The Most Recent Film I Watched

The most recent film I watched was ‘Tenet’ which I watched at Cineworld in Crawley on the 3rd September. This film was directed by Christopher Nolan. It was released in 2020 and it was produced by Warner Bros. pictures. The director, Christopher Nolan has directed many successful films, and is known for ones such as Interstellar (2014), Inception (2010), Dunkirk (2017) and The Prestige (2006). The main cast are: Robert Pattinson - as Neil, Elizabeth Debicki - as Kat, John David Washington - as the Protagonist. The film Tenet only has 280 VFX shots, which is a lot less than most romantic comedies and is also low for the director of it, Cristopher Nolan. The other films he has directed have a lot more visual effect shots than this, for example The Dark Knight (2008) had 650 VFX shots, and Dunkirk (2017) had 429 VFX shots. 

I thought that the actors in this movie were amazing and the whole concept of it was extremely clever, however I found it quite hard to follow and quite confusing. It is very hard to gather all the information, but after thinking about it and looking into it in more detail you see all of the hidden details and put all the elements together and it begins to make more sense, and you start realising how genius Christopher Nolan is. The introduction scene to it was very attention grabbing and I found myself drawn to knowing what was happening, and there was a lot of tension built to make the audience curious as to what was happening. 

The music and sound effects, I found, were amazing and helped add to the atmosphere, which is one of the most impressive elements about this film, as the atmosphere created by both visual and sound effects, is very thought provoking and helps engage the audience. The only thing I found with the sound effects and music that could be improved is that they were very loud, making the dialogue quite hard to understand, which made the whole film even more confusing!

I have heard from a lot of people that it is better the second time you watch this as it is such a heavy watch, so I think I will do this so that I can understand all the hidden elements in more detail. 

The concept of inversion was outstanding and very original, and I loved the scenes of the inverted fights.

Overall I think that this film is a masterpiece, but also very mind bending and insanely genius, but a second watch is definitely necessary, probably with subtitles.