{"id":10915,"date":"2020-09-04T10:15:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=10915"},"modified":"2020-09-04T10:59:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:59:06","slug":"movie-review-did-tenet-break-matts-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/morning-show\/2020\/09\/movie-review-did-tenet-break-matts-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: Did TENET Break Matt&#8217;s Brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Hey gang, Matt here &#8211; with some advice for if you\u2019re venturing back<br \/>\nto the movie Theater &#8211; if you&#8217;re going to see the new Christopher Nolan<br \/>\nmovie,Tenet.. You may want to go EARLY for the matinee, or you may<br \/>\nbe up late with a busy-brain.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L3pk_TBkihU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><br \/>\n<\/b><b><br \/>\nI say this because this movie throws a lot at you : The time reversal-<br \/>\nmechanics, the physics and all the implications that go with them &#8211;<br \/>\nget thrown at you in this\u00a0<\/b><b>High action, high octane thriller, will play<br \/>\nyour mind like a Rubix cube for <\/b><b>many hours after\u00a0 you&#8217;ve left the theater.<br \/>\nYour night-brain will be throwing\u00a0<\/b><b>revelations at you all night long from<br \/>\nthe experience.<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>Now either my brain is out of shape, or all that forwards and backwards<br \/>\nthroughtime mechanics were a little confusing\u2026 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Basically &#8211; ITS A MIND BENDY ACTION MOVIE.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F887470852&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=900&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nSo, let\u2019s just try and paint in broad strokes without spoilers..<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>In Tenet &#8211; you\u2019ve got this threatening technology from the future<br \/>\nwhich\u00a0<\/b><b>allows objects and people( and anything that goes into the<br \/>\n<\/b><b>turnstile thing)to get irradiated with some mysterious tech that<br \/>\nreverses its entropy &#8211; to move backwards through time\u00a0<\/b><b>instead of forwards.<br \/>\nBasically you switch the direction of your own flow.<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>Still with me?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Good!<br \/>\nFor example: You pick up a gun and the bullet goes out of the wall and<br \/>\ninto the gun.\u00a0<\/b><b>To the observer moving forwards through time normally &#8211;<br \/>\nlike you and me,\u00a0<\/b><b>somebody moving through time from the future-to-<br \/>\npast would appear to move and speak backwards.. And vice versa.<br \/>\nAnd if you can mentally navigate that, then you can outwit either side.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a neat idea and it certainly looked surreal on film..<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>HAVING SAID THAT &#8211;\u00a0 TRY GOING HOME AND GOING TO BED<br \/>\nAFTER THAT &#8212;\u00a0<\/b><b>Says the guy here that goes down at 8pm, and<br \/>\ngets up at 4am.\u00a0<\/b><b>Your brain will be lit up as you try to go to sleep.<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>I should have known better. It\u2019s a Christopher Nolan movie.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>INCEPTION &#8211; Made me dream about folding city blocks and bendy skyscrapers.<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>iNTERSTELLAR &#8211; Made me dream about an astronaut Matt Damon trying to kill me.<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>DARK KNIGHT &#8211;\u00a0 I had a dream about being Batman\u2026\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>LAST NIGHT? No joke.. I\u00a0 actually had dreams about using the time-<br \/>\nmachine room\u00a0<\/b><b>TO REVERSE TIME SO I COULD GET MORE SLEEP!<br \/>\nALL THANKS TO TENET.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>No kidding.. Forget about the wrecked helicopters swallowing-<br \/>\nfireballs and putting themselves back together and flying away backwards-<br \/>\n&#8211; Hey, I\u2019m sleeping here!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>My great discovery of how to use\u00a0 the Time Reverse Device,<br \/>\nIN MY ACTUAL DREAMS, went like this:<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b><br \/>\nI\u2019d Wake up at 4am &#8211; and then go into the machine and reverse my<br \/>\ntime-entropy, a<\/b><b>nd go right back to bed and watch the clock go<br \/>\nbackwards for a minute, a<\/b><b>nd then sleep from 4am backwards to 1am.<br \/>\nAnd then wake up, go into the\u00a0Time Carousel Thing &#8211; and sleep<br \/>\nforwards from 1am-4am.\u00a0 <\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b><br \/>\nSo, I actually did this all night long. In my dreams, t<\/b><b>hinking that it<br \/>\nwas actually working &#8211; FOR REAL!\u00a0<\/b><b>Yes, my sleep-deprived brain &#8211;<br \/>\nactually fantasized about this IN MY DREAMS..\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>All night long.<br \/>\nSleeping backwards and forwards, and savoring every hour of it.<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>AND if that\u2019s not enough &#8211; I had to tiptoe in my dream-\u00a0 because there<br \/>\nwere multiple versions of myself laying on gurneys, side by side<br \/>\n-All catching up on different\u00a0\u00a0stages of sleep.<br \/>\nThis is what Tenet made me dream of!<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>Meanwhile outside there were mushroom clouds shrinking into<br \/>\nthe ground and freeway pile ups un-crumpling into whole cars driving-<br \/>\nbackwards, and during all of this, going on outside the lab window,<br \/>\nI\u2019m chuckling sleepily and yawning at the alarm clock,and going,<br \/>\n\u201cAre we back to 1 am yet?\u201d<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>Full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3rYMykaNW6s\">neglect<\/a> &#8211; Not Care.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>So, then I woke up for real this morning &#8211; And after all that work, in<br \/>\nmy dreams,\u00a0<\/b><b>NONE IT HAD WORKED. NONE OF IT! <\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>I stood under the shower in shock, thinking over the strange night of dreams.<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>Thanks again to Christopher Nolan and the cast\/crew of Tenet.<br \/>\n<\/b><b>Thanks for that.<br \/>\n<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>Tenet&#8230;Now in Theaters<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>Mask up.\u00a0 Space out\u2026 in your seats and in your mind.<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>9.5\/10<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hey gang, Matt here &#8211; with some advice for if you\u2019re venturing back to the movie Theater &#8211; if you&#8217;re going to see the new Christopher Nolan movie,Tenet.. You may want to go EARLY for the matinee, or you may be up late with a busy-brain. 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