TENET Explained: The Best Theories About Ives, Priyah, Michael Crosby, The Scientist And Protagonist

TENET Explained: The Best Fan Theories About Ives, Priyah, Michael Crosby, The Scientist And Protagonist. We breakdown the most mysterious characters in Christopher Nolan's Tenet to discuss who they could really be based on clues in the movie.

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Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul and tomorrow I'm gonna watch Tenet for the first time so I can bring you the breakdown that you're watching right now.

Arguably one of Christopher Nolan's most complicated movies, it carries a lot with it's story that is deliberately made to make the audience feel lost.

Throughout the film our Protagonist The Protagonist is introduced to several characters but he learns very little about them so that there is no way that things can be compromised. Ignorance is their best weapon and thus the less information that is provided, the more unlikely it is that Sator and the people from the future will be able to change things.

What this means though is that there is a tonne of different people who all have questions over their heads but if we look at the little clues we are given, it is possible to figure out who is who.

Now the first person that I wanna talk about is the scientist from the future. Nolan has a habit of creating doubles in his films and this has been shown in movies like Memento with the multiple Lenny's and John G's.

The two Ra's Al Ghuls, Bruce Wayne and Batman, Two Face, the twins in the prestige as well as the two opposing magicians and so on and so forth.

In film this is known as a Hitchcock Double and what the technique involves is placing doppelgangers in cinematic works that hint towards their relation and so on. In TENET this of course appears in the two Kats, the two protagonists that fight one another and potentially Neil and Max being one in the same if you subscribe to that theory.

We will be discussing these ideas a lot through the video so I feel that they're very important to bear in mind.

Now early on in the movie we are introduced to a scientist named Laura...on Google casting or Barbara if you check IMDB. Either way they make it very clear that this is a woman who has been put in charge of investigating inverted objects and the science behind the algorithm.

Later on in the film we discover from Priyah that the scientist who actually invented the Algorithm itself was a woman generations in the future. Now firstly we have to take the term generations and define how long that actually is. Typically a generation is thought to be between 15-30 years and thus if we take it at it's lowest value it is possible that a 50-60 year old Laura discovered how to create the algorithm and then inverted it to send back to her past self.

The planet at that point could also be at the point of destabilising due to global warming and thus things do line up. I think from the way that the film operates that it becomes clear that the future protagonist did know the scientist and this is how they were able to learn about them inverting the algorithm and sending it back to the past. They then took this information and used it to set up the domino pieces that would eventually lead to their past self stopping Sator from burying it.

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[tylerbrys]

I heard Nolan got the idea for Tenet from your breakdowns of the movie!

[daveythedave]

It would've been sick if Denzel had a cameo in this as the future protagonist.

[barry]

Without these videos, I would only understand 5% of Tenet, instead of the 10% I currently do.

[yateendradwivedi]

Well we have a community here...we are all obsessed with tenet..and it never gets young..i mean old😂

[mehulkalra]

Us : how many tenet videos will you upload?
Heavy spoilers : yes

[ArshdeepSingh-meqm]

i think this movie will be much more appreciated in the future.

[JuanHernandez-zesi]

I feel like the scientist's baby being the future scientist and Neil being Max are solid theories, I also like the one about the protagonists speaking with himself on the phone. But as for Ives being Crosby is a bit of a stretch.

[patriciaorellana]

I swear, I can’t with this film but at the same time I wanna rewatch it 156 times

[wrongserver]

I hadn't even thought of the fact the some of the characters could be the same character but just older, other that Neil being an Old Max.

[jonathanbint]

Love a good tenet theory. Always make the movie somewhat more confusing

[lordvenjix]

TENET is one of the most complex time traveling movies of all time

[Krytos]

I had the same theory, albeit far less established, about Ives and Crosby. The way the camera focused on Ives gives the impression he should be someone more special than "just" a soldier who helps out and then becomes a key player holding onto the algorithm.
Not to mention Crosby's knowledge of events and specifically directing the Protagonist to the correct target.

[baware]

I was just thinking to myself, it’s been a few days since Paul has put out a tenet video.

[cizrek]

Tenet is hands down one of the best movies I have seen in 10 years. It's like Matrix had a baby with Inception and that baby had a baby with Memento with the replay ability of Fight Club.

[frankaguayo]

I think the Neil being Max is an awesome theory and I think it really does make sense. Why else would he risk- sorry, give up his life for someone he only met a few weeks ago.

[zach]

You find out Priya works for tenet in her first scene, when she makes the symbol and uses Tenet as a passphrase

[tavarrismcmath]

I've seen tenet at least five or six times and every time it ends I want to go back to the beginning and watch it all over again. Thanks man for breakdown videos. Just like the movie I never get tired of watching em.

[ratioed.]

Movie of the year. Sadly the academy focuses more on movies treating other values and doesn’t recognize the effort from the actor doing his own stunts and the director using practical effects, that added to the plot makes a great movie like this.

[np]

Neil is Max's kid. Sator is Neils Grandfather - the Grandfather paradox.

Can you survive if you go back in time and kill your Grandfather? Neil hopes so but ends up dying as Sator is also killed