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How ‘Tenet’ Helps Explain ‘Oppenheimer’
'Tenet,' released amidst COVID and lost to time, set the stage for the Oscar favorite
From its inception (as it were), “Tenet” seemed like the culmination of a vision: The movie takes among the key concerns of Nolan’s work across his career — time, and the desire to exert control out of it — makes it text, then bolds and underlines it. And yet, unlike “Oppenheimer,” which has the juice to thrive on a home viewing on the strength of its characters’ emotional journeys, “Tenet” really only makes sense as a blowout, big-screen blitz; its most potent conceits are about how to represent things in the flashiest, brightest, most exciting manner. The latter film is being celebrated for bringing audiences back to theaters post-COVID, especially through its much-vaunted box office battle with “Barbie.” The former, in the midst of high COVID, was competing with staying at home and streaming, and lost.
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