Inception is still his magnum opus, It had everything Tenet had in terms of concept but with poetic qualities that made that ending really hit the note. Inception is remembered for the expository and while taboo for films, The beauty of the expository dialogue is what I remember it for not the spinning hallway. As with Interstellar big thoughts lots of talk moving very slowly in time and space. Dunkirk switched that up a high anxiety film where not too much happens but the incoming Nazi doom is lingering in the air like the score, you can't put your finger on it but it is there. Chris found a way to change his own mastery of story which was very successful for him, but in that comfort zone the death of creativity. When he makes these decade one off high concept films I see the ambition of a student film. One reason the score is so loud is because the 70mm camera's make noise and he likes live shoots. The other is the experience of molding picture and music into a seem less idea. He saw the flaws in Interstellar, Inception like exposition that was a slow 3 hour burn intended to trap you out of time like the bulk beings. If you liked 2001 then you liked Interstellar but you could see a pattern. Zimmer and Chris had been creating this style each movie. If asked what is Nolan's worst tendency, expository which is also the reason Inception is what is. He took that criticism and incorporated it into his process. What is the point of a score?, To convey information without script or acting. In Dunkirk the music that is ambiguous replaced the dialogue of fear and uncertainty. In Tenet he gave us both extreme confusing exposition " wait you told me to sell the plutonium" and a bomb ass score so loud you can't hear a percentage of the dialogue. Which is an response to his critics and the growth in his own process. When Neil is touring Freeport the host is explaining the secure system in place. The score is telling us what to think and what the guy is telling Neil doesn't matter to us. Because in Roberts acting and glances at each separate security feature informs us as to what the host is saying even if we can't really make it out. In short he has mastered conveying mass information to the audience by using all of the medium's of the arts often overwhelming and unconscious.

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During my first viewing of Tenet, I was stunned by what Nolan and The Cast Managed to pull off. I was in aww while imagining an entire cinematic universe akin to wanted but good The problem is getting Nolan to make another. Can't wait for the Blue-ray and any other movie that plays with this style which is easier said than done.

The genius of Tenet is that its a movie made for posterity...Nolan has characters straight up tell the audience the goals of his movies without most of them understanding, unfortunately.The themes the characters grapple with and the protagonists goal of coming to terms with those same themes is simultaneously what the film and the main character is doing...and allowing you to do so vicariously as well...I think people struggle with Metaphor, no matter how genius it is, and a good Nolan film is both spectacle and metaphor in equal parts...its unfortunate that so many people chose to only see this movie through an overly simplistic lens

I thought Tenet was quite a multi-layered offering from Nolan and it succeeded in immersing the viewer into the story from start to finish...

Lol, underrated comment dude

GENIUS!!! I've read thousands of comments but never thought to reply or comment myself... until now! "...rewatching Tenet is your own temporal pincer movement". That's some next level sh*t (and pretty f'n meta too). Nice job!

Genius

When you realize a temporal pincer movement is a time palindrome.

😳...😲😲😀 Whoa, mind blown right there!

🤯

... that really hurt...

It’s simultaneously is

I gave you a reverse like for that comment!

Emit eht retfa

Yeah I'm almost certain that despite its moderate succes atm, it will grow to be recognized as a classic.

Especially as it's more common to have decent speakers.

I mean, all of his movies are good at any time. His first movies, made almost 20 years ago are still masterpieces.

His most divisive

@The Abcool The Shawshank Redemption was nominated for 7 Oscars including some major categories. I think it was more critically accepted than Tenet.

I totally agree!

It doesn't spoonfeed u that's true and I liked that it didn'tbut the reason it is not held in a higher regard like inception is because there was no emotion which made it feel kinda shallow. PS I really liked the film. Just pointing some things out.

I liked this movie but feel less compelled to label it a masterpiece. The whole notion of reversing entropy itself is a tough pill to swallow. After Memento I'm just not sure why he'd feel the need to bring a temporal plot device into it. The science fiction of the film is the weakest link here; Memento wisely employs a temporal distraction through editing rather than through plot. Interstellar was sort of like this too but I think the emotional framework was stronger. I appreciate your essay though. It definitely makes a good argument for the strengths of this movie. The fact that we're still talking about it is something I suppose. But if we did a thought experiment and had only one chance to view it, of what value would this film hold as art?

Tenet forces the viewer to actually use their brain and think about the events taken place in the film instead of like you said where they are spoonfed and given too easy concepts that are repetitive and common which is why it was received so badly by some critics because no one has ever experienced this before. It’s a rarity in the filmmaking industry to have a movie like this.

@@Primus-kz3ri Yeah I guess that's why half the movie is exposition and people explaining the fucking plot to each other, because it's just so damn clever that it's impossible to write a non crappy script around it, or maybe it's just that nolan can't write an elegant script to save his fucking life and the obly reason he has this many fans is because he pulls off any concept in the dumbest, lowest common denominator way possible so a bunch of people can watch the film, be told everything through shitty exposition, see a bunch of crap blow up, and then pretend to have watched actually thought provoking cinema while in reality it was just a dumb crowdpleaser. The nerve of complaining about how "ThE crIticS don'T gEt It" with goddamn sci fi james bond all because you don't understand the difference between a confusing movie and a complex movie. A shitload of convoluted useless self serving plot is not complexity, it's poor writing.

Agreed.

It’s going to be like interstellar where most reviews on release were pretty mixed. It’s now regarded as one of Nolan’s best movies and even one of the best films ever made.

@worldd777 it could be better. Definitely felt weaker in this movie. But he’s done better dialogue in Dark Knight and interstellar in my opinion.

@worldd777 he can

@worldd777 He writes much better than most of these other blockbusters, his language experience from his studies is evident

There's a lot of positive video about TeneT even though it is one of Nolan's most divisive films.

What most of the videos are positive about tenet ,those people who didn't like it simply didn't understand it....

@@sayanghosh520 that's right bro it will take time to understand and that will defins nolens masterpiece

@@Albinkpaul. bhai kab release Hoga India mein pata hai? Mujhe theatre mein dekhna hai..

@@sayanghosh520 dk bro, there will be a second wave

Agreed, when theatres are open properly again.

They will

Agreed... iMAX only please 😁

You mean last year.

I really hope they do. I only saw the movie a week ago, and I'm not sure I'll have a chance to see it in theater again before it finishes in cinema.

You know what, I never brought up the fact that I completely understood the movie the first time I watched it because I couldn't find another person who also did and I didn't want to seem like I was calling myself big brained or anything.

@@KaliTakumi I see that

That doesn't make sense, if most people are "stuck in the past" they're still acting in the present therefore are not ready for this movie therefore this movie is ahead of people's expectation for a movie therefore it's ahead of it's time

I didn't fully understand it and still am trying to wrap my head around some of the smaller details of how some of the physics worked but I agree that this film is something new and I want more movies like this. Not every movie has to have big dramatic character scenes like Marriage Story or There Will be Blood to be great. The idea, originality, and execution of this story are what make this film great. Absolute wild ride.

breath of fresh air...but in mask

I went to see it 11 times. Every time I got something out of it. It's made to be viewed multiple times. I became obsessed with this movie. Reviews coming out on the first weekend for this film is retarded. Easily his best for me.

@@jamesmccarthy6764 damn 11 times😳 congrats, you truly gained my respect :D

@@CockworkOrange You're too kind.

I’m at 6 viewings currently gonna go for 7 though. The movie just bumps in Dolby Cinema theaters. I can’t get enough of that soundtrack.

Am now at 5 viewings at the cinema.Went with my wife and she loved it and understands the movie after one viewing and explained stuff i was still puzzled on lol.

Yeah I see a lot of people saying JDW was flat but I couldn't disagree more. On further rewatches you can definitely see his cheeky sense of humour and his empathy and wanting to help others even if it's against what the mission should be. And that last scene when he realises what's going to happen to Neil is so well-acted, you can see the pain and the desperate want to stop him from going to his death but he has to let him go.

Hey, about the heart rate thing, that’s not original at all? Watch the Korean movie Oldboy. Its literally a big plot point in that one. I agree on everything else tho

@@aryavirsangwan6837 What was the purpose of the fitness tracker in Olboy? All I remember about that film is all the weird stuff at the end. I don't want to watch it again.

@@versena The messed up thing is he still has to go recruit & befriend Neil, knowing full well how it's going to end for him. Imagine how emotionally painful & conflicting that's going to be. Our Protagonist never gets a break.

James McCarthy so the villain is essentially holding the protagonist “hostage” by not letting him know why he was imprisoned for 15 years, by having a device that stops his heart. One of many twists in the end is that he lied, and the device didnt do anything. Watch it again, its a good flick

I saw it for the sixth time today, it's just so good, and you're right, the details and the layers in it that become apparent the more you see it make it extremely rewatchable.

Same for me. Thx to further movie delays it is running on a only 600qm IMAX screen in Nuremberg (Germany) since mid of august. I don't see any change to this any time soon. :) (: 1st: wtf 2nd: wow 3rd: slowly understanding the mechanics 4th: how did he archieve it that every get's the emotions right depending on its own timeline? 5th: pure joy 6th: soon!

Watched it twice in cinema and damn was it a experience. In my cinema the sound was so loud i thought i'd get hearing damage but that added to the atmosphere

Backwards explosions.....

tenet is his most expositive film

This movie is nothing but exposition lmao

Yeeah great idea, now the movie sucks balls, totally hit the spot

@@marcogianesello6083 "For you" - bane

He scored black panther right

@@venkatakrishnan6481 Yeah, Black Panther, Venom, and The Mandalorian (all brilliant scores)

@@billylardner He also did the first Creed

Right I don't think people understood she was talking to the audience

Then the movie shouldn't have spent so much time explaining how to understand it.

Was literally going to write that same comment. Maybe you inverted yourself and stole my comment?

@@benpeter3468 ...Ebyam

I watched it 3 times and I somehow hope he makes a second one (as a temporal pincer, just like Neil said: “you’re only halfway there”) But maybe it would destroy the story, I don’t really know. But with good ideas it would be great

Modern day audience expects character development to happen at the beginning of the film. Tenet itself is a huge palindrome. The character development actually ha0pened at the end of the movie.

@@Sonic557 Most character development actually happens in the middle of the film, where a character must learn to adapt to the new environment they've found themselves in. In order to get what they want they have to change.

I agree but at the same time, Chris clearly didn’t want to give us the same experience again. Not gonna debate on whether or not it was good or not but he clearly didn’t want to do another inception or interstellar or even memento with strong emotional drives and character development, with tenet he wanted to give us a different experience with tenet one that will definitely challenge us more but that shows Chris 22 years on since following is still ambitious and still can experiment

That's why we love it :)

Thanks man and I agree with interstellar, hopefully it will have a similar effect amongst many people.

People disliked interstellar?? (not talking about critics, talking about general audience)

@@kalyanvejalla "not talking about critics" haha this, at this point (after Cuties and Mulan2020 getting good reviews on RT) I don't really trust critic ratings anymore.

Ya I think this will happen to, that film was made in a way were u have to rewatch it.

It's like when an artist dies lonely and poor, and decades or centuries later people find out they were a genius. Except Nolan is neither lonely, poor, or unappreciated. He can literally see today people changing their opinions and recognizing the genius of his work. And that makes me so happy for him!

Yes, I have thought about this too. It would be emotional as the Protagonist would meet Neil knowing what his fate will be. I'd love to see the stuff they get up to though, this could be the second film, and maybe a third showing what happens with the protagonist after Neil inverts and goes back to the first film. It really could be an epic trilogy if they wanted to.

It would be great and i would watch it but I think the mystery of future JDW just being this all knowing mastermind is so cool

Has to be done multiple times. Glad you enjoyed it Thomas

I said that before I watched it... and halfway watching it I changed my statement to : Tenet is Memento on steroids

Can you elaborate ?

@@GrownManPat Memento had a pretty screwed timeline and Tenet had... well, you know what Nolan did to Time in Tenet.

@@ahmadyasin308 ....what?

Both movies do share the theme of time yes. But, Memento covers a mans inability to recall events and the antagonist is gaslighting him. Tenet has nothing to do with the main character recalling events, but experiencing events both forward and backward in time. They aren't alike at all.

it just came out here in Victoria Australia and I plan to do the same! Im literally going to force everyone I know to go to the cinema and watch this movie with me haha

In other words, the actor did his job and the writer did not

@@callumjohnston35 No, Nolan did his job by making the audience focus more on the mission than on the characters, since that’s essentially what the movie’s about: saving posterity from the end of the world.

I liked both the writing (aloof and sparse on detail of any kind, by necessity I think for what we learn about him and history future/past) and the acting for the Protagonist. There's a lot of warmth and subtle competency tells that make him very likeable.

In terms of long term growth, you could say so, but inception, the dark knight and Dunkirk for instance, were released to critical and audience praise.

Ignorant individuals vs. Curiosity individuals

@@Mnerd7368 True! We Nolan fans are the curious ones because we know that Nolan would never make something crappy/useless/nonsense so we always try to understand his movies as completely and deeply as we can. There's always something fascinating and unique in Nolan Movies

This movie pisses off all the right people, like Joker did.

@@GarenDJ people who know what a good script looks like?

@@marcogianesello6083 People who take themselves too seriously and rely on petty narcissism to get by. I can guess your political leaning just from how you type. How you act.

Not related to Tenet, but I have to say I love your profile picture, one of the best Spider-Man comics I’ve ever read! The art style was soo crips and satisfying

@@julianirion2413 Thanks!

That’s how I personally feel tenet could go. We’ll have to see

@@CortexVideos Yeah the reception to the movie wil definitely change over the next 10 years as the ppl rewatch it more and more. The circumstances of its release didnt help either because of COVID and the expectation that it will save movie theatres and the fact that the general audience probably wouldve preferred an easy simple movie to watch and not a complicated one.

Despite its age, 2001 still holds itself as a visual masterpiece. Can't say the same about Tenet, imo one of Nolan's weakest productions. Dunkirk will probably age much better.

Yeah only those movies are singlehandedly better than the entirety of nolan's filmography put together and that's why they stood the test of time and poorly made critiques, I didn't really enjoy eyes wide shut the first time I saw it but I could not really find something that flawed about it, I can spend an hour explaining tenet's prolems because most of them are nolan's problems turned up to eleven, the only people who didn't know that nolan is terrible with dialogue and exposition just ignored it in both inception and interstellar, now he just turned it up so goddamn much that even they suffer it, wrote his most bloated plot yet and just did what he's been doing for some time, a crowdpleasing flick with a veneer of high concept that is explored only on the most shallow spectacularized level, this time around he just did it unapologetically, and honestly better because he went full gimmick and just had fun with it, which I can appreciate, rather than the devolving in melodrama he has often gone to

And you do have to watch it more than once for sure. Which isn't a failing in the slightest, it just makes it rewarding to go back and connect all the pieces you didn't realise fit together at first. If people don't like it that's fine, but I feel like just watching it once does it a disservice and isn't enough to determine one's true feelings on it.

Exactly my thoughts

The first time people watch it they shouldn’t be thinking about how pincher moves or inversion work they should simpily accept them as mechanics in the film and just focus on the events and plot

You don't sound pretentious I completely agree

I completely agree. This was my primary thought coming out of the theater. I LOVED it and was talking about it to the friends I went with and they were asking how I "got any of that out of it," meaning the plot points, world building, and themes. (I don't want to spoil it for anyone reading the comments who hasn't seen it) Immediately I became concerned and sad because of the simple fact that not many people will even be able to see it due to the pandemic-related restrictions and because you have to reeeeeally pay close attention, put on your thinking cap, and digest every piece. The average moviegoer doesn't want to work to understand a piece of entertainment in order to fully appreciate it.

Well said! Glad you enjoyed it!

Dude, same.

It’s set to come out on dec 15th :D

The time has come...

@@morgierwin6641 YES

TBT it's worth buying because you will watch it multiple time and the rental time frame will not really give you enough time to absorb what is actually happening.

Loved seeing more of that on rewatch

And getting poop in and food out

Glad you enjoyed it like I did!

They're not the same person. Two different actors. You are correct.

@@jf4764 cheers !

Thank you and yeah I totally agree. It’s become so concerned with the single viewing experience

I wouldn't be surprised if that was by design

Dunkirk

Can you elaborate on the quantum and hologram aespect?

Thank you. And I will keep this in mind. Got a busy December, but after the release of the 4k of tenet and the videos I’m doing, I will look into what I could do.

Glad you enjoyed it Valeria. I agree. The depth and emotional nuance in the film is much more noticeable on rewatch and it makes it better and better each time.

Glad you enjoyed. Thanks!

2001 was a massive success when it came out.

Cheers man. Really enjoying making vids of Tenet. It just gets better and better

Cortex Videos I need to watch it again. Only once and I still was blown away by the depth.

best movie ever

Thanks and I'm glad you're enjoying it, same here!

Ludwigs Music enhanced the experience not sure Hans Style would've suited with this one.