Here's my explained video on TENET and the ending. Hope you enjoy and gain some clarity out of it. Regardless of if you do, don't try to understand it, feel it.

@uzik00sh65

3 жыл бұрын

There has to be a 2nd one right??? With that ending they gotta show me Neils relationship with the Protagonist

@einsteinjunior91youtube98

3 жыл бұрын

I would be way clearer to point out what happend simultaniously / chronologicly the just repeat the plot.... I am kinda dissapointed

@Woodsaras

3 жыл бұрын

Not that its complex, well it is, but i think the fact thats its just too fast makes it barely understandable at first glance

@christianjalexander

3 жыл бұрын

Aren't the time inversion machines called "turnstiles" in the movie? You keep calling them "time stills" but I don't think that's right...

@gaznann6503

3 жыл бұрын

The movie should be called inversion But if there was going to be a part 2 of this movie then call it inversion, Christopher Nolan you can use my idea if you give me a small talking part in part 2 of the movie I be happy saying two or three lines I do not mind working for small cheap fee or even free I give you ideas of part 2 and being stuck in a time loop is one of the ideas

Everyone: Inception is so complicated Nolan: reeb ym dloh

@MuffinMcFluffin

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, what would happen is Nolan would take his beer from you. Haha.

@JFGaming.

3 жыл бұрын

more like... aremac ym dloh

@osushi181

3 жыл бұрын

.ko

@alottafugina5410

3 жыл бұрын

I rewatched Inception for the first time since 5+ years ago & it was more of a cake walk. I think a decade ago many of us were too young to understand

@uryth

3 жыл бұрын

You're not holding his beer, you're catching it.

This movie is so mind-bending that we need a Tenet Explained Explained video.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't have put it better

@kenrodriguez9645

3 жыл бұрын

The video has already been made, it’s just traveling from the future backwards in time towards us.

@ericservxn8063

3 жыл бұрын

@@kenrodriguez9645 but what happens if I rewind the video, did I ever watch it???

@donaldduong6855

3 жыл бұрын

My mind just got wrinkled

@RobFearn

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I think it's clear that the people that are doing "Tenet Explained" videos didn't understand it anymore than the rest of us. They're only telling us about the parts we already got

I’ve spent more time watching Tenet explained videos than I did watching Tenet. And I’m not mad about it. In fact, I want to see the movie again even more

Who else type in "tenet explained" right after the movie?😂

@ryuusaki7309

3 жыл бұрын

Me

@brettabbott772

3 жыл бұрын

FACTS

@AceDeclan

3 жыл бұрын

I did. Not that funny.

@blakescott9157

3 жыл бұрын

I literally am on the drive home watching it lmao

@Goutetsuuk

3 жыл бұрын

Me

Did anyone else else have a hard time hearing what people were saying? I feel like I would have understood the movie a lot better if the dialogue wasn’t covered up by background noise. Every time someone was explaining what was happening or going to happen, I could barely hear what they were saying

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

It was like that for me and many others especially at my imax screening. I watched it again at a regular theatre and I was able to catch 95% of it and it was overall a much better experience. Even if the images on imax were unparalleled

@kylebergwall7432

3 жыл бұрын

i thought it was just my theater who had the audio mixing wrong. it was definitely hard to hear the dialogue a lot of the time, which is honestly what led to most of the confusion for me. i understood most of it, but i never picked up on WHY the people from the future wanted to reverse time. this video helped a lot with that, i didn’t realize that their world was essentially destroyed and that they were going to reverse time and hope that it all worked out okay.

@nachikethas

3 жыл бұрын

I watched it in IMAX and experienced the same. I thought it was specific to the theatre I went to.

@Minidvbandit

3 жыл бұрын

every time they had things over their mouths i couldn't hear them!

@AntColston

3 жыл бұрын

Even during quiet scenes I could hardly understand what people were saying lol

This movie is so complicated that I don’t even know what questions to ask to understand it

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

It’s been very difficult for me to reply to some of the questions too because they are blowing my mind a bit 😂. Many rewatches to come over the years

@THamm-xt8jm

3 жыл бұрын

@Tsai Hsieh yes

I’ve never been so confused during a movie while enjoying it at the same not knowing or hearing what going on with the loud music

@MindBodyStorm

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly.....

@ArmaniXperience

3 жыл бұрын

Bahahaha agreed

•Inception watched 2x to understand •Interstellar 3x •Dunkirk 1x •Tenet at least 5x

@xGaLoSx

3 жыл бұрын

Interstellar took you 3 viewings to understand? I didn't think it was that complicated 😕

I just realized that Fleur Delacour, Gilderoy Lockhart, and Cedric Diggory are all in this film.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Potter 9 with inversion magic

@xGaLoSx

3 жыл бұрын

Fluer's beauty is fading fast 😔

Interviewer after I came out from the movie: How was Tenet? Me: It hasn't started yet.

Halfway through the film when they started going backwards I thought, “No way, is the movie gonna end back at the opera?”

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

I thought that at one point too. Technically it did if you consider the timeframe with the scene on the yacht

@iTzWoodstock

3 жыл бұрын

Cortex Videos I was about to answer him the same way without seeing your comment! 0.0

It was a bad idea to watch this movie high. I think I had an existential crisis in the cinema.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

I bet that was quite the experience 😂🤣

@smeeshmugga8702

3 жыл бұрын

I just told my uncle I have to watch it sober

@sawya9828

3 жыл бұрын

Bro same 😂😂😭

@Edgerriin

3 жыл бұрын

FELT THIS

@lilbigman777

3 жыл бұрын

@winterfishes I was so high I had that "swimming in water" feeling.

You know you’re in trouble when you can’t even understand the explanation video!! 😐

@DonMufti

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, man u made me laugh so hard cause I AM in deep trouble, for the reason that i still don't understand after the explanation video

@youcanhave2

3 жыл бұрын

Fuckin a!

@JB-1138

3 жыл бұрын

I thought I understood the movie when I watched it. Now I realize I missed a lot of details.

@CommanderJamesT.Butler2022

3 жыл бұрын

@@JB-1138 You understood this thing when you first saw it... .....and only missed details? Jesus Christ, where were you when I needed a tutor for my science classes in college?

@FREEMOGAN

3 жыл бұрын

Facts tho

On another note, I really like how Christopher Nolan films shooting scenes like the gun fight at the opera, he does a really good job with keeping it pg-13 but also intense, great sound effects and the score was top notch, definitely going to see it again.

@MattWeser

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely! The opera scene's intensity was on-par with the epic opening of Dark Knight Rises.

@trenken

3 жыл бұрын

Youll almost never see blood in nolan movies. Not sure what his deal is with that. It actually kind of annoys me sometimes because when characters get shot, for me anyway i dont really feel it. They seem like dummies because there is no visual evidence they are living people getting shot.

@craign2565

3 жыл бұрын

It's not until this video that I finally grasped as to why everyone in the Opera House were sleeping. Because I had totally missed the point about the gas being entered into the auditorium, I thought all the people were actually dead due to gunfire from the terrorists. But if that were the case, there should be so much blooood. But that isn't possible with a PG-13 film so I thought it was a mistake on the films part. But nope, just me still being a dumb ass. The sound mixing is terrible though and the dialogue really should have been cleaned up.

@trenken

3 жыл бұрын

@@craign2565 its not just the rating, nolan in general isnt a fan of extreme violence in his movies. His movies would do fine even if they were rated R, but thats not his thing. You see people get shot in his movies and theres rarely any blood.

@infamousdood1696

3 жыл бұрын

Cool

Did anyone else notice that the fight scene between themselves was easier at the end going forward, because when traveling back he didn't understand what to do untill he was remembering what happened and started learning how he would fight. At the start moving forward everything is difficult and countered

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

That's another great point about how they portrayed JDW. It adds to the idea that the audience is like the protagonist in the film, getting used to the situations and not fully comprehending what they are forced into.

@RSousa-ru7xi

3 жыл бұрын

i wonder why would he try to shoot himself

@sakshathshetty6836

3 жыл бұрын

@@RSousa-ru7xi because he knows for sure he won't hit him

@campkira

3 жыл бұрын

@@CortexVideos inverse had effect to enivorment.. if you fight a inverse self.. you don't need to think just react.. hence why it look so weird...

@Zedia

3 жыл бұрын

The first half of the movie is confusing and then halfway through it clicks and you realize.

the entire movie being a "temporal pincer move" had skipped me lol

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

I loved noticing it on rewatch. Just shows the depth he’s gone to with the narrative structure once again

Tenet is definitely Christopher Nolan's most complex film. Thank you for helping me understand it!

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome! Honestly it was a hard one to do and grapple fully. I think it's all down to rewatches really. And I totally agree, It's his puzzle box in my opinion.

@specialk4006

3 жыл бұрын

I'd say it's his best too. It's Nolan at his Apex. This flick makes Inception feel quaint and boring.

@mckayz33

3 жыл бұрын

yup, Tenet explain videos will surpass Primer's explain videos.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

McK76 😂

@josephbanks888

3 жыл бұрын

Me : Mr. Nolan will you ever create a film more complex than this . Nolan : esruoc fo llew

This movie begins at the end and end at the beginning..

One of the greatest movies i’ve seen. Nolan was extremely smart in the making of the movie, making it a bit hard to hear characters so the audience can rewatch it to fully understand the plot.

Tenet proves that Nolan is definitely from the future 😄

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Said he same thing to a friend after watching it the first time.

I love how Memento is kinda like a brainchild version of Tenet, where Nolan had limited budget and resources to make a film like Tenet back then so he played with his storytelling/narrative methods. They are equally elegant in my opinion in that these two films both manifest Nolan's obsession with time. Well I mean every single Nolan film had some aspects of his obsession with time but these two really showed how poetic and beautiful it is when two different timelines meet in the middle.

I don’t think Pattinson was inverted in the opera scene. Cause he walks normally down the stairs. I think he just used an inverted bullet in order to get the protagonist on the right track.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what he did yes.

@sassquatch212

3 жыл бұрын

Cortex Videos the only thing I’m still unsure on is ageing while inverted. I’m not sure if you get younger or older while inverted or maybe neither.

@ohexenwahno5652

3 жыл бұрын

Either that or he was inverted, but doing everything backwards so he would appear to be going forward from the normal perspective, but I don't think that's the case, I just thought the idea would be hilarious.

i was so sad when neil had to go, because we all knew that he was about to die :(

Movie was crazy lmao. The prologue was insane.

The trains in the torturing scene were moving backwards and forward and the clock stopped.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't notice that. Would make sense with it being a test I guess. But cool point out. I'll look out for that.

@jaicsdx

3 жыл бұрын

Cortex Videos I am guessing he was prolonging the torturing. Removing and reversing and again removing for long time. No one could fix his mouth that fast though. He was then sent to an isolated closed sea windmill cabin where he couldn’t tell what time it is.

This concept is very similar to that of the Netflix series "Dark" where everything is connected in an endless loop

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Said the same thing to my friend the other day after rewatching tenet

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

@John Stevens 100%. I literally just posted a video on dark season 3 and I defo find it to be a great suggestion with Tenet when it comes to dealing with time.

Just finished watching it second time.... And feel its going to take some watches to get it down.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

It's definitely is that kind of film. I think this was the most difficult explained video I've had to do haha.

@kenshi6673

3 жыл бұрын

@akshay satish I watched it yesterday. Not a bad film at all but it plays with your mind. You have to pay attention or you won't like it because you won't understand it

@strangerui4009

3 жыл бұрын

@akshay satish not at all. But please only see it on theatre. I am from India too. But please wait. I downloaded the movie out of curiosity.

@yeerr8241

3 жыл бұрын

akshay satish it’s a really good movie. I definitely have to watch it again though.

@SuperBrosHQ

3 жыл бұрын

@akshay satish this film was the greatest cinema expirience for me.The music and visuals are overwhelming.The fight scenes are very interesting and awesome

I want to give a silly theory that EVERYTHING about the shooting and editing of this was intentional. It was purposely hard to understand so that our first viewing would give us a lack of details and facts as one would have if they’ve experienced a moment for the first time. But like tenet, our past selves would see the movie and mentally playback what we watched, to go see it again, giving our future future selves more details than before to process it clearer. I picked up on so much more the 2nd time and of course that happens with any movie that you see twice but it seems like this was (according to my theory) intentional. Of course Nolan can’t invert an audience, but maybe he could mentally.

@Menstral

3 жыл бұрын

Idiotic if intentional.

@TheKillacT

3 жыл бұрын

after 2nd time rewatch, i can hear the dialogue more clearly although the 1st time i cannot grasp their words.

@you1167

3 жыл бұрын

Ummmm,wait so what you meant is.....what?!?!?!?!

Actually in Tenet time doesn’t run backwards, it’s only the inverted that experience it backwards. Time, however only moves forward. To reverse time stream one would need the Algorithm. It’s really the person’s perspective that is important to grip what’s happening in the story :)

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

That’s what I was getting at and should have explained it clearer so apologies. I stated about the red room blue room sequence to try and clear that up. From the opposite side it’s perspective yes

After watching Inception, me: Now I can completely understand Nolan movie properly at the first time .aedi on evah uoY:naloN

It's brilliant how you take something so complex and explain it so clearly. The more time I have to think about Tenet, the more I appreciate it. Thank you for helping me to understand :)

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

That means the world, really glad it was helpful😊 Don't worry I felt exactly like you the first time seeing it. It's a grower for sure 🙃

Obviously when the protagonist fights himself the 'annihilation' is avoided because the gas mask and uniform one of 'them' is wearing means they avoid skin contact. But why does it have to be just skin contact that would result in that? What about the kinetic energy that transfers between them when punching each other and having some psychedelic MMA? That energy comes from the same person in two different places at once and transfers between them.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

I think it’s about a positive and negative molecule interacting that would cause the annihilation. Someone did a great video on this but I’m not sure who it was. That suit he wears essentially denies that contact between the molecules, and it was made in the future. It is a great question though. Apparently, Kip Thorne did a lot of the science in the film and it takes a lot to process it

@Yggdrasil42

3 жыл бұрын

That energy is not an actual physical thing being transferred. But to be fair, the exact rules of this annihilation are never explained to us.

@profasual5442

3 жыл бұрын

What i still don't understand is why he fired 2 shot's at himself in that scene...

@dangiven13

3 жыл бұрын

@@profasual5442 He emptied the gun so his uninverted self didn't shoot the masked man

This movie is so incredibly mind bending. You kind of skipped over how they healed Kat, though. However, even still, this is one of the best breakdowns I’ve seen of his film yet.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Aiming to cover that in the multiple videos to come. Have replied to people about it in the comments but apologies for not going over it fully in this one. Glad you enjoyed it though!

@ohexenwahno5652

3 жыл бұрын

Someone said that since Kat's wound was caused by an inverted bullet, the wound would get worse as time progresses, instead of healing, unless she's reversed.

Everyone: Yes! Chris Nolan: ...Eivom wen a gnikam m'I os

I thought the little boy grew up to be patman and the protagonist eventually recruited him into this mission to save the past from the future....oh no, I’ve gone cross eyed.

@ARBLACKx

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I think Pattinson is her son well.

@trenken

3 жыл бұрын

@@ARBLACKx that is a serious stretch. There is absolutely nothing in the movie to hint that patt would be her son. Why would it be him? Theres no plot reason for that to be the case.

@Yunghamz

3 жыл бұрын

Impossible. To time travel, you can't pick a point in time to time travel. For max to be neil, the protagonist has to wait 20 years until neil comes of age, teach him about tenet, then they both go in the chamber to reverse time, live in backwards world for anlther 20 years to go back to the point before movie begins. That's 40+ years of waiting. Protagonist is like mid 30s at best at the beginning, he will be 70+ in the end. At keast 20 years of living in backwards world, do they have enkugh oxygen supply for that? How do they eat and drink?

The greatnesses trick Nolan played on us is that he edit the movie in away as if we are following the protagonist from a liner editing as if we are moving in a straight line , but you can’t arrive to any answer that way unless you see and perceive each scene as events & things are happening to the characters in different versions of them and forget that you are watching a movie as we are use to, you just think that you are following one direction, One protagonist, but if you see The characters as different versions of them self you will get the big picture, Time inversion & parallel universe are ideas so alien to us and we are not used to witness it in our life ,and so it supposed to be hard for our brains to understand even if we saw it visually, i feel like you can arrange the movie in anyway and still as confusing , but the best way was to cut the movie in away as if we and the protagonist start the movie not knowing anything, and so it’s our job to rearrange the events and look at the movie from above and see all the characters and different versions of them are moving at the same time

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

On rewatch I noticed this structural manipulation too and I love the way he does that.

It was almost like Robert Pattinson was the main character (of this story in time) but you did not get to see it from his perspective you see it from Washington's perspective up until the end where it is revealed that Washington is the main character even if he did not know at at the movies current time. :D Robert P's character basically was saving the future by helping in the past and Washington could not know Pattinson's full mission because he (Washington) has not recruited him (Pattingson) yet.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah in a way. I think that JDW was basically the audience in this film. Someone who finds them self in this situation (with not much backstory) and pattinson is the guide that has to continue the closed timeline loop.

@m.teresa370

3 жыл бұрын

He actually is. He’s the key player, as to my understanding he’s the one opening and closing the loop

@Carlos-pk4xv

3 жыл бұрын

Cortex Videos the Kid’s name is Max which is short for Maximilien. If you treat it like a palindrome then you can clearly see that Max is Neil.

A big divide in Tenet's audience: those who had seen the Dark series and those who hadn't.

Bloody hell that’s clever! Thanks for the explanation . I love it when you have to watch again to try figure things out x

I love the philosophical aspects of this movie!!! He said what happens happens..can you go back and change the future..? Ugh I love thinking deeply

I was semi keeping up with the movie up until the final scene, I wasn’t quite sure what the protagonist was doing but, I see now. Thanks for the video it helped clean things up in my mind.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

No problem Ethan. It was something that only became clear in my mind on the second watch.

You only see a movie for the 1st time once. I am extremely disappointed that I was unable to hear what the characters were saying and thus had an incredibly difficult time following an already complex plot bc of something not even related to the film itself. I know I'll enjoy this movie more in future watches, but it sucks that the 1st go around was so miserable :(

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Would highly recommend watching it at a regular theatre if you didn't already. The second time around was so much better for me. It's a film that's build to last in my opinion. Thanks for sharing your experience man.

@mallo1334

3 жыл бұрын

I agree.. I couldn’t really hear either.. what’s with that?...

@-441-

3 жыл бұрын

Actually this a very solid point, there were times where I was leaning forward like "what did he say??"

What’s your IQ bro? Because it’s 1 thing to comprehend but it’s another 1 to explain in detail something so complex but clear to your audience.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

I hope my iQ is alright haha. There’s honestly so much to go through with Tenet and I was struggling on the first viewing. All I’d say is rewatching really does help with this particular film

@Imamazing2023

3 жыл бұрын

Cortex Videos please continue doing what you do your analysis captivate me.

I haven't seen a bad break down video yet but I'm still looking at breakdown videos past my bedtime

Very well explained and a very entertaining video, i thoroughly enjoyed watching it. Ive seen Tenet twice now and the second time around i defo picked up on stuff i missed the 1st time, like the blue and red squares either side of the door durung the plane crash Art theft inversion fight

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. Nolan's packed it full with things like that. Really can't wait to see the dialogue on this film in months to come once it's really been understood better. A second watch like yourself has really helped me gather that.

Ome of the best breakdowns of Tenet you'll ever see. Thank you for this

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

That means a lot to hear Rene. Thank you and I’m glad you enjoyed it! More to come

Opera scene was more confusing thqn the ending. Please explain this to me if you have watched the movie🥺 if opera scene was a test, then why Niel protected protagonist? What was inverted in the opera scene? Niel or bullet? Because Niel turned backward not walked backward after shooting which shouldn't be the case when he was inverted. The person who was shot dead by the Niel, why he said "you don't need to kill these people". When in fact the protagonist was saving them and those are the ones who are planting the bombs. That scene was also confusing when they exit opera after the explosion in the van and the person pointing the gun to the protagonist What was the point of the whole opera scene??

@hyola

3 жыл бұрын

The Opera scene wasn't the test. It was the abduction and torture to give out the location of his team. That was the test. The siege at the opera house was real because Sator's team were trying to get the piece of the algorithm but failed. The Neil that saves the protagonist is inverted along with the bullet he catches. Neil can turn backwards after catching the bullet(he did not shoot it) just like the protagonist could move freely the first time he inverted. The person Neil shoots(technically he caught the bullet) dead to save the protagonist did not say that. It was the protagonist that said "you don't need to kill these people". I can understand why that was hard to figure out because of the mask everyone was wearing. So before they escaped the opera house, the protagonist had told his team to split up. He wanted the dude they extracted to take the tunnel exit he had originally planned to take before the siege happened, along with two members of his four man team. Because he no longer trusted the Ukrainians that brought them there. The protagonist along with his other team member who had switched clothes with the dude they extracted, went back to the van to meet the Ukrainian guys who expected them to have the extracted guy with them. He just didn't know that the Ukrainians who were not part of the CIA like they were, worked for TENET and wanted to recruit him. I hope that helps a little bit.

Really good job with the video... just came back after watching Tenet and glad that I picked up a lot of clues. You made me more excited and going back next week to watch again. Keep up the amazing work!

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! It does get much clearer on rewatch. And Thank you!

So I think the trick to understanding this movie is inverting yourself and watching it backwards or something.

8:55 The algorythym is very very difficult to understand. I think what Sator does is assemble the algorhythym, then bury it and send it to the future. The dead man's switch doesn't activate the algorithim, it simply 'sends and email' to the future telling them where to find it and activate it. But not entirely sure. The giveaway imo is that Sator dies too quickly. He dies before the algorithim is secure.

Loved this explanation, good job!

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Rodney

saw it today, really enjoyed it and (as was expected) still trying to unpack all the details of the film, a rewatch is required soon methinks ;)

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

For sure Scooter. I definitely found it better on rewatch.

I feel like you nailed it. I absolutely LOVED this movie and it’s a love that I couldn’t fully understand and that why I feel I loved it so much. I love movies that “challenge” me and that I can watch again and gain a new perspective. I felt the same way after watching Interstellar for the first time. Though not nearly as complex. Love Nolan, love this movie.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man. And same, I like movies that last (whether complex or not) and bring depth to elements of it to really make the audience want to watch what is unfolding.

Neil is MaximiLIEN (last four letters backwards is Neil)

@Yunghamz

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think so given the way time travel works in the movie.

This helps, thanks for the awesome content!

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you and no problem, glad it was able to make things a bit easier!

Cortex, your explanation is my temporary pincer move. Now I know what to expect and what to do.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Now that's the kind of layers i'm talking about haha

Is it just me or did anyone else find it hard to hear what the characters were saying at points?

@NhatLinhNguyen82

3 жыл бұрын

Noal's love for tension partly driven by music...loud music

@hayleyb2254

3 жыл бұрын

I really struggled to understand a lot of what was being said

@godislove6445

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently they did that on purpose

I watched this movie high in theaters. My reality has since been inverted

If Kat saw herself dive off into the water after killing Saitor in the past, then how did Saitor survive until he met Protagonist?

@santnox7559

3 жыл бұрын

Kat killed "future" Sator. The one copy of him who went back to the yacht moment, just as Kat did. Basically, it was "Kat from the future" killing "Sator from the future"

Nice video 👍, best explanation video out there. How time travel works in the movie confused me at first but now I get it. I've seen suggestions of max being neil but it's implausible given how time travel works.

Once you understand the Mechanics of tenet everything fits into place , I still genuinely believe that the opening of the movie is not a Test drill because Neil shows up at the opera House Siege and he is already using Time inversion plutonium bullets and he is shooting Johns team members So it's obvious that Neil knows something that John dosent know yet .

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

The opera scene is not a test drill but the person who captures JDW and takes him to the train tracks is part of the test. The second scene is a test. But you're right, that version of Neil is aware a lot more than JDW is.

I need to inverted myself to fully understand this movie...

Finally saw the film. It's CRAZY! What a relatable phrase is "Don't try t understand it, feel it". For some reason, I think Neil deserves a video for itself. There's so much going on with him (that's what I felt watching the movie). A really detailed, incredible story with Physics fundaments. Nolan is great.

@isaacjimmo7306

3 жыл бұрын

*him. And btw, loved your video CORTEX VIDEOS. It was my first source for an explanation.

You explaining this makes this my fav movie, it’s like terminator

I am just amazed that he took a concept from science physics and made into a film. The thought even to imagine amd write it. To me it is similar how i first watched the matrix...all the coolness and action is just for the cinematic wowness..but the deeper construct of the idea of the film....truly amazing...even if its confusing

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

Enjoyed ur style of explaining... thank u for not being the comedian like that of others... i will be subscribing to ur channel, this was a pleasant experience

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

So nice of you to say and welcome! Tried to be as clear as I could as a film like Tenet is difficult to explain thoroughly. Hope you enjoyed.

I love Nolans use of a sator square concept and its use through out the whole movie.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Talking about it in tomorrows video. Loved it!

This is one of the best videos of Tenet that I have seen.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gene

TENET IS A CLASSIC C.NOLAN IS A BEAST ..🔥

This was probably some of the most epic shit I've seen outside of Anime , and a bunch of other cinematics and LEGENDARY studios movies.

Not sure if everyone else got the same Tenet ad I did at around 5:45 but it started on that same picture of them in the boat Smooth👌🏼

For me it helped a lot to watch some of these explained videos after I saw the movie. Then most of my questions were answered and things made sense after seeing it a second time.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

It helped me watching it again like you have done. Really glad that it helped you !

3:35 is where he actually talks about the movie 🍿

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

There was a lot to go over and I normally don’t start that late but apologies if you found that long. This is probably the hardest Explained Video I’ve done tbf

I think it has been mentioned in here earlier but wanted to elaborate and see what you guys think. Do you think that the final scenes of the movie are telling us it is possible to travel back and change what's happened? The Protagonist gives Kat the phone and tells her to call - giving her location - if she feels she's in trouble. Sure enough, at the end, the Protagonist arrives within a few moments of the call to kill Priya and save kat. Does this mean that the protagonist had to shadow Kat continually, staying a few minutes away from her at all times (till she's safe once and for all) possibly for years? Unlikely. Does Priya actually kill kat in some timeline, but before kat 'dies', she leaves that voice mail for the Protagonist. He receives the call and inverts himself and kills Priya before she kills Kat. This is why knowing the location is important. He would know where to go to save her thus changing the future. It also ties in with the voice over happening at the same time about no one's worrying about the bomb that never goes off. Perhaps this is no different from Neil saving the Protagonist at the Opera though....... Also just wondering, if you are inverted... do you age in reverse too? Ie get younger? That would rule out Max being Neil. I don't think max is Neil anyway...I think it's misdirection. Amazing film though... I'm still thinking about it a lot and reading almost a week on from first viewing. Great video and explanation sir!

0:48 my expression during the whole 2nd half of the movie

Great video! Finally I understood something haha!

One thing I don’t understand is that if Neil has travelled inverted to the start of JDW’s mission (and then end of his missions with JDW) then why isn’t he in reverse? Same with Kat when she travels back to Sator on the boat in the past?

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

They can travel back but also go in forward motion. During the scenes that you list, both characters are not inverted. Neil uses inverted mechanics to catch the bullet but he himself isn't inverted. The reason JDW is inverted in the car chase, is because the time stile machine he went through is controlled by Sator, meaning the only way to go back and have control of forward time was to get to the freeport where he fought himself to make that happen. Hope it helped!

What do you think of the theory that Kat and Sator's son is actually Neil? This comes from an interview that Nolan said "Neil" is just one of Robert Pattinson’s identities. That woud've explain how he knew that JDW was going back to Kat, as it´s said "Even from a far" . (Also, i think the movie gets way more simpler when you just accept the inversion mechanics, cause i didn't find the plot so complex as they say. Instead it, the action scenes were way more hard to follow)

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's different for everyone. The first screening I was heavily confused but loved the ride, the second screening, I understood way more and enjoyed the ride even more. And yeah I have heard that theory. I do think it's a good one but I would have expected more references to Neil if that was the case. Regardless the idea is a good one that may be the case in Nolan's metaphoric mind.

@campkira

3 жыл бұрын

@@CortexVideos it in the name... and motiviation would made sense.. otherwise.. who would go thorught all that hell...

@justinodemon619

3 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure this theory is true. More evidence is when Neil somehow knows stuff about the boat at the end and The Protagonist asks him how he knows and Neil basically just replies with don't worry about it.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

@@justinodemon619 It's definitely possible, I'm not eliminating it. I just think that Nolan has left things like this open for the audience to theorise over. What's concrete in the film is really all to go on atm. Knowing Nolan I also doubt he will do a sequel, but regardless, it's a cool theory that metaphorically I really like.

Keep going strong, road to 10k bro

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you my man! Got another Tenet vid coming tomorrow!

Very helpful, it cleared up some confusion I still had

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers ED, happy it helped to a degree. More watches definitely helps with it.

*The Trailer:* All I have for you is a word *The Movie:* All I have for you is a gesture👐 *Me:* wait..YOU LIED!!!!!

James Bond meets Inception...

This is a great analysis

Watch it while inverted. Makes a lot more sense yesterday.

You are right when you say that the meaning of the word tenet is a principle or belief However what I picked up on at the climax of the film is when the teams have watched counting to 10, and counting from 10 so it is as if the meaning of the name is 2 10’s going forwards and backwards at the same time, being a palindrome (spelt same way backwards as forwards. Ex: pop ) Ten neT

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

I state this in the video towards the end. This is more of a clever reference to the title

The explosion doesn't activate the algorithm. It's not like a device, it's instructions for how to make one. The explosion makes it impossible for anyone in the present to recover it but the future will be able to get it, use it, reverse their time, and thus destroying the present. It would take years for it to happen but also it happens simultaneously because "time travel".

Did anyone else notice how the characters corrected each others words? One example of that is the Protagonist's conversation with Michael Caine. It feels like they did it a bit too much to just be part of the dialogue but I might be wrong.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

There’s stuff like that which I couldn’t grapple my head around. I said to a friend that I think Nolan has made a film that almost feels alien in parts. Hopefully a generation years down the line will be advanced enough to break that down 😂

I'm a huge fan of time-travel stories, especially the ones involving time paradox concepts. One that come to mind is a smart time-travel novella I've read around March titled Project Dechentreiter (2015) by Elder Prince. I couldn't understand the story from one-time reading, my mind was in torment even though there were so many clues and puzzle pieces hidden in plain sight. Everything made so much sense after a second read (luckily the story only counts 80 pages), and what a fantastic e-book that I highly recommend. There was also a movie called Time Lapse (2014), that one included brilliant ideas but wasn't executed with elegance, but is a good watch anyway. I can't wait for Christopher Nolan's next movie!

@carondacaronda9894

3 жыл бұрын

If you want see EXTREME paradoxes I recommend you the show "Dark" and the movie "Predestination".

@gethsemane-777

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with these suggestions! Dark on Netflix is so mysterious and deep. The twist in Predestination was great, even if a little bit far-stretched. I'll have to watch looper again, I remember I loved it but somewhat forgot most of the movie events (I saw so many movies, I go to theater every week, sometimes my memory fails me).

@gethsemane-777

3 жыл бұрын

By the way, for game lovers, there was this Playstation 2 game called Shadow of Memories. One of the most facinating time travel game I've played with multiple endings. Each ending gave a totally new meaning to the story. I'm pretty sure the cinematics can be watched on youtube.

I loved this movie from the amazing opening sequence to the last moment. We’ll definitely be watching it again once I can see it at home - since my theatre didn’t enforce face masks at all, I’m not comfortable going back.

Just finished watching it a minute ago; got my popcorn ready now I can't wait to see what the whole hype is about

Have seen it three times now. The score has really grown on me. People talk about the james bond influence, but when i look at the action sequences i once again see Michael Manns influence. Particularly the painting robbery sequence and the motorway heist in Estonia. Its that everything timed to perfection and professionalism of the operators.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a good point. For me it’s like taking bond but infusing It with a Mann was esque style. I agree hat the action is more Mann inspired though

@jf4764

3 жыл бұрын

@@CortexVideos Yes, thats exactly it. Taking the Bond ideas and infusing realistic Michael Mann style action. Well said.

This summarizes Neil: "Time Isn't the Problem, Getting Out Alive Is the Problem". SPOILERS: He won't.

Walking out of the theater my head felt like it was steaming 🤯

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Same here man. Second screening really did help me a lot.

Any Idea where can I find Original Soundtrack of this movie? I really want to listen to that slow mysterious background score which plays often in the movie specially when the scenes are emotional and when John David Washington stays back in the windmill

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Based on what I've heard it comes out Wednesday.

I think that “Tenet” must have the record for the most videos explaining it.

Okay, so explain this: The two protagonists enter the hallway in the airport and see bullet holes in the windows. One asks "what happened here?" The other responds "It hasn't happened yet." So, from the perspective of someone moving forward in time, when did those bullet holes appear? How long had they been there? They weren't there in the previous scene in the same location. So from the perspective of an inverted person, do the bullet holes fade away? The whole movie has this problem, I could give a dozen examples. Just admit it makes no sense at all.

@censormyth8786

3 жыл бұрын

Even I had the exact same question but I think I might have an answer for this. So when the protagonist inverted himself and put himself into Hyperthermia, he was saved by the tenet organization back on to the boat which was also reversed. There he finds out a wound on his right arm all of a sudden which is healing backwards to the point where he gets stabbed by his past self in the hallway. So here is my theory to the problem ur talking bout, "how long had the bullet holes been there ". I think the bullet holes appeared on the glass once the protagonist from future inverted himself. By doing so, he makes it possible for those bullet holes to exist. So, the bullet holes weren't really there on the glass until the future protagonist inverted himself. U might ask "how does it make sense for the bullet holes appearing on the glass and the future protagonist inverting himself when both the timelines are different". The answer is that time is linear and all timelines are connected to one another. This concept is shown with the whole sator dying in one timeline would trigger the algorithm stored in another timeline.

This movie was fire, my only issue was the ending where I had no idea who they were fighting. It was like they were shooting bullets at ghost.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

It was sator's army from the future from what I understand. But yeah this is only clearer on rewatch, something that could have been clearer first time around.

@afternoontiger9319

3 жыл бұрын

Cortex Videos yeah I knew it was them but like they barely had screen time.

@TheKillacT

3 жыл бұрын

the sator army using camouflage suit, blended with the environment..

Good explanation man I understand the plot for the most part now.

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

All the hidden details to come in more videos. Thank you!

Excellent Video dude

@CortexVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, glad it helped 🙂