During an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Christopher Nolan addressed critiques of his 2020 film, Tenet, for being too complicated to follow. When Colbert asked whether viewers need to understand Nolan’s films or if they can simply experience them, the filmmaker responded that experiencing the film is getting it. He emphasized that his films are meant to be experiences, not puzzles to be unpacked, and that frustration with his narratives may stem from missing the point.
Nolan explained that Tenet is not entirely comprehensible, and likened it to the spinning top at the end of Inception. The point of the ambiguity, he argued, is that the character doesn’t care if the top falls or not. Nolan stressed that experiencing Tenet as an unbroken period is crucial, whether in a movie theater or at home.
Tenet received a four-star review from Nick Levine at NME, who characterized it as challenging, ambitious, and genuinely original. Levine applauded the film’s compelling performances and visual stunningness, and declared Nolan the master of cerebral blockbusters. Oppenheimer, Nolan’s forthcoming film, was recently praised as his best work to date, according to NME, which awarded it a glowing five-star review.
For years, Nolan has been honing the art of the serious blockbuster, crafting intelligent, finely-tuned multiplex epics that command attention and demand to be seen in a cinema, uninterrupted and undistracted. Oppenheimer represents a monumental achievement in grown-up filmmaking, a definitive account of the man behind the atom bomb
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