I feel like the understanding curve for Tenet is an opens-downward parabola.
The first time you're just along for the ride
The 2nd, 3rd time you're piecing it together.
After you think about it too much you realize that it's great cinema but parts of it doesn't work ("So the Protagonist emerges from the turnstile, going backwards in time, shoots at himself (!!!), misses, and then those bullet holes in the shatterproof glass travel backwards in time until... the glass is manufactured in the glass factory?")
(Yes? Or am I missing something? Let me know if I am - the 'bullet holes going backwards in time' bugs me. Like, why would contractors install the bullet-ridden panel? :) )
At this point , I think it’s quantum that has collapsed at a particular point of time and people just don’t remark (just studied quantum computing). Let say a, b, c, d are successive points in time and c is when the protagonist decides to go back in time and he revert back in b. The whole b-c timeline collapses due to the simultaneous time directions.
The first time you're just along for the ride
The 2nd, 3rd time you're piecing it together.
After you think about it too much you realize that it's great cinema but parts of it doesn't work ("So the Protagonist emerges from the turnstile, going backwards in time, shoots at himself (!!!), misses, and then those bullet holes in the shatterproof glass travel backwards in time until... the glass is manufactured in the glass factory?")
(Yes? Or am I missing something? Let me know if I am - the 'bullet holes going backwards in time' bugs me. Like, why would contractors install the bullet-ridden panel? :) )