Are there two Kats at the end of Tenet?

(Image credit: Warner Bros.) Yes, there are two versions of Kat for a moment. There’s the “past” Kat – the one who we see approaching the boat and who will go on to live the events of the movie. “Future” Kat is the one who kills Sator and who goes off with Sator’s body and Himesh Patel’s Mahi.

Is Kat’s son Neil?

Neil is Kat’s son That all comes down to time inversion, naturally. Max eventually grows up and meets John David Washington’s The Protagonist in the future. There, the now-older Protagonist – who founded the Tenet group – makes Max invert and head back in time to before the Protagonist does opera heist.

What is the science behind the movie Tenet?

Tenet’s central idea of people and objects having their time inverted is based on a theory by physicists Richard Feynman and John Wheeler. Moving backwards through time it could co-exist alongside its former self, or even collide with itself. Tenet wisely doesn’t get too bogged down in explaining all of this.

Are Neil and Max the same person?

At the end of the movie, Neil reveals to The Protagonist (John David Washington) that from his perspective, the two of them have known each other for years, even though as far as The Protagonist knows, they’ve just met. Which makes a lot of sense, if it turns out that Neil is actually Max.

Why does the protagonist not have a name in Tenet?

Washington arrives with no backstory, no deeper motivation, and experiences no personal journey in Tenet, other than saving the world. Naming him simply “The Protagonist” fits this general idea of a non-specific hero. This concept works from an in-universe perspective too.

Why did Neil go back Tenet?

During the temporal pincer movement battle of the film, Neil goes back through the turnstile in order to help the red team, before inverting himself again to help out the blue team and keep moving forward through time to finish this loop of his story.

Are Max and Neil the same person Tenet?

How do reverse bullets work Tenet?

As Clémence Poésy’s character explains early in the film, catching a reverse bullet only happens because you willed it. A reverse bullet hole is only “caught” (or “fired” in reverse) if the person handling the gun makes themselves catch or fire it. This is where the film’s title, Tenet, comes into play.

What is reverse entropy tenet?

Entropy out of the way, Tenet also deals with a concept of ‘inversion’, which an Empire article explains as: “Inversion is a process whereby an object (or person) has its entropy reversed, essentially flipping its chronology so that from that point on it travels backwards in time instead of forwards.”