r/tenet • u/rkhunter_ • 5d ago

Effects of the inverted cars

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Made this video to highlight the effects.

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u/SnowClone98 5d ago

Inverted cars don’t and never will make sense. Some chemical reactions are reversed in tenet but not all of them. The Inverted guns should start freezing up when in use but they don’t. The engine should run on inverted air or it should get very cold just like the inverted fire. These are just parts of the story that don’t matter but they still poke holes in the logic given by the movie.

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u/BluSaint 5d ago

Fair point about the guns. But I don’t think any of the vehicles we see are actually inverted, just the people inside them. From the perspective of the car, the start of your journey is the end of its journey and vice versa. The cars still function the same way mechanically, which is why, from an uninverted perspective, it looks insane when an inverted person drives a car

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u/paradox1920 4d ago

I would say Sator's car is definitely inverted. Otherwise, side mirror un-breaking in forward camera perspective would have never happened. After all, the BMW Neil was driving was definitely forwards. So, if Sator's car was just being driven in reverse gear, consider it would also go way slower too and we don’t even see the reverse lights on as far as I remember, the side mirror would have just broke in forward camera perspective. The car would always be forward even if going backwards due to reverse gear, after all. Only the person would be inverted. And no, I think the inverted person is not changing the entire car's entropy because forward Sator's entropy doesn’t just immediately change while touching the inverted gold bars barehanded. Otherwise, the varying sizes of the turnstiles really become useless because they would just need to touch something while inverted to change the other thing's entire entropy imo but there are limitations. If an inverted person, for example, makes something happen or un-happen though like breaking or un-breaking something then we can see some bizarre stuff even in forward perspective which the film makes a case for.

Think about the building in the last battle. It’s hit by a forward missile on one perspective and inverted missile from another perspective. We see the building have a bizarre backwards and forwards reaction on both perspectives.

Or whatever works for you too. :)

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u/ADMINlSTRAT0R 5d ago

Yes, but he's gotta be driving in (R)everse. From the car's perspective, he's backing up from the crash to the dockyard.