Tenet
I went to see this with Russ last week. I was pretty excited about but... 1. Intro. When I was about 15 I was in a maths lesson. Mr Clamp had explained a problem - and solution - to the class and everyone duly started buzzing towards the answer. Except me, I didn't understand and became restless and disruptive, by way of trying to mask my own feelings of humiliation and confusion. I had forgotten that day for many years until watching Tenet last week. In an era of spoon-fed Hollywood epics, Christopher Nolan should be lauded for creating cinema that asks the audience to concentrate. Sadly on this occasion, his latest work left me thinking back to the last time I felt humiliated and confused: at least that lesson didn't end up lasting over an hour and costing me a tenner. 2. Plot. I genuinely can't explain the latter half of the plot. But I'll have a stab at the first. An agent, known only as the protagonist, from some government agency, is part of a mission that ...