Why though? To prevent spoilers? Bc if he thinks that either of the “twists” in Tenet was 1) not obvious from the moment the first clue was dropped or 2) needed explanation, I’ve got some bad news
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
No it's just his style People say he personally seems to have hearing issues where he needs the bass turned all the way up to really feel the music and sound effects in his movies and as a result everyone else finds the "BWAAAAMP" overwhelming, it makes dialogue indecipherable
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I quoted some comments from him and his sound designer in my review (http://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2020/12/tenet.html …) and it appears to be a philosophical thing for them, where the movie should be an "experience" greater than the sum of its parts.
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Which is fine in principle, and there are a lot of movies I would say answer that description. But none of them are by Christopher Nolan.
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @arthur_affect
I really like his films, but even if it didn’t have the plague-spreader thing attached, Tenet would have stretched my tolerance - despite being better at representation than his previous films and apparently technically a milestone re: PoC protagonists and budget
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It just felt so… “I read a Popular Science article and made a movie based on my minuscule understanding of what its lies-to-children explanation gave me,” which *can* be done well, but also, “there are Themes here, let me show you my Poke-themes”
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I still don’t get what to make of the “I’m the protagonist” deal
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
I think it's just another way in which all of his films are ultimately about the magic of filmmaking. Which is the sort of thing that sounds profound but when you think about it for a minute you realize it actually means they're about nothing but themselves.
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @arthur_affect
But at least he had something to say with most of the other ones! Like usually about the Terrible Cost that Art Has. This one really just… I mean, ok, so is going “inverted” rewinding? Is it a metaphor for directors cuts being bad bc “what happens happens”?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @NussbaumAbigail
Tenet is a big budget movie version of Braid but it's actually worse than Braid and far less applicable to reality
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Like Braid does its own version of the thing where inverted guns don't shoot inverted bullets but catch them Only it doesn't dwell on it, it's just an unsettling result of the way "reverse time" works in the game engine, and it sticks in your mind how it *doesn't* make sense
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