By Rishi Popat
Tenet, Christopher Nolan’s latest release, is one of this year’s largest releases. As if his creations hadn't already been hyped up enough, Tenet is now being hailed as the savior of new-age cinema. A deep film, it has all the aspects of Nolan’s work - breathtaking visuals and a pulsating score that adds no less than pure, unadulterated tension and anticipation. As a member of the audience, your experience is nothing short of sitting next to the characters because of how overwhelmingly alive the movie feels.
The direction is, as has come to be expected from Nolan, riveting. The camera work stands out, flying you from one awe-inspiring location to another in a flash. More impressive still is that even during all this, it gives the audience an innate and grounded experience. A subjective point of view with the characters is maintained throughout the movie, including during action sequences. Undoubtedly, it would be more cinematic to cut to an objective point of view, or to an impossible angle to present the unmitigated scale and pansophical perspective, but the decision to keep the camera angles subjective does add a greater sense of risk to the film, engrossing the audience and making the events playing out feel more real and more dangerous.
The storytelling is rapid, but sometimes clunky. Even rudimentary plot points are laborious to follow and easy to miss. But this does not take away from the intended complexity of the plot, which can lead you down a never-ending rabbit hole of speculation and second-guessing.
Let us get to what most of you are here for anyway: the explosions. The big booms in the movie are enough to make even the most hardcore of you let out a gasp of surprise as their sheer beauty and destructive scale are sure to morph you into wide-eyed children. The sheer brutality of the blasts is a spectacle to behold.
Overall, the movie is a fracas of action and storytelling. Debatably a masterpiece, it has certainly reinvigorated interest in the cinema, and it promises to be a fun thrilling ride to new viewers.
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