Sator is part of a group that wants to acquire the Algorithm and reverse time in order to undo the effects of climate change and other devastation the present has wrought on the future. The inversion of the Earth itself is said to cause a catastrophic event that would destroy everything that ever lived, according to Neil. If stacked together to rebuild the final formula, the Algorithm would cause all events on Earth to start flowing backward. Regretting this, the inversion creator decided to kill herself, but not before she broke the Algorithm into nine physical pieces ( MCU Infinity Stones, anyone?) and hid them throughout time. But it turns out that the unnamed creator of inversion technology allowed it to become weaponized into an object known as the Algorithm (referred to as “plutonium-241” for a large portion of the movie), which is capable of inverting the entirety of time itself instead of just individual objects. Inversion initially doesn’t seem too dangerous. This is why near the end of the movie, for example, Neil (Robert Pattinson), Katherine (Elizabeth Debicki), and the Protagonist have to wait things out in an inverted shipping container for a while before returning to the Freeport. However, inverted time still flows at the same pace, which means if you’re trying to get to an event that took place a week ago, you’d have to wait a full week. When someone is inverted, they can move backward for a seemingly infinite amount of time-to the point, for instance, where they can interact with an earlier version of themselves. 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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