I had the privilege of watching the Christopher Nolan directed TENET
yesterday in the cinemas, a movie which is aimed to bring the audience back to
the cinemas. The movie revolves around the Protagonist (John David Washington)
who is on a mission to prevent World War 3, fighting an organization from the
future. As the title and trailer suggested, the screenplay of Tenet is
structured as a Palindrome, involves a concept called Reversal of Entropy. The
trailer shows a shot where John David aims at a shooting target, where he’s
actually catching the bullets instead of shooting them.
People in the future have discovered a way to invert object and people
and send it back in time. Climate change have destroyed most of the Earth in
the future and they believe that reversing the entropy of the Earth in the
present is the only way to save the future. They send an inversed weapon to
Kenneth Branagh, who plays a Russian republic, which has the algorithm to
inverse the entropy of the earth and destroy it in the process. Now the grandfather paradox we always assumed
about time travel is thrown out of the window, meaning people in the future can
save themselves by destroying the present Earth. Also one cannot breath
naturally in the inversed state as air cannot go back into human lungs, another
example of brilliance.
The concept of reversal of Entropy is explained to the audience in
simple terms possibly by Physicist Kip Thorne who has associated with Nolan
after Interstellar. However, let’s say one totally does not grasp what entropy
is and how it can possibly be reversed, and considers it to be just a magic
event, that still does not take away the movie experience that Tenet had to
offer unlike Nolan’s previous complex movies such as Inception or Interstellar,
which were difficult to understand in the first viewing. Another concept called
Temporal Pincer too is literally spoon fed to the audience, where one half of
an army attacks in forward time, another half of the army is inversed, where
they have an advantage of knowing how the attack would have taken place. This
is shown multiple times in the movie.
I was initially surprised by the casting of John David Washington;
however, he did excel in the role. Robert Pattinson. Robert Pattinson,
Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh all play important roles in the movie. The
movie also stars Hindi language actress Dimple Kapadia, the movie too has some
prominent scenes shot in Mumbai, during the shooting of which Christopher Nolan
and Kamal Hassan shared a meeting, the ace director even said he had watched
the actor’s movie Paapanasam. Maybe Nolan and Warner Bro’s would have promoted
the movie in India, had there not been a pandemic.
On the visual front, the film had brilliant cinematography, all of the
vfx and shots involving the inversed objects or people were brilliantly
choreographed. Nolan this time was without his regular composer Hans Zimmer, However
Ludwig Goransson’s score was definitely impressive.
Overall, Tenet is mind bending, where you have a Protagonist in the past
present moving forward, aided by his colleague (Robert Pattinson in the present
from the future), fighting an enemy from the future. I wonder if this movie can
actually be watched backwards.
Rating: Nolan padatha rate panra alavuku namakku avlo scene illa.
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