--Tenet
Christopher Nolan's films seem to get harder and harder to watch as he makes more of them.
I felt like I was thrust into a conversation and I didn't know what anyone was talking about, even if they did.
And trying to figure it out along the way was tiring more than interesting, although I enjoyed parts of it.
None of the lead actors did anything for me.
What I did find a bit irritating was the personal relationship thing, that the most fraught and dangerous mission
these people are involved in are because of someone has a marital difficulty. Or other family problem or concern,
like in "The Day After Tomorrow" or the "War of the Worlds" remake. That seems like a cliché I've seen a few
times before. I want to blow up the world because my wife's a bitch sort of thing.
I'm not suggesting that films like this need to be dumbed down. I mean, as intricate as Nolan's Inception was, it was still
understandable. You could follow it.
At the end of Tenet, do we know what Tenet is? What it means? Yeah, in the beginning he's told it's a word that will help him.
Get info I guess. (Pretty vague.) I just looked up to see online if there's anything. Here's one thing: As a word, a “tenet” is
defined as a principle or a belief, traditionally relating to a religion or philosophical understanding – and within the film
this seems to tie into "The Protagonist's" mission, which he has to undertake on trust without knowing exactly who he's
working for or what he's working towards.
Also, to have a complicated plot and to call the lead actor Protagonist. Is that a joke? It's like Michael York
in Austin Powers calling himself Basil Exposition!
Frankly, I just wanted to sit down and watch and be entertained by a film. The experience of watching Tenet was more like
reading a textbook about an unfamiliar subject. I am really glad to have seen it, but I did not want to work so hard watching
a movie. At least that night I didn't.