Synccinema Quickie - Tenet
Tenet – Nolan’s Complex Enough Time Twist is both Eye-popping and Over-Stuffed even if you watch it in reverse
The famous line in the movie – “ Your Duty Transcends National Interests” is similar to Nolan’s style of storytelling, one can say – “ His Cinema Transcends Quintessential Conceits”. Nolan’s ideas have always come from the grass-root level of a spinoff on Common Genres or highly used trope. His work is rendition and re-imagination of Exhaustive Treatment of a particular story - Interstellar (Inter Galactic Adventure), Dark Knight Trilogy (Everyday Superhero), Dunkirk (Classic War Drama), Inception (Heist Thriller). Tenet also has an easy match to the Common Genre of Spy Thriller, with Nolan looking to add his patented flavours to Mission Impossible and especially Bond series.
Tenet kicks off like any other Nolan film with a Grand Sequence of, happenings ( no better word for his out of the world sequences ) – as the Bank Robbery in Dark Knight, or a nearly suspended plane in Dark Knight Rises or a 2nd layered dream fight in Inception, here it’s Rainy Night in Tallinn’. It’s stunning quality also is rendered like his preceding films with some Over the top action, Jaw-Dropping Visuals, thumping Techno Score and the most emphasised Non-VFX “happenings”. The movie delivers in having some fun in its very first minutes, but Nolan hurdles us even before we have it, with seemingly random dialogues, un-clear mission and a strange reversal of bullet as the cherry on top. The information fed is never properly registered and even before recollection kicks in, we jump to the next sequence in line, which is Windmills.
Imagine such problems continuing for an entire 2.5 hr film where every line in a conversation, of equal importance, pours only half the information riddled at double the speed. Best of luck cracking those riddles parallel to watching a movie. This myriad of twists and mounting confusion isn’t the “Challenging the Audience”, Nolan aimed before.
Imagine a 5hr mind-bending saga being chopped into 2.5 hr bullet point presentation, with half of them in reverse, just to challenge the audience and pose an over-flexed Sci-fi cross Spy Thriller structure. The movie is a rocket launcher aimed at a mind as flimsy as a tissue paper. Nolan’s concepts might be fantastic and futuristic, but it’s either the intentional decision to trim or make it look Nolan-esque, that has brutally damaged an excellent twist on the Bond movie with a lip-smacking concept of Temporal Pincer.
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Tenet has Awe Inspiring action sequences, Unique Technology and a revolutionary plot perfectly fit for a Spy thriller but it doesn’t have the answer for the “Why”, rather concentrating on the “How?”. The missing emotional thread isn’t something challenging or new for Nolan to incorporate, but he chooses not to, for every single relationship between the characters, making us exhausted. The Simplicity in having a clear hint of relationship dynamics is swapped with instantly choking complex set of rules. At points, I wished someone would say – “ Your Mission, should you chose to accept it..” so that the clarity which was wandering outside the movie hall would accompany me.
The much-anticipated Action Scenes are jaw-dropping and erk some wide-eyed glee for conceptualization, brilliant picturization and music from Hoyte Van Hoyte Ma and Ludwig Goransson. Nolan’s masterful work breaches in subconsciously shaking us even though it distances by miles from the high of conscious coherence and understanding. The best part of Action is having an organic flow of plot before, after and during the sequences. A factor being emphasised in Action flicks lately and Nolan, in his very first venture values it.
The Climactic Portions of Tenet is a bigger maze to crack with extensive layering and a race against relative time. The climax, like the rest of the “Expected to be Hair Raising” moments fall into a pit of an infinite mishap with timelines interlocking and entwining our minds, ultimately to state that the entire film is a sole concept on its own. Nolan refrains from ending the movie in a montage, like his previous films, rather with a post-climactic scene of payoff – just like a Spy thriller.
The Superhero’s emotion-heavy moments are overcast by a childlike plot.
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Tenet is devoid of any connect and loses its charm in going easy on Spy Thriller genre, instead to gain charm from its avant-garde storyline. A re-watch for an overwhelming insight and better understanding of Nolan’s mastery or a puzzled and underwhelming first impression of the same is up to the viewer.
Superb movie ..I am big fan of Nolan mve
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