![]() If you’re in a fire, the flames draw heat away from the body, which means you freeze instead. People who are in inverted time can’t breathe air backwards, so they have to carry oxygen machines. And so an inverted bullet isn’t fired by a gun, but instead is caught by it. Once on the other side, time is reversed, but only for the object or person that passed through - for everyone else, time is still proceeding in a forward direction. Later in the movie, the turnstiles are color-coded on either side to let people (and the audience) know what side is which red signals forward movement through time, while blue is for those going backward.Ĭrossing through a temporal turnstile automatically inverts whatever passes through it. They show up in a few different places throughout Tenet, but the first time is during the Freeport sequence in which the Protagonist grapples with a masked trooper. The turnstiles were created by Tenet’s bad guy, Andrei Sator (Kenneth Branagh), and are typically housed in a large space. Inversion takes place when a person or thing passes through a temporal turnstile. And sure, the idea of doing homework to explain a movie might not sound exciting, but once you know what’s going on, there’s a lot to like in Tenet - and arming yourself with the proper tools to understand it can let you focus more on the deeply impressive and exciting filmmaking on display for the third, fourth or even fifth rewatch. Naturally, Tenet explainers exist on the internet, but GQ humbly finds them to be either confusing or incomplete. And even if you rewatched it, which you absolutely have to do to understand Tenet, you still probably don’t understand it. ![]() Now it's on HBO Max for mass viewing pleasure, but even if you've finally seen Tenet, you probably didn’t understand it. On December 15th, it hit on demand services-some of you watched it then, but most objected to on-demand prices. ![]() After a long game of chicken with the coronavirus, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet finally hit US theaters in August. ![]()
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