Tenet Movie Storyline. In Kiev, Ukraine, an unnamed operative, aka The Protagonist, assists in a CIA assignment to foil an opera siege and retrieve a stolen cache of plutonium. During the operation, the plutonium is found to be fake but the Protagonist is saved by a masked gunman with a red string on his back. The Protagonist is then abducted and threatened with torture until he bites on an apparent suicide pill before revealing any information.
Upon waking, the Protagonist learns the pill was a test of his loyalty. He is recruited into a secret organization, given only the information that the word “tenet” and a cross-fingered gesture will “open many doors” for him. The Protagonist infiltrates a facility where he learns that in the future, technology has been developed that allows objects to have their entropy reversed and move backwards through time. To demonstrate this, a scientist presents him with bullets that fire in reverse.
Tracking the metal from which the reversed bullets are made, the Protagonist infiltrates the compound of an Indian billionaire with the aid of Neil, a British intelligence agent. He learns that it is in fact the billionaire’s wife, Priya, who knows what is happening. Priya tells the Protagonist that the time-reversing technology is under the control of a Russian arms dealer, Andrei Sator, who is in communication with an unknown agency from the future.
In order to get to Sator, the Protagonist approaches his estranged wife Kat. Kat tells the Protagonist that Sator has her under his control due to a forged painting that she gave to him. The Protagonist tries to win the trust of Kat by crashing a cargo plane into a warehouse and retrieving the painting from it within a freeport at Oslo Airport. During the operation, however, the Protagonist and Neil are attacked by two masked men, one of whom is using a time-reversed gun. The attacker escapes before the Protagonist is able to find out who he is.
The Protagonist returns to Kat, asking for her help in meeting Sator. Kat arranges for the Protagonist to attend a dinner party, hosted by Sator, but the oligarch does not trust the Protagonist. The Protagonist bargains for his life by offering to steal weapons-grade plutonium for Sator.
The Protagonist succeeds in stealing the plutonium from an armored car but is interrupted by a time-reversed vehicle. The Protagonist uncovers Sator and his gang’s plot: they are operating a “temporal pincer movement” in which they move both forwards and backwards in time, by means of entering a “temporal stile” following the operation and then moving backwards through time.
At the “temporal junction”, Sator shoots Kat and leaves with her before reinforcements arrives to secure the temporal stile. The Protagonist is then able to follow Sator back through the temporal stile, where he turns out to be the driver of the time-reversed car. The Protagonist rescues Kat but is unable to prevent Sator from acquiring the plutonium.
Tenet (2020)
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Starring: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kenneth Branagh, Clémence Poésy, Fiona Dourif, Michael Caine, Dimple Kapadia, Martin Donovan
Screenplay by: Christopher Nolan
Production Design by: Nathan Crowley
Cinematography by: Hoyte Van Hoytema
Film Editing by: Jennifer Lame
Costume Design by: Jeffrey Kurland
Set Decoration by: Emmanuel Delis, Kathy Lucas
Art Design by: Sylvia Atkins, Jessica Brooks, Charley Collier, Zac Coyle, Audrey Doyle, Hannah Eccleston
Music by: Ludwig Göransson
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: September 3, 2020
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