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are gonna talk about the movie Tenet.
The Protagonist is an unnamed CIA agent, he
participates in an undercover operation but
unfortunately gets caught. Bearing tortures,
the Protagonist is saved and is recruited
to a secret organization.
The Protagonist is led to a scientist who
is studying bullets whose entropy has been
"inverted" so they move backward through time.
In order to prevent World War III, the Protagonist
receives a task to investigate the origin
of the inverted bullets.
According to the clue of an inverted Bullet,
the Protagonist comes to India. And with the
help of Neil, who is also a member of the
organization, he’s able to find Pyria, a
rich merchant who has more information.
Pyria tells the Protagonist that the bullets
are supplied by an arms dealer Sator, who
is communicating with the future. To get close
to Sator, the Protagonist and Neil decide
to get in touch with his estranged wife Kat,
who is a painting appraiser.
In order to foster trust, the team of two
needs to help her get a forged painting which
is the one Sator uses to blackmail her.
Therefore, the Protagonist and Neil come to
a storage facility at Oslo Airport, suddenly
two masked men showed up to attack them, one
of which is inverted. After defeating the
masked men, they see a machine named, "Turnstile",
a time inversion device developed in the future.
Finishing the task successfully, Kat helps
the Protagonist meet Sator but the latter
requests him to steal a case of plutonium.
After that, the Protagonist and Neil are attacked
by two inverted vehicles, not only the plutonium
sticks to Sator’s fingers, but also Kat
is shot by the inverted bullet.
To cure Kat and get the plutonium back, the
team decides to use the “Turnstile”, entering
the inverted time axis.
In the other time axis, when chasing Sator,
the Protagonist notices that the two inverted
vehicles they met before were driven by inverted
himself and inverted Sator.
With the progress of the plot, we can discover
that the plutonium that everybody is scrambling
to grab really matters, it has the 1/9 of
an Algorithm from the inventor who develops
the technology of reverse space-time in the
future.
When all the 9 parts of the Algorithm are
collected and activated, the entropy of everything
in the world will be inverted and the world
is done.
Since Sator is dying from cancer, he connects
the switch of the Algorithm to his heart,
believing that the world should die with him.
To stop Sator, the Protagonist’s team carry
out a two-pronged plan, the Protagonist and
Neil return to two weeks ago, intending to
stop the Algorithm from being assembled.
Kat goes back to the day Sator gets lost in
a yacht, she kills Sator after the Protagonist
captures the Algorithm.
At this time, the Protagonist discovers that
Neil is a member he recruits in the future.
At the end of the story, before Pyria killing
Kat, the Protagonist in the future inverts
back to stop her, it turns out that all the
reverse operations are led by the Protagonist
in the future.
What Tenet wants to talk about:
You may still feel puzzled after watching
the brief introduction. The hardest thing
for us to understand is the logic of turning
back the clock by inverting the entropy.
Tenet’s point is “You can’t do anything
to change something that has happened”,
which is quite different from the time travel
of most movies, such as Back to the Future,
you can change something in the past, then
the future will be since changed.
In Tenet, in order to stop Sator, the Protagonist,
Neil and Kat keep inverting the time to move
forward or move backward, but the experiences
they have when moving forward are the result
of the things they’ve done when moving backward.
Both the inverted vehicles driven by somebody
they meet on the road and the girl appears
on the day Sator disappears in the yacht,
as well as the man who saves the Protagonist
at the beginning of the story, are all themselves.
Nolan is aiming to tell us that something
that has happened can’t be stopped, the
deeper implication is that the things that
haven’t happened are under control. In other
words, we can’t change the past but we can
create a future we want as much as possible.
The best plot that can support this point
is that, when the Protagonist’s gonna use
the Turnstile to enter the inverted time axis,
he is told that he’s dead if he can’t
see himself walking out from the reflector.
But if the Protagonist chooses not to use
the Turnstile for staying alive, what is the
reason that he can’t see himself in the
reflector? Is it because he changes the past
or he just doesn’t use the device to enter
the inverted time axis?
Meanwhile, if he refuses to enter the inverted
time axis, how can he know that he has changed
the past?
Every decision you make now will have an impact
on the future, everything that happens now
is the best result from a decision in the
past.
Questions&Answers for Tenet:
1. What’s Tenet?
The name of the movie “Tenet”, it means
a principle, belief, or doctrine generally
held to be true especially. In the movie,
it is used as a secret code, with a gesture
of interlocking fingers, the members of the
secret organization are able to recognize
each other. It is noteworthy that “Tenet”
is not a technology of turning back the clock
nor the name of the organization.
2.The origin of Tenet.
“Tenet” is a keyword on the Sator Square
that has are 5 words consisted of 25 letters.
The words are SATOR, AREPO, TENET, OPERA,
ROTAS.
On the Sator Square, the five words compose
a 5X5 text box. No matter what directions
you use to read, the words are the same.
Obviously, the principle is also used in the
movie “Tenet”, the things that have happened
can’t be changed, no matter how we inverted
the time, we can do nothing to the past.
In addition, all five words on the Sator Square
are playing an important role in the movie.
“SATOR” means The Sower or farmer. In
the movie, it is the last name of Andre Sator.
“AREPO” means nothing, some researchers
consider that it is a name. In the movie,
it is the name of a painter who Kat is familiar
with.
“TENET” means “Pick up”, “Support”
or “Principle”, it is a secret code in
the movie.
“OPERA” means “Work” or “Labor”.
In the movie, the first scene we can see is
in an opera house.
“ROTAS” means “Wheel” or “Roll”.
It is also the name of the Oslo Freeport.
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