Tenet (2020)
Action / Science Fiction | 2h 30m
9/10
Bechdel: Failed
Said 3×
every 50 minutes
on average
3 different characters
say the title
Fay
first to say it
Priya
last to say it
Fay & Protagonist & Priya
most drops (1×)
The Title Drops
3 spoken-title moments across the runtime — click a marker to jump to it
Fay
00:10:34
Everyone's. There's a cold war, cold as ice. To even know its true nature is to lose. This is knowledge divided. All I have for you is a gesture in combination with a word. "Tenet." Use it carefully. It'll open the right doors, but some of the wrong ones, too.
Protagonist
00:13:12
An obscure tenet.
Priya
01:50:56
Fighting fire with fire's a treacherous business. But there are some people, in the future, who want to continue the algorithm's journey into the past. You see... Tenet wasn't founded in the past. It will be founded in the future.
The Scorecard
My take, and how it fares on the Bechdel Test
My Rating
9/10
“Definitely not my favorite Nolan film, but it was pretty fuckin' cool!”
Just my two cents — one movie lover to another.
Bechdel Test
Two women with names?
They talk to each other?
About something besides a man?
TEST FAILED
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