TENET
Christopher Nolan is a creative genius—albeit, with Tenet, a slightly self-indulgent one. There’s a basic ‘tenet’ of leadership that essentially tells us “if no one if following you then you are not a leader and you’re just out for a nice walk by yourself.” Tenet is almost unfollowable. I am used to Nolan’s movies being brain twisters but with Tenet I was lost more than half the time. Trying to follow Tenet’s story is exhausting. I really admire Nolan’s endless creativity, but when you couple all that hyper-speed action and detail comin’ at ya coupled with actor’s accents and the unique dialogue—following Tenet is very hard to do. The actors are great at what they do and the filmmaking is second-to-none.
Academy award winning composer Ludwig Göransson’s score is almost obnoxious as it slams into the audience and collides with the dialogue adding to the difficulty of following the story. Like Nolan, one can tell that Goransson is having a little too much fun with all the options available to him. The music is creative and unique in some ways but over-the-top and I don’t know why I would listen to it outside of the context of the movie and I am a big fan of movie scores.
The cast is wonderful—John David Washington and Robert Pattinson are a great team. Elizabeth Debicki is a class act and Kenneth Branagh is an intimidating villain.
Nolan explores theme’s of the pride of men and our love of power and how humanity’s bent toward self-destruction and greed are affecting the people of the future.
I was thrilled to go see a new movie in an actual theatre but I am sure I will like this movie more when I see it again with subtitles so I can discern better some of its multi-layered genius. But for now I am going to have to say ‘meh’ and a give it one thumb up and one down.
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