TENET Recap | All Time Inversion Scenes Explained
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- čas přidán 10. 11. 2021
- In this video, I recap and explain Christopher Nolan’s TENET. I slow down some of the footage, focus on crucial moments, and simply the events of the film to make it easier to follow. So, if you found the movie at all confusing (and who could blame you… its Christopher Nolan after all!), this recap should help you out!
If there is interest, I’ll do a follow-up video diving deeper into the time travel (or more accurately, time reversal) sequences and explain them further. To make this recap, I took tons of notes, made some diagrams, and used spreadsheets to understand the most confusing sequences. So, a lot of the work is already done!
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The most ellaborate and understable explanation of TENET on CZcams I've watched over the years. Thank you @OneTake
Thank you!
You shouldn’t need a spreadsheet to understand a film, shows the level that Nolan thinks at. I’ve watched it a few times and still barely understand it but one thing that really gets me is at the end you can really get the emotional bond between the two and I thought there was something masterful about the acting and storytelling at that point.
You might just be someone with low intelligence. Movie’s not for you. This is a thinking man’s film.
You don’t necessarily need a spreadsheet to fully understand it, but I think it’s alright if you do, because it creates such a unique and complex story which yes, is hard to understand, but that makes it more interesting and rather special
@@tobpExactly! Somebody has to step out of line in terms of the movie norm once in a while haha, and Christopher Nolan does just that. Movies like this are my favourite, they are so refreshing.
@@DEADEYESSS i couldn’t agree more, if all movies are plain and simple to understand what’s the point
I always tell people if they want to watch a movie where there's no thinking required, watch a Marvel movie. I like films that challenge me and provoke thought.
One of the most confusing movies I have ever seen multiple times and still clueless. Your recap helped clear up a few things, but still not crystal clear on how everything works. Great recap nonetheless!
Thanks Candace! And yeah… crystal clear is a lofty goal for this movie 😄
I've helped many people with explanations 😂 happy to try to help you too. What are you clueless about? Ask any questions you like. But what I can tell you is that in the here and now, technology from 200 years into the future, exists.
1. Scientist in the future discovers way of inverting time. She sends it into the past, coded into an analog machine, then kills herself
2. People in the future want to retrieve the algorithm, so they can invert the entire universe - global warming has destroyed the planet and humanity is dying
3. They send gold to Sator, knowing who he is and exactly where he will be in the past using historical records
4. Tenet recruits The Protagonist and Neil. When TP meets with Michael Caine, his non-chalant attitude is because he knows they succeed since he’s still alive
5. TP connects with Kat, so he can get close to Sator
6. TP agrees to steal a portion of the algorithm for Sator
7. Sator steals the algorithm during the car chase. Since he’s inverted, he’s coming from the future and knows that TP is going to betray him
8. Tenet goes to Sator’s hometown where the final battle is fought - they make it look like Sator succeeded, so the future antagonists are fooled
9. Kat kills Sator, who did all this because he’s a jerk.
10. The protagonist learns he’s the founder of tenet and Sator, Neil, and Priya were all working for him. His goal was simply to track down the algorithm from the future. The best way to do this was have someone hunt them all down for him so he could secure it in the past.
Interestingly enough, when TP is briefed about not coming into contact with his past self or they’ll both annihilate, that is not true. It’s most likely something they tell people so they dont run into their past self and accidentally get killed - which is what happens.
Me too!
@@Daniel-mw7puhelpful
It took me 3 runs to really enjoy the film. Not that I didn't enjoy it before, but with every run, another layer of the beautiful onion that is Tenet, revealed itself.
One of the best Tenet explanation videos I've seen on CZcams, thanks for taking the time.
Beautiful take and so much good detail revealed
Thank you Siya!
I can totally understand the part about notes and spreadsheets. I watched the film only once, but I did go back and forth all the time, watched most of the dialogues at least twice and wrote lots of notes along the way. This is one of those films that absolutely would not have worked for me in a theatre. I would have walked out understanding only 1% of it.
I got about out 70 percent out of it and was still confused but very satisfied. Awesome film, Interstellar still is my all time film experience. Wish I saw the dark Knight there..fuck I did Batman begins though
Too bad i haven't stumbled across your video earlier! You've really well explained all the things that i couldn't wrap my head around.
Would really love to see a follow up video!
I feel like I understand more about this movie than from any other recap. It gives a clear timeline for how certain events happened and the major plot points of the movie.
BEST explanation for TENET that I've found. Thanks very much 👍🏼
I'm glad you're doing recaps one take I watch them all the time and they seem to be getting a lot of views on other channels and I know how good you are at relaying details of a show or movie to people glad to see you're doing them man
I love his recaps, period. Compared to other pages, the reviews are explained in a way that's understandable and you don't feel stupid if don't necessarily 'get it.' There's a bunch of snobbery out n CZcams land.
Love your work. This is brilliant. Thanks for your time and efforts on a entertaining and informative video. I would definitely watch more on this movie if you make it. Cheers.
Thanks Michael!
Great explanation of this movie. You really organized and connected all the stings. Thank you for this. Great watch.
This breakdown is by far the best explanation video of tenet
@OneTake Thank you soooooo much for this. I love Tenet. I have watched it at least 50 times or more. And you pointed out things I never connected. Thank you and a big thumbs up to you sir!
An excellent recap! Thank you. I love this movie.
This just explained the basics that you can get from the film already, I needed something that went deeper and explained specific scenes and how they linked up after the film ended
The character of Neil must have done hundreds of missions and put thousands of hours of thinking into this whole tapestry to know how he weaves into it. Without doubt the smartest character.
Everyone wants to know if Neil was the little boy at the end
@@marcus2fashionhe isn’t. Are you Nolan stans deaf? Neil straight up says that he is from the past and that the Protagonist is the one who sacrifices his actual future by Inverting and establishing Tenet. Stop being fake deep about Nolan
@@marcus2fashionNeil confirmed that he himself like everyone else in the Tenet organization is from the regular past but the Protagonist himself sacrificed his actual future to Invert and establish Tenet
Thank you so much for this wonderful and insightful analysis. I am not intelligent (I lack logical thinking) enough to understand the movie, but your video helped a great deal !
Even with this recap and watching the movie 3x, I'm still lost at certain parts. That's how Ik this movie is pure gold... It will withstand the test of time
this is the most beautiful explained video about tenet
Well done, mate. A follow up video going into more detail is just what the doctor ordered. Cheers...☀
14:19 "whos policy?" "Ours my friend"
Like he was saying he's officially a part of Tenant program. Awesome
This video clarifies so many questions I had. But I’m still confused. Go Nolan!
wow finally understand this film, such a clear explanation thx mate!
Glad I could help!!
This is the explanation of the movie I finally understood. Thanks!
Very well explained, thanks! 🥳
I watched Tenet twice and got most of it the second time. (Almost like I was time traveling relative to the movie...) This is a good, and even more impressive, a clear summary of the plot.
good video, you speak so elegantly and i can you worked real hard on this video
Amazing explanation, Thank you a lot for your work!
Thank you! 🙏
Nice video! Good work on the recap
Thanks!!
Best explanation I've seen to date.
Always love your reviews and recaps bro. Can’t wait for west world pre and post shows to come back!
Thanks Rick!! Same, excited for it to come back and start talking about it again!
Nice work. I forgot how ambitious this movie's plot was.
Thank you, from the past or future , finally i get to understand this movie
Thanks for this! One of the VERY few whose explanation is easy to follow. Would be interested in you doing more on this movie, i.e. time movement. Sometimes I still have problems grasping it. Hopefully, there's enough interest for you to do. Thanks again and take care!
Thanks Landa! I’ve got a couple other vids I’m working on now but I’ll keep an eye on this vid and the comments to see where on the list a TENET follow-up goes!
out of anger i stopped watching the movie, but with this recap i am gonna watch it again and again. didnt know it was this interesting.
Best recap. Thanks.
goddamn that was confusing even with your explanations - but at least it's sort of understood? Great work as usual
22:20 also the son may or may not be Neil…🤯
And I thought "Inception" was confusing. This movie tops it!! LOL!! Thank you for the explaining
hey one-take, i was just curious... where do you get your camera shots with only the clip audio and without music? are they on a website?
Like “DARK” your story telling is on point😀
Thank you as always for your kind words Sabrina!
This film is one Hell of a ride!
Great job 😊
Great work. Seriously our consciousness is not conditioned to understand events in backwards. I watched the movie thrice. But couldn't understand it. You did a great job. If you can, please make a more detailed video. Thanx again.
You are right. I watched a lot of recaps and understood the concept of inversion. What I didn't get though is how it actually worked. How exactly does an object or a human being stream backwards in time.
@@carltontony5287 That's the only missing link.
Nice job bro
very good video. thank you
I’m still confused even after you explained it lol you did a great job though
where does neil go after saving the guys, yes he says he has to go pick the lock but im not clear of how he gets there
This is a copy of a comment I made on another video:
There is a serious example of the "grandfather paradox" here -Kat tells the story about the woman jumping from the boat, later we learn that the woman is Kat after she killed Sator -that means that Sator is already dead at the beginning of the movie which means that the rest of the story can't happen. The movie is basically over before the Protagonist meets Kat because Kat kills Sator before that -then comes the problem -if the rest of the story doesn't happen, how is it possible that Kat goes back in time and kills Sator?
Maybe the same way Neil had died in the past but was still alive to speak to the protagonist at the end of the movie? The sator that dies just hadn't gotten to that part of his future in the past yet. Plus Sator planned to die there to notify the future that the device was in place (they would check their data base and see he had died where he said he would so that they would know the device was assembled and in place). So if they hadn't got the device in time the future would have won and because they did get it the future lost. Sator was going to die there no matter what because that is what he himself planned, to go back to his happiest time and die. In order to go back he must of lived past it. Which again means he dies in the future in his past while Kat and his son will meet sator again the next day because his past self would not know his future self is going to die. Basically his oast self and future self are there at the same time. Just like when the protagonist fought himself. If the protagonist killed himself there. He would still be alive to go back and get killed by himself again. Its an infinite loop.
you did fantastic
Great understandable explanation. One question I have with the movie is if objects are streaming back in time inverted, then shouldn't they disappear as they travel to our present time, then continue into the past?
Technically, one would have to take an inverted object and go through the inverter machine to put in in positive entropy to keep it from continuing to move back in time.
Sator, Arepo, Tenet, Opera, Rotas = Sator Square. Bravo Nolan.
I always cry when Robert says his goodbyes and John learns he's only just beginning to know him :C
Loved this film!
Thank you!
Thanks had seen the movie had got no sense of it untill I saw yours. Now I get 85 pc of it.
I almost give up on trying to understand this movie until your recap. Now I feel less dumb. 😂😂
I wish the film explored more the benefits Sator had to instantly communicate with the future. Like Primer did.
Primer is a hidden Gem
Hi! I have a question, is Kat in the blue room inverted (the scene from 9:00)? Why in this scene Sator is not wearing mask though inverted, and Kat is wearing mask? If she were not inverted, how come she appeared in the blue room already shot, from the Sator's point of view? Would be great to clear these things out. Thanks in adance!
Well done
Actually quite compelling when it's explained thoroughly. But my God, what an impossible film to watch the first time.
PLEASE DO A FOLLOW UP!
Also how many turnstiles are there or doesn't tenet know how to make them and places them wherever needed
Thx a lot ✌️
Great video great movie
Thank You So Much !! Very Interested In Future Videos. I have A question Tho ? Isnt Neil also The Little Boy On the Boat? Not sure If i Missed You Sayin That Or not
Thank you Lee!!
The idea that Neil is the little boy on the boat (ie Cat’s son) is a theory that was floating around but it isn’t actually confirmed by the movie and TBH, I don’t agree with the theory. For it to work, the kid would’ve had to have inverted himself at age 15 and essentially lived in backwards time for 15 years so he would be the 30-year-old Neil that we met. But either way, in general for the recaps I try to only include what is 100% confirmed in the movie and if I talk about theories, I do that in separate videos.
Thanks for checking out the vid and for the kind words!
6:23 I didn't understand the time capsules are on going. I thought Sator just got plans and money and started his journey. I didn't understand its ongoing like a learning loop. Over sator's lifetime many time capsules, not one.
7:45 barely moves the brake pedal, yet the wheels lock out entirely in the next shot. now i dont know is ABS kicks in when driving in reverse, but either way, thats just a tad bit too much.
finally somene watched the same detail
I thought it's something to do with German engineering.
TENET is one of those movies you gotta go into with no expectations and let it happen to you.
Awesome recap, think I finally get it. But - why did the inverted Kat (who kills Sater) and the inverted protagonist from the future (who kills Pria) not need oxygen masks?
Whoever wrote this movie, I need whatever he's on
I was like, wow that looks like a good movie! Let’s watch a review of it.
I never want to see it.
just watched, my fav part is when he shoots the lady and literally says “mission accomplished” and the movie ends
thankyou
Wow
I've watched it 3 times and this is the first time I know Neil is going to die! Or the platinum thrown to the Saab!
Makes sense now
Please make a reversed version of this video!
I love ❤️ Nolan movies but I still got lost even after this video 🤷♂️
19:47 but how did he get in the tunnel? The trip wire collapsed the exit/entrance!! I think that's the only thing not making sense to me, if they showed that i wouldn't be confused about the ending
There is a hole/kind of skylight in the ceiling right past the collapsed area. Pause at 18:36 and look above.
@@19luX92 oooooooooooooooooooooo
Glad you explained now i can show others because i got tired of trying to explain. I got it the first time I saw it. Its a loop within a loop that moves forward and backward and they still have to move within both forward and backward to save everything because between forward and backwards is the plot
it was not a recording at the end. it was Kat talking live on the phone
This is the best youtube recap. Still do not understand why the elaborate red/blue battle scene was necessary. It comes across as something done to create a BIG DRAMATIC SCENE. We didn't need dozens of nameless soldiers running around with bombs and doing stuff that seems imposed on the plot rather than inherent to the plot.. The rest of the film is pretty, umm, straightforward. Just requires close attention to how people are behaving.
I dont get why Neil has to go reverse at the end, isnt he already going forward having accomplished the mission?
Ives is Kickass!!
Nice! Except at 20:00 the bullet wasn't inverted, Neil was inverted and bullet was normal
Correct! However at 20:00, I was explaining what it looked like from Neil’s perspective and to him, the bullet would’ve appeared inverted (I.e., it had opposite entropy compared to him)
Question: if I place an inverted object on my office desk and it's streaming backwards as I and my surroundings stream forwards, how can it still be on my desk 3 days from now?
Not sure, but isn't it like the protagonist and all the others? You have multiple versions of the object which can cross each other in time, just in reversed timeline? Haha I am editing stuff and deleting so much... I am confused now 😅 Maybe we need to know if you used an object from the desk, reversed time with it in the hand and then placed it again there. Or you placed a random object there when time got reversed and so on...
Movie answer to that is that it's the entropy that is inverted (whatever that means) and not the object per se. At the bullet scene, the lady scientist says the bullet won't move unless you put your hand so it can "fall."
That said, movie logic is far from flawless.
but you explained NOTHING. you only narrated the whole movie.
I was sayin this
I never want to hear the words "the protagonist" ever again😂
This is a movie u will never understand. Because trying to understand it makes it more confusing. Just go with the flow. Feeeel it. Once u do that. Them u will get why this movie is so cool
What's with the coins on a string...it was coins on strings in Dark too lol
You should talk about why they needed a reverse team at the end
so neil can go and save them by getting hit by the bullet
Still a few massive plot holes in this movie but i guess you’re meant to feel not think.
1. How can the future send messages by reversing entropy of gold if Sator interact with him. Eg. Sator buries capsule, future organisation inverts gold and selves, place gold in open capsule watches it being lowered back into ground and reburied. Sator digs up capsule he buried even though it had to be reburied and picking up the gold that’s inverted but never placing it back in the capsule so it can complete it’s loop.
2. The silver Saab crashes in reverse despite not being inverted, only TP was inverted yet the crashed Saab leaps backwards onto the road and begins driving again from the forward perspective. It’s impossible to invert and car and have it drive because a combustion engine cannot work without forward entropy.
3. Unless they had a cleanup crew to remove and disinvert corpses.The people who built stalsk-12 would see skeletons compose from dust and then rot in reverse forming dead bodies over years until they get up alive and run backwards to a turnstile.
4. Dead inverted bodies will not decompose at a normal rate. Cells will autolysis but bacteria on and around us when we invert will instantly die because they cannot respire if the world is inverted relative to them.
wait antagonist died on the boat. Who replaced him
Thinking about it, why sell inverted ammunition. There are a trillion better way to for Sator to make money knowing instantly what is in the future.
Yup, got it. Clear as mud.
An interesting movie with what should be a fascinating premise, but it comes off very convoluted. Frankly, Looper is a far better movie which explores the concept of causality loops and time paradoxes.
The ever brilliant and confusing Christopher Nolan😅
Took two watches, but I loved the film.