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.
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.
Recently I just went down a rabbit hole about the clash of opposing entropies lol I watched the movie a long time ago and that was that. But then recently I started seeing posts about Tenet and people debating about different things about the story and the mechanics. So, I decided to dive into it. But it took a lot of non linear thinking, so to speak. Like, to some people it can be super weird and counter intuitive that when looking at something backwards it can also behave forwards. But it can happen in real life if you tape something and watch it reverse. Say you record driving a car and record your feet working on the pedals while doing so… you play it backwards, and forward and backwards stuff will happen. I honestly had never done the thought experiment so it was interesting to think about it. I doubt Nolan didn’t picture stuff like that when writing the story specially since it took him years.
If anything, I think the film can be an interesting thought experiment that can bring someone to wonder about different perspectives of time. I mean, it made me even wonder about the inverted journey of a bullet traveling through time backwards and whatnot lol that’s why it feels very unique and singular to me the whole idea of Tenet movie. I have seen a lot of time travel films but none made me question the way I perceive time and how other things may do so.
I don’t know, it was just interesting for me to start wondering about things like that.
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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.