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The Ending of 'Tenet' Explained

This article is a massive spoiler for Tenet so proceed at your own risk. But to understand the risk you're taking, you're going to need this article. I saw Tenet last week and while the set-piece and cinematography are fun, the story leaves you in the dark. A lot. Like there were a ton of times I was so lost I just had to power through into the next scene and hope I could fill in the blanks later. So, let's go through Tenet and try to answer those unexplained questions the best we can. Dissecting the plot of Tenet Tenet is about a war with the future and the past. Basically we are trying to stop the present from being nuked from the future—but it's not a real nuke. It's a series of 9 cubes that when put together will reverse the entropy of time. This weapon is called the algorithm. I told you it was hard to follow! The person behind this madness is named Sator, he has cancer and is dying. He's so mad about dying while being a billionaire, that he is uniting these cubes that will end existence so the world can't go on without him. At the beginning of the movie, a guy we know only a Protagonist is recruited to figure out what Tenet is by the CIA. Protagonist meets Clémence Poésy's scientist, who informs him that at some point in the future, technology is invented that can reverse the entropy of...

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Published By: NoFilmSchool - Sunday, 29 September, 2024

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