Elizabeth Debicki and Washington on the Amalfi Coast.
Although we swear that this text is spoiler free, if you want to see Tenet, If you haven't seen Tenet yet, stop reading here. own word Christopher Nolan, an obsessive effort so that we all arrive as virgin as possible to his films. This expert in hiding clues to the plot throughout his films, clues that only the most alert eyes or the second and third viewings discover, asks us to go to the cinema, to the largest room possible, with the best existing sound and let us be enveloped by its pure and high level entertainment. Tenet arrives as the savior of theaters in these uncertain times and could not better fulfill his mission as a show film . The purest Nolan style.
If you want to see Tenet, if you haven't seen Tenet yet, stop reading here and come back as soon as you've seen it, as soon as you've immersed yourself in this world of spies with an impeccable ethical and moral code and you have scratched your brains trying to understand the new time manipulation that Nolan offers.
Nolan and Washington discussing temporal nonlinearity.
“The simplest way to explain our approach is to say that what we did with Origen for the heist genre it is what Tenet tries to contribute to the genre of spy movies”, says the sibylline director. Clearer now?
Time is a universal obsession and very particular to the cinema. Christopher Nolan is one of the directors who has dealt with it the most from the science-fiction genre. In memento, his fish memory protagonist reset every 15 minutes. In Source he entered the unconscious, in the world of dreams where time feels differently (and also space). In interstellar, time was at the center of his space journey. As it is now, although in a different way, in Tenet.
Nolan insists: “Tenet is not a time travel movie. It's about time and the different ways that time can work." In Tenet time is reversed, based on science and the tendency of things to disorder, he develops a theory about the "entropy of an object in which you could reverse its flow of time".
John David Washington is 'The Protagonist'.
That is, in Tenet, some travel forward in time and others travel backwards. But there is no linearity. There are splits, overlaps, time twists and always keeps advancing in parallel realities. There is no free will, there is instinct. And what is past is past: mantra of one of the main characters, Robert Pattinson.
INTERNATIONAL ADVENTURE
Another constant in Christopher Nolan's cinema is the spectacular. Reality against visual and special effects always wins in his way of conceiving his films. "Take audiences around the world to places we haven't been before" is an obsession of the director of The Dark Knight. If history says to travel to India, Estonia and Oslo, so shall. If the story says you have to crash a plane in an airport, So it will be done.
Robert Pattinson, a weather expert.
"I've been making movies for a long time and I'm very conscious of the medium I work in," says Nolan. "It's what inspires me and affects my creative decisions in every way: while I'm writing the script, when I'm thinking about how it's going to be, while I'm looking for the actors... We do everything to offer the public an experience that surpasses any comparison with reality. Every decision is made with the idea that the public gathers in a movie theater to see it on a big screen. That affects every decision we make and everything we do.”
Tenet travels to Estonia, Italy, India, Denmark, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States. Spectacular locations like the amalfi coast making of itself, Ravenlo, or passing through Vietnam from the spectacular yacht of the film's villain (Kenneth Brangh).
The film starts in Estonia, in Linnahall, in Tallinn, a building “between brutalist and Mayan temple” that was built for the Russian Olympic Games in 1980 and that makes it pass for the kyiv opera in an opening sequence that puts the heart to the rhythm of the music of Ludwig Göransson. Then, later in the action, the protagonists (including 'The Protagonist', John David Washington) they return to Tallinn to cut off an entire highway in a car chase sequence in real time and inverted. and walk through it Kamu Art Museum, although in the story it is the lobby of the free port of Oslo.
Nolan and Washington at Linnahall, Tallinn.
But the film also passes through Oslo, specifically for the opera as a meeting place between The Protagonist and Neil (Pattinson). And Oslo is supposedly where they crash the plane, although, in reality, this spectacular scene was shot in an airport in Victorville, California, in the Mojave desert, where they store old planes. Nolan chose his, they restored it and they really crashed it counting on a whole team of physicists to prevent the hangar and what it contained from really blowing up.
And by the way, California served to recreate the fundamental abandoned Russian city at the end of the film. rolled in an abandoned iron mine in the ghost town of Eagle Mountain and also on the Warner Bros.
The men of the time.
Finally, they were in the middle of the Baltic Sea, off Denmark, in a turbine of a wind farm and in an icebreaker. They passed by London, in a sailing session and in some elegant clubs in the English capital. and they rolled on mumbai chaos at the end of the monsoon season.
“The international component of Tenet is very important because it is a threat to the entire world, to its existence as a whole, and those risks are an essential part of the drama. So I think that global scale is crucial to the pacing of the film and the understanding of scope and scale." What if, Nolan has outdone himself and Tenet is the movie that everyone [we want to go back to the movies.] (/experiences/articles/love-letter-to-the-cinema-we-return-to-the-rooms/18430) Over and over again.
Washington and Pattinson in Mumbai.