I rewatched Christopher Nolan’s Tenet shortly earlier than Oppenheimer opened in theaters and felt, considerably unusually, that I understood the movie much less than the primary time I noticed it.
Maybe the primary time I bought swept up within the general story of a mysterious group defending our current from time “inverting” interlopers from the long run. Seeing it once more and realizing what would occur within the narrative, I used to be ready to suppose extra in regards to the specifics of how the time journey side labored, and have become somewhat misplaced in a few of the particulars. I can‘t think of another movie that confused me more on second viewing than the first, but it sort of happened.
According to Christopher Nolan himself, though, that’s okay. In an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert this week, Nolan revealed that in his opinion “you’re not meant to understand everything in Tenet.”
In truth, as he put it “It’s not all comprehensible. It’s a bit like asking if I know what happens with the spinning top at the end of Inception.”
“Do you know what happens with the spinning top at the end of Inception?” Colbert jokingly interjected.
“I have to have my idea about it for it to be a valid productive ambiguity,” Nolan replied. “But the point of it is it’s an ambiguity.”
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When Colbert pressed him on a particular idea he had about Tenet, Nolan replied “I don’t allow myself to comment on fan theories anymore.”
Elsewhere in the identical interview, Nolan revealed he’s a “tremendous” fan of the Fast & Furious films, which he known as “a tremendous action franchise.” He revealed that he watches the movies “all the time” and stated flat out: “I love them.” He additionally stated he feels no guilt about it.
So if Christopher Nolan doesn’t really feel responsible about loving Fast & Furious, you shouldn’t both. Nolan’s newest film, Oppenheimer, makes its streaming premiere on Peacock on February 16.
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