For Those of You Preparing Your TENET Reviews... (Patreon)

Since I was booted from Twitter, you, my loyal subscriber base, get to enjoy / tolerate the sort of things that probably would have been offhanded tweets of mine back in the day.

But seriously, I would expect that once the discussion of Tenet begins in earnest, there will be (or ought to be) some acknowledgment that the conceit of reversed-time refers directly to the cinema itself, in particular cinema's impact on modernity and our sense of time's plasticity. Entire philosophical notions of temporality -- divergent timelines, the quantification of the "present" as ever-diminishing microseconds of measurable fragments, and of course the question of time as potentially reversible -- have been indelibly marked by the advent of cinema.

And when one considers Christopher Nolan's insistence on celluloid as a fundamental element of his aesthetic project, going back to the Lumieres seems only natural. Let the think-pieces begin.