Sunday 6 December 2020

Tenet Analysis

Tenet (2020)

Written and Directed by: Christopher Nolan

This film definitely deserves a theatrical viewing, it's a visual spectacle - and the usage of music in this film is unapologetically riveting. I can only imagine how complex it would've been - writing this film. It has a couple of characters in a scene, and then they return from the future in reverse - and the scene keeps intercutting between different perspectives. What to show, and what to hide - would be the crucial choice to make at every stage. The dialogue felt like it went through a lot of trimming, and it was back to back all the time. This film is high on tension throughout, we hardly get a moment to relax. The plot, and the rules of the world being spoken out has become a trade off for him to try out new stuff.

The sequence on the road was my favourite among the spectacles, and I loved how we see some random people during the sequences and later realize that they're the same people from the future - these twists (aha moments) have satisfying pay offs, because the set up was clear initially. The ending twist wasn't exciting for me, because there weren't pieces to join, or I couldn't find them. I couldn't figure out everything that was happening in the film - I just had a sense of what was going on and even the film says it - 'don't try to understand it, just feel it'. 

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