#kat tenet

[storm3326]

tenet characters portrait

I wanted to paint them in disco elysium style. failed....still liked the result though!

[oxfordsnotmanners]

i think its incredibly funny that the TENET (2020) fandom is one of the VERY few places where i have seen everyone basically nail right on the head the character dynamics of everyone involved.

i have seen very little mischaracterization/oversimplification despite TENET being such a complicated movie, and hilariously enough i believe 90% of the reason why it doesn’t suffer the same threat of mischaracterization as other medias is because everyone had to watch it at least twice to properly understand what the hell was going on.

and yes it does include the main ship (protagoneil). impressive lack of mischaracterization. everyone understands the assignment and the yearning to an IMPRESSIVE degree. other ships ive seen less of but generally have the same amount of consistency as well

[francoise-givenchy-romanova]

I think that President Snow had a wife like Kat Sator from the movie "Tenet". She's from a noble family, quiet, and focused on her own affairs, not interfering in her husband's business. However, she would eventually develop a hatred for him. Although, perhaps due to their shared child, she wouldn't leave. Alternatively, she could be like Katherine, but part of the system, and she wouldn't feel like she was living with true evil.

[beauspot]

ok so years after it came out I finally watched Tenet. and i’m confused…but it was good.

i had no idea what to expect from this movie except “ooh movie go forward and in reverse oooooo” i also knew people shitted on it a lot because the plot wasn’t super clear. through all of this I never heard the meaning of this movie. or what it was about.

Tenet (i’m assuming everyone who’s seeing this post has seen the movie but just in case) is a science fiction story about reverse entropy and a dying man who can’t let go of his control to the point he is willing to take the world out if he can’t be there. A story about destiny and fate and choice and meaning. All of that is what Tenet is about. But at its center

Tenet is a love story

Not between The Protagonist and Kat.

Between The Protagonist and Neil

Now THREE THINGS WE NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE FIRST:

1. I am still not entirely certain of the plot but I will be rewatching this movie because I think it was fun and the people were hot.

2. Neil is not Max. I know this is a popular theory and at first I thought it made sense since Rob dyed his hair for the role specifically and we don’t learn his past, only The Protagonist’s, but Nolan said they dropped that plotline because the timeline didn’t make sense.

3. You can view The Protagonist and Neil’s relationship as a platonic one or a romantic one my point still stands.

The surface level viewing of this movie gives you the impression that nothing matters and choice is a fallacy, what’s happened happened and there’s nothing you can do about it. But looking even a fraction deeper you realize the choices of the characters directly cause the events of the movie.

Sator is forced to live around radioactive materials in Kiev because of a neglectful government, that causes his cancer. His cancer leads him to begin communicating with the future and allows the past to invert which leads him to choosing omnicide but also directly leads to Tenet being able to stop him. His abuse leads to his death. Most importantly Neil’s death leads to The Protagonist’s life being saved which leads to The Protagonist finding Neil which cultivates the greatest relationship of either of their lives.

The most tragic part about all of this is that only in the final moments of their time together do they truly have all the pieces of their relationship laid out in front of them. The majority of the time spent with one another is with one of them not knowing their history and they’re stuck in this loop.

Our Neil dies at the end of the movie but we’re following The Protagonist. He will end up in the past, Neil’s past and at the end of their story Neil will be sent back to meet The Protagonist and so on and so on forever. And you can see the exact moment The Protagonist realizes this. That he’ll know Neil but Neil won’t know him, not really. Not for years.

We can see how immediately drawn to Neil The Protagonist is. He’s an undercover agent who very likely doesn’t trust anyone he hasn’t known for a long time but this is his face during his first meeting with Neil.

WE know why Neil is being friendly and why he stares at The Protagonist the way he does but he doesn’t. Why is he so immediately comfortable with Neil?

From the moment they meet to the final battle The Protagonist is so emotionally affected by Neil’s impending death that he considers putting the world in danger to try and save his life. He doesn’t see the point in Neil dying, and when Neil tells him that it’s just “what happened” The Protagonist doesn’t see why he should care about anything at all if every decision has already been made.

Until Neil explains to him that just because their future self has already made the decision for them, just because the path is laid out, doesn’t mean what they do doesn’t matter. Neil’s life saved everything, that matters (this one lesson goes on to affect how The Protagonist forms and runs Tenet). The Protagonist understands that yet he still wants to save Neil.

But at the end, all he can do is let Neil go. Continue moving forward.

Because there is a past for Neil. And a future for them.

*just a cute gif i wanted to include of The Protagonist staring at Neil like a day after they met.(idk how long a timeframe the movie takes place over)*

[silverbird2005]

“I'm not the woman who could find love for you even though you scarred her on the inside. I'm the vengeful bitch you scarred on the outside.”

Tenet, dir. Cristopher Nolan (2020)

[tenetism]

one of the things that really surprised me coming onto here and ao3 is that kat and the protagonist’s friendship is so underrated? i loved their dynamic so much and if only there were more au type of fics for this fandom i just know they’d be the best duo...they seem to understand each other without saying too much to each other and they definitely care a lot, we know the protagonist is generally willing to do whatever it takes to keep anyone safe from harm but i think kat being at the other end of this could definitely mean them becoming better friends! and of course there’s the wlw mlm solidarity because kat is definitely sapphic in some form....

[syphassister]

In Tenet Kat talks about how she’s jealous of the woman, jealous of her freedom, who she saw jumped of the yacht but at the end SHE is that woman and I’m crying in my bed thinking of only this

[xenolinguistics-department]

elizabeth debicki in hd am I right