera siege at Kiev as that is his endgame. Here comes the most crucial element of time travel in Tenet, even while you are inverted and time moves backwards around you, you still age normally. Meaning if you want to travel 14 years in the past you need to physically live in 14 years of backwards time to get to that point. So if you're 23 and travel back in time by 14 years you'll now be 37 but 14 years ago. Neil is a middle-aged man in this film so this very much holds true in terms of theory. Now as to actually living inverted for all these years, as depicted in the film you need to be constantly using inverted oxygen tanks or be living inside specialized containers and spending that kind of life for such a long time I can only imagine that as pure agony. Honestly the most brilliant character in the movie in my honest opinion. Thanks for listening to my TED talk .

This entire video perfectly sums up why I waited for the blu ray. I would of had to bring a notebook to the movie theater.

I love those kinds of movies that bring me new methods of thinking and perspective without trying to tell me how to interpret it. Wild video man, thank you for uploading.

Okay this seems really fucking cool and I'm disappointed in myself for believing the critics. Looks like he put a lot of thought into this, and it stands up to my hard sci-fi bullshit test. Watching it tonight.

hands down this is my favourite nolan film, i know its not perfect but the whole time inversion idea is executed perfectly for me

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff - some bloke with a blue box

I just watched this yesterday and was just saying how I still don’t understand it, thanks for the video :)

This movie was fantastic, I feel it would have gotten a way better rating if more people watched an explanation video

One problem with the Neil is Max theory is that Niel would have had to spend at least 10 years in a shipping container (or other sealed room) going back in time. Talk about taking one for team!

Christopher Nolan put a lot of thought into this. Well done. As a writer, I am jealous of the genius of this story.

Such a great video! I'm really glad to see the general consensus of this movie shifting from "convoluted mess" to "complex proposition to think about the world differently"

When the soundtrack “Meeting Neil” is played when Neil arrives, it was said in an interview that the weird eerie sound of the music is actually a depiction of the protagonist having a feeling of already having met Neil.

This explanation is BONKERS for being so good!!! Great job man! I’ve seen this movie like 20 and a half times and this is still tying up some loose ends I’ve had in my understanding of it! Thanks a trillion!!!✊🏾🦉💯

I was hoping that you'd make a video about this. This movie is awesome 😍

Your visual for Neil's storyline was exactly what I needed. Great video, thank you.

Probably the best breakdown I’ve seen, and I watched a ton of them after thoroughly enjoying Tenet. Kudos!

(The main point starts at Paragraph 3) I love how you took notice to things about Tenet that inspires it and tries to make us think about the world in a new way, and you thought about Tenet in a new way. I love how tenet reflects off of the world in a great way because it is both certain and uncertain at the same time, a paradox. The protagonist does not know as much as everyone else, he basically represents the audience trying to figure out more. Which is one reflection. People in the world do not know much about certain things that could be going on in the world at the very moment. And to explain what I mean that things can be certain and uncertain at the same time is the timeline off screen. At the end of the day max being Niel is just a theory, it’s not confirmed, it’s possible and not possible at the same time. The main point is tho that HOW the events of the protagonist creating the tenet organization, his friendship with Niel, and what happened in the future is all up to interpretation. However it is certain that that did indeed happen. It is certain that the protagonist did find tenet, he did have a friendship with Niel and that the world did end up falling apart and needing to turn back. It’s just the specifics are uncertain, but the outlines are certain, just like how things in the real world work. The outlines of how the world’s geography changed over time for example is probably certain because we know that the worlds geography just could not be the same for millions of years. The specifics however are uncertain or only theoretical because we were not there at the time to observe the world change but it is certain the world changed so it is certain that the specifics did happen but we are uncertain as to how. Paradox. Kinda... unless I’m just getting a bit ahead of myself :/ Great video non the less, very informative.

I love how casually you explain that Neil is Max. "After getting his masters in physics, he then is inverted (for about 25 years) to go back and safe the protagonist at the opera house." How long Neil must have been inverted for that to make sense is a huge thing that you just breeze by

This was excellent. It compelled me to create a folder labeled ‘ Explained’s ‘ because, let me tell you, this is among the best out there.

You’ve outdone yourself again Niyat. Thank you for this.

I finally get the damn thing, been bugging me since. I got every other Nolan flick at once but this one just flew over me. Thank You ❤️

...adding new meaning the the phrase 'why are you hitting yourself?' Lol Thank you

Bro thank you so much for doing this movie so I can get a clear understanding. Keep up the great work 👍👍

Excellent work. Thank you, Nihat. 👏👏👏👏

This movie is impressive! I liked how they filmed everything backwards. I told my family this is how time travel is supposed to be. Done in a realistic way.

At 15:50, the question is asked how is Sator still alive to unfold his plan and to answer we need to get into philosophy. It's a fair bit simpler than that. It's possible because the one she killed is his future self. His present / past self is still alive just not on the boat. She even made the comment earlier that she saw "some other woman diving off the boat, and he'd vanished". That Sator was always the future one. The rest of the movie is past Sator moving (mostly) forward to become that future Sator. It's also possible that prior to killing him on the boat, there were 2 Sators running around for a while for an unknown amount of time leading up to that moment, since we don't know for sure at what point he stopped going in reverse to execute the plan on the city/algorithm.

I went through numerous 30 min videos on the same subject that really just retell the events of the movie and dont conclude anything more than what I did on the first viewing and yours is the first that is different and shorter than most. Thank you for actually making an EXPLANATION video on this complicated movie.

FilmComicsExplained is probably the only guy suited to breakdown this movie. Such a great channel. Thank you much!

I looked at time travel in this movie as like moving around and seeing the world and environment on rewind. Best explanation video on KZfaq thank you!

Sator wasn’t planning to detonate the algorithm; he was burying it under the hypocenter for the future partners to dig up and detonate in their time. Kat tells The Protagonist and Neil that they don’t understand because they believe he is burying it and waiting to send the email burst (or whatever communication). She tells them he is dying right now and he intends to kill himself and trigger the detonation from the future simultaneously. This would appear, in our eyes, as an instantaneous action. “Somewhere in the future a man in a crystalline tower flips a switch and simultaneously ends and begins humanity.” “We had our turn.” “Knowing this; do you still want to stop me?” A few other pieces are off in your explanation, but I only had a chance to respond to the beginning. I’ll listen again last week and finish my comment.

Excellent video, really enjoyed your analysis and explanation

Bro i have seen many videos related to TENET But you the only one who described neil's timeline 100% correct bro👌🏻

Great explanation video. Its clear, consice and explained in a way that is accessible to a wide range of audience. Not to difficult to understand for people with limited knowledge on these advanced subjects and scientific theorys. But also not boring for the experts out there that have seen the movie a dozen times and watched a couple of videos on Entropy. Lol. Anyway good job as always. I will definitely keep sharing your videos with friends and family.

Wow this is the best breakdown of this movie so far

I subscribed thanks to you and your teams efforts here. Thank you and good work.

I must say, out of all the videos on this movie, yours is probably the one I thought was most explanatory. Thanks mate

I thought Predestination messed with my mind. This messed with my mind even more.

This movie was so surreal

Astonishing work ! @FilmComicsExplained

This sailed so far over my head, but I was riveted. Very enjoyable video.

tbh the ending battle was really impressive to be honest.

Sator DOES NOT go back on his deal with the future and trigger the algorithm himself. The purpose of the battle in Stask-12 was to bury the algorithm so deep that only the future could get it back out. When Sator kills himself, that releases a message for the future to find saying WHERE to go find the algorithm. If Sator has been successful in burying it, the multi-universe theory would allow for both the past to exist where Tenet failed the mission, AND for the past to cease to exist because the future would erase its existence. TENET’s objective was to convince Sator’s team AND the future that they were successful in obtaining the algorithm, and then find an empty shaft. This would allow Tenet to re-hide the pieces of the algorithm with the future at a complete loss about how to recover them again.

Great video! Thanks for the explanation.

Your explanation is beautiful. As always. Number 1 content creator

I love science and films that use real science to entertain use. While I think Nolan makes some exquisitely complex and tightly crafted films, I don't they're that complicated. I can't wait for Oppenheimer, reading up on the film I'm excited to see how they recreated the atomic blast with practical effects and diving into the effects breakdown of it. Oppenheimer is going to be epic with Cillian Murphy in the lead role, such an underrated actor.

"Nolan suggests that the greater good for the world sits somewhere between the poles of knowledge and feeling for prosperity". Thank you. I needed that context before I go back in to rewatch it. I noticed that while blue and red in the film signify which direction they're going, Kat it wearing both colors during her last time with Sator. And I could not for the life of me understand why. But maybe if blue, from present to future, is doing your best to feel out what to do next (the color she's wearing when we first meet her) and red, from future to past, is having all the knowledge of how that played out, her wearing both is feeling that anger she needed to kill him, while also knowing that killing him before the flare was still ok (she saw herself diving off the boat already, so it must've worked out).

Best explanation on KZfaq so far!

Tenet is such a fun and intriguing film and this was such a fun and intriguing explanation. Thank you!

Excellent video. The Neil reveal about him being Kat's son makes a lot of sense and it's something I hadn't considered!

Wow! Legit just watched this movie Friday night and one of my fav explainer of things makes the video I needed to appear... AND on my day off. I think he is a time traveler. He read this comment in the future and so he released this video today so I could see it.

WOW .. great passion guys .. what a great movie ... what a great explanation!! 🔥🔥🙏👏 .. for the love of Nolan and all the crew ❤

I’m glad this channel made an explanation video for this film! I personally enjoyed this film in theaters but not everyone were pleased with this film. Perhaps they ought to give this film another chance as it is a very complicated film that takes time to process

This was the only movie I saw in 2020 in a cinema

I know some people think the character aspects of this movie is not the strongest and i some what agree but the fact this is the only movie that makes time reversal understandable makes this movie remarkable!

Every time I come in to look at your work Danny I'm just so impressed and amazed and enlightened and inspired by the love of cinema that you share with so much thoughtfulness and depth of realization. Love it.

Epic review - right on point! Have watched 3 times and now I'm gunna have to watch it another 3 times now to validate your observations within my tiny little brain 🙂

Nice explanation. Minor issue, Sator isn't intending to use the algorithm now, he's still burying it so it can be used in the future. It's just that, since it destroys the past and the future, the algorithm being used hundreds of years in the future has the same effect as it being used now.

I must've watched like 9 videos on this movie to help me fully understand it. This one was the best one.

This was helpful…best assessment I have seen so far.

Brilliant as always, Nyat!

THIS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL Never seen a smarter, entertaining and rewarding movie in my life, and I am a movie junkie.

This video just cleared my mind after watching it more than 7 times. Really love it

Best explanation yet. Seen it 4 times and this is really gonna help next time I pit it on. Thanks. Also hate that KZfaq unsubscribes me from channels, good thing I found this one again

i. love. this. film. i also love any KZfaq channel that goes into the deeper workings of the film. thanks for this.

I’ve been waiting for this lol

This movie, just like all of Christopher Nolan’s films is amazing. Christopher Nolan is definitely in the top ten directors of all time

I was just watching some of your videos keep up the good work

Hands down the best explanation I've seen for TENET.

Other than being able to get "Neil" from the reversed spelling of "Maximilien", there's no evidence to confirm that Neil and Maximilien are the same person.

Watched this video in reverse 🤜🤛

The whole week I was waiting for this. Ever since you posted about it 🥴

I Absolutely Love This Film and This Film Explainer!!! Thank You 😊

6:03 "..he goes back on his commitment to those in the future.." My understanding was that the future *wanted* the algorithym to be activated. What'd I miss? Genuinely Curious cheers

My problem with "Neil is the little kid" means he had to be traveling backwards in time for YEARS, decades even. Talk about dedication.

Thank you for making this.

Thanks. That was an excellent explanation.