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I was talking to some super fans of South West London’s eighteenth best film blog.They said they only really read the beginning and maybe the end, skipping the middle, which in my opinion is actually the only part of the blog with substance. Then I got thinking… What if I started the blog with the middle, then the end, then go back to the beginning, then the end again and then the middle, ending with the beginning. No, that would be convoluted and difficult.
Tenet is a film which starts in the middle, then the end, then goes back to the beginning, then the end again and then the middle, ending with the beginning*. Described very loosely as Inception with time by some people I think it’s an oversimplification, however it catches the style of the film pretty well. The film sees John David Washington’s protagonist sacrifice himself in an epic opening scene, before he survives and is picked up by a mysterious organisation who tell him to use the word “Tenet” sometimes. I mean, he only used it once, so it was hardly important, however it was a palindrome and a convenient mysterious title. Anyway, he must investigate bullets which are inverted, i.e. they travel from the wall they were shot at back into the gun when it’s fired. Soon this escalates and he and Robert Patterson go to save the world with the power of some form of time travel.
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