LogFAQs > #948420158

I watched a video of Destiny and Adam from Your Movie Sucks discussing movies and Tenet came up. They talked a lot about how it's very difficult to just understand physically what's happening, like who's hitting who, because they didn't visually demonstrate how the mechanics are supposed to work earlier in the movie enough to prepare you for those scenes. They mostly just had exposition explaining it, whereas Inception would demonstrate visually what was happening along with the explanations and have some similar scenes earlier in the movie that made sense to help you wrap your head around it, so you are a lot more easily able to follow what's happening in the climax when shit gets out of control.

Destiny also compared it to backwards day at school. There's always some kid who takes it to far. How far does the reversing go? If someone says "you should run over there" to you, do you interpret that as "You should walk over there". Or is it "I should walk over there." Or is it "I should walk away from there." Or is it "I shouldn't walk away from there". Or Is it "You should walk away from there". Just what does this all apply to? It's not really clear, so when action starts in the movie you don't really understand what this mechanic applies to and it leaves you a step behind trying to interpret everything you see. If you punch this guy does that mean you are punching yourself? Who knows.

All in all, the idea is complex to the point of convolution and ultimately not set up well enough within the movie to support itself.

I thought this was all a very good explanation of this movie that I've never seen or heard anything about. This topic is literally the only thing I've ever read about this movie apart from that conversation. Seems good, I'll probably check it out.

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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG