r/tenet

By now, I’m on my 10th watch of Tenet. I’ve made so many posts on Tenet here

I think the one thing I’ve consistently ignored with these viewings of Tenet is the role of Priya. She plays an arms dealer of course. But what’s her relationship with Andrei Sator? I’m aware he’s her client. But how does that relationship work? Why does she end up in a predicament where she has to kill Kat, which ends up with my boy The Protagonist killing her in the end of the movie? And what’s her relationship with the fresh-faced Protagonist?

when I saw it in cinema, I completely missed Sator’s part of the dialogue about oceans rising and rivers running dry. It provides a ton of motivation for the Future. Before this rewatch I really thought they were just crazy and wanted to destroy the universe.

I've known going into this movie that it was very hard to follow but gave it a shot and bought the 4K..

I've began this movie at least two or three times and stopped it when I lost track..

I want to give it another shot and may use some type of plot guide maybe as I watch it..?

To consider inception to be similar?

Neil says to TP that "Time isn't the problems" when he says ten mintues tops to meet a mumbai local. What does it mean when neil said "PROBLEMS"? not problem but problems. is it hint to something?

I’ve been thinking about the way Sator gets gold from the future in Tenet, and I’m not sure the logic fully works.
Let’s say the future people invert some gold and send it back so young Sator finds it in 1980.
From our normal point of view, that makes sense enough:
Future people send inverted gold → it’s buried/hidden → Sator digs it up → he becomes rich.
But if the gold is inverted, then from the gold’s own timeline it’s moving from the future into the past. So it would go something like:
2500 → 2400 → 2200 → 1981 → 1980.
That means if Sator finds it in 1980, then in 1981 that same gold should still be underground, still on its way backward to 1980. So how can Sator already be using it in 1981?
And if the answer is that he reverts the gold in 1981, then wouldn’t that stop it before it ever reaches 1980? So it couldn’t be the same gold he found.
The only version that seems to work is if the gold reaches Sator in 1980 and is reverted right there, basically at the endpoint of its inverted journey. Then it can move forward normally from 1980 onward. But I don’t think the movie ever shows or explains young Sator having access to a turnstile that early.
So is this just one of those things the movie handwaves, or am I misunderstanding how the gold dead drops are supposed to work?
I get that Tenet kind of plays loose with inverted objects/effects not extending infinitely backward, like bullet holes and wounds, but the gold seems like a bigger issue because it’s supposed to be the thing that funds Sator’s rise.

When Kat is shot on the blue side:

From the inverted perspective, Sator comes out of the turnstile, un-shoots an inverted Kat, and exits with her on the opposite side, back to the Freeport entrance.

A few moments later, which is earlier to the inverted people on the blue side, Ives and crew remove her back to the red side.

So from an inverted perspective team Ives placed her there to be un-shot. But they also didn’t, they took her to Oslo.

Doesn’t this indicate the timeline was forked or rewritten?

One thing I noticed is that tenet has a good angle I think on predetermined timelines and free will.

The protagonist has a determined will to go back in time and "change the past". But we find out, the actual past was then the past that _he set up_ as the Protagonist. Since he wanted to be in charge of an effort to change the past, he became in charge, even if nonlinearly.

I haven’t seen it in theaters in years. So amped to see it again and on 70mm!