TENET Recap | All Time Inversion Scenes Explained 

Thank you!

Thanks Candace! And yeah… crystal clear is a lofty goal for this movie 😄

I've helped many people with explanations 😂 happy to try to help you too. What are you clueless about? Ask any questions you like. But what I can tell you is that in the here and now, technology from 200 years into the future, exists.

1. Scientist in the future discovers way of inverting time. She sends it into the past, coded into an analog machine, then kills herself 2. People in the future want to retrieve the algorithm, so they can invert the entire universe - global warming has destroyed the planet and humanity is dying 3. They send gold to Sator, knowing who he is and exactly where he will be in the past using historical records 4. Tenet recruits The Protagonist and Neil. When TP meets with Michael Caine, his non-chalant attitude is because he knows they succeed since he’s still alive 5. TP connects with Kat, so he can get close to Sator 6. TP agrees to steal a portion of the algorithm for Sator 7. Sator steals the algorithm during the car chase. Since he’s inverted, he’s coming from the future and knows that TP is going to betray him 8. Tenet goes to Sator’s hometown where the final battle is fought - they make it look like Sator succeeded, so the future antagonists are fooled 9. Kat kills Sator, who did all this because he’s a jerk. 10. The protagonist learns he’s the founder of tenet and Sator, Neil, and Priya were all working for him. His goal was simply to track down the algorithm from the future. The best way to do this was have someone hunt them all down for him so he could secure it in the past. Interestingly enough, when TP is briefed about not coming into contact with his past self or they’ll both annihilate, that is not true. It’s most likely something they tell people so they dont run into their past self and accidentally get killed - which is what happens.

Me too!

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You might just be someone with low intelligence. Movie’s not for you. This is a thinking man’s film.

You don’t necessarily need a spreadsheet to fully understand it, but I think it’s alright if you do, because it creates such a unique and complex story which yes, is hard to understand, but that makes it more interesting and rather special

@@tobpExactly! Somebody has to step out of line in terms of the movie norm once in a while haha, and Christopher Nolan does just that. Movies like this are my favourite, they are so refreshing.

@@DEADEYESSS i couldn’t agree more, if all movies are plain and simple to understand what’s the point

I always tell people if they want to watch a movie where there's no thinking required, watch a Marvel movie. I like films that challenge me and provoke thought.

If a movie needs several viewings to look good, then it's not really that good unfortunately...

Thank you Siya!

Everyone wants to know if Neil was the little boy at the end

@@marcus2fashionhe isn’t. Are you Nolan stans deaf? Neil straight up says that he is from the past and that the Protagonist is the one who sacrifices his actual future by Inverting and establishing Tenet. Stop being fake deep about Nolan

@@marcus2fashionNeil confirmed that he himself like everyone else in the Tenet organization is from the regular past but the Protagonist himself sacrificed his actual future to Invert and establish Tenet

Thanks Michael!

I love his recaps, period. Compared to other pages, the reviews are explained in a way that's understandable and you don't feel stupid if don't necessarily 'get it.' There's a bunch of snobbery out n RU-vid land.

I got about out 70 percent out of it and was still confused but very satisfied. Awesome film, Interstellar still is my all time film experience. Wish I saw the dark Knight there..fuck I did Batman begins though

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Glad I could help!!

Thanks!!

Thank you! 🙏

Thanks Rick!! Same, excited for it to come back and start talking about it again!

I was sayin this

Watch it backwards 👀

Thanks Landa! I’ve got a couple other vids I’m working on now but I’ll keep an eye on this vid and the comments to see where on the list a TENET follow-up goes!

Thank you as always for your kind words Sabrina!

You are right. I watched a lot of recaps and understood the concept of inversion. What I didn't get though is how it actually worked. How exactly does an object or a human being stream backwards in time.

​@@carltontony5287 That's the only missing link.

Thank you Lee!! The idea that Neil is the little boy on the boat (ie Cat’s son) is a theory that was floating around but it isn’t actually confirmed by the movie and TBH, I don’t agree with the theory. For it to work, the kid would’ve had to have inverted himself at age 15 and essentially lived in backwards time for 15 years so he would be the 30-year-old Neil that we met. But either way, in general for the recaps I try to only include what is 100% confirmed in the movie and if I talk about theories, I do that in separate videos. Thanks for checking out the vid and for the kind words!

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Not sure, but isn't it like the protagonist and all the others? You have multiple versions of the object which can cross each other in time, just in reversed timeline? Haha I am editing stuff and deleting so much... I am confused now 😅 Maybe we need to know if you used an object from the desk, reversed time with it in the hand and then placed it again there. Or you placed a random object there when time got reversed and so on...

Movie answer to that is that it's the entropy that is inverted (whatever that means) and not the object per se. At the bullet scene, the lady scientist says the bullet won't move unless you put your hand so it can "fall." That said, movie logic is far from flawless.

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finally somene watched the same detail

I thought it's something to do with German engineering.

Maybe the same way Neil had died in the past but was still alive to speak to the protagonist at the end of the movie? The sator that dies just hadn't gotten to that part of his future in the past yet. Plus Sator planned to die there to notify the future that the device was in place (they would check their data base and see he had died where he said he would so that they would know the device was assembled and in place). So if they hadn't got the device in time the future would have won and because they did get it the future lost. Sator was going to die there no matter what because that is what he himself planned, to go back to his happiest time and die. In order to go back he must of lived past it. Which again means he dies in the future in his past while Kat and his son will meet sator again the next day because his past self would not know his future self is going to die. Basically his oast self and future self are there at the same time. Just like when the protagonist fought himself. If the protagonist killed himself there. He would still be alive to go back and get killed by himself again. Its an infinite loop.

He goes to the turnstile as goes the Neil from the last scene, they both disappear in it and that's the end of the story for him.

They inverted themselves, travelled backwards in time before the day Sator was on the yacht, and reinverted themselves using the turnstile in Trondheim.

Correct! However at 20:00, I was explaining what it looked like from Neil’s perspective and to him, the bullet would’ve appeared inverted (I.e., it had opposite entropy compared to him)

Basically. Although he had to pick the lock in order to get in in the first place and you see him picking the lock as he gets shot. Doing it in reverse time must have been even harder.