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“Tenet” References and Parallels Every Single One of Christopher Nolan’s Films
“Tenet” is not one of Christopher Nolan’s best movies, but it does overtly reference many of the ones that are, including “The Dark Knight”, “Inception”, and “Interstellar.”
After multiple delays, Tenet, the latest film from summer blockbuster king Christopher Nolan, has finally hit (most) theatres in North America, and as was the case with several of his previous films, the Internet is investigating every frame and every (audible) word of the film, leaving absolutely no stone unturned (or inverted, in this case).
The intricacies of the plot are, as to be expected with a Nolan movie centered on Time, difficult to parse and not without holes. “Don’t try to understand it. Feel it”, as the Tenet scientist advises the Protagonist early on in Tenet, simultaneously advising audiences on how to experience the film.
However, there’s one thing that we can be absolutely certain about and it’s that Tenet makes overt references to all of the director’s previous films. Some of them are more obvious than others, and others become impossible to miss once you see them. So, like the time-travel mechanics in Tenet, rather than travel directly back to the past, let’s…
