Major spoilers ahead for Tenet.
Digging into the ending of Christopher Nolan’s new movie Tenet is to also dig into its beginning.
The film has a parabolic structure, as tipped off by its title.
When you reach the halfway point of the movie, the characters themselves become inverted by time and start interacting with events from the first-half of the narrative in reverse order.
So, for example, when The Protagonist (John David Washington) is fighting with a masked soldier, we later learn he was fighting with himself.
The “ending” of Tenet reveals that The Protagonist’s impact reaches …
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