Just finished the second brush with emotions, and wrote these down.
Nolan is still the same Nolan, playing with our IQs with time reversal, but ultimately a meta-narrative. This redemptive cycle of self-rescue + saving him, this heroism of recognizing fate, accepting it, and actively changing rather than destroying it, has been sung repeatedly in different forms and without genre in millions of human narratives over thousands of years. Proposition, TENET uses post-apocalypse + industrialism to create a kind of extreme romance that belongs to modern movies, it allows us to see the most real connection between people, not interests, status, or life and death, but Kat's relationship to Max love, Neil's love for the Progatonist, and trust in each other.
The reason why human beings are human beings and the reason why human beings can survive comes from the fact that there is only one special being of human beings that can trigger self-respect for the essence of human ethics, and such people are called heroes in narrative works. Humans are not animals (killing for profit) nor gods (destructing themselves to destroy the whole world), human beings are the mother who can’t let go of her son and the son who takes the place of the father and redeems himself, who has traveled through time and space countless times in the reincarnation of life and death, and ensures that A Protagonist with tenacity and perseverance, loyal and full of faith, who can carry out this plan.
By the way, Nolan is really clever in arranging the names of the characters. Everyone's names have meanings. Only the protagonist is called the protagonist, and there is no name. I personally think that Protagonist is the kind of heroic identity that Nolan hopes to convey to the audience and that "we" want to undertake. He also repeatedly emphasized through the protagonist's mouth: I am the protagonist, and I am the master of fate. And the reason why he is called a hero is because he did not use crazy self-destruction to "save" the world like the "god" in the film, but used positive actions to change his fate, and at the same time accepted the arrangement of fate, when he accepted Everything given by fate, given that his human relations are heroic, just, and "loving", the result of his actions must also be "good", although:
Everything that has happened will happen, and will always have happened.
Neil, who knows the truth and knows it from the beginning to the end, is a hero incarnate of romanticism. When I watched the movie, I saw the end of the movie crying, but I don't know why I cried, I just thought that Neil did a great thing, Saved the Protagonist many times, but after the second brush + reading the analysis, I found out the reason behind his redemption, and cried even louder. Neil is the person who bears the most information and "sacrifices" the most in the whole film, but he hides himself, secretly endures the setting of his destiny, and like the protagonist, actively implements the TENET plan, in which he spends his time and life once Time to prove: I am also the hero of my own destiny.
Why does what should happen has to happen, and always does? Because several heroic protagonists have demonstrated through their positive actions that they are real and brave human beings whose active choices have influenced events to change their own destiny and, in this so-called grand narrative, change the fate of humanity destiny.
What kind of hero is this, living to death and dying to life.
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