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The algorithm is the ultimate MacGuffin, an object everyone is trying to acquire, kicking off the action and motivating the characters. Which means everything we’ve seen in Tenet has already happened. If you’re wondering why Future Neil (or just Neil, really) can breathe the air and interact with everything normally, it’s because when Future Neil travelled back to a moment before the Protagonist meets him, he will have uninverted himself to move forwards in time.Īgain, it’s a closed loop. The real kicker is we find out at the end that the whole movie is a temporal pincer movement because Neil has been sent backwards in time by the Future Protagonist while the present Protagonist moves forwards and learns everything for the first time, who can then use that knowledge at some point in the future to send Neil back, and so on and so on. The massive battle at Stalask-12 in the final act is a temporal pincer movement, not that any of it is consequential because it was only a diversion for the real mission, which is Neil, Ives and the Protagonist trying to stop the algorithm being set off. The advantage is that those moving backwards already know how everything is going to go down. Which is when the concept of the “temporal pincer movement” is introduced.Įssentially, the idea is that if you wanted to execute a plan at 5pm, you have half your team initiate their actions at 4.30pm while the other half starts at 5.30pm, but they’re inverted and moving backwards.
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The turnstiles only exist in our present because the future sent villain Sator the plans and materials to fabricate them – presumably very slowly through inversion.Īt one point in Tenet, the Protagonist wonders if Neil is a mole because Sator seems to know what’s happening before things happen. Consider these stats from the CDC for non-Hispanic white and black males between the ages of 20 and 39 (the most likely age of porn stars): Black: Mean weight: 85.9 kg. If you need to un-invert yourself, as the Protagonist, Katherine and Neil do, they have to go back through a turnstile to move forward. Walk into one side as a regular person and you go out the other as your reverse entropy self – semi-helpfully, things that are colour-coded red are moving forwards in time while blue signifies inversion. The turnstiles are the future technology which allows people and objects to be reversed, like a massive revolving door. You’d think future technology would be snazzier.