𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗧 (2020) In-Depth Review

Popular filmmaker Christopher Nolan's last released film 'Tenet' may seem incomprehensible to almost everyone at first. But if you try to understand a little carefully, it is a very thrilling and funny action movie.

In this article, I have tried to discuss almost all aspects of 'Tenet' in detail with my personal acquaintances. You will look at the mistake with a forgiving look.

Original Concept and Naming of TENET Significance: The History of SATOR square.

The original concept for Nolan's film is a 2000-year-old palindromic square known as the '5 × 5 Sator Square'. Signs of this Saturn Square can be found all over Europe, including in the ancient ruined city of Pompeii. It is basically a 5 × 5 letter square; Where 5 palindromic words are kept in a row.

A palindrome is a rhythm that is as straightforward as it is inverted. And this Saturn Square stays the same when read around - that's why it's called a four-dimensional palindrome.

S A T O R

A R E P O

T E N E T

O P E R A

R O T A S

Europeans consider this square to be magical, many think it has protective properties. In the movie, Tenet is an organization that is protecting the world from one of the terrible consequences of mankind, which is shown in the movie as 'Preventing from 3rd World War' which is basically a time related war or 'Temporal warfare'.

Throughout the movie, Nolan uses the five elements of this category as character and cinematic components. And just like the word TENET, the story ends on the day the movie begins. That means the movie has also been finished in a palindromic order.

The peculiarity of Nolan's filmography style is-

Deep theoretical aspects and detailed drama; If you want to taste the juice of Nolan's movies, you have to enjoy two things at the same time. Nolan arranges the 'deep-theoretical' side with absolutely strange things. It is better to call it a hypothetical concept than an actual science.

But the interesting thing is that in order to benefit from the 'central theory' of his movies, the actions of the characters follow the other rules of general physics. That's why when Nolan brings an action scene in his movie, you have to look at it.

The nature and mechanism of Tenet's time travel (Don't try to understand it, feel it)

Nowadays time travel is a very popular people. So this matter is shown and explained differently in different movies. Although time travel is shown in a special way (Turnstile) in the movie Tenet, some original ideas are in line with the original concept of some movies shown earlier. One such special ontological paradox of time is 'The Grandfather Paradox'.

Where if something is done in the past that will destroy the existence of something that already exists in the future. But the thing to keep in mind is that what has happened. That is, if you change something in the past, it has been seen by observers in the past, and it is also a thing of the past. But even then, if you kill your grandfather in the past, will you be born again? From here comes the theory of alternative reality.

All of these things have been subtly avoided in Tenet with another type of mechanism called the "algorithm". Which is a mechanical combination that will be able to ignore this ‘Grand-Father Paradox’ and turn future mankind into a new world of habitation desired for them through the inversion of the earth. When you think about it, it is actually a terrible weapon that is a unique and cruel step of human survival, where the future has adopted a difficult and varied style of war against the past.

Turnstile: 'Turnstile' usually means a door that can turn. But the device shown in 'Tenet' is a mechanism by which reverse entropy can be achieved for the desired time. Through this, just as tactical advantage is available, it is also possible to go in the opposite direction of time. One of the tactical advantages is the 'Temporal Pinser' movement which I will talk about later.

Inverted reality and reverse entropy (If he can't have her, no one can)

Entropy is the main reason why the events we observe around us are directed to one side. For example, ice will melt at normal temperatures, or hot objects will lose their temperature and become colder. Although theoretically the concept of entropy is not so simple - entropy is called the amount of disorder in the language of physics. In fact, it refers to the flow of time & nature.

So reverse entropy is a concept that can reverse all reactions and radioactivity. In general, it reverses the way we perceive time. So we have first cause and then effect which is called 'Cause & Effect', but in reverse entropy we can see the effect first and then the action.

If we observe a phenomenon of reverse entropy from our reality, everything will seem to us the opposite. And so all the events of inverted reality revolve around us. And objects that are inverted or 'reverse entropy' will flow in the opposite direction of time which is called 'Streaming back' in the film. In this way, future war directors exchange various issues with movie antagonists or villains.

Notable among them is the payment system. Satter buries his 'time-capsule' in a secret place and the 'individuals in the future' finance him with an inverted goldbar. Thus a 'temporal war' developed in which Saturn capitalized on his certain death and joined hands against his own period.

Every action length-scene explained from beginning to end:

1. Opening Scene - Kiev's Opera House Siege: This operation is basically under the control of a plutonium-241 capsule. The operation at the Kiev (Ukraine's capital) opera house has three sides.

The first is that a 'small private militant organization' seizes the opera house at the very beginning and starts taking everyone inside hostage. Then the Ukrainian security forces came to the scene and a group of members of the Central Intelligence Agency in their disguise came on a secret mission. The only purpose of all is retrieval of plutonium-241.

But after all the drama, there were doubts about the size and type of the atomic bomb capsule and in the end the CIA failed to control it. The central character protagonist sees the first inverted bullet in this mission, which is surprising but in the course of time it disappears. After being tortured at the hands of the Russians who had been with them for a long time (whose other side was the regulator), the protagonist committed suicide with a poisonous pill, which eventually led to his 'induced coma'. He was rescued from Kiev.

2. Interview with Sanjay Singh: A prominent arms dealer in Mumbai where the protagonist comes to unravel the mystery of Inverted Gola. It was later learned that Sanjay was originally a puppet of his wife Priya, the real front Priya Singh. This Priya Singh is basically a broker of the 'Tenet' company which we will know a little later.

3. Oslo Free-Port Operation: 'Freeport' is the best place for art, antiques and tax-free safe business. The manufacturer of the freeports shown on the tenet is 'ROTAS' which is basically a Sattar company. The purpose of the operation was to destroy an art with which Sator blackmailed his wife, Kat. Which required setting fire to the freeport which was done by a plane running directly from the runway. This resulted in a pre-plan without killing any crew and dropping gold bars on the runway

Accordingly a wide crimson is created which will immediately feel like an accident. Halide gas is replaced in each uninterrupted compartment to extinguish the fire inside the freeport. But in the innermost compartment, two full-bodied men came out of the transitil. For whom the real purpose of this mission becomes compromised, but new data is added.

4. Plutonium-241 mission from start to finish

The search for 241 prompted Priya Singh to tell the protagonist so that the protagonist could meet Andre Satter directly and gather the information needed for the main mission. For this, Plutonium-241 had to be snatched from the escort of the security service in the city of Tallinn (Estonia) and given to Sator. An agreement is reached between Satter and the Protagonist, and the Protagonist on Saturn's yacht sees how Saturn receives guidance and funding through future war directors. At that moment, Saturn's security caught up with him.

Coincidentally, Sator gives him a goldbar in advance, which the protagonist pretends not to be able to hold on to the ground - so that Saturn's secret pockets can be found. But it does not have special benefits.

As usual, the protagonist succeeded in taking control of 241 in Tallinn. But it warns the blue protagonist that plutonium-241 is not a nuclear weapon capsule but more dangerous than that, so that it does not fall into the hands of Saturn. But thanks to the 'Temporal Pincher' (through which Sator divides his team into two parts, one part instructs him to observe and mark everything in the normal time and the other team he leads (inverted team) easily with all the information he already knows. Attacks the protagonist and takes control of 'Plutonium-241' (which is basically the last part of the algorithm), but the protagonist gives Saturn an empty box of 241, so he takes Kat hostage before going to the Saturn reverse run to ask him where he actually dropped the 241. That's why Kat is hit with an inverted bullet, but the protagonist lies because he knows in advance that it won't work, but if Saturn kills Kat in the past for lying, the protagonist goes back in reverse for fear that we'll see where he actually is. Left (not even the FireTrack, not even in the BMW, not in an Audi) and just at that moment he saw this shifting satyr.

As a result, antagonist Andre Satter collected all parts of the algorithm for future reference. Now all that remained was to choose the right time and place to deliver the 9 parts simultaneously to future antagonists.

5. Reverse chronology and the last war

To protect the cat from the deadly damage or inevitable death of an inverted bullet, it is inverted through a tracheal to mitigate the effects of inverse radiation. But 1 week before the transfer to Tallinn freeport, Transtil was in Oslo port. That's why they need to go to Oslo. For all that happens at this time in the movie, they have to slowly go back to the past (until June 14, which is 16/17 days before the present time) exactly the day the Kiev Opera House was seized, which is the beginning of the movie. This part is reverse chronology.

This is how Nolan transforms the whole movie into a palindrome. When they revert to Oslo, they realize that the two men who escaped from Transitil at the Central Pentagon in Oslo Freeport were actually protagonists themselves. The 'Tenet' team later returned on June 14, with the help of Ivos-led Priya-owned Transtil, which planned to send all parts of the Saturn algorithm into the future by blasting Stalsky-12 (a Soviet-era secret city). There was basically a nuclear test underground with the lowest part called the 'hypocenter'.

This is where Saturn plans to bury all parts of the algorithm for future regulators.

For this operation the whole team was divided into 2 parts. Red and Blue team. Red team pioneer. To them all events are like our reality. And Blue Team Reverse. That means their journey will be from the end to the beginning. It's basically a big 'Temporal Pincher' campaign, which Red Team will finish in 10 minutes and Blutim in 10 minutes (Te> n <eT).

A small part of the Red Team is the 'Splinter Unit' (2 people) whose responsibility is to bring the 'algorithm' out of the hypocenter and keep the algorithm safe from the future. For the success of this mission, Kat was given another responsibility. Saturn's fitness tracker is a dead-man switch that will cause the algorithm to lose its position immediately if Saturn dies. So the main mission is to remove the algorithm before the time of his death. And that's why the current cat is sent to the past so that Saturn's death can be delayed ahead of time.

The only exception to this plan is blue. The blue comes almost in the middle and reverts from the blutim to save the protagonist and Ives from the explosion of the hypocenter. But for this, another net is woven from the blue future to the past.

While in the hypocenter, the protagonist and Ive are trapped in Volkov's hands, and from there, Neely saves them in an inverted state in exchange for his own sacrifice. And that's what happened. That is, he will die when he goes back to the past. Ives and Protagonists now have to hide parts of the algorithm so that no one else in the human race can find the device.

At the end of the movie, the protagonist realizes that Neil is actually going back to the past. And Tenet is basically an organization he founded. In other words, Priya is also his broker. Priya wants to kill Kat (No loose ends) but Kat is warned in advance by the protagonist which is called 'Posterity' in the movie. Which means something that will come in the future. Everything we record or transmit through electronic signals directly connects us to the future.

Are Max and Neil the same person?

Although this is a popular movie theory, there is no evidence that Max and Neil are the same. If that were to happen, Max (Kat's son) would have to spend his life as an inverted. The timelines of the two of them are really different.

Problems with the time-loop and bootstrap paradox or casual loop of the movie 'Tenet': (Is there a problem with the movie?)

Tenet's whole story is a protagonist's temporal pinch operation. But where is the real origin or beginning of this story? According to the rules of the bootstrap paradox (Casual loop in the language of physics) it is an event whose true origin is unknown. We can't say who is the main idea of ​​the missions of Tenet Blue and Protagonist.

Or if Saturn is only helped by the people of the future, then how did Tenet create the protagonist himself without the help of the future is also a big question. If you look at the whole story through a big lens, I know how many holes remain. Because such questions were not answered in the movie. But it's not uncommon for this to happen under the Bootstrap paradox.

Finally, 'Tenet' is one of Christopher Nolan's most complex movies and one of the best action movies in the world based on the 'original' concept. Nolan has been thinking about the concept of this movie for a decade. And the hardest thing is that it takes him 5 years to compose 'screen-play'. If you want to brainstorm with strange scientific theories and ideas, then of course Nolan's works are the best of the best. 'TENET' is actually the conclusion of such a project.