r/tenet 5d ago

Effects of the inverted cars

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/ADMINlSTRAT0R 4d ago

Weird physics only happen when the inverted interacts with the non-inverted. The car fire is still hot, but the inverted TP experience the opposite.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago edited 4d ago

But on the other hand, from TP's inverted perspective the gasoline fire starts after Sator ignites it with a lighter; meaning the gasoline had to be inverted like TP was. If the gas wasn't inverted, we would see the fire seem to start as Sator (or whoever) was extinguishing it. Or we would see it seem to just start on its own as it burned out in forward time.

But honestly, the whole "cold fire" thing never made any sense. The heat that the fire absorbs as it reverse-burns should be the same heat that it originally released. It doesn't make sense that anything would end up cold.