The name Christopher Nolan enthrals almost every movie lover as he blends the spectacular plot and film’s exquisite visual structure into every masterpiece he creates. Interstellar, Inception, Dunkirk, and other films of Christopher Nolan are among his most well-known works. Though it may be difficult to grasp the story’s deeper meaning, careful examination will provide a more comprehensive understanding of what the director intended. This year, Tenet (released in 2020), written and directed by Nolan won the Best Visual Effects at 93rd Academy Awards. The film was also nominated for the Best Production Design.
DNEG VFX team led by supervisors Andrew Jackson and Andrew Lockley were able to create highly complex visuals to portray the film’s concepts of reverse chaos and time inversion in this action thriller. It’s the third VFX Oscar for a film directed by Nolan.
Tenet uses a lot of practical effects and techniques in camera, which is blended with digital work. It is also noticeable that the film was shot almost entirely using 65mm and IMAX film cameras. One of the iconic visual effect brilliances which was shot on camera is when a car that flips over on the road and a Boeing 747 plane blows up.
As Christopher Nolan likes to play with time in the cinema, Tenet becomes the exact replica of the same. The plot revolves around our world’s future which is not inhabitable and how people from the future attempt to stop the past from destroying the planet. Now, will there be any future if there isn’t any past, you could wonder?
Before understanding this, it is necessary to first know the Grandfather Paradox. For example, a man from the future could murder his grandfather in the past. As a result, neither his father nor he would survive to see another day. This raises the question of how someone from the future may be living if his grandfather was killed in the past. So, while watching the film all you need to know is the concept of future destroying the past to save the world.
In contrast to other time travel films, Nolan adds two new concepts: Algorithm and Time Inversion. People in the future have invented a nuclear algorithm, which has been hidden in various locations in the past. This is done to keep humanity safe.
The characters from the future approach Andrei Sator (Kenneth Branagh), the story’s antagonist. As a teenager, Sator worked in a nuclear research centre where he discovers the first piece of the nine algorithms. Sator gets diagnosed with cancer and decides to die in Vietnam and also wants to destroy everyone along with him.
Before Sator gets hold of all the other algorithms, The Protagonist (John David Washington), on the other hand, tries to prevent him from destroying the world. With the help of Neil (Robert Pattinson), the action thriller gets more exciting as the film moves toward its climax.
The soundtrack adds to the already high level of anxiety. As the story unfolds, there is a possibility that one will become confused. Apart from these complexities, the movie is a visual delight for fans of action thrillers.
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