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By George Robbins

So with all this craziness going on in the world, people are trying to figure out what they are doing with their lives. While some people are finding more things to do outside, at a safe distance from everyone else, others are waiting for more things to become available. Those who work in the entertainment world are doing even more than that by constantly jumping the daily hurdles that seem to keep popping up. The coronavirus pandemic has made everyday life challenging, but has made the jobs of those in the entertainment industry even more challenging. People working in the industry haven’t been able to get steady work or be able to work on the projects they were a part of.

Many artists in the industry such as writers, producers and directors have had to make compromises when it came to getting projects done or starting work on new ones. For instance, many movies have had to change release dates due to the fact that theaters have closed and thus theatrical release schedules are out of whack. Some studios managed to save themselves a lot of hassle by simply releasing there films straight to VOD or they are planning to do this. However, films that are not going to forego theatrical releases have another issue to contend with. This issue is whether it is worth it to release on the dates they were originally intended to release on.

Most movie theaters, chains included, plan on reopening their doors to the public with new health and safety rules in place to keep people safe during this pandemic. Even when theaters reopen, this lockdown will still be in place because the virus is still as viable a threat as it was when the pandemic began and it will remain so for a long while yet. This means that not as many people will really be able to go to the movies even if they wanted to. Only a couple of new movies will end up being available to people when theaters actually do reopen and one of those movies is ‘Tenet.’ No one is quite sure what this movie is about just yet since the only thing known before now is the fact that it has a cold war-like setting.

‘Tenet’ is Christopher Nolan’s newest movie set in a world where agents are doing their best to try and prevent some world-wide catastrophe from taking place. The original trailer for the film that dropped some months back gave us some kind of look into the movie when it showed some kind of time-manipulation happening. This is the only thing that we had a chance to look at, however, and we have mostly been left in the dark. New TV spots have dropped for the movie recently, giving us a little more insight into the plot of the film. Actor Robert Pattinson, who plays a major part in the film, has said that the film does not involve time-travel, but some sort of time “bending.”

The new TV spots point to the fact that today, May 21st, a new trailer will drop for the film which is expected to reveal more plot details for the film. These spots also point to the title ‘Tenet’ being a major plot point for the film which is poignant since the word is a palindrome. This means that the words is spelled the same front to back, so if we think about the idea of time-bending in the film, then it should be the same where time plays itself similarly front to back in some way. The trailer may give more insight into this point, but the only way to know for sure is to wait for the movie to release. As of now, it will release on July 17th, but this is still a point of heavy debate since it might not be a good idea for the studio to release it so soon after theaters reopen.