Queen’s Gambit with Tenet
May be two weeks ago I watched netflix new buzzed series Queen’s Gambit. Before starting to talk about the movie review, let’s have fun. Btw it’s a spoiler alert. As long as you will start bingeing the full series you will find that it’s a story of an orphan child prodigy with chess playing. She had been taught chess in her boarding school custodian Shaibel. First thing a girl doesn’t know is the chess board’s name but addiction to vitamin creates a trance phase to her from where she had learnt how to play chess. SO IF YOU WANT TO LEARN CHESS START TAKING VITAMINS. That’s the main way to learn chess. You dont need a coach like Shaibel, you only need green vitamins. You will find several times that Beth, the child prodigy, whenever is in stress taking pills to get a trance phase, then suddenly a chess board appears on the ceiling and it starts moving. Sorry this is not a horror movie, but it happens in the series.
I think in the Trump era Americans are in quite a depression because this Republican monger election campaign chant was “Make america great again” but it did not happen. So what to do? Make a movie where you will show a Kentucky american girl is beating russian best chess Borgov, in Moscow. Beth lost to Borgov several times in the USA, but it did not create any drama/ spill american’s blood, so what to do, beat the bastard Russians in Russia. That’s how America became great again. And all salutations to Trump.
If you are a physicist and think that Space-Time is prosperity explained by Einstein, then you are quite wrong. I am pretty sure without taking any pill like Beth in Queens Gambit, Nolan brothers regularly do plan-chat with famous physicists like Einstein, Feynman, Dirac and as they teach this brothers core science literacy. After the end of each session these brothers are assigned a coursework project. The Nolan brothers start making movies. So TIME is not only defined by Einstein it is also defined by Nolans. This is what happened in TENET. In INCEPTION Chris Nolan showed how an infinite for loop of dreams work, here he tried to show how the infinite for loop of TIME works.
But I think there is special physics that should be talk about seriously HOW HUMAN BACKWARD MOTION CAN BE CAPTURED IN SUCH A WAY IF THE HUMAN IS MOVING FORWARD OR BACKWARD? To me this is the main challenge in the special effects. I think Chris Nolan totally failed here. In TENET, every time a backward movement starts, humans/cars start to move backward for a few seconds, after a few seconds objects are moving forward. When I was watching this types of shots, I was both amazed and frustrated. It seems like Nolan somehow failed to continue the backward motion. Then I was thinking how it can be checked? One way should be to move around, not the objects. If Nolan could have been able to create relative forward motion in the surroundings, then it would seem that the humans/ cars are moving backwards. Lets create an analogy- when you are traveling by a train, you are boarding near to a window, you will find the surroundings are moving backwards. Now imagine two trains are moving in opposite directions, you will feel that the next train near to you is moving back. If Nolan could think wisely he would be able to shoot in moving trolleys in opposite directions, then he would be able to give the audience a long time of relativistic feelings.
