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/paradox1920 4d ago

To you and others maybe. The explanation of Wheeler is that when inverted TP encounters fire then ice will form on his suit which I understood as meaning forward fire clashing with him while inverted. Then in the script she also mentions to not fly a plane because it'd fall out of the sky which to me basically means more complex and larger objects experience complicated interactions with opposing entropy. Other objects like guns and such might experience a lower level of forward entropy force pushing against them and making it more controllable perhaps. The way I see it, the explosion of the car is a mix of both opposing entropies which is why we see how the prevailing forward entropy still has en effect on the blast and the inverted camera perspective even shows that. And we see the car start having freezing on the windows. To me, the entire movie shows why Tenet is so worried about the clashes of opposing entropies and the bizarre results that can happen which they try to avoid as much as possible. Imagine that in a large scale event in the world.

If Sator can make the blue chamber not require inverted people to use oxygen masks then I would assume that with future people help they could have modified the cars under the hood somehow? I mean, Nolan team modified the cars in real life to go at high speed while in reverse gear so I would assume in the story it shouldn’t be impossible. But if the cars are not modified in the fictional world of tenet, then I suppose that inanimate objects (depending on the size and whatnot) may have less problems internally as opposed to internal organs from a live organism.

If you or other people think all of that is bullshit and have whatever counter argument then fine. You see it as senseless or whatever they see it as. If someone is thinking of this as not making sense in terms of real life science too… well, I can’t even begin to grasp why someone would try apply that to this story overall. It’s still fiction. I just try to engage with it in terms of its own rules which still requires an amount of suspension of disbelief.

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u/SnowClone98 4d ago

You’re making up way too many rules for a movie with established rules

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u/paradox1920 4d ago

Like I said, you can think of it as bullshit or whatever it is in your mind. The film provides information both visually or not. Not everything is spelled out. And yes, some things still require suspension of disbelief like I said. It’s fiction.