The Great God of Nolan brought his brain-burning work "TENET" (Tian Neng, Creed) this year. Believe me, whoever reads the trailer of "TENET" must be stupefied. The
trailer seems to say something, but in fact it doesn’t say anything, making the whole movie more mysterious and weird, and of course, more attractive.
Today’s so-called trailer analysis, if you over-predict the plot is tantamount to death, after all, how can you guess the plot of Nolan’s brain-burning movie, so this issue is equivalent to adding some "TENET" knowledge points, already Make some reasonable guesses. The next analysis of
will involve the preview 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. It will be more understandable. Not much nonsense, let's get started!
1 TENET meaning
At present, the Chinese title of "TENET" movie is a temporary translation, which is why I use English title to interpret this movie.
TENET has many meanings, literally translated, it is the purpose, creed, and principle.
TENET belongs to the palindrome, and the meaning of the positive and negative order is the same. This is not uncommon in English words. In Chinese, such as "Shanghai on the sea" is also similar to such a palindrome.
and more importantly, the word TENET appears in Sator Square. This is a 5 round-trip vocabulary slate composed of 8 letters, including 5 consonants and 3 vowels. Whether these 5 round-trips are Left and right or tilted up and down, they can form back and forth. Sator Square first appeared on the ruins of Pompeii in Italy, and Pompeii was buried by a volcano in AD 79. The TENET in
Sator Square is in the middle position, which probably means possession and control in Latin.
In addition, Sator Square also appeared on the brick wall of St. Peter's Basilica in Italy in the 8th century. There are other places in Europe with strong religious beliefs that have Sator Square patterns.
Sator Square has now been deconstructed in multiple ways, including Christian churches and some mysterious associations. Many people believe that the letters and arrangement of this slate represent codes and metaphors.
has said so much, Nolan’s new film is named TENET, which may also imply that there will be a time sequence disorder in the film. We can also see this in the trailer.
From the limited preview information, TENET may be an organization, or it may be an element that changes the world, a mysterious code.
2 Story structure
According to the trailer, the story structure of "TENET" is very similar to "Inception". The characters in the film are all in suits, and they all seem to be driven by a spy mission. Very big event.
If you watch 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 sequel to "Inception".
But the most important similarity between the two is that the two films have implanted a new setting. "Inception" creates the level of dreams, changes the dreamer’s deepest consciousness, and can change the personality of the person. The story begins under such a world setting.
"TENET" is also the creation of a new setting world, which is related to time interleaving and prediction, and the story unfolds.
So it is difficult to predict "TENET", we can't guess the world setting of "TENET"How, so there is no way to do the analytical reasoning of the plot.
However, judging from the trailer, "TENET" involves the prevention of World War III, which shows that the film's story pattern is larger than "Inception".
In addition, in Nolan's works, the element of time has always been used to make people amazing. The time of "TENET" is against the tone, and it can be regarded as an upgraded version of Nolan's "Memories" playing with the element of time.
3 Analysis of the key points of the trailer
Next we take the first trailer as the main analysis object, the first trailer and the IMAX 7-minute clip as auxiliary analysis.
In the first trailer, the male protagonist John Washington and other accomplices did a mission together. When they climbed the building, there was an important dialogue:
"We all know that we will rush into the burning building, but we really feel the heat wave Before, we would never know." I think the sentence
is more implying the interpretation of the two words predicting and predicting. In other words, we are capable of predicting many things, but even if we know The consequences of this matter, but when the real ending comes, we actually don't know anything. The sentence
also reflects the difference between the protagonist John and ordinary people. Perhaps he is acting as a predictor, not a predictor.
In the scene at the end of the trailer, John looked at the bullet holes and said that none of this 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 of
echoes the ending of the final screen, which is also very suitable for the title of "TENET".
Next, John was in a place similar to a train station, very painful and tranced, and the narrator said:
"You would rather die than give up your comrades."
This seems to be a test on him, and then John is suspected of being fed one. The silver pill, I don’t know if this is similar to the red and blue pill of The Matrix.
After John woke up, he was told to pass the test and welcome to the "afterlife". The afterlife here should be John entering a new setting world or entering an organization.
And the chance of passing this test, not everyone can pass.
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 understand the new TENET world. Yes, this is possible and "Inception" The story structure of is somewhat similar, so I am just a reasonable guess here. After
, John learned from a female scientist that their purpose was to prevent the Third World War, but it was not a nuclear war, but something more terrifying, something more terrifying than nuclear weapons. This is the key to the film. Perhaps TENET is an element more terrifying than nuclear weapons, and it is related to time confusion. This key point will be discussed in detail later.
In the chat screen between John and the female scientist, a stone slab full of bullet holes is displayed. This is definitely not for shooting training, but it may be for training John's ability to sense time reverse.
The next picture is an Audi SUV with a person wearing a gas mask. The appearance rate of the mask is also very high. A similar mask was also taken by John.
This will talk about the two key elements of bullet holes and masks, from the first previewAt the beginning, John slowly approached the glass bullet holes and felt those bullet holes with his hands. There was still some gaseous smoke around the bullet holes, which might be the smoke caused by shooting the glass.
The notable advance notice of the glass bullet hole is not the same scene as the last glass bullet hole 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 will dissipate, but when John approaches, the smoke from the bullet holes increases. Let's try to think about it. If you fire a shot at the glass and cause smoke, the smoke will be the most. It will be a lot at first, then slowly dissipates.
But John walked to the glass bullet hole in the distance, and the smoke changed from less to more. This shows that the time of the gun's bullet hole is reversed. At this time, John is using the bullet hole to reverse the time to analyze everything that happened.
In the 7-minute clip of the IMAX theater, the bullet hole is also the key point. Unfortunately, there is no video on the Internet. The video is John and a few associates, disguised as Russian special police, enter an opera house for tasks, before they enter the opera house , They first released some kind of gas, making everyone in the opera unconscious.
But at this time there is another group of terrorists in the opera house, and John’s own task is to capture an important person. When John spotted the important person, John put on a mask for him, but unfortunately John was discovered midway through. , So the tripartite forces are intertwined.
When the three forces were in the chaotic gunfight, everything seemed normal, but John saw a bullet hole from there to nothing at this time, that is, time is flowing backwards. This is the only place where time is messed up in this clip.
Therefore, in this 7-minute clip, there are also masks and bullet holes. If bullet holes represent time and gas represents a mysterious weapon, then time and gas have a very important relationship. Perhaps gas can change the ability of people to perceive time.
is on the main poster of "TENET". At first glance, John looks like he is splitting his legs. In one world, John is holding a gun, the gun represents the bullet hole, and the other world John is wearing a mask, representing gas. It also illustrates the connection between bullet holes and gas.
So the two icons, bullet holes and masks, may be similar to the special elements of the top of "Inception". They have obvious symbolic characteristics. I believe that after the film is released, there will be related to the bullet holes and masks of "TENET". Concept poster.
The next key picture is that a ship is driving upside down, and the waves are obviously upside down. This kind of ship is called "Meg Viking". It is an icebreaker built in Sweden that can resist the bad weather at sea. It seems to be John. And a stronghold of his organization.
Next are a few quick editing scenes, with several action scenes intertwined. Among them, Michael Caine, a regular Nolan movie guest, is sitting in the restaurant, which reminds me of Xiao Li in Inception. , Is it also recruiting Michael Caine here. The screen narration after
tells John to adapt to this new world of time disorder, perceive it, become familiar with it, and use it.
Then the climax of the whole trailer is the car chase behind it. It seems that John and the others are driving backwards, and there is a car that is obviously from rollover to recovery.
We are all used to watching car chasing scenes, but this kind of chasing car scenes in which the time is confusing is very attractive.
4 It is reasonable to speculate that time goes backwards. After watching the trailer, the most talked about is the setting of time going backwards. Many people speculate that the protagonist has arrived in another unreal world, similar to "Inception", Some people say that the protagonist has arrived in a parallel universe, that parallel universe is the opposite of us, and so on.
But looking at Nolan's works, every Nolan puts forward a very new point of view, so I don't believe that "TENET" is an old stalk like a parallel universe, traveling through time... right.
Because in Nolan’s works, we can find relevant and scientific explanations in the real world, especially the extremely hard science fiction movies like " Interstellar Crossing ", even "Inception", The interpretation of dreams and consciousness is also very scientific.
Anyway, in the limited trailer material, as well as my superficial understanding of Nolan's work, I think there will be some elements close to the real world in "TENET" to explain the reason for the backward time.
So my personal exclusive reasonable speculation, if it really wants to cause the world to reverse the time, the currently proven element in the world is antimatter .
What is antimatter? As the name implies, it is the opposite of the matter we perceive daily, and the concept of antimatter exists more in particle physics.
Today I am not here to give you a lecture on antimatter, and I am not qualified, so to make a long story short, antimatter has a sign, that is, when antimatter and matter contact each other, they will annihilate and disappear. When they disappear, they will release a lot of energy. This energy It can be a big bang, how far can this big bang reach?
Scientists have found and speculated that at the beginning of the universe, matter and antimatter were conserved and separated, and then the two contacted and produced a lot of energy for annihilation. This is the Big Bang, but there is more matter than antimatter, which formed the universe today. , And there are some anti-matter hidden in the universe or outside the universe.
According to the detection of scientists, one gram of antimatter cancels the equivalent matter, resulting in an explosion three times that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. In the movie "Angels and Demons," an anti-matter weapon, 0.25 grams, can blow up the Vatican.
said so much, I just want to correspond to the third world war mentioned in the trailer, not nuclear weapons, it may be anti-matter weapons.
An even 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 positrons flowing downstream of time, the opposite negative electrons become the antimatter of time. This is not nonsense, it was put forward by scientist Feynman when he was studying the Dirac equation.
Moreover, the time reversal caused by antimatter does not violate the law of causality in the scientific community. The so-called law of causality is 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 flow backwards in the "TENET" movie can produce a lot of gameplay. For example, to bring people back to life, so the person in the trailer said to John, "Welcome to the afterlife, it may really be that John is resurrected."
In the real world, although antimatter electrons are observed and captured, the antimatter that can be felt by the naked eye in the real sense has not been discovered and observed. Everything is only theoretical.
Therefore, the element of antimatter can only appear in movie science fiction works.
5 Time back is reasonable speculation 2. If we abandon the setting of exclusive elements, but change to discovery, just like the discovery of a wormhole in "Interstellar", and then guide humans into the unknown and mysterious.
So back in time, it is reasonable to speculate that the second possibility is that humans have indeed discovered a new perception space.
In the middle of the trailer, John was 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 understand from this that the revolving door There are two, corresponding to two symmetrical rooms, and then in John's room, the man in black comes in backwards.
Does this mean that the worlds of 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 mirrored worlds in this way, then another world that reverses time may not be created by humans, but discovered. It just means that humans have tried to connect these two worlds with opposite time.
For example, if our time is in the outer ring of the ring, the other mirror world is the inner ring, and there are separate time directions and causality between the two that do not disturb each other.
But the people in the outer ring world where we are, one day discovered the inner ring world, and tried to connect the two worlds. How to get through
, this reminds me of the Mobius ring. The Mobius ring has a lot of scientific and theoretical value, but the most intuitive one is that the Mobius ring can change the two planes of the outer ring and the inner ring. Into a plane.
In other words, if you use a pen to follow the Mobius ring to draw the route without interruption, the entire Mobius ring can be drawn in handwriting, whether it is the inner ring or the outer ring.
Maybe "TENET" uses the theory of Möbius ring to connect the two worlds, and people like John who go to the outer ring world and go to the inner ring world naturally look back in time.
Of course, the works of Nolan are so easy to be guessed, so this is to start a popular science discussion, and share with you my personal thoughts on "TENET". After
, "TENET" will continue to release trailers, then we will come to see what we have discovered.
