Tenet (2020, directed by Christopher Nolan) centers on temporal inversion — objects and people can have their entropy reversed, making them move backward through time while the rest of the world moves forward. An unnamed CIA operative (credited as "The Protagonist") is recruited into a secret organization called Tenet after surviving what appears to be a suicide mission. He learns that a future civilization has developed technology to invert entropy, and a Russian oligarch named Andrei Sator is acting as an intermediary for that future, seeking to assemble a device that would invert time for the entire world — effectively destroying the past (our present) to save the future. Inverted objects and people move backward relative to forward-moving time. This creates scenes where bullets fly back into guns, cars drive in reverse, and characters fight opponents moving in opposite temporal directions. A key concept is the "temporal pincer movement" — sending one team forward and one inverted, so they experience the same battle from opposite directions, meeting in the middle. The Protagonist teams up with Neil, a knowledgeable operative, and Kat, Sator's estranged wife, to stop Sator from obtaining and detonating the "Algorithm" — nine pieces created by the future scientist Sator has been in contact with, designed to invert all of time at once. The story loops back on itself: The Protagonist eventually realizes he set events in motion that he later experiences from the other side, and Neil reveals he's known the Protagonist for years — from Neil's perspective — because their relationship runs in the opposite temporal direction. The film's guiding logic, stated early on, is "don't try to understand it, feel it" — Nolan structures the film so causality itself becomes the puzzle, with the ending recontextualizing nearly every earlier scene. #tenet #tenetmovie #christophernolan #tenetedit - @_.atrk._