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திரை விமர்சனம் - டெனெட்

உக்ரைன் நாட்டில் உள்ள கீவ் ஓபரா ஹவுஸில் மிகப்பெரும் சண்டையுடன் படம் தொடங்குகிறது. அப்போது ‘ப்ரோட்டோகனிஸ்ட்’ என்ற அழைக்கப்படும் நாயகன் (ஜான் வாஷிங்டன்) எதிரி ஒருவனிடம் விநோதமான முறையில் ரிவர்ஸில் சுடும் துப்பாக்கி ஒன்று இருப்பதை காண்கிறார். அந்த சண்டையில் எதிர்களின் கையில் நாயகனை மீட்டு தங்கள் குழுவில் சேர்த்துக் கொள்கிறது ‘டெனெட்’ என்ற ரகசிய இயக்கம். காலத்தில் பின்னோக்கி பயணிக்கும் புல்லட்கள் எதிர்காலத்தில் உருவாக்கப்படுவதாகவும், மேலும் கடந்த காலத்தையே அழிக்கக் கூடிய ஒரு மிகப்பெரிய ஆயுதம் ஒன்றும் இருப்பதாகவும் நாயகனிடம் விஞ்ஞானி ஒருவர் சொல்கிறார். இதைப் பற்றி மேலும் தெரிந்து கொள்வதற்காக மும்பை வருகிறார் நாயகன். அங்கே அவருக்கு அறிமுகமாகும் நீல் என்பவரின் உதவியுடன் ஆயுத வியாபாரியான பிரியாவை (டிம்பிள் கபாடியா) சந்திக்கிறார். அவரும் ஒரு டெனெட் உறுப்பினர் என்பதை தெரிந்து கொள்கிறார்.

ப்ரியாவின் மூலம் அந்த துப்பாக்கி குண்டுகள் ரஷ்ய வியாபாரியான ஆண்ட்ரே சாடோர் என்பவரால் வாங்கப்பட்டு டைம்- ரிவர்ஸ் செய்யப்படுகின்றன என்பதையும் தெரிந்து கொள்கிறார். நாயகனான ‘ப்ரோட்டோகனிஸ்ட்’ ஆண்ட்ரே சாடோர் நெருங்கினாரா? கடந்த காலத்தை அழிக்கக் கூடிய ஆயுதம் என்னவானது? என்பதே ‘டெனெட்’ படத்தின் மீதிக்கதை.

‘டன்கிர்க்’ படம் வெளியாகி மூன்று ஆண்டுகளுக்குப் பிறகு வெளியாகியிருக்கும் படம். இந்த ஆண்டின் மத்தியிலேயே வெளியாகியிருக்க வேண்டிய கரோனாவால் இப்போது அப்போது என்று சொல்லி, பல நாடுகளில் கடந்த மாதமே வெளியான நிலையில் ஒருவழியாக நேற்று இந்தியாவில் வெளியாகியுள்ளது.

இப்படத்தின் கதையை எழுத நோலன் ஐந்து ஆண்டுகள் எடுத்துக் கொண்டதாக கூறப்பட்டது. அதற்கான காரணத்தை படத்தை பார்க்கும்போதே விளங்கிக் கொள்ளலாம். ‘மெமெண்டோ’, ‘இன்செப்ஷன்’, ‘இண்டெர்ஸ்டெல்லார்’ வரிசையில் மற்றுமொரு மூளைக்கு வேலை கொடுக்கும் படம். ஆனால் அப்படங்கள் ஏற்படுத்திய உணர்வுப்பூர்வமான தாக்கத்தை ‘டெனெட்’ ஏற்படுத்தியதா என்பதை பார்க்கலாம்.

படம் வெளியாவதற்கு முன்பாகவே இது டைம் ட்ராவல் படமல்ல என்பதை தெளிவாக நோலன் உள்ளிட்ட படக்குழுவினர் விளக்கி விட்டனர். இப்படத்தில் பயன்படுத்தப்பட்டிருப்பது டைம் ரிவர்ஸ் எனப்ப்படும் ஒரு தொழில்நுட்பம். அதாவது காலப்பயணம் போல நாம் நினைத்த நேரத்தில் நினைத்த இடத்துக்கு போவது போலல்லாமல் ‘டர்ன்ஸ்டில்’ எனப்படும் ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட நுழைவாயிலின் மூலம் காலத்தில் பின்னோக்கிச் செல்வது. அங்கு நாம் மட்டுமே முன்னோக்கிச் செல்வது போலிருக்கும். நாம் பார்க்கும் மனிதர்கள், கார்கள், பறவைகள் என அனைத்தும் பின்னோக்கிச் செல்லும் அவர்களுக்கு நாம் பின்னோக்கிச் செல்வது போல தோன்றும்.

படத்திலும் இதை மிகத் தெளிவாக காட்சிகளிலும் வசனங்களிலும் உணர்த்தியுள்ளனர். வழக்கமாக ‘இன்செப்ஷன்’, ‘இண்டெர்ஸ்டெல்லார்’ படங்கள் ஒருமுறை பார்த்தால் புரியாது என்று சொல்லப்படுவதுண்டு. ஆனாலும் அப்படங்களில் பெரியளவில் ஏதேனும் குழப்பமோ, சிக்கலோ இருக்காது. ஆனால் இப்படத்தை இரண்டு முறை பார்த்தாலும் கூட புரிந்து கொள்வது சிரமமே. இப்படிப்பட்ட ஒரு சிக்கலான கதையை எடுத்துக் கொண்ட நோலன் அதை திரைக்கதையாக மாற்றும் விதத்தில் கோட்டை விட்டுள்ளாரோ என்று தோன்றுகிறது.

வழக்கமாக சொல்லப்படும் சாதாரண ரசிகருக்கு புரியாது என்பது போய் இப்போது நோலன் ரசிகர்களுக்கே புரியாது என்ற ரீதியில் தான் இப்படம் எழுதப்பட்டுள்ளதாக தெரிகிறது.

இவ்வளவு பெரிய ஆபரேஷனுக்கு நாயகன் உடனடியாக நீல் என்பவரை எப்படி நம்புகிறார்? ஆண்ட்ரே சடோரின் மனைவிக்காக ஏன் நாயகன் இவ்வளவு ரிஸ்க் எடுக்க வேண்டும்? (ஸ்பாய்லர்) படத்தில் இறுதியில் கடந்த காலத்தில் இருந்த கேட் என்னவானார்? (ஸ்பாய்லர்) இவ்வளவு பெரிய ஆபரேஷனுக்கு காரணமான அந்த ‘ப்ரோட்டகனிஸ்ட்’ கதாபாத்திரத்தின் எதிர்கால வெர்ஷன் எங்கே போனது? போன்ற கேள்விகளுக்கு படத்தில் விடை இருப்பதாக தெரியவில்லை. சடோரின் மனைவி கேட்டுக்காக நாயகன் மெனக்கெடும் அளவுக்கு அவர்களுக்கு இடையிலான காட்சிகள் அழுத்தமாக சொல்லப்படவில்லை.

இது போல படத்தின் தொடக்கம் முதல் முடியும் வரை ஏகப்பட்ட குழப்பங்கள். நோலனின் முந்தைய படங்களிலும் இது போன்ற கேள்விகள் அநேகம் ஏற்பட்டாலும் அவற்றுக்கான விடை படம் முடியும்போதே பார்ப்பவர்களுக்கு கிடைத்து விடும். இரண்டாவது முறை அப்படங்களை பார்க்கும்போது அக்காட்சிகளோட அந்த கேள்விகளுக்கான விடைகளை நம்மால் தொடர்புப்படுத்திக் கொள்ள முடியும். ஆனால் இங்கே திரைக்கதையே சொதப்பல் என்பதால் ஒரு கட்டத்தில் படம் முடிந்தால் போதும் என்ற எண்ணமே ஏற்படுகிறது. டைம் ரிவர்ஸ் பற்றிய புத்திசாலித்தனமான விவரிப்புகள் படம் நெடுக இருந்தாலும் அவை வெறும் விவரிப்புகளாகவே நின்று விடுகின்றன.

‘மெமெண்டோ’ தொடங்கி ‘டன்கிர்க்’ வரைக்கும் நோலன் படங்களில் அறிவியல் ஜாலங்கள் நிறைந்திருந்தாலும் படத்தில் உணர்வுப்பூர்வமான செண்டிமெண்ட் காட்சிகளுக்கு ஒரு முக்கிய பங்கு இருக்கும். ஆனால் இப்படத்தில் அது குறைவு என்று சொல்வதை விட மொத்தமான மிஸ்ஸிங் என்று சொல்வதே பொருத்தமாக இருக்கும். நீல் உடனான நட்பு, கேட் உடனான காதல் என அது போன்ற காட்சிகளுக்கான இடம் இருந்தும் தவறவிட்டுள்ளார் நோலன்.

படத்தின் மிகப்பெரிய பலமாக ஒளிப்பதிவு மற்றும் இசையை சொல்லலாம். ஹான்ஸ் ஜிம்மர் இல்லாத குறையை போக்கியுள்ளார் லுட்விக் கோரன்ஸன். படத்தின் முடிவு நெருங்க நெருங்க பறக்க வைப்பது போன்ற பின்னணி இசை படம் தொய்வடையும் இடங்களை தூக்கி நிறுத்துகிறது.

அதே போல ஒளிப்பதிவு. ஒரே நேரத்தில் திரையின் ஒரு பகுதி முன்னோக்கி செல்வது போலவும் மற்றொரு பகுதி பின்னோக்கி செல்வது போலவும் அமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ள காட்சிகள் மெய்சிலிர்க்க வைக்கின்றன. நோலனின் முந்தைய படங்களில் ஒளிப்பதிவாளராக பணியாற்றிய ஹோய்ட்டே வான் ஹோய்ட்டெமாதான் இப்படத்திலும் கலக்கியுள்ளார். குறிப்பாக கார் சேஸிங் காட்சிகள், விமானம் வெடிக்கும் அந்த ஏர்போர்ட் காட்சி, க்ளைமாக்ஸ் என படம் முழுக்க மாயாஜாலத்தை நிகழ்த்தியுள்ளார். அடுத்த ஆண்டு சிறந்த ஒளிப்பதிவுக்கான ஆஸ்கர் கிடைத்தாலும் ஆச்சரியமில்லை.

பெயரற்ற நாயகனாக நடித்துள்ள ஜான் வாஷிங்டன் மற்றும் நீல் கதாத்திரமாக வரும் ராபர்ட் பேட்டின்சன் இருவருமே சிறப்பான நடிப்பை வழங்கியுள்ளனர். ப்ரியாவாக வரும் டிம்பிள் கபாடியா, ஆண்ட்ரே சடோராக வரும் கென்னத், கேத்தரினாக நடித்துள்ள எலிசெபத் டெபிகி என அனைவருமே தங்களுக்கு கொடுக்கப்பட்ட பாத்திரங்களில் நிறைவாக நடித்துள்ளனர்.

படத்தின் நேர அளவை குறைத்து திரைக்கதையை இன்னும் சற்று செதுக்கியிருந்தால் ‘இண்டெர்ஸ்டெல்லாரை’ பின்னுக்குத் தள்ளியிருக்கும் இந்த ‘டெனெட்’. நல்ல ஒலி-ஒளி கொண்ட பெரிய திரையில் ஒரு முறை பார்க்கலாம்.

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இந்த உலகம் எப்படி அழியும்..? அந்த நொடி எப்படி இருக்கும்..? அதன் பிறகு என்னவாகும்? அல்லது இந்த உலகத்தை அழிக்க எதிர்காலத்திலிருந்து ஒரு சில விஷயங்கள் பேராபத்தை விளைவித்தால் அதிலிருந்து எப்படி தற்காத்துக் கொள்வது என்பது போன்ற கேள்விகள் பலருக்கு எழலாம். அந்த கேள்வியை பெரிதாக்கி, அந்தச் சிறு புள்ளியை கோலமாக்கி சில அறிவியல் புனைவுகளை உடன் சேர்ந்து திரைக்கதை எழுதினால், அதை உலகப் புகழ்ப் பெற்ற இயக்குனர் கிறிஸ்டோபர் நோலன் எடுத்தால் அதன் பெயர்தான் டெனட்.

ஒரு மர்மமான புதிய தொழில்நுட்பம் மனித இருப்புக்கு அச்சுறுத்தலை ஏற்படுத்துகிறது. தி புரொடாகனிஸ்ட் என்றழைக்கப்படும் (ஜான் டேவிட் வாஷிங்டன்) தன்னுடைய அசாத்திய துணிச்சலாலும், அறிவாற்றலாலும்  உலகப் போரை காட்டிலும் அச்சுறுத்திக் கொண்டிருக்கும் அந்த தொழில்நுட்பத்தை கண்டு பிடித்து அதன் பிடியிலிருந்து இவ்வுலகை மீட்டெடுப்பதே இப்படத்தின் ஒரு வரிக் கதை.

ஆனால் அதைச் சுற்றி பின்னப்பட்டிருக்கும் ஆழமான விஷயங்களாக இயற்பியல் கலந்த அதிபுனைவில் காலம், சூழல், மனித மனம் செயல்படும் விதம் உள்ளிட்ட சிலவற்றை இணைத்து சற்றே குழப்பமான திரைக்கதையுடன் அளித்திருக்கிறார் நோலன்.

எந்தவொரு அழிவிற்கும் காரணமாக இருப்பது மனிதர்களின் பேராசைதான். எதிர்கால மனிதர்களிடம் நிகழ்காலத்தை அழிக்க தன்னையே அழித்துக் கொள்ள முன்வரும் ஆந்த்ரே சடார் (கென்னத் பிரனாக்) என்பவனை கண்டுபிடித்து அவனது மரணத்தை தடுக்க புரொடாகனிஸ்ட் களத்தில் இறங்குகிறான். இதில் ஆந்த்ரேயின் மனைவி கேட் (டயான எலிஸபெத் டெபிகி), நீல் (ராபர்ட் பாடின்ஸன்) மற்றும் மும்பையில் உள்ள துப்பாக்கி டீலர் சஞ்சய் என்பவனின் மனைவியான பிரியா (டிம்பிள் கபாடியா) ஆகியோரும் இணைந்து செயல்படுகிறார்கள்.  

அவர்கள் இவனை இயக்குகிறார்களா அல்லது அவன் தான் இவர்களை மையமாக வைத்து இயக்குகிறானா என்பதை இறுதிக் காட்சியில் சில முடிச்சுகளை அவிழும் போது வெளிப்படும். நிகழ் காலத்திலும், எதிர்காலத்திலும் மாறி மாறி பயணித்து இறுதியில் மனித குலத்துக்கு எதிராக இயங்கப் போகும் அந்த தொழில்நுட்பத்தின் மூலக் கூறை கண்டடைகிறானா என்பதை மின்னல் வேகத் திரைக்கதையில் சொல்லியிருக்கிறார் இயக்குனர்.

ஐமாக்ஸ் திரையில் பார்க்க எனவே எடுக்கப்பட்ட சில காட்சிகள் வியக்க வைக்கிறது. அதிலும் கப்பலில் ஆந்த்ரேயின் கப்பல், மற்றும் புரொடாகனிஸ்ட் கேட்டை காப்பாற்றும் அதிரடி காட்சிகள் படத்துக்கு பலம் சேர்ப்பவை. இப்படத்தின் சில தெளிவற்ற தருணங்களில் கதையில் என்ன நடக்கிறது எதை நோக்கி நகர்கிறது என்று யோசிக்க முடியாத அளவுக்கு விறுவிறுப்பான கேமரா நகர்வுகளும் சுவாரஸ்யமானவை. இந்த மெனக்கிடலை கதையிலும் செலுத்தியிருந்தால் டெனெட் எல்லையற்ற சுவாரஸ்யமாக இருந்திருக்கும்.

நோலனின் முந்தைய படங்களான இன்ஸெப்ஷன் மற்றும் இண்டர்ஸ்டெல்லார் படங்களுக்கு தனி ரசிகர்கள் உண்டு. அதை மீண்டும் மீண்டும் பார்த்து சிலாகிக் கூடிய விஷயங்கள் அப்படங்களின் உள்ளன என்றால் மிகையில்லை. ஆனால் டெனட்டைப் பொருத்தவரையில் இந்தப் படத்தை புரிந்து கொள்ளவே இன்னொரு தடவை பார்ப்பவர்கள் உள்ளனர். இன்வர்ட் என்ட்ராபி என்பதில் தொடங்கி, முன்னும் பின்னுமாக கால நகர்தலில் இந்தப் பக்கம் இருப்பவரை அங்கு உள்ளவர்கள் ஏன் அழிக்க நினைக்கிறார்கள் என்பதற்கான சரியான காரணங்கள் சொல்லப்படுவதில்லை.

இதில் அதிகம் புரிந்து கொள்வதற்கு எதுவுமில்லை உணர வேண்டும் என்று ஒரு டயலாக்கில் அவர்களே கூறிவிடுவதால் உணர்வதற்கான பிரம்மாண்டமான காட்சிகள் நிறையவே உள்ளன. அதிலும் குறிப்பிட்டு சொல்ல வேண்டுமெனில், கடல் சார்ந்த காட்சிகள், போர் விமானங்களின் அணிவகுப்பு, விமான தளத்தில் ஏற்படுத்தப்பட்ட விபத்து என ஒளிப்பதிவாளர் ஹொய்ட் வான் ஹொய்டேமாவின் அசத்தலான கேமரா கோணங்கள் பேரானுபவத்தை அள்ளி வழங்குகிறது.

உறங்கும் போதும் சரி, விழித்திருக்கும் போதும் சரி கனவு காண்பது என்பது மனிதர்களுக்கு எப்போதும் பிடிக்கும். இதுபோன்ற ஒழுங்கமைக்கப்பட்ட கனவுகளை திரையில் பார்க்க வைத்திருக்கும் நோலனின் ரசிகர்கள் அவரிடம் எதிர்ப்பார்ப்பது கதையை மட்டுமல்ல, திரைப்படத்தின் மற்றும் மனித ஆற்றலின் உச்சபட்ச சாத்தியங்களை என்பதை டெனட் உறுதிப்படுத்தி உள்ளது.

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Dimple kapadia and mumbai star in the christopher nolan film..

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Jack Cutmore-Scott, John David Washington, and Robert Pattinson in Tenet

• Tenet release date in India is December 4 in cinemas
• John David Washington, Robert Pattinson in Tenet cast
• Tenet reviews, box office have been quite average

Tenet has finally come to India. More than three months since its global premiere, Christopher Nolan's latest film will finally roll into Indian cinemas this week. Thanks, COVID-19. If you've been waiting to catch Tenet in India, you can finally do so — in English, Hindi, Tamil, or Telugu. The IMAX experience is only available in English though. Tenet is even more special for Nolan fans in India, given that it was shot in India and even stars a couple of veteran Indian actors. But due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, we've been unable to see what Nolan does with Mumbai. And even now, it's a gamble.

From Tenet to Durgamati , What to Watch in December

The anticipation for Tenet is so high that some screens have been fully booked — the limit they are allowed to anyway, with a 50 percent cap. Being in an indoor AC environment where social distancing guidelines are meaningless and with strangers who might take off their masks to eat and drink poses a great risk, as we've discussed before . And you shouldn't risk getting COVID (and giving it to others) to watch a movie. Especially now that Tenet's Blu-ray and digital release on international platforms is less than two weeks away. Sure, you will have to pay more, but not getting COVID is priceless.

Yes, you won't get access to local-language dubbed versions at home, but you won't have to wait too long for that either. Warner Bros. India usually does Blu-ray releases two months of the theatrical release. You already waited a few months, what's a couple of months more?

Now that Tenet is around the corner, here's everything you need to know — no spoilers here — about Nolan's latest film.

Tenet release date in India

Christopher Nolan's latest movie, Tenet, is out Friday, December 4 in cinemas across India.

This comes a month after Maharashtra — the state with the most screens in India — allowed cinemas to reopen. Tenet was originally slated to release in July, but was then delayed multiple times due to the pandemic , before settling on a late August bow in many markets. But Indian theatres were still shut then, and Warner Bros. India had to wait before they could bring the Nolan film here.

Tenet will be available in regular 2D and IMAX 2D only. There's no 3D option because Nolan isn't a fan of 3D.

Tenet India tickets

Ticket bookings for Tenet opened last Friday and are now available with all major cinema chains — PVR Cinemas, INOX, Cinepolis, and Carnival Cinemas — in cities across India. Tickets are available on BookMyShow, Paytm, and the official websites of the aforementioned players.

Depending on where you live, which format you opt for, and your show time, you are looking between Rs. 80 – Rs. 750 for Tenet in 2D, and between Rs. 170 – Rs. 750 for an IMAX experience.

John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman) is the protagonist in Tenet. The cast also includes Robert Pattinson (The Batman), Elizabeth Debicki (Widows), Clémence Poésy (The Tunnel), Dimple Kapadia (Dil Chahta Hai), Martin Donovan (Weeds), Fiona Dourif (Cult of Chucky), Yuri Kolokolnikov (Game of Thrones), Himesh Patel (Yesterday), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Avengers: Age of Ultron), Denzil Smith (The Lunchbox), Kenneth Branagh (Murder on the Orient Express), and Michael Caine (The Dark Knight).

Tenet movie trailer

The first teaser trailer for Tenet was released in August 2019, and screened only theatrically in front of Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw in select theatres in the US. The same teaser was screened in front of Joker IMAX screenings in October 2019 in India.

In December 2019, Warner Bros. released the first Tenet trailer for everyone online, which introduced the marketing tagline (“Time runs out”) and set up the film's confusing world (some things move backwards) and stakes (World War III). Later that month, a six-minute prologue was unveiled in front of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in select IMAX theatres in the US, which came to India with Birds of Prey IMAX screenings in February 2020.

Warner Bros. gave us a second Tenet trailer back in May — when Nolan was still insisting on a July release date for the film — which revealed that the weird backward moment is because the film deals with time inversion, not time travel. It even came with a tutorial of sorts, as Washington's character “caught” a bullet instead of shooting it.

A final trailer for Tenet followed in August as the film geared up for its release internationally. Set to Travis Scott's new single for the Tenet soundtrack, “The Plan”, the final Tenet trailer came up with more explanations for how its world works and teased the movie's endgame.

Tenet movie box office

At the time of writing, Tenet has made over $357.8 million (about Rs. 2,632 crores) globally. That's a far cry from what Nolan's films have made in the past, with the film's $56.9 million-haul in the US — traditionally the single biggest market for Hollywood movies, and around 50 percent of the total gross — considered a major disappointment.

But it's worth noting that there is no context for box office success during a global pandemic. Nolan said as much when he defended the worldwide box office haul. The Tenet writer-director said he was “ thrilled ” with the $350-million+ take and added: “But I am worried that the studios are drawing the wrong conclusions from our release – that rather than looking at where the film has worked well and how that can provide them with much needed revenue, they're looking at where it hasn't lived up to pre-COVID expectations and will start using that as an excuse to make exhibition take all the losses from the pandemic instead of getting in the game and adapting – or rebuilding our business, in other words.”

Tenet review

The latest Nolan film has a 71 percent score and a 6.9/10 average rating on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , based on the opinions of 280 critics. On fellow review aggregator Metacritic , Tenet has a “generally favourable” 69 score, based on 47 critic reviews.

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For transparency’s sake, it feels important to state that this film was screened for limited press in Chicago with extreme precautions that simply won’t be in place for most ticket buyers at least for weeks, including 1% capacity of a huge, sanitized theater first thing in the morning. The intent of this review is not to encourage or discourage anyone from attending a theatrical screening at this specific time. It is an analysis of the work itself for posterity. 

No one could possibly mistake “Tenet” as being by anyone but Christopher Nolan . First, it has the kind of budget that only Nolan could get for an original screenplay. There’s so much money in every bursting frame of this opulent film that a scene in which gold bars are literally dumped on a runway feels almost like a self-referential wink. Second, it contains one of those time-twisting narratives that have defined the Nolan brand, one that blends robust action sequences with high-concept stories that viewers have to legitimately strain to follow. Finally, at times, it even seems to echo previous Nolan projects like an album of remastered greatest hits. There are war action scenes that recall “ Dunkirk ,” an espionage narrative that feels like “ Inception ,” and even a whole lot of people talking through masks a la Bane in “ The Dark Knight Rises .” It is 100% designed as an experience for people who have unpacked films like “ The Prestige ” and “ Memento ” late into the night, hoping to give Nolan fans more to chew on than ever before. More certainly seems to be the operating principle of “Tenet,” even if the chewing can get exhausting.

[Note: Spoilers will be incredibly light but if you want to go in completely unvarnished as many Nolan fans do, you’ve been warned.]

“Tenet” wastes no time, dropping viewers into an attack on a symphony performance in Kiev and barely allowing anyone to get oriented. One of the agents sent in to retrieve a high-profile asset during the assault is a man known only as The Protagonist ( John David Washington , proving more than capable of carrying a blockbuster film with his charismatic performance). Our hero is captured by the enemy, tortured, and takes a cyanide capsule, as he was ordered to do in training. He survives, and his allegiance to the system and his orders leads to a promotion of sorts, a top-secret assignment that involves a new technology that has the potential to literally rewrite human history.

The Protagonist is taken to a remote facility and introduced to the concept of inverted objects. We look at an object and it is traveling forward through time along with us. That’s obvious from elementary school science class. But what if an object could go in the other direction through history instead? Apparently, objects have been doing exactly this, and the Powers That Be need to control it because if a bullet could be sent back through time, what happens if a nuclear weapon takes the same trip?

Teaming up with a mysterious partner named Neil (a charming Robert Pattinson ), our hero tracks inverted objects to a villainous Russian arms dealer named Andrei ( Kenneth Branagh ). To get closer to this mega-wealthy madman, The Protagonist uses Andrei’s wife Kat ( Elizabeth Debicki ), who loathes her abusive husband but is being blackmailed into staying with him via threats that she will lose her son if she doesn’t do exactly what he says. On a very basic level, “Tenet” is about the extremes of unmonitored power. When one becomes so rich and powerful that they can literally shape world events, why not try to shape world history too? Sound a little familiar? Andrei is very much cut from the same cloth as classic Bond villains, complete with unchecked opulence, Russian accent and snarling line delivery. Blend Nolan’s obsession with time-twisting high concepts and his love of classic action construction and you have some idea what “Tenet” feels like.

However, there’s never been a Bond movie so stuffed with expository dialogue. “Tenet” spends roughly two hours of its 150-minute run time explaining what is happening, why it is happening, and what might happen next. And yet even with that it’s still incredibly difficult to follow because Nolan goes so far down his own rabbit hole of time travel that one almost needs to take notes to keep up (and I still think it arguably wouldn’t all add up if they could). Scene after scene of Washington, Pattinson, Branagh, and Debicki trying to convey the plot becomes exhausting, and it’s Nolan’s biggest mistake. It would have been better to just leave more unsaid, and jump chaotically into the film’s mood and visuals instead of so often returning to over-analyzing a plot most people still won’t be able to follow. At times, it feels like a film crafted for YouTube explainer video culture. (There’s already one online that purports to deconstruct the ending and the movie isn’t even out in most of the world.) Early in the film, the scientist who explains inversion says, “Don’t try to understand, feel it,” and I wished Nolan had listened to her more. 

For some of his fans, this narrative assault is exactly what they’re looking for, but I prefer emotional registers in my Nolan that he seems only casually interested in here. The stakes don’t feel as high as “Dunkirk,” the maze construction isn’t as thrilling as “Inception,” and even the characters don’t feel as easy to invest in as “ Interstellar .” Almost as if he knows his puzzle box is ice cold, Nolan adds the subplot about Kat losing her son, but it’s so underdeveloped that I don’t think her kid even has a line. The kid is as much of a device as an inverted bullet.

If “Tenet” can be a hard movie to engage with emotionally or even comprehend narratively, that doesn’t take away from its craftsmanship on a technical level. It’s an impressive film simply to experience, bombarding the viewer with bombastic sound design and gorgeous widescreen cinematography by Hoyte van Hoytema. The movie never sags in terms of technical elements and even performance. Everyone is committed to Nolan’s runaway speed. Van Hoytema’s work is vibrant, Jennifer Lame’s editing is tight, and the performances are all good to great. In particular, Pattinson really shines in a playful register that he’s not often allowed to use.

The decision to release “Tenet” in theaters instead of VOD was controversial for many reasons, but there’s no denying that “Tenet” was conceived by Nolan to be an experience that shouldn’t be paused and needs to be projected with a speaker system turned up to 11 (even if that would have still been true if Warner Bros. had delayed the film until it was safer to see it). I almost got the sense that playing “Tenet” at a lower volume or even pausing it at home to take a break might reveal its flaws. Nolan doesn’t want you to be able to to dissect it or be distracted by your phone while you watch it. The irony is that he doesn’t want you to be able to rewind it. “Tenet” is a movie about momentum, reflected both in its narrative and its aesthetic, and more cracks would show without it. 

Viewer response to “Tenet” will come down to how much one engages with that momentum. I expect a surprising number of people will open the door and jump out of this moving race car (look, another palindrome!) before it crosses the finish line, exhausted by a story that doesn’t make sense even as it’s trying to explain itself to you. Others will embrace the filmmaking’s energy, which starts with intensity and doesn’t let up much at all. The word I kept thinking of was one I used earlier in this review: “aggressive”—that may sound like high praise to Nolan fans looking for something other than a lazy, predictable blockbuster and harsh criticism to those who aren’t looking to be left weary by a self-serious sci-fi epic. In the spirit of a film about objects moving opposite ways in time in the same space, maybe both groups are right.

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Brian Tallerico is the Managing Editor of RogerEbert.com, and also covers television, film, Blu-ray, and video games. He is also a writer for Vulture, The Playlist, The New York Times, and GQ, and the President of the Chicago Film Critics Association.

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Tenet First Reviews: A Beautiful, Spectacular Head-Scratcher

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One of the most anticipated movies of 2020, and one of the few tentpole releases still opening this year, Christoper Nolan’s Tenet is… Christopher Nolan’s Tenet . That is to say, based on the mostly-positive first reviews of the sci-fi spy thriller, you know what you’re getting into, but also you have no idea. The movie, which stars John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, appears to be another difficult one to describe, plot-wise, in part because of spoilers, but it’s also celebrated for its action and mind-blowing effects, even if you don’t care about any of the characters. And while some critics suggest the film needs to be seen on the big screen, we encourage you to check here for the latest information on how movie theaters are implementing new safety regulations in light of COVID-19.

With that said, here’s what critics are saying about Tenet :

How does it compare to the rest of Nolan’s filmography ?

It’s one of his most daring sci-fi narratives yet, and the results are truly phenomenal. –  Linda Marric, The Jewish Chronicle

Tenet  exceeds our already sky-high expectations… It is undeniably the most audacious film of his career – which is saying something. –  James Mottram, South China Morning Post

Tenet  is as intricately and exquisitely designed as Nolan’s earlier work. It boasts some of the most spectacular, memorable set-pieces of his career. –  Clarisse Loughrey, Independent

Tenet is not Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece, but it is another thrilling entry into his canon. –  Matt Purslow, IGN

Tenet is the first time I felt he gets too carried away with his own concept. –  Casey Chong, Casey’s Movie Mania

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So what is it about, anyway ?

What’s narratively most interesting about it is strictly off-limits in any pre-screening discussion. – Guy Lodge, Variety

We’re not even sure we could spoil this one if we tried. – Simon Miraudo, Student Edge

The palindromic title has some narrative correlation — albeit in an exhausting, rather joyless way. – Mike McCahill, IndieWire

Can we expect another mind-bending delight?

If Nolan’s Inception baked your noodle, prepare for a whole new level of bewilderment. – Andy Lea, Daily Star

Tenet will have you saying “Wow,” but also “Huh?,” “Wha …?” and “WTF??!!!” – Radheyan Simonpillai, NOW Toronto

Tenet is not in itself that difficult to understand: It’s more convoluted than it is complex, wider than it is deep, and there’s more linearity to its form than you might guess. – Guy Lodge, Variety

The fun with Tenet lies not in trying to decipher the whats or the whys but in simply admiring the how. – Adam Woodward, Little White Lies

I watched the movie twice for this review, and still feel very confused about what is supposed to be going on and why. – Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter

Is it more about the visuals?

Tenet  frequently delivers mind-blowing moments that are unlike anything you’ve seen (or even thought about) before. – Ian Sandwell, Digital Spy

Tenet  is best approached as an experience to be felt rather than comprehensively understood. Sit back, relax and prepare to have your mind blown. – James Mottram, South China Morning Post

An absolute treat as a Movie Event…  Tenet ’s deployment of stupefying practical special effects is pure wizardry. – Shannon Conellan, Mashable

Nolan’s commitment to shooting practically achieves an effect akin to first seeing the T-Rex stomp onscreen in Jurassic Park – it’s a film that shows you the impossible in a way that’s indistinguishable from reality. – Jordan Farley, Total Film

Take away the time-bending gimmick, and Tenet is a series of timidly generic set pieces: heists, car chases, bomb disposals, more heists… but gosh, does he blow stuff up good. – Jessica Kiang, New York Times

How is the action ?

The action exceeds anything Nolan has ever done before. – Radheyan Simonpillai, NOW Toronto

The sheer meticulousness of Nolan’s grand-canvas action aesthetic is enthralling, as if to compensate for the stray loose threads and teasing paradoxes of his screenplay — or perhaps simply to underline that they don’t matter all that much. – Guy Lodge, Variety

If Nolan has out-Nolaned himself, it’s in the action set-pieces which, despite being of head-scrambling technical intricacy, are sharper than Occam’s razor and carried off with astonishing economy. – Adam Woodward, Little White Lies

Big, bombastic and does everything with the most epic scale possible. It’s a lot like being punched in the face by Cinema™, in the best and worst ways. – Tom Beasley, Flickering Myth

Are the stakes compelling ?

It’s the rare action film where the characters don’t just say the world will end if they fail in their mission – you feel it, too. – Clarisse Loughrey, Independent

Tenet ’s stakes are too high, perhaps, to really have any emotional impact. – Rosie Fletcher, Den of Geek

What is the movie reminiscent of ?

Tenet revisits the terrain of 2000’s Memento with more money… yet plot-wise, Tenet has more in common with Minority Report . – Mike McCahill, IndieWire

Tenet can feel like a $200 million remake of Primer , with a fiendishly brilliant but confounding narrative that practically demands one or two rewatches to fully appreciate the big picture. – Jordan Farley, Total Film

It may echo the cleverness of Rian Johnson’s Looper and Shane Carruth’s Primer in its dizzying disregard for linear chronology, but the plotting is muddled rather than complex. – Nicholas Barber, The Wrap

It’s reminiscent of Steven Knight’s Serenity …influences range from La Jetée to From Russia With Love . – Radheyan Simonpillai, NOW Toronto

But what does it  really feel like ?

Nolan has made his own Bond film here, borrowing everything he likes about it, binning everything he doesn’t, then Nolaning it all up. – Alex Godfrey, Empire Magazine

The fanciest James Bond romp you ever did see, complete with dizzy global location-hopping, car chases that slip and loop like spaghetti, and bespoke tailoring you actually want to reach into the screen and stroke. – Guy Lodge, Variety

This is absolutely Nolan delivering his James Bond movie, only Bond never had to deal with inverted bullets. – Ian Sandwell, Digital Spy

How is the cast ?

David Washington is rock solid in the lead role… Robert Pattinson brings his A-game. – Adam Woodward, Little White Lies

Robert Pattinson puts in a truly electrifying turn. – Linda Marric, The Jewish Chronicle

Only Elizabeth Debicki and Kenneth Branagh made quite an impression in their respective roles. – Casey Chong, Casey’s Movie Mania

Branagh is unexpectedly fearsome. – Clarisse Loughrey, Independent

But do we care about their characters enough ?

Though leads John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Elizabeth Debicki bring a level of solid integrity to their characters while wrapped up in flawless costumes, we’re left without any idea of who they actually are. – Shannon Conellan, Mashable

Tenet suggests Nolan no longer has any interest in human beings beyond assets on a poster or dots on a diagram. – Simon Miraudo, Student Edge

Tenet is by no means a movie about race. But Washington does appear to lean into what his race brings to the role. – Radheyan Simonpillai, NOW Toronto

What are the movie’s biggest issues ?

Tenet ’s coldness is what keeps it just short of greatness… the viewer’s investment is purely intellectual. – Laura Potier, Starburst

[It] feels strangely hollow and coldly detached. So detached to the point that Nolan’s otherwise great acting ensemble fails to connect emotionally. – Casey Chong, Casey’s Movie Mania

It’s hard to work out what’s happening. It’s harder still to care. – Donald Clarke, Irish Times

For a film which prides itself on its innovative outlook, its portrayal of gender roles can feel surprisingly old-fashioned. – Linda Marric, The Jewish Chronicle

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Do we need to see it in a theater (if we can) ?

This is certainly the biggest bang for your buck of the year so far. See it on the biggest screen you can with the very best sound system. – Rosie Fletcher, Den of Geek

Viewed solely from its technical point-of-view… This is a must-see on the biggest screen possible. – Casey Chong, Casey’s Movie Mania

It’s best experienced in a huge, dark room. – Matt Purslow, IGN

Demands to be seen in a cinema, and on the biggest possible screen… But Tenet will later thrive in home viewing formats, giving viewers the chance to pause and go back over tricky passages. – Jonathan Romney, Los Angeles Times

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Tenet  will debut in several global markets on August 26-28 and open in limited theaters in the U.S. on September 3 before expanding wider around the world.

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Tenet Movie Review: Many heady pleasures in a film that doesn’t exactly take your breath away

Rating: ( 3.5 / 5).

Let there be no doubt that Christopher Nolan enjoys his physics. Well, before an actual science expert takes offence, let me clarify that he seems to enjoy it to the extent that it can result in dramatic and visual possibilities. I can picture him poring over the fundamentals of quantum physics, of concepts like time, space and gravity, engaging science experts in conversation, whilst potentially gathering material with which he can go to play as a filmmaker. This would explain why we see him toy repeatedly with the idea of time being able to expand and contract, with the existence of dimensions beyond our understanding, with wormholes and blackholes, with the nuances of how a dream plays out in our subconscious… and more importantly, with the almost preposterous worlds these ideas can potentially conjure up on the biggest of theatre screens. You can picture him considering questions like:  What if two men had a fist fight in zero gravity?  W hat if an astronaut were able to fly in and out of a blackhole?  At the beginning of this review of the latest Nolan film, I delve as much into this tendency of his to bend and twist science to conjure up arresting visuals because while Tenet is not nearly as effective as some of his previous films, it’s important to note that there are portions in this film, specifically of the action variety, that are bewitching to behold.  What if we shot a fight sequence with half the characters operating chronologically and the other half operating in reverse?  In fantasising over the possibilities of science, it must be noted that he is stretching the possibilities of cinema too.

Director: Christopher Nolan

Cast: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh The problem with cramming in such dense material and looking to interpret it all under the restrictive boundaries of a tentpole film, is the limited leeway allotted to matters like nuance and subtlety. It’s almost a direct consequence of this that results in his films often getting criticised—and rightly so—for all the exposition that happens through synthetic conversations. Tenet too suffers from much of the same problem. Many conversations in this film are designed with the singular objective of helping you get clued into what the hell is going on. It’s almost the equivalent of the filmmaker directly narrating ideas and events to you. Take, for instance, the early conversation The Protagonist (John David Washington) has with a man, who’s debriefing him.

Recruiter: It’s a fight for survival.

The Protagonist: Whose?

Recruiter: Everyone’s. There’s a cold war, cold as ice.

Tenet is punctuated with many such laboured conversations featuring characters across the board, including Barbara (Clemence Poesy), Michael Caine (Sir Michael Crosby) and Priya (Dimple Kapadia). There may not be much joy to be had in the form of dialogues (save for the rare burst of wit), but there is plenty to be mined in the other departments.

 Before I move on to larger pleasures, let me begin with Nolan’s penchant for cheeky wordplay and hat tips to inspirations. Remember when you learned that the initials of the leading characters in Inception formed the word, DREAMS? Well, there’s something like that going on in Tenet as well. The antagonist is named Andrei Sator, his last name drawn from Sator Square, a word square containing a five-word Latin palindrome, the five words being Sator, Arepo, Tenet, Opera and Rotas. Arepo’s a forger in this film, Tenet’s the title, Opera’s where the opening sequence takes place, and Rotas is the name of a security organisation in this film. Though I could have, I did not process this naming, this obsession with a palindrome, as just a gimmick. The film itself is one half of a palindrome, or as it is dubbed in the film, one-half of a ‘temporal pincer movement’. The central idea is time inversion, with many portions of the film possessing a poetic sense of symmetry. You can spot this in the number of events that eventually complete themselves, in how the other halves of these events slide into the original event, like missing jigsaw pieces.

I spotted symmetry even in something as unimportant as the running motion of three policemen (one of which is The Protagonist) at the beginning of that opera house scene. The running is almost a dance, to entrancing beats from the track called Rainy Night in Tallinn . Like in many other Nolan films, the music is unafraid to be loud and constant, and is the heartbeat of this film. Almost literally a heartbeat, it’s pounding along quietly in the background. In other places, it communicates the urgency of The Protagonist’s mission. I found Ludwig Göransson’s music to be among Tenet’s chief pleasures—its perpetuity and its unabashed use by a filmmaker who thrives in it. In fact, there were fleeting moments where I almost lost myself in it, at the expense of the visuals.

Perhaps the reason Tenet did not feel as rousing to me as, say, an Interstellar or an Inception , is the absence of a robust emotional core. For lack of it, you are left with scientific mumbo-jumbo being bandied about, and characters fretting over the potential end of a world. If the material weren’t as dense and as hard to comprehend, it might have been easier to process it as the WYSIWYG entertainment of a typical Bond film—and perhaps that’s why Nolan thought he could get away with the fairly fringe emotional angle of Katherine Barton (Elizabeth Debicki), who’s abused by her husband, Sator (Kenneth Branagh, who felt rather unidimensional as the stereotypical Russian villain)… but given everything that’s going on, this feels rather cursory. The other ideas—The Protagonist-Neil (Robert Pattinson) friendship or The Protagonist-Katherine relationship—barely take off, emotionally speaking. This isn’t to take away from the powerful performance of Debicki whose eyes, throughout the film, burst with much pain and as Sator points out in a scene, despair. It’s also a relief that she isn’t cowering and waiting to be rescued in this film. She is a bit of a badass herself.

This is a description we could borrow for the action choreography in this film as well, which, along with Ludwig’s music, offers almost visceral joy—which is an unusually deep response to stunt sequences. Be it the chase sequence in which a wrecked car mesmerisingly reverses itself out of damage or that final glorious stretch in which two different teams of fighters work towards a common goal but from opposite ends of the timeline, it is beautiful to behold how an idea as convoluted as time inversion can result in original, memorable visual imagery. It’s in such stretches that you are truly able to do what a character advises The Protagonist in the beginning: “Don’t try to understand it; feel it.”

Tenet is guaranteed to create polarising opinions because it contains both the good and the bad of this filmmaker. For me, the film lies somewhere in between. While criticising this filmmaker for the expository dialogue, the tentpole-film take on intricate scientific theories, and the deliberate convolutions of the narrative that comes almost at the expense of clarity, it’s important to also note how wonderful it is that we have a ‘blockbuster auteur’ who’s constantly trying to blow your mind with new ideas not just in terms of plot and structure, but also with visual possibilities. At one point in the film, a character asks The Protagonist, “Does your head hurt yet?” Well, watching Tenet , it’s bound to, because you’re trying to make sense of reverse chronology, inversion of objects’ entropy, and temporal pincer movements, all the while processing the many knots of the screenplay as well. But when the byproduct of all this is IMAX visual gratification—like getting to see the top of a building explode in slow-motion before coming together, only for the bottom of the structure to explode this time—a bit of headache seems well worth the rewards. Yes, even though this is a film that isn’t exactly gratifying in its totality.

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One of the best movie I have ever see in my life without understanding first time. Second time I understand a little more then so on. Still I am trying to understand the whole concept.

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