Tenet (Nolan)

[zen]

Just finished watching Tenet .... This is a well crafted sci-fi spy thriller (right down my alley) .... Probably the best Nolan film since Inception

 

4K transfer is stunning. On the disc, it switched from full screen IMAX sequences (not available on digital) to the ones with black bar. Once you get used to the IMAX full screen sequences, it is difficult to go back to the black bars 

 

Many folks have had issues with the low volume dialogues but I did not have such issues in general. The "lower" dialogues were mostly casual ones or designed that way (as many of the sequences are played out from different PoV). At times, I did have to lower the volume as the bass kicked in loudly (a minor inconvenience)

 

How do you rate this film? 

[velu]

Yet to watch ..

reviews are universally bad

[zen]

14 minutes ago, velu said:

Yet to watch ..

reviews are universally bad

 

Many have found the film difficult to understand, compounded by relatively muted dialogues (though they are mostly casual ones or intended to be such as many sequences are repeated from a new perspective) 

 

It is not an average big budget film. Nolan may have gone for the broke so either you like it or do not. 

[zen]

Prologue (this IMAX sequence would be full screen on the dics) 

 

video del

 

Edited December 22, 2020 by zen

[zen]

Ideally, Tenet should be watched like a spy thriller (a mesh of 007, Night Manager, etc.) but below is a fan made graphic (theory) involving the forward and reverse timelines:

 

 

SPOLER ALERT 

 

 

Edited December 21, 2020 by zen

[zen]

The ancient "Sator" square .... I am getting interested in palindromes

 

 

[velu]

@zen read the plot summary .. looks like Nolan heavily got inspired by recursive backtracking algorithm 

[velu]

At interval  

[Scarface]

Big fan of Nolan's work and always like a good sci-fi. But this one went over my head. Need to read a couple of thick physics books and then revisit.
Keeping the science stuff aside, the movie lacks heart and I couldn't feel much for the characters.

[maniac]

I am going to skip this one for a brainless Indian movie where I can follow the entire plot line even watching it half heartedly.

[velu]

21 minutes ago, maniac said:

I am going to skip this one for a brainless Indian movie where I can follow the entire plot line even watching it half heartedly.

nah .. you can still watch tenet , if you don’t like it then go back in time and unwatch it

[zen]

Watched it 2nd time y'day .... the IMAX sequences 

[velu]

[velu]

1 hour ago, zen said:

Watched it 2nd time y'day .... the IMAX sequences 

 

i think you may need to watch few more times

 

[zen]

3 minutes ago, velu said:

 

i think you may need to watch few more times

 

 

 

There are various nuances .... I ll watch it multiple times since it is in my library 

 

<spoiler>
  
 For e.g.  Neil dies (the guy with the backpack who takes the bomb from the protaginist in the concert segment at the beginning), towards the end the focus is on the backpack for audiences to make a connection 
  
</spoiler>

 

[Jimmy Cliff]

 

[velu]

during opera scene , first thing i thought was this incident .. when 100s of hostages were taken by terrorists , Russians gassed the whole theatre with sleeping gas or some sort  

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis

[Vilander]

On 12/17/2020 at 8:57 AM, zen said:

Many have found the film difficult to understand

oh wow you understood it that's so special maaan.. soo impressed..

 

aight bye

[coffee_rules]

He complicates stories for no reason. Interstellar is his least complicated movie. 

[raki05]

matlab movie dekney se pehley physics ki class karni hogi... Relativity ,time travel, quantum physics sab samjhna padega..