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mijas malaga Katılım Eylül 2012
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@LugarCinema Que difícil, que gran año, hoy te diré:
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“What’s happened, happened.” I needed to revisit Tenet (🌟🌟🌟🌟) after seeing The Odyssey twice in theaters last weekend for multiple reasons, most of which I’ll touch on in this review. Many have correctly noted Christopher Nolan’s last three films (Tenet, Oppenheimer, & now The Odyssey) are all thematically speaking together or working with one another in concert. That idea is the biggest reason I returned to Tenet for the first time since seeing it- and not loving it- immediately upon its release in 2020. I think the ties that bind Nolan’s three latest films are common themes, such as humanity is a vicious cycle driven by the consequences of monumental choices by “great” men. Reducing this theme down even further…we are the decisions we make in life. There’s no running from the consequences of those decisions- “what’s happened, happened.”
The first & only time I watched Tenet in its entirety prior to this viewing was in December of 2020, when I gave the film 2.5 stars. My primary criticism? I wrote there was no substance and the screenplay was “pretty bad”. Above all, I wrote the plot was too confusing for audiences to totally grasp. I don’t think much of those criticisms are totally off-base on rewatch. There are times the screenplay really doesn’t make any sense to me- characters are speaking English but it feels like they’re talking in a totally different language or code. And I continue to maintain that the plot is exceptionally complicated. I woke up at 4 am to rewatch this film because I wanted to be as fresh & alert as possible- and yet I still found so many things go over my head.
But when you pull back some of those nits, you find a plot that’s incredibly powerful & relatively straightforward. The idea here is The Protagonist (John David Washington) is recruited by a group called Tenet to stop Andrei Sator (Kenneth Branagh) from put together the ninth and final piece of The Algorithm- a doomsday device capable of inverting the entropy of the entire world. The Algorithm is a physical rendering of a formula that inverts the entropy of the world and was created by a future unnamed scientist described as Oppenheimer. When entropy is inverted, for example, The Protagonist catches bullets rather than shoots them.
There’s so much style, flare and panache throughout the entire film that you sort of don’t even realize parts of the plot that don’t make sense. Robert Pattinson’s Neil is dressed to perfection in nearly every scene. Dirty van Hoytema’s camera work is utterly breathtaking & there are multiple set pieces (one involving a plane, another involving a freeway) that rank up there with Nolan’s best sequences ever. Ludwig Göransson tosses in an amazing score. And every last actor (including my man Michael Caine) is exceptional on screen. I mention those stylistic strengths because those things absolutely matter. Tenet is something you feel, you sense, you taste. Even if there are moments you don’t understand what’s going on, you feel every last shot.
All of which is to say Nolan lambasts that aforementioned plot- one about preventing a deranged man from finishing off the final piece of a puzzle that everyone now recognizes should’ve never been made- with that unforgettable style to deliver a story that makes more sense & carries more weight the more you revisit it. Yes, Nolan puts a burden on us as the audience to actually think about what it is we’re watching. But after revisiting Tenet a second time, it’s clear that what we’re watching is the first part of a three-leg run from Nolan about how the consequences of what we create- whether it’s the creation of the Algorithm itself, or even broader, the creation of Tenet- are things we cannot run from. “What’s happened, happened” means that the future is going to unfold regardless of how we try to stop it after we’ve already made certain choices in the past.
Starting to reconcile with the fact that Tenet needs to be moved up Nolan’s all-time rankings.




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