Even ‘Tenet’ Actors Don’t Know What’s Happening
By George Robbins
Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie ‘Tenet‘ is as much a mystery to the actors portraying characters in the film as the audience who will be watching it. That is not to say that the actors don’t have any idea whatsoever as to what is going on in the film, but they don’t know just what all of the details are. Recently, there was a trailer that gave us an idea as to who the villain would be for the movie, and it appears the villain would be the character portrayed by Kenneth Branagh. The problem is that it appears as though even Branagh doesn’t know if he is the villain in the movie. The only way to tell who the real villain would be in the film is to actually go and see the film when it hits theaters.
Ever since the first trailer for the film released, ‘Tenet’ has been a film that has remained on people’s minds due to the strange nature of the film. Nolan is known for making a number of different high grossing and relatively well reviewed movies that have people excited to see them. This film is akin to his other movie, ‘Inception,’ that nobody knew a thing about until they watched and dissected the movie. It seems that the same type of thing will end up happening with this film as well and we will end up seeing something interesting from it. The question right now is whether the film might just be too confusing for people to understand.
As of now, people understand that the film has something to do with the manipulating of time and the prevention of World War 3. No one is sure how time manipulation is meant to work in the film, but that isn’t the only thing that is confusing about the way the film plays out. Branagh has said that due to how Nolan usually tries to reinvent the wheel with some of his films, there is no telling if his character is actually the villain. To put into perspective how confusing this film might just end up being, Branagh has said that out of all of the screenplays he has had to read for a role, this is one that he had to read over more than any other. This means that we could end up with twists and turns galore throughout the film that we never would have imagined.
‘Tenet’ is currently sitting as one of the only films that has kept its original release date of July 17th, while many others have been forced to change due to the pandemic. However, this seems to be tentative since it seems like Warner Media might be changing the date of release, but this is still an unknown. Nolan has been doing his best to ensure that this movie would be among the first to end up releasing to theaters when they were reopened. The release of this movie would mark it as the first major blockbuster to be available when theaters reopen and it would gain even more traction given the circumstances. Whether it ends up delayed or not will not at all change the fact that this film will, in fact, see a theatrical release in its lifetime. ‘Tenet’ is most definitely a movie that holds a lot of interest and it will draw people in due to its supposed originality. All we can do until it releases is speculate and hope that it is as interesting as it appears to be.