@@doctorfritznoel Yes. Take the scene when JDW approaches the turnstile. 2 JDWs exit the turnstile in front of him at the same time. One of them fights him and the other is chased down by Neil, all happening at the same time. So yea 3 JDWs at the same time and similarly 3 Neils. It's one of those things you don't notice while watching the movie. And even later when you think you finally understand it all, someone points it out and you are like Damn!
Whoever had the mental capacity to understand, write, shoot, and edit all of this movie in it’s entirety is either a goddamn genius or clinically insane. Maybe both.
I still don't understand why some people didn't like it... I absolutely loved this concept and this movie... We have had so many repetitive time travel concepts and theories but never as intriguing and unique as this one...
@@Novarya Honestly, it's incredible, I never thought about "what if two people moving in different directions through time interacted." what a mind boggling concept, and it was beautifully handled.
Because smooth brain people have no ideea what the fuck is going on whatsoever (well we dont either, but at least we understand the concept behind it) so they hate it because they dont understand it. As if you or i would try to read a book in a language that we don't understand, or cant even read as it has a different writing system; we cant enjoy such book.
You can see as the fight progresses that each of them struggle at first but get better as the fight goes on. At the turnstile, TP is surprised by his inverted self and very clumsily defending himself, but for his inverted self, it is the end of the fight, and his arm is now immediately healed, so he is easily countering any attempted attacks, in stark contrast to his entry to the fight at gunpoint.
3:17 this is my favorite part. You see on Neil's face pure confusion, then he understands. He doesn't know why the protagonist is back there again, but he throws him the helmet anyway because he trusts him.
(Spoilers) Also as we learn much later in the movie Neil was involved way before forward Protagonist, so he probably understands what is going on and has less need for "trust" if that makes sense.
No Neil knows everything as jdw already have him the details as he is the forward moving pincer and he has a confusing look maybe because he knows these things will happen and maybe didn't know when they would happen or Nolan didn't want to give us any hint till the end of the film.😅
I love how past Neil doesn’t even bother asking for an explanation from future protagonist, he just knows if he’s here, there must be a damn good reason. And that his past self is currently fighting his future self, so he needs to hurry back and make sure he doesn’t kill him lol.
@Vadim Tikhonov The fight happens because they're going in opposite directions in time. They both perceive each other as the aggressor, because each one encounters the other as the end of the fight is happening. The future protagonist is defending himself from the past because he was immediately held at gunpoint after being blasted inside. So, he continues to fight to the turnstile. The past protagonist meets the future version as he's coming out of the turnstile and immediately pulls a gun and starts shooting. They are both defending themselves in a timeloop of sorts.
Protagonist A (present): goes forward to the freeport Oslo's reverse machine with Neils. Protagonist B (from the future, the Taillin's secret garage reverse machine): had gone first. Because he is going backwards from the future. He founds Protagonist A, fights him and goes inside the Oslo's reverse machine. Now he is in the present too, so he becomes in Protagonist B2: who trying to escape now in the present, got catched by Neils and released. As far he is moving around the present, his past (Protagonist B) is coming backwards to the future. And Protagonist B fights 'again' with Protagonist A 'because it already happened'. What is done is done. Yeah it isn't Back to the Future but Backwards to the future.
And u know who the hell is Protagonist B? The blue reflection of Protagonist A before using the Taillin's secret garage reverse machine. The Protagonist A -our Protagonist during most of the movie- turns with the red side into Protagonist B blue one to arrive to Oslo's. The one coming backwards to the future after Protagonist B2 used the Oslo's reverse machine. Finally, Protagonist B2 goes again to the past for the CIA's operation at Stalks 12, meanwhile our Protagonist A fails at the Kiev's Opera House operation from the beginning.
going through the reverse machine is basically taking a U-turn in time --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is the normal perspective what (aka Protagonist A sees) ........................../ This is the Protagonist B going back forward to the ambulance ^.........................^
@@Apollo-tj1vm exactly, and it doesn't exist because it "hasn't happened" -yet. The appearance of Protagonist B and B2 from the reverse machine is like the matching at 5' o'clock from two 10' watches, one backwards and the other forwards ;)
I actually thought it was redundant to show the fight scene again from a different angle. Revealing his face from earlier made sense but the actual fight sequence was the same. I wish there was another element like the face reveal.
There are some error parts of backward and forward plays. Nolan left those errors as it is. I think to hide plot mistakes. Instead of seeing his mistakes, we are simply confused. Which is better for the movie. That's why they says Dont try to understand it, feel it. This movie is just for an experience. May not be a puzzle.
I watched this pretty baked and it was lil me's wet dream of a movie, fiending for another movie like this. Even rewatching it i still cant wrap my head around whats going on Nolan brothers are up there with Picasso in terms of making art.
I'd rather expect some other movie to implement the idea better or even the remake that conveys the idea more clearly. Because this movie failed to stand up to its own ambition.
It's nice that it's not too distracting for emergency personnel of the airport seeing them backwards, since they are taking someone injured out of the place from their perspective.
Yes! This! Countless times they JUST FUCKING STROLL backwards and noone fucking reacts. THis is infuriating. If 3 people Saw inverse car chase the would would stop to ask "wtf is this shit" No- magical reverse people are going about their reverse missions and mindless drones dont react to it. One of many failures.
@@Kserijaro It's also an extreme emergency situation, people are focused on the obvious problems, i.e. the huge burning plane. You quickly look around and see some guys with masks (so perhaps special emergency units) transport an injured person out of the burning building, see that that person is taken care of and focus your attention on different things. With all the chaos (and them wearing black clothes at night) you could easily just not notice the backwards running on a quick glimpse and you don't have time to carefully inspect every person you see in that situation. And even if someone notices it, by the time they would have properly registered the backwards movement the backwards guys were already gone and you might not even believe what you just saw.
@@lordhelmchen3154 There was multiple scenes where normal timeline people are WALKING next to reversed people. No matter how I frame it in modern age this would be on all news, every social network, conspiracy theory etc. The story however is in a safe, fake bubble - told only to propagate a dumb "plot" and dumber gimmick. The movie is atrociously deprived of semblance of emotion or depth. Action scenes pile up and what little rest time we get is WASTED on inane Mcguffin talk that is so far up its ass it is amazing that a sea of mentoloids belive this is anything buy a steaming pile of trash.
I just realized, technically, the Protagonist wins both rounds. You'll think he wins only on the first round, but in the second fight he starts on the floor and technically pushes himself to the room where he is inverted, winning the second round in reverse. Damn.
The fact that it's possible to sync the scenes like this is a testament to Nolan's genius. Tenet is a flawed movie for sure, but it's one of my all-time favorites. I must've seen it 6 times now.
This is a time loop. For both versions, The protagonist looks like he gets attacked unprovoked and fights back in defense. In reality, the provocation to fight is actually the END of the fight for the other inverted TP version who himself felt he was attacked randomly. They both encountered end-fight aggressive versions of themselves and thus fought back. But they each finished their fights aggressively but ended up attacking a confused, non-aggressive TP version!
I think I get it. Inverted/Future Protagonist starts his fight with Regular/Past Protagonist when he jumps into the loading dock with all the paintings. From his perspective, he's the one moving normally, and Past Protagonist is moving inverted. He fights him all the way into the inverter, and uses it to swap back to normal. After he's normal again, he runs from Neil. Normal/Past Protagonist walks into the room and sees the inverter. He watches the door open and sees Inverted/Future Protagonist, and Future Protagonist in regular mode running from Neil. From his perspective, the man is moving backwards as he fights him. They fight all the way into the loading dock, until Future Protagonist jumps out the garage door into the airplane strip.
@metalore realistically if you travel to the past even once, you travel to the past an infinite amount of times. Because eventually you'll get to the point where you traveled to the past to begin with and you'll do it again, sending another version of yourself to the past infinitely. The second law of thermodynamics prohibits backward time travel due to this. Forward time travel is very possible, however.
The part that blows my mind in the consistency. Since they had to do things "multiple" times in order to get the Forward and Inverted versions, they had to make sure things matched to a t and work in both directions. Most movies mess up on the slightest consistency with the minor cuts. Yet this movie keeps everything so consistent, from the moment the movie begins to the end.
I know this is just for us to understand what's going on but I'm so glad that it wasn't actually edited like this in the movie because it would be way more confusing than it actually is.
@@stomcode It still doesn't explain why he helped him. it's not like inverted TP and Neil had a chat about it, so how could Neil know about what happens in TPs future in the fight scene?
One of the greatest movies ever. I have no idea how Chris sat down and wrote this script. That is a great feat in and of itself let alone actually make it into this masterpiece.
@@Ghost-qo5of Sure, but I wouldn't describe "the concept and the way Nolan executed" with words suggesting miniscule value like "only". It IS the concept and the way Nolan executed it. That's what it represents...which is why I think that relatable characters aren't necessarily...necessary to make a good film or novel, but that's a discussion for another day.
@@Ghost-qo5of tbf some parts make no sense though. Like the double building explosion in the war scene. If the building is destroyed in both forward and backward time except for like a millisecond, who the heck built it and how? It blew my mind and it never gets old, but it still makes no sense xd
I thought for sure this would make it easier to follow....I was wrong. That's not a complaint, mind you. I love that the plot is easy enough to follow even though I have to use every neuron in my brain to understand the particulars. There's a lot of people out there that can write an incredibly complex and convoluted plot framework, but being able to effectively layer an understandable and relatable narrative on top of a totally mind-bending concept...THAT is Nolan.
Of all the synced up version this one is undoubtedly the best. It basically shows all three perspectives from the different versions of the characters at once! This is brilliant editing, and I thought I’d seen it all with the movie!
My question is how do you fight something like that? You are both fighting eachother consciously aware of the other persons exact movements but you are both rewinding in eachothers dimension especially being the same person like how can you even tell if you're winning the battle?
I think it's just going with the flow, like if you see a dead inverted body come back to life to attack you just go with the flow since you now know that you killed him and just fight him until its point of entry.
there are sooo many hidden details, this shows how much effort Nolan and his team made to make this movie. At 05:47, towards the right you can see JDW closing the back of the yellow van, also at 06:09 you can JDW and Robert Pattinson carrying Kat in a stretcher in reverse when they are also in the van going forwards. Mind Blown!
I agree!! The key is to look WITHIN and conquer the Lion the dwells inside - the one that stops you from being the Hero you are in this Story called Earth.
@VaderxG what are you talking about? After second viewing everything shouldve made sense ... not the directors fault you had to watch youtubers break it down for you...
While the concept is intriguing, the movie itself sucked. And this is proven by the fact you can find 1000s of videos trying to explain the plot, meaning the movie itself did a poor job in doing so.
@@quasimoto4424 There are actual movies like that too. Seemingly plotless movies and I doubt the goal was to make everything simple enough to understand lol.
I can't understand why there's a lot of bad reviews and comments for TENET, it's clearly a masterpiece and Nolan's work with this sequence is absolutely beautiful. Plus the soundtrack, visual effects and cast... WOW!
@@barryeugene3297 after you think for like 3 minutes you realize it makes no sense. Like the inverted bullets for example, were they already there before everything happened? If so, how didn't anyone notice inverted bullet holes in the glass?
"A Tenet is never late, Frodo Baggins, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to." - Christopher Nolan at a (confused) screening in Hobbiton
One of the most brilliant movies ever created! I have watched it, many times, and always find something new, simply brilliant. I really hate that people, who did not understand it, say it is a bad movie. It is not, just very, complex, and also brilliant, did I mention that?
@@Wapak95 he means the two masked people clearly running backwards, but i agree the crashed plane was a way more pressing matter than 2 weirdos running backwards, they wouldnt figure out that inversion is a thing just from that
At 5:53 there is a fireman who appears to be doing a double take as he sees them go by, but he could just be keeping an eye on the hose since that is his job.
Nolan chose to not show it too much, cause it's just a waste of us audience's time. Still, at 5:54 u can see the fireman suspiciously looking at our heroes.
@@SOSO_CREPITUS he means he makes it confusing on purpose so people can talk about and come back to theaters and rewatch them again to see things they didn’t see the first time!
Wow. Excellent attempt. I don't know why people can't understand it now. The title says synchronized events. That's what the movie wanted to show but for us to comprehend we had to be watching it n understanding it well. This video helps.
I'm now in a colossial state of confusion, compounded even more by this incredible sync video. Nolan is absolutely amazing at his craft. I don't think I will ever understand this movie.
Loved this movie. I did have to watch it about 4 or 5 times to fully understand it though, especially trying to catch all the dialogue which is very quiet and hard to understand sometimes in a few places, especially compared to how insanely loud the music and sound effects get at times, lol.
This is why I hate most action movies. The sound dynamics are too high and mixed for a giant movie theater, not at home. Sound normalizer only can do so much
Amazing work done here. Thanks for all the time you invested to pull out such a nice video. TENET will be remembered as one of the movies of 2020s decade.Future generation will love it much more than us.
During the first showing of this fight i knew he was fighting himself and was foolish enough to actually think I knew what was going on, but i thought Neil was also chasing down HIMself, not the forwards 3rd protagonist. What a mind bender
After they managed to save the plutonium, Neil said "..i call it reality". It's not faith, it's not known scenarios but the fact that even if they're in inverted world, they have to live up the reality of the host world. Althought they'ven seen invertedly the acts which will set upon them, they have to act up on the situation and not relying on what they've known. Masterpiece.
If there was a Hall Of Fame for RUclips videos, this video would be a member of the first class of videos inducted into said Hall of Fame. Cheers, mate.
Good job doing this, I can't imagine how many times you had to go back and edit this or figure what scenes go where. I was wondering about this after my second watch through, about how closely synced they were.
3:26 that’s just a perfectly nice touch that we see the two other versions of him down the corridor to line up with the other scenes even if it’s just for a few frames.
Amazing how in this scene, there are 5 protagonists known. 3 in Freeport, one in the desert and one in the opera house. At the same time there must be an infinite number of Neil. As a child, agent and as an agent of Tenet in these scenes and others. Neil was a master with the Turnstile, even recognizing reverse English or how to operate things in reverse.
I like how in the beginning of this movie the scientist tries to explain to John how the reverse thing works and even she gives up trying to understand it herself.
@@jmoz but you're supposed to like it and clap and laugh and feel like you're smart for accepting that it doesn't make sense!!!! Really though it's painful seeing how many people think they're smart for "understanding" it regardless of the complete lack of logic. Great concept for story beats, horrible concept for action scenes.
“Why did Neil save the Protagonist if he knew he would survive anyway?” They talk about this in movie. If the Neil doesn’t stop him from killing his other self, he might be able to go through with it. Which would either break the universe and destroy everything, or create a parallel universe al-la Back to the Future.
His instinctive reaction is to make sure that 2nd inverted Protagonist isn't killed by 1st forward Protagonist. After that he doesn't say anything because he has already seen 3rd forward Protagonist and 2nd inverted Protagonist escape unharmed.
I remember on my last year at school, my friends decided to hang out at the movies. There was nothing interesting to watch, so we randomly decided TENET. Half of us was confused af, while I was really invested for some reason. I was blind reacting, never seen the trailer or even heard of it before. But damn such a good film. 10/10 Film. Story progression is really well written.
Finally I feel like I get this a little more. Never quite caught that Rob's character was seeing him and thus knowing his partner was fighting himself when he took the helmet off
Another guy here (DOGE) pointed out that there's actually 4 (maybe infinite). This is because in this sequence you have (1) Protagonist as we see him with Niel in the blue suit. (2) Protagonist exiting turnstyle fighting his past self (3) The Protagonist on the other side that scuffled with Neil (4) the protagonist that was just arriving with Neil (at the end).
@@RobotHau5 There is always 3 of you on the same timeline when inverted if you meet yourself in the past near the machine. The 4th is not an extra one. It's the same one that was running away from Neil.
When you use a turnstile there are two versions of you. A normal version of you and an inverted version. Since Protagonist inverted back to the moment at the Freeport where his past self was, there was three of him. 1. The Protagonist from a week ago wearing the blue suit 2. Inverted Protagonist that emerged from the turnstile on past Protagonist’s side in the SWAT gear 3. Normal Protagonist that emerged from the turnstile on Neil’s side in the SWAT gear
Nolan should release a pdf at his site related to movie So that we can understand whole movie Actually he want audience to watch his mobie again and again thats why he always does that
@@samromine9726 it looked to me this is the 2 nd part of any movie in which concept of temporal pincer and time rulling backwards already shown to audience and now they can enjoy whole movie without getting confuse
Interesting way to oversimplify the movie. They move forward in time and at some point they have to reverse themselves and reach to a point in the past (the same day as the starting incident), giving the film a narratively palindromic structure emulating the title of the movie. The important thing here is not if they traveling to the past or future but the point of view of the events based on if the characters are moving forward or backwards challenging the notion that we have free will.
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“Perfectly not confusing”
I was just thinking "now inverted" you're a real one thanks
Oh no it's blocked :(
Oh yeah, why not xD?
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I didn’t think there was a harder way to watch this movie yet here we are
Watching this is a masochist's dream 😏
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the point is that the film is actually the easiest way to watch this movie hahahaha but that's what makes it batshit crazy
@@shadynook86 😂🍻
Now this is more confusing than the movie
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@@doctorfritznoel Yes. Take the scene when JDW approaches the turnstile. 2 JDWs exit the turnstile in front of him at the same time. One of them fights him and the other is chased down by Neil, all happening at the same time. So yea 3 JDWs at the same time and similarly 3 Neils. It's one of those things you don't notice while watching the movie. And even later when you think you finally understand it all, someone points it out and you are like Damn!
@@doctorfritznoel that's why u have different moods
@@hk7059 this movie in a nutshell... thats why i love it so much
Whoever had the mental capacity to understand, write, shoot, and edit all of this movie in it’s entirety is either a goddamn genius or clinically insane. Maybe both.
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Christopher Nolan 🔥
No genius has existed without a touch of madness
@MushrooomHead memento is also another crazy movie, it took me years to understand wth was going on
I think Christopher Nolan spent a really long time writing this movie, probably a decade.
I still don't understand why some people didn't like it... I absolutely loved this concept and this movie... We have had so many repetitive time travel concepts and theories but never as intriguing and unique as this one...
Same! Every viewing is a different experience. The beginning Opera sequence is really about the ‘beginnings’ of our World.
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@@Novarya Honestly, it's incredible, I never thought about "what if two people moving in different directions through time interacted." what a mind boggling concept, and it was beautifully handled.
@@Shadow_Hunt I'd thought about backwards time in terms of a space battle, but that one has history being overwritten.
Because smooth brain people have no ideea what the fuck is going on whatsoever (well we dont either, but at least we understand the concept behind it) so they hate it because they dont understand it. As if you or i would try to read a book in a language that we don't understand, or cant even read as it has a different writing system; we cant enjoy such book.
I love the little details like when John is now the inverted guy in the black combat suit, he starts remembering his moves and countering them.
Ah yes, the 'dance' we do daily. Some move with grace; others like chaos.
You can see as the fight progresses that each of them struggle at first but get better as the fight goes on. At the turnstile, TP is surprised by his inverted self and very clumsily defending himself, but for his inverted self, it is the end of the fight, and his arm is now immediately healed, so he is easily countering any attempted attacks, in stark contrast to his entry to the fight at gunpoint.
@@BaronvonGoldrock Yep!
John..?
@@MrEpicguy23 The Protagonist.
3:17 this is my favorite part. You see on Neil's face pure confusion, then he understands. He doesn't know why the protagonist is back there again, but he throws him the helmet anyway because he trusts him.
(Spoilers) Also as we learn much later in the movie Neil was involved way before forward Protagonist, so he probably understands what is going on and has less need for "trust" if that makes sense.
@Sealside Neil is the young boy because he says when he's going into the Chinnock that you've already met me a couple of times already.
No Neil knows everything as jdw already have him the details as he is the forward moving pincer and he has a confusing look maybe because he knows these things will happen and maybe didn't know when they would happen or Nolan didn't want to give us any hint till the end of the film.😅
@@razyt6finger402 he doesnt know everythihng. he was visibly shocked that the guy in the mask was the protagonist
@@lewis0705he knows everything because he is inverted at this moment in the movie but moving forward in the protagonist present.
I love how past Neil doesn’t even bother asking for an explanation from future protagonist, he just knows if he’s here, there must be a damn good reason. And that his past self is currently fighting his future self, so he needs to hurry back and make sure he doesn’t kill him lol.
have to trust The Plan
****SPOILER ALERT**** i don't know if that's the case. Neil works for him and knew more about what was going on than The Protagonist
But why the fight started in the first place?
Classic "No time to explain!" situation, lol.
@Vadim Tikhonov The fight happens because they're going in opposite directions in time. They both perceive each other as the aggressor, because each one encounters the other as the end of the fight is happening.
The future protagonist is defending himself from the past because he was immediately held at gunpoint after being blasted inside. So, he continues to fight to the turnstile.
The past protagonist meets the future version as he's coming out of the turnstile and immediately pulls a gun and starts shooting.
They are both defending themselves in a timeloop of sorts.
i'm more confused than when I watched the movie
Protagonist A (present): goes forward to the freeport Oslo's reverse machine with Neils.
Protagonist B (from the future, the Taillin's secret garage reverse machine): had gone first. Because he is going backwards from the future. He founds Protagonist A, fights him and goes inside the Oslo's reverse machine. Now he is in the present too, so he becomes in
Protagonist B2: who trying to escape now in the present, got catched by Neils and released. As far he is moving around the present, his past (Protagonist B) is coming backwards to the future. And Protagonist B fights 'again' with Protagonist A 'because it already happened'. What is done is done.
Yeah it isn't Back to the Future but Backwards to the future.
And u know who the hell is Protagonist B? The blue reflection of Protagonist A before using the Taillin's secret garage reverse machine. The Protagonist A -our Protagonist during most of the movie- turns with the red side into Protagonist B blue one to arrive to Oslo's. The one coming backwards to the future after Protagonist B2 used the Oslo's reverse machine.
Finally, Protagonist B2 goes again to the past for the CIA's operation at Stalks 12, meanwhile our Protagonist A fails at the Kiev's Opera House operation from the beginning.
going through the reverse machine is basically taking a U-turn in time
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is the normal perspective what (aka Protagonist A sees)
........................../ This is the Protagonist B going back forward to the ambulance
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@@Apollo-tj1vm exactly, and it doesn't exist because it "hasn't happened" -yet. The appearance of Protagonist B and B2 from the reverse machine is like the matching at 5' o'clock from two 10' watches, one backwards and the other forwards ;)
@@deva561 No one is bothered to understand something overcomplicated. This isn't a science class, it's a movie.
No matter how many times you see it, from how many different perspectives, synced up or not,
it still looks weird as f@ck. Damn, Nolan!
I actually thought it was redundant to show the fight scene again from a different angle. Revealing his face from earlier made sense but the actual fight sequence was the same. I wish there was another element like the face reveal.
If u like puzzles, then u'll love it
Not for everybody, n that's ok
@@paulc7400 Yep, it's not like it was played in reverse reverse, it was the same but on a different camera
Exactly!!!!!....Coz it's bullshit and time travel is only a fantasy and not possible
There are some error parts of backward and forward plays. Nolan left those errors as it is. I think to hide plot mistakes. Instead of seeing his mistakes, we are simply confused. Which is better for the movie. That's why they says Dont try to understand it, feel it. This movie is just for an experience. May not be a puzzle.
Imagining Tenet, Interstellar, Inception as a first draft itself is so difficult. And Nolan brothers make a perfect film out of it. Hats off.
Don't you have brain? Turn it on. This film is full of dumb inconsistencies.
@@KrutoiPersonazh shhh. Keep quiet
@@hamdankhan319 what a humble way to say: "SHUT THE FUCK UP'.
@@KrutoiPersonazh like what exactly?
Watch cinema wins analysis of the film, really only a couple gripes he has everything else makes sense.
Tenet is way ahead of its time. One day, people will look back and appreciate this masterpiece
Because the story is a loop, isn't linear like the majority out there.
Doubt it
Yea like Rise of the Skywalker
I watched this pretty baked and it was lil me's wet dream of a movie, fiending for another movie like this.
Even rewatching it i still cant wrap my head around whats going on
Nolan brothers are up there with Picasso in terms of making art.
I'd rather expect some other movie to implement the idea better or even the remake that conveys the idea more clearly. Because this movie failed to stand up to its own ambition.
Antman: I'm so confused
Nolan: These are confusing times
Nolan: These are confusing times
Antman: I'm so confused
Antman: What?
Antman: I'm so confused.
Nolan: .semit gnisufnoc era esehT
don't try to understand it, feel it
Nolan : Next you'll say "I'm so confused"
Antman : I'm so conf.. wait..
*Visible confusion at the audiences*
My brain is melting trying to keep up with this, and I've seen the movie twice 😂
Everything clicks by the fourth time.
Dude same!!
Me too !
that jordan guy is lying the 15th watch you get everything
Really people? You should understand it by the 2nd watch, 3rd max.
It's nice that it's not too distracting for emergency personnel of the airport seeing them backwards, since they are taking someone injured out of the place from their perspective.
into a shipping crate
Yes! This! Countless times they JUST FUCKING STROLL backwards and noone fucking reacts. THis is infuriating. If 3 people Saw inverse car chase the would would stop to ask "wtf is this shit"
No- magical reverse people are going about their reverse missions and mindless drones dont react to it.
One of many failures.
@@Kserijaro It's also an extreme emergency situation, people are focused on the obvious problems, i.e. the huge burning plane. You quickly look around and see some guys with masks (so perhaps special emergency units) transport an injured person out of the burning building, see that that person is taken care of and focus your attention on different things. With all the chaos (and them wearing black clothes at night) you could easily just not notice the backwards running on a quick glimpse and you don't have time to carefully inspect every person you see in that situation.
And even if someone notices it, by the time they would have properly registered the backwards movement the backwards guys were already gone and you might not even believe what you just saw.
@@lordhelmchen3154 There was multiple scenes where normal timeline people are WALKING next to reversed people. No matter how I frame it in modern age this would be on all news, every social network, conspiracy theory etc. The story however is in a safe, fake bubble - told only to propagate a dumb "plot" and dumber gimmick. The movie is atrociously deprived of semblance of emotion or depth. Action scenes pile up and what little rest time we get is WASTED on inane Mcguffin talk that is so far up its ass it is amazing that a sea of mentoloids belive this is anything buy a steaming pile of trash.
@@Kserijarothere is a firefighter that looks at them but has to go back to fighting the fire
I just realized, technically, the Protagonist wins both rounds. You'll think he wins only on the first round, but in the second fight he starts on the floor and technically pushes himself to the room where he is inverted, winning the second round in reverse. Damn.
Dayum!! Raised the bar! IMO
I thought future MC won from past him's perspective, since he escaped.
There were 2 fights....
@@vishalnair5632 nah! really?
But wouldn’t he win no matter what, you know since he’s both people in the fight😅
imagine have to pick lock when your brain is lacking of oxygen
Doing it in normal condition is already a chore...
Hello, this is the lockpicking lawyer-
@@mcfixer9503 in any case, that's all I have for you today...
Yeah and Robert was thinking of plan B and C
Blimey 😏
The fact that it's possible to sync the scenes like this is a testament to Nolan's genius.
Tenet is a flawed movie for sure, but it's one of my all-time favorites. I must've seen it 6 times now.
This is a time loop. For both versions, The protagonist looks like he gets attacked unprovoked and fights back in defense. In reality, the provocation to fight is actually the END of the fight for the other inverted TP version who himself felt he was attacked randomly. They both encountered end-fight aggressive versions of themselves and thus fought back. But they each finished their fights aggressively but ended up attacking a confused, non-aggressive TP version!
Damn. I spent more time in understanding TP stands for the “the protagonist” than understanding the point you have made here. 😂
@@AdhiNarayananYR 😂😂
Thank you! That's the last part that didn't make sense to me.
@@AdhiNarayananYR Edited😁!
@@AdhiNarayananYR It actually stands for "Toilet Paper".
Tenet is like watching Back to The Future part 2 without ever watching Back to The Future.
My mom wanted to watch all the BTTF movies with me and watched them in the wrong order I was so fucking confused 😂😂
@@caslagerwaard9727 How do you even watch BTTF in the wrong order? The sequels are literally called Part 2 and Part 3 lol
@@NeatNat He watched Tenet first.
@@NeatNat they watched part 2 and then part 1 and then part 3
As a kid i watched the second part first and few years later all in the correct order xD
I think I get it.
Inverted/Future Protagonist starts his fight with Regular/Past Protagonist when he jumps into the loading dock with all the paintings. From his perspective, he's the one moving normally, and Past Protagonist is moving inverted. He fights him all the way into the inverter, and uses it to swap back to normal. After he's normal again, he runs from Neil.
Normal/Past Protagonist walks into the room and sees the inverter. He watches the door open and sees Inverted/Future Protagonist, and Future Protagonist in regular mode running from Neil. From his perspective, the man is moving backwards as he fights him. They fight all the way into the loading dock, until Future Protagonist jumps out the garage door into the airplane strip.
there are three damm john Davids at the same time
Only for a moment
There's four John Davids. He had to travel forward through this time after the final battle, but somewhere else.
@@metalore by that logic there is an infinite amount of them then
@@doge8825 No, why would there be an infinite amount? He's not traveling through this time an infinite number of times.
@metalore realistically if you travel to the past even once, you travel to the past an infinite amount of times. Because eventually you'll get to the point where you traveled to the past to begin with and you'll do it again, sending another version of yourself to the past infinitely.
The second law of thermodynamics prohibits backward time travel due to this.
Forward time travel is very possible, however.
I now appreciate the timing of the stunts and fight scenes so much more like that choreography must have been insanely hard to produce
The part that blows my mind in the consistency. Since they had to do things "multiple" times in order to get the Forward and Inverted versions, they had to make sure things matched to a t and work in both directions. Most movies mess up on the slightest consistency with the minor cuts. Yet this movie keeps everything so consistent, from the moment the movie begins to the end.
@@Dkgow and from end to beginning;)
This is cool because it shows where the cameras were shooting different angles of the hallway at the same exact time
I know this is just for us to understand what's going on but I'm so glad that it wasn't actually edited like this in the movie because it would be way more confusing than it actually is.
They would never do something like that on movie or else it would kill the mystery.
Neil saved him from killing himself at the end.
I actually don't know why. Neil knows he will be okey in the future (his past) so there was no need to get involved, right?
@@Braham_the_Terror he knew he should help him
@@i_have_crippling._.depress4630 how?
@@Braham_the_Terror because it has to happen. bacause it already happened in the inverted protagonist's past.
@@stomcode It still doesn't explain why he helped him. it's not like inverted TP and Neil had a chat about it, so how could Neil know about what happens in TPs future in the fight scene?
One of the greatest movies ever.
I have no idea how Chris sat down and wrote this script.
That is a great feat in and of itself let alone actually make it into this masterpiece.
I'm putting what might be a cardinal sin to others.
Tenet >> Inception
@@johnlime1469 only the concept and the way Nolan executed it. Everything else tho inception takes all the cakes
@@Ghost-qo5of Sure, but I wouldn't describe "the concept and the way Nolan executed" with words suggesting miniscule value like "only". It IS the concept and the way Nolan executed it. That's what it represents...which is why I think that relatable characters aren't necessarily...necessary to make a good film or novel, but that's a discussion for another day.
@@johnlime1469 yeah the concept of time reversal and how Nolan perfected it was confusing but when I understood it it was great
@@Ghost-qo5of tbf some parts make no sense though. Like the double building explosion in the war scene. If the building is destroyed in both forward and backward time except for like a millisecond, who the heck built it and how? It blew my mind and it never gets old, but it still makes no sense xd
Man I can’t wait for Nolans next film Dunkirk!
Ah, I see what you did that here.
@@SanjeevKumar-wx2yc And he'll do what you saw here.
How did you like his last movie Oppenheimer?
@@hugeackman7619 it was great!
@@hugeackman7619 it was damn except for the fact that the set where they directed is radioactive now as live atomic bomb was blasted 🤣
I thought for sure this would make it easier to follow....I was wrong. That's not a complaint, mind you. I love that the plot is easy enough to follow even though I have to use every neuron in my brain to understand the particulars. There's a lot of people out there that can write an incredibly complex and convoluted plot framework, but being able to effectively layer an understandable and relatable narrative on top of a totally mind-bending concept...THAT is Nolan.
Of all the synced up version this one is undoubtedly the best. It basically shows all three perspectives from the different versions of the characters at once! This is brilliant editing, and I thought I’d seen it all with the movie!
My question is how do you fight something like that? You are both fighting eachother consciously aware of the other persons exact movements but you are both rewinding in eachothers dimension especially being the same person like how can you even tell if you're winning the battle?
in order for the backwards person to hit you, he has to have hit you before already
I think it's just going with the flow, like if you see a dead inverted body come back to life to attack you just go with the flow since you now know that you killed him and just fight him until its point of entry.
@@danpaglinawan3256 its like each punch we give just heal the man instead of killing him
@@muhammadriskysubhannorazha6815 True, that is why the protaganist was scared when he first encountered it.
@@danpaglinawan3256 and why he wasn't afraid to shoot when he came back to the airport later in the film.
My mind: we need a full movie version of this
My brain: are you sure about dat
Weed: Yes Im sure. Now what’s Dominos Pizza number again?
there are sooo many hidden details, this shows how much effort Nolan and his team made to make this movie. At 05:47, towards the right you can see JDW closing the back of the yellow van, also at 06:09 you can JDW and Robert Pattinson carrying Kat in a stretcher in reverse when they are also in the van going forwards. Mind Blown!
Those aren't really "hidden details" at all lmfao, they're the main event going on. xD It's in the middle of the screen.
Tenet is a masterpiece. Nolan once again made a film with an original and nuanced concept
I agree!! The key is to look WITHIN and conquer the Lion the dwells inside - the one that stops you from being the Hero you are in this Story called Earth.
@VaderxG what are you talking about? After second viewing everything shouldve made sense ... not the directors fault you had to watch youtubers break it down for you...
@@Shvdow77 Look at you, Mr "I Understand This Movie, But You Don't So I am Superior And You Are A Noob".
While the concept is intriguing, the movie itself sucked. And this is proven by the fact you can find 1000s of videos trying to explain the plot, meaning the movie itself did a poor job in doing so.
@@quasimoto4424
There are actual movies like that too.
Seemingly plotless movies and I doubt the goal was to make everything simple enough to understand lol.
I can't understand why there's a lot of bad reviews and comments for TENET, it's clearly a masterpiece and Nolan's work with this sequence is absolutely beautiful. Plus the soundtrack, visual effects and cast... WOW!
Ppl don't like to think. This is my all time favorite movie.
@@barryeugene3297 after you think for like 3 minutes you realize it makes no sense. Like the inverted bullets for example, were they already there before everything happened? If so, how didn't anyone notice inverted bullet holes in the glass?
It's too clever for some people. Then again, Hot Tub Time Machine is too clever for some people.
How this got ignored at Oscars is beyond me.
@@onetapmanbbr because they materialized around the time that they broke into the room.
Because no one knows whats happening. I'm certain Nolan didn't either
Woaw, really good job, it's so great! That's when you realise how incredibly masterful the direction is.
"A Tenet is never late, Frodo Baggins, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to." - Christopher Nolan at a (confused) screening in Hobbiton
This is such a good comment. 😄
I read that in Michael Cains voice
@@cusco587 SIR Michael Caine!! Lol jk
I still watch inception, and I'm going to keep watching this too.
get ur brain ready for a mind-blow
One of the most brilliant movies ever created! I have watched it, many times, and always find something new, simply brilliant. I really hate that people, who did not understand it, say it is a bad movie. It is not, just very, complex, and also brilliant, did I mention that?
Well said!
@kotov dot in you're a nonsensical puzzle
I’m not even gonna try to understand what’s happening, all I know is that it’s cool
You watched it the right way then..”Don't try to understand it. Feel it.”
They're moving in opposite directions in time
@@pilotavery yup that’s as far as my understanding goes
@@LadysavagexXxX Yup, that's why a lot of the dialog is so inaudible in this film
One of the best films ever made,the concept alone is mind blowing,second time I saw it I understood it better
Legend says Nolan got his idea to make TENET after watching this video...
Because you know, "its inverted" 😂😂
Dont explain the joke after
@@Scorpia__ Ya it kills the joke
Temporal Pincer Movement 😅🤙
There was a joke?
@@Kyrelel yup
but ur brain made it so hard to understand!
Thanks for stitching this all together. The backward scenes helped me realized what was going on as it played forward.
Glad it reached you!
@@Novarya 🤯
i love how much clearer this makes the movie, i perfectly understand it now, no confusion at all
5:50 So all the rescue team saw two masked guys running backward and didn't give a sh*t?
One did, but they were preoccupied with a massively crashed plane, that was dramatic
From the rescuers' POV, everything was flowing normal.
@@Wapak95 he means the two masked people clearly running backwards, but i agree the crashed plane was a way more pressing matter than 2 weirdos running backwards, they wouldnt figure out that inversion is a thing just from that
At 5:53 there is a fireman who appears to be doing a double take as he sees them go by, but he could just be keeping an eye on the hose since that is his job.
Nolan chose to not show it too much, cause it's just a waste of us audience's time.
Still, at 5:54 u can see the fireman suspiciously looking at our heroes.
This could be really confusing for someone who didn't see the film.
It is.
Like me rn
YES
I thought about watching this movie but haven't because I didn't want to be utterly confused.... Well now I'm utterly confused
This is confusing for someone who HAS seen the film
It's good to see this side by side. This is one of my favorite scenes.
I think Nolan does movies so complicated he does it cleverly for the multi-replay value purpose ..
Yeah because he wants people to rewatch them and be lik "ohhh so THAT'S what happened."
That's kinda his thing
How’s it clever? Can you elaborate?
@@SOSO_CREPITUS because it's complex in how the time travel element is pulled off because it kind of goes beyond comprehension.
@@SOSO_CREPITUS he means he makes it confusing on purpose so people can talk about and come back to theaters and rewatch them again to see things they didn’t see the first time!
Hence, they said in this movie...
"Do not try to understand it, just feel it"
Precisely
Feel something intangible. Yeah. Greaaaaaat idea.
@@idrinkmilk282 It’s actually easier than you think, look at every moment in your life as if it were your first time doing so.
Wow. Excellent attempt.
I don't know why people can't understand it now. The title says synchronized events. That's what the movie wanted to show but for us to comprehend we had to be watching it n understanding it well. This video helps.
Bravo! You were able to make Tenet even more confusing, well done!
oops
I'm now in a colossial state of confusion, compounded even more by this incredible sync video. Nolan is absolutely amazing at his craft. I don't think I will ever understand this movie.
Loved this movie. I did have to watch it about 4 or 5 times to fully understand it though, especially trying to catch all the dialogue which is very quiet and hard to understand sometimes in a few places, especially compared to how insanely loud the music and sound effects get at times, lol.
I had to watch it a few times myself!
All of Nolan's movies have terrible sound.
This is why I hate most action movies. The sound dynamics are too high and mixed for a giant movie theater, not at home. Sound normalizer only can do so much
@@Mkvkuv that’s why a dubbed version is somewhat better, for all the voices are loud enough and clearly understandable. Watch anime with subs tho)
subs thankfully helped me know the dialogue from the first watch, but it took a couple rewatches to finally understand it lol
That makes this scene even more brilliant !
Amazing work done here. Thanks for all the time you invested to pull out such a nice video. TENET will be remembered as one of the movies of 2020s decade.Future generation will love it much more than us.
imagine being the fight choreographer for this movie.
Nah, imagine writing the story in the first place.
tenet was the only movie where i saw a minute of the foundflix explained like no. IMA WATCH IT
This was an awesome film. We need to protect Christopher Nolan at all cost.
One of the best cinematic experiences ever. Specifically in Dolby.
During the first showing of this fight i knew he was fighting himself and was foolish enough to actually think I knew what was going on, but i thought Neil was also chasing down HIMself, not the forwards 3rd protagonist. What a mind bender
For some reason. I thought Neil was chasing himself too, it was only until my 2/3rd viewing I realised it was JDE
@@Sapphire1721 JDW
After they managed to save the plutonium, Neil said "..i call it reality".
It's not faith, it's not known scenarios but the fact that even if they're in inverted world, they have to live up the reality of the host world. Althought they'ven seen invertedly the acts which will set upon them, they have to act up on the situation and not relying on what they've known.
Masterpiece.
If there was a Hall Of Fame for RUclips videos, this video would be a member of the first class of videos inducted into said Hall of Fame. Cheers, mate.
Do you understand it?
It hasn't happened yet.
Let's wait for it
Good job doing this, I can't imagine how many times you had to go back and edit this or figure what scenes go where. I was wondering about this after my second watch through, about how closely synced they were.
Thanks! NGL, it did get a bit confusing at times haha
This movie gets better every time i rewatch it absolutely fantastic
Finally a video that shows how good this movie really is
It took me a few times of watching Tenet to understand that the time traveling was happening all simultaneously. Such a great film
The film is simply awesome. Can't wait for the trailer.
Nolans so good at making movies not even people who watch it can spoil it, they'll be just as confused to what the movies about as before
3:26 that’s just a perfectly nice touch that we see the two other versions of him down the corridor to line up with the other scenes even if it’s just for a few frames.
Amazing how in this scene, there are 5 protagonists known. 3 in Freeport, one in the desert and one in the opera house. At the same time there must be an infinite number of Neil. As a child, agent and as an agent of Tenet in these scenes and others. Neil was a master with the Turnstile, even recognizing reverse English or how to operate things in reverse.
I like how in the beginning of this movie the scientist tries to explain to John how the reverse thing works and even she gives up trying to understand it herself.
That’s the fundamental problem the initial explanation doesn’t make any logical or imaginary physical sense.
@@jmoz but you're supposed to like it and clap and laugh and feel like you're smart for accepting that it doesn't make sense!!!!
Really though it's painful seeing how many people think they're smart for "understanding" it regardless of the complete lack of logic. Great concept for story beats, horrible concept for action scenes.
Phenomenal editing in this, great job.
Thanks!
Nice job!
Thanks!!
I like the fact that everytime I watch this movie i find something I really wasn't aware of ❤
“Why did Neil save the Protagonist if he knew he would survive anyway?”
They talk about this in movie. If the Neil doesn’t stop him from killing his other self, he might be able to go through with it. Which would either break the universe and destroy everything, or create a parallel universe al-la Back to the Future.
For the sake of my brain, imma pretend I didn't just read that
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His instinctive reaction is to make sure that 2nd inverted Protagonist isn't killed by 1st forward Protagonist. After that he doesn't say anything because he has already seen 3rd forward Protagonist and 2nd inverted Protagonist escape unharmed.
I understand. Neil stopping TP from killing himself is the only reason that he didn’t.
@@tommiegreen Nope, PT couldn't kill himself, since the fight already happened for him, hence it should now happen for TP.
I remember on my last year at school, my friends decided to hang out at the movies. There was nothing interesting to watch, so we randomly decided TENET. Half of us was confused af, while I was really invested for some reason. I was blind reacting, never seen the trailer or even heard of it before. But damn such a good film.
10/10 Film. Story progression is really well written.
nolan's greatest achievement and i can not wait for the world to embrace it in a few years
from this i learned when Neil said there's someone here, he was actually hearing himself, not the protagonist
True cinema and a work of art.
Because it's backwards?
Just watched this for the 5th time last night, one of my all time favourites. I love that it's a bit of an enigma, and that soundtrack is sooo good.
I'm now completely confused....thanks
Fascinating video. I hope it gets a bunch of views.
Thanks!
3:57 shows there is no free Will.
"What's happened, happened."
Finally I feel like I get this a little more. Never quite caught that Rob's character was seeing him and thus knowing his partner was fighting himself when he took the helmet off
Right! Such a great moment!
Not all heroes wear capes...This helped SO MUCH!
Bruh
This is actually the only scene that confuses me cause how was there three of him at this point
Another guy here (DOGE) pointed out that there's actually 4 (maybe infinite). This is because in this sequence you have (1) Protagonist as we see him with Niel in the blue suit. (2) Protagonist exiting turnstyle fighting his past self (3) The Protagonist on the other side that scuffled with Neil (4) the protagonist that was just arriving with Neil (at the end).
@@RobotHau5 You just gave me a headache. I’m thinking there is two, I know you’re talking about for.
@@RobotHau5 There is always 3 of you on the same timeline when inverted if you meet yourself in the past near the machine. The 4th is not an extra one. It's the same one that was running away from Neil.
@@JM-kv2kn yeah exactly, only way there could possibly be more is if you used the turnstiles again within the first loop but that just gets crazy lol
When you use a turnstile there are two versions of you. A normal version of you and an inverted version. Since Protagonist inverted back to the moment at the Freeport where his past self was, there was three of him.
1. The Protagonist from a week ago wearing the blue suit
2. Inverted Protagonist that emerged from the turnstile on past Protagonist’s side in the SWAT gear
3. Normal Protagonist that emerged from the turnstile on Neil’s side in the SWAT gear
After I saw all the different explanation and hidden details videos, this Movie looks like a masterpiece to me
Christopher Nolan took the 'It's Evolving But Backward' Meme and made a Movie out of it!
Nolan should release a pdf at his site related to movie
So that we can understand whole movie
Actually he want audience to watch his mobie again and again thats why he always does that
What didnt you understand the first go?
Did Nolan understand his own movie himself?
@@samromine9726 it looked to me this is the 2 nd part of any movie in which concept of temporal pincer and time rulling backwards already shown to audience and now they can enjoy whole movie without getting confuse
This movie is an underrated master piece. Period.
It's not
Hope more tenet videos from you.
Thanks! Might have some more coming soon..
AGREE!!!
I literally didn’t think this movie could confuse me any more than it already had, yet here we are…
How did I get here?
By far one of the best movies av watched I still pick up new things each time I do so mmmm wow
Salute to the editing 😍
For sure it took so much time to get it right. More than amazing ❤️
Thanks!
Just watched it again the other day in 4K HDR and finally realised, it's just time travelling to the past, in real time. 🤔
Interesting way to oversimplify the movie.
They move forward in time and at some point they have to reverse themselves and reach to a point in the past (the same day as the starting incident), giving the film a narratively palindromic structure emulating the title of the movie. The important thing here is not if they traveling to the past or future but the point of view of the events based on if the characters are moving forward or backwards challenging the notion that we have free will.
this movie is truly a work of art in motion
I was waiting for this
I think writing a research paper on the Fermi Paradox is much more understandable than what I just saw right now👌
Love these kind of movie u will understand once u reach the end it a puzzle until u piece it together
This movie has an amazing concept and we don't need emotional connection for every movie... Tenet is a masterpiece... Period
Just having an amazing concept doesn't make for an amazing movie.
But that’s what makes movies interesting, who cares if the algorithm destroys the world if we don’t care for who or what’s in it?
Movie is garbage
@@lindsaymonroe567just because ur mind is a gar*age ,u will think definitely like this..no wonder