Christopher Nolan's Tenet Fan Theories
Did the mind melting Tenet trailers leave you scratching your head? Don't worry. You aren't the only one.
“Well,
I've seen too much.”
“Well, we'll try and keep up.”
On this very hypothetical article, we take a look at some brain-busting fan theories that could help explain what Christopher Nolan's next action-packed epic is all about.
#1 IsTenet an Inception sequel?
This seems to
be
the most popular theory making the rounds. And that is easy to understand, as Tenet looks and feels very similar to Inception. Both films play with the space and/or time of the world, though Inception does so in dreams. Both blend the genres of espionage, science fiction, and action and follow well-dressed and highly-trained characters in dangerous professions on globe-trotting missions. And both feature Michael Caine.
Based on his appearance in the film, some fans believe that Michael Caine is reprising his role as Miles from Inception. This idea that both movies share characters is taken one step further with the wild speculation that Robert Pattinson and Clémence Poésy's characters in Tenet are the adult children of Cobb, played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception. One more piece of information to support this theory is that Tenet's release date has been pushed to July 31. And a theatrical release of Inception will come out 14 days prior on the 17th, with a sneak preview of never-before-seen Tenet footage, to potentially get fans ready for the secret sequel. You can communicate with the future, time travel? No. Inversion.
#2 What
the heck is time inversion?
As we heard
from the previous clip, in
Tenet, there isn't time
travel, but rather
something called time
inversion. And many have
surmised that it is the
ability, whether by
individual or device, to
cause people or objects to
move forward or backward in time while the rest of the world around them stays the same. This is based on moments from the trailer like the car flip, the floating gear, and the bullet catch. “You're not shooting the bullet. You're catching it.”
Whoa.
Some believe that Nolan will use time inversion to make the film and its ending more difficult to decipher.The word
Tenet is a palindrome,
meaning it's read the
same backward as it is
forward, a concept he
might apply to moments in the
film. In the trailer,
there are certain
actions, like the spinning of a pill, pull-ups, and the scaling of a wall, where we cannot tell if time is moving backward or forward. This means that several parts of the movie, including the ending, could be interpreted differently, just like the last scene of Inception.
“You
mustn't be afraid to dream
a little bigger, darling.”
#3 Are
the good guys working
for Tenet?
In the second
trailer, a character says, There are people in the future that need us. They need Tenet. This reference to it as a group has led certain Nolan-philes to believe that Tenet is a top secret organization.
[VICTOR]
“That
test you passed? Not
everybody does. Welcome
to the afterlife.”
The test that
Martin Donovan's
character Victor is referring
to is likely how John
David Washington joined the
clandestine organization. And
his mention of the afterlife
could mean Washington
is
legally dead, so he can operate in the shadows. But what does the secretive group actually do? Your duty
transcends national
interest.
Based on this
comment, and the fact that
Kenneth Branagh's
villainous character can
somehow communicate with
the future, it is theorized that
Tenet's job is to protect the
future at all cost. And
in this case, it's to stop a
massive global conflict.
“We're
trying to prevent
World War III.”
“You
must see an Armageddon
here.”
“No,
something worse.”
#4 Does
Tenet connect two worlds?
Certain fans
believe that Tenet will
feature not only time
inversion, but the travel between different realities. The theory came about from the inclusion of a diagram of Maxwell's Demon in the background of the second trailer. The thought experiment was created by physicist James Clerk Maxwell to show that the second law of thermodynamics can theoretically be violated by creating an
opening between two different
chambers of gas by something
called a Demon Door. Tenet could replace the two chambers with two separate realities that the characters travel between.
“That
part is a little
dramatic.”
It has also been speculated that the use of the colors red and blue, which represent the two different chambers of gas in the thought experiment, will be used to signify which of the two realities characters are from. For example, Elizabeth Debicki is seen in both red and blue outfits, meaning that there could be two of her in the film. And the machine is bathed in both red and blue light, which led some to theorize that this is the device that connects the two worlds, a.k.a. Maxwell's Demon Door. And speaking of, in the film, Debicki's son's name is Max.
“You
have to start looking at
the world in a new way.”
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