God Nolan brought his another brain-burning work "TENET" (Tian Neng, Creed) this year. Believe me, no matter who watched the trailer of "TENET", he must be confused.
The trailer seems to say something, but it doesn't say anything, making the whole movie more mysterious and spooky, and of course, more engaging.
In today's so-called preview analysis, if you over-predict the plot, you are courting death. After all, how can you guess the plot of Nolan's brain-burning film, so this issue is equivalent to adding some knowledge points of "TENET", which has been slightly Make some reasonable guesses.
The content of the next analysis will involve the preview of the first version of "TENET", the first preview, and the 7-minute clip of the IMAX version. It is best that everyone has read these materials before listening to my analysis, which will be more understandable. Without further ado, let's get started!
1 TENET meaning
At present, the Chinese title of the "TENET" movie is a temporary translation, which is why I use the English title to interpret this movie.
TENET has many meanings, and the literal translation is purpose, creed, and principle.
TENET is a back-and-forth, with the same meaning in both positive and negative order. This is not uncommon in English words. In Chinese, for example, "Shanghai is at sea" is also similar to such a back-and-forth.
And more importantly, the word TENET appears in Sator Square, which is composed of 8 letters, including 5 consonants and 3 vowels, which is a 5 round-trip vocabulary slate. These 5 round-trips are either left or right Up and down or inclined, can form a back and forth, Sator Square first appeared on the ruins of Pompeii in Italy, and Pompeii was buried by a volcano in 79 AD.
TENET in Sator Square is in the middle, which in Latin means probably owns and controls.
In addition, Sator Square also appeared on the brick wall of St. Peter's Basilica in Italy in the 8th century, and other places with strong religion in Europe, all have the pattern of Sator Square.
Sator Square has now been deconstructed multiple times, including the Christian Church and some occult societies, and many believe that the letters and arrangements of this slate represent ciphers and metaphors.
Having said so much, Nolan's new film is named TENET, which may also imply that there will be a disorder of time in the film, which we can also see in the trailer.
From the limited preview information, TENET may be an organization, or an element that changes the world, a mysterious secret code.
2 Story structure
At present, judging from the trailer, the story structure of "TENET" is very similar to that of "Inception". The characters in the film are all dressed in neat suits, and it seems that they are all drawn from a spy-style mission to a very big event. .
If you read the trailer of "TENET", and then go back to watch the trailer of "Inception", the soundtrack, narrative rhythm, composition and tone of the two are also very close. Many netizens also joked that "TENET" is the The sequel to Inception.
But the most important similarity between the two is that both films have a new setting implanted. "Inception" creates the level of dreams and changes the deepest consciousness of the dreamer, which can not only change people's characters, stories Start with such a world setting.
"TENET" is also the creation of a new setting world, which is related to time interlacing and precognition, and the story unfolds from this.
Therefore, it is difficult to predict "TENET". We can't guess what the world setting of "TENET" is, so there is no way to do the analysis and reasoning of the plot.
However, judging from the trailer, "TENET" involves preventing the third world war, which shows that the story pattern of the film is larger than that of "Inception".
In addition, in Nolan's works, the element of time has always been used amazingly. The time of "TENET" is opposed to the opposite, and it can be regarded as an upgraded version of Nolan's "Memento" that plays with the element of time.
3 Analysis of key points of forecast
Next, we take the first trailer as the main analysis object, and analyze the first trailer and the IMAX 7-minute clip as an auxiliary.
In the first trailer, the male protagonist John Washington and other accomplices did the task together. When they climbed the building, here is an important dialogue:
"We all know we're going to rush into burning buildings, but we'll never know until the heat is really felt."
I think this sentence is more to imply the interpretation of the two words prediction and foreknowledge. In other words, we have the ability to predict many things, but even if we know the consequences of the event, the real ending will come. At the time, we didn't know anything.
This sentence also reflects the difference between the protagonist John and ordinary people. Perhaps he is playing the role of a predictor, not a predictor.
At the end of the trailer, John looked at the bullet holes and said, "This has not happened yet, and then a man in black broke in like a rewind, which also proved John's ability to predict."
The sentence at the beginning of the trailer echoes the ending of the final picture, which is also very suitable for the title of "TENET".
Next, John was in a place similar to a train station, very distressed and in a trance, and the narrator said:
"You'd rather die than give up your accomplice."
This seems to be a test for him, and then John is suspected to be fed a silver pill. I don't know if this is somewhat similar to the setting of the red and blue pills in "The Matrix".
Then John woke up and was told to pass the test, welcome to the "afterlife", the afterlife here should be that John entered a new setting world, or entered an organization.
And the chance of passing this test is not for everyone.
So John started his adventure mission to save the world. Usually, before starting the real mission, there must be training. During the training, John may lead the audience to know the new world of TENET. Yes, this may be the same as "Inception". The story structure is somewhat similar, so I'm just making a reasonable guess here.
Later, John learned from a female scientist that their purpose is to prevent the third world war, but it is not a nuclear war, but more terrible, what is more terrible than nuclear weapons, this is the key of the film, maybe TENET is a more terrifying element than nuclear weapons, and it is related to time confusion. This key point will be discussed in detail later.
In the chat screen of John and the female scientist, a slate full of bullet holes is shown, which is definitely not for shooting training, it may be to train John's ability to sense time reversal.
The next picture is an Audi SUV with a person wearing a gas mask sitting inside. The mask has a high appearance rate, and a similar mask was also taken by John.
This is about the two key elements of bullet holes and masks. Starting from the first pilot trailer, John slowly approached the glass bullet holes and sensed those bullet holes with his hands. There was some gas smoke around the bullet holes. Possibly smoke from shots fired into the glass.
It is worth noting that the bullet hole in the first trailer is not the same scene as the bullet hole at the end of the first trailer, because John wears different clothes.
And look carefully at the advance notice. When John is far away, the smoke from the bullet holes is about to dissipate, but when John approaches, the smoke from the bullet holes increases. Let’s try to think about it. If a shot is fired at the glass to cause smoke, then the smoke will start at the beginning. There will be a lot, and then slowly dissipate.
But John walked in front of the glass bullet holes in the distance, and the smoke changed from less to more, which means that the time of the bullet holes was reversed. At this time, John was using the bullet hole to reverse the time sense to analyze everything that happened.
In the 7-minute clip of the IMAX theater, the bullet hole is also a key point. Unfortunately, there is no video on the Internet. The video is of John and a few accomplices, disguised as Russian special police officers, entering an opera house to do a task. Before they entered the opera house, They first released some kind of gas that knocked everyone out of the opera house.
But at this time, there was another group of terrorists in the opera house, and John's own task was to capture an important person. When John found an important person, John put a mask on him, but unfortunately John's identity was discovered halfway. In this way, the three forces are intertwined.
When the three parties were in a chaotic shootout, everything seemed normal, but John saw a bullet hole going from there to nothing at this time, that is, the time was running backwards.
So, in this 7-minute clip, there are also masks and bullet holes. If bullet holes represent time and gas represents mysterious weapons, then time and gas have a very important relationship. Perhaps gas can change people's ability to perceive time.
On the main poster of "TENET", at first glance, John looks like he is splitting his legs. One of the world's John is holding a gun, the gun represents bullet holes, and the other world's John is wearing a mask, representing gas, and also Very well illustrated the connection between bullet holes and gases.
Therefore, the two icons of bullet holes and masks may be similar to the special elements of the "Inception" top, and have obvious symbolic characteristics. I believe that after the film is released, there will be related concepts about bullet holes and masks in "TENET" poster.
The next key picture is that a boat is driving upside down, and the waves are obviously upside down. This kind of boat is called "MegViking". It is an icebreaker built in Sweden and can resist bad weather at sea. It seems that John and A stronghold of his organization.
The following are several sets of quick edits, with several action scenes intertwined. Among them, Nolan movie regular Michael Caine, sitting in the restaurant, reminds me of "Inception" Xiao Li is recruiting the team, Is Michael Caine being recruited here too?
The narration of the screen after that tells John to adapt to this new time-disordered world, perceive it, become familiar with it, and use it.
Then the climax of the whole trailer is the car chase scene in the back. It seems that John and the others are driving backwards, and there is a car that obviously flips over to restore.
We are all used to watching car chase scenes, but this kind of car chase scene with a confusing time can be said to be very attractive.
4 Reasonable conjecture for time reversal one
After watching the trailer, the most discussed thing is the time reversal setting. Many people speculate that the protagonist has entered another non-real world, similar to "Inception", and some people have said that the protagonist has entered a parallel universe. That parallel universe is the opposite of us, and so on.
But looking at Nolan's works, every Nolan will come up with a very new point of view, so I don't really believe that "TENET" is playing in a parallel universe, an old stalk like time travel....
Because in Nolan's works, we can all find relevant and relatively scientific explanations in the real world, especially in extremely hard sci-fi movies like "Interstellar", even in "Inception", dreams and consciousness There is also a lot of science in the explanation.
Anyway, in the limited trailer material, and my superficial understanding of Nolan's work, I think "TENET" will have some kind of real-world closeness element to explain the reason for the reversal of time.
Therefore, I have an exclusive and reasonable speculation that if the world really wants to reverse the time, the element that has been confirmed in the world at present is antimatter .
What is antimatter, as the name suggests, is the opposite of the matter we perceive on a daily basis, and the concept of antimatter exists more in particle physics.
Today I am not here to teach you about antimatter, nor do I have the qualifications, so to make a long story short, antimatter has a sign, that is, when antimatter and matter come into contact with each other, they will annihilate and disappear, and at the same time they will release a lot of energy. It's a big bang. How big can this big bang be?
Scientists have found and speculated that in the early days of the universe, matter and antimatter were conserved and separated, and then the two came into contact, generating a lot of energy for annihilation and annihilation. This is the Big Bang, but there is more matter than antimatter, and today’s universe is formed. And there is some antimatter, hidden in the universe or somewhere beyond the universe.
According to scientists' tests, one gram of antimatter and the equivalent of matter cancel out, resulting in an explosion three times that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. In the movie "Angels and Demons", antimatter weapons, 0.25 grams, can blow up the Vatican.
Having said so much, I just want to correspond to the third world war mentioned in the trailer, not nuclear weapons, it may be anti-material weapons.
A more important theoretical discovery of antimatter is related to time. If time is regarded as matter, antimatter can reverse time.
Because time is composed of time-current positrons, the opposite negative electrons become the antimatter of time. This is not my nonsense, it is proposed by Feynman when he was studying the Dirac equation.
Moreover, the reversal of time caused by antimatter does not violate the law of causality in the scientific world. The so-called law of causality is the causal relationship, the relationship between the first event (cause) and the second event (effect).
If antimatter does not violate the law of causality, then watching the time backwards in the "TENET" movie can produce a lot of gameplay. For example, to bring people back to life, so the guy in the trailer says to John, welcome to the afterlife, it may really be John who is resurrected.
In the real world, although antimatter electrons are observed and captured, the real antimatter that can be felt by the naked eye has not been discovered and observed, and everything is only theoretical.
Therefore, the element of antimatter can only appear in movie science fiction works.
5 Reasonable speculation of time reversal II
If we abandon the setting of exclusive elements and change it to discovery, it is like discovering a wormhole in "Interstellar", and then guide human beings into the unknown and mysterious.
Then it is reasonable to speculate that the second possibility is that human beings have indeed discovered a new perception space.
In the middle of the trailer, John is taken into a mysterious revolving door.
At the end of the trailer, John walked into the revolving door himself, and his accomplice Pattinson was on the other side. We can also learn from this that there are two revolving doors, corresponding to two symmetrical rooms, and then John's room, The man in black came in backwards.
Does this mean that the worlds in these two rooms are mirror images of each other, and the passage of time in these two worlds is divided into forward and reverse time.
If the film sets up two mirror worlds like this, then another world in reverse time may not be created by humans, but discovered. It just means that humans have found a way to connect these two worlds with opposite times.
For example, if our time is on the outer ring of the ring, another mirror world is the inner ring, and the two have their own time directions and causality laws that do not interfere with each other.
But at this time, the people in the outer ring world where we were located one day discovered the inner ring world, so they tried to open up the two worlds.
How to get through, this reminds me of the Möbius ring. The Möbius ring has many scientific theoretical values, but the most intuitive one is that the Möbius ring can make the two planes of the outer ring and the inner ring become a plane.
In other words, if you use a pen to follow the Möbius circle without interruption, you will end up with a handwriting on the entire Möbius circle, whether it is the inner or outer circle.
Perhaps "TENET" uses the theory of the Mobius ring to connect the two worlds, and people from the outer world like John, who go to the inner world, naturally see everything in reverse time.
Of course, the works of God Nolan are so easy to be guessed by others, so here is a popular science discussion to share with you my personal thoughts on "TENET".
Later, "TENET" will also release trailers one after another. Let's see what new discoveries are made then.
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