{"id":4492,"date":"2025-10-01T18:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leobard.net\/blog\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2025-10-05T08:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T08:33:48","slug":"my-tenet-interpretation-future-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leobard.net\/blog\/2025\/10\/01\/my-tenet-interpretation-future-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"My “Tenet” interpretation: instead of war, the future is peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Have you seen the Christopher Nolan movie “Tenet<\/strong>” from 2020<\/a>? I did. After a couple of days, I realized that main elements in the movie are distractions. Beneath the lies, I found a positive story about nuclear disarming leading to world peace. This changed my thinking about planning the future and acting in the present. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spoiler Alert: <\/strong>Please do your future self a favor and use this text in the following order:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. watch Tenet<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. watch Tenet again<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. combine all clues in the movie and write your own answers to below questions<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. then read this post<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    My main questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. How is the Tenet organization financed?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Who built the turnstiles?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. What does “inverted entropy” mean in the real world?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. What is the “Algorithm” and what is it for?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. What does this mean for me?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

      I repeat the spoiler alert:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      I saw it once, I saw it twice,
      time folds in shadows, not in ice.
      Forward I drift, yet backward I steer,
      I found an answer\u2014
      read it here.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

      How is the Tenet organization financed?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      “Well, that part is a little dramatic.”
      Neil<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

      The Norskfreight plane crashing into the freeport is described by Neil and Mahir to the Protagonist as way to trigger the fire alarm to turn off the locks in the freeport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Dropping multiple tons of gold on the runway is described as distraction<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But there is more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      “With a hi-viz vest and a clipboard, you can get almost anywhere.”
      Barbara<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      “Swift extradition, then lost in the system. It\u2019ll barely make the news.”
      Mahir<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

      For Tenet agents and Rotas goons, it is possible to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      1. Place agents in the crowd of hi-viz vest people to pick up the gold on the runway.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Bring it into the freeport that is just a couple of meters away.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Transport it through the turnstile back in time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. Hide it inverted in the freeport in the past, as it will completly disappear without trace from police investigation in the future.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      5. Distribute it from Oslo to other freeports in the past.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      6. Anytime in the past, transport it through the turnstiles, and have normal gold that was stolen from the future, to pay Tenet’s expenses.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        That said, Mahir and Neil do not depend on a state entity to finance Tenet. This leads to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n