Tenet On HBO Max: That Ending Explained And All Your Questions Answered

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Tenet is out now in the US and UK. Don't forget your mask.

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[/news/tenet-review-christopher-nolan-latest-time-twister-isnt-as-clever-as-it-thinks-hbo-max/ Tenet] is streaming now on [ HBO Max], as well as on Amazon, Apple TV and Google Play. Unlike in theaters, you can now turn on subtitles and rewind the confusing bits to figure what the heck's going on.
Christopher Nolan's sci-fi spy caper [ has been criticized for its confusing plot] and even its [ sound mixing rendering dialogue inaudible]. And yet the eye-popping action sequences, stylish James Bond wardrobe and nerve-shredding soundtrack still manage to swallow you in an intoxicating wave of blockbuster spectacle.

But what about that time-bending plot? Here are some answers to what the hell happened.




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What's inversion?
In the future, a technology has been developed that reverses the entropy of people and tour hà giang objects to move backward through time. Entropy is a complicated physics concept which explains why some processes occur spontaneously while their time reversals do not. "Ice melting, salt or sugar dissolving, making popcorn and boiling water for tea are processes with increasing entropy in your kitchen," [ according to one explanation]. In Tenet's universe, the Protagonist (John David Washington) is shown a bullet with inverted entropy that returns to its gun. You can tell if a human has been inverted, because they have to breathe special oxygen through a mask -- regular air doesn't go through inverted lungs. If you contact your "forward" self, it causes "self-annihilation," meaning you kill yourself. Complicated stuff.
What's the Algorithm?
Nine objects, hidden in nuclear faculties, form an algorithm that reverses the entropy of the Earth. Setting off the Algorithm ends the world.
What's Sator's plan?
Russian oligarch Andrei Sator (Kenneth Branagh) is in contact with an unknown agency in the future. Sator plans to set off a doomsday device, also known as the Algorithm, tour hà nội hà giang that will reverse the entropy of the entire planet. He's dying from inoperable pancreatic cancer and believes if he can't live, no one can. Sator travels back to the holiday with Kat (Elizabeth Debicki) in Vietnam when they were both happiest, planning to die there peacefully and set off the doomsday device with a dead man's switch linked to his heartbeat.
Why's the future working with Sator?
In the future, everything is destroyed. An unknown agency is working with Sator to kill everyone in the past, because they're responsible. The people in the future believe that reversing the entropy of the Earth will prevent climate change. With no other choice for their survival, they're willing to destroy their ancestors and threaten their own existence -- the grandfather paradox.
Why Sator?
Sator grew up in the Soviet Union in a small community acting as a "closed" or "secret" city with sensitive facilities, such as nuclear research sites with a plutonium production plant. Sator was in the right place at the right time as a teenager, when he dug up a piece of the Algorithm in the rubble of his home in Siberia. The scientist in the future who created the Algorithm has been hiding the pieces back in time, realizing no one should have the technology. The unknown agency charges Sator with recovering the pieces and dropping the finished Algorithm into the "dead drop" in his nuked home town, where they'll find it centuries from now. The agency buries time-reversed gold bars that Sator digs up for payment.