A graduate in English literature from University College London, Nolan excels in creating twists-studded complex stories, impressing viewers with his talent in making personal, distinctive films within the Hollywood mainstream.
Tenet, which Nolan began conceiving around 20 years ago, is actually a story visualizing the lapse of time in an unprecedented, special effects-studded way. The story is about a secret agent who embarks on a dangerous, time-bending mission to prevent the start of World War III.
根据牛津词典，Tenet的定义是：
one of the principles or beliefs that a theory or larger set of beliefs is based on
一套理论或信仰的思想基础
简单而言就是“信条”或“原则”。
仔细观察，tenet 是一个“正过来、倒过去”都一样的单词。正序、逆序皆为其本身。
语言学家把这种现象称为“回文”（ palindrome）。
Palindrome/pælɪndrəʊm/一词来自于拉丁语palin dromo，即“running back again”。
The grandfather paradox
The name comes from the idea that if a person travels to a time before his grandfather had children, and kills the grandfather, it would make his own birth impossible. So, if time travel is possible, it somehow must avoid such a contradiction.
这个理论探讨的是：如果一个人穿越到过去，在自己的祖父生儿育女前杀死祖父，那么他自己是不是就不可能出生了？所以，如果时间旅行有可能发生，那必须以某种方式避免这样的情况发生。
"Every law of physics is symmetrical — it can run forwards or backwards in time and be the same — except for entropy." “每条物理定律都是对称的，它们在时间向前和向后流逝的情况下是完全相同的，但熵除外。”
Entropy is the degree of disorder in a system. 按照物理学定义，熵是体系混乱程度的度量。
Nolan explains that in the film the entropy-related theory is that "if you could invert the flow of entropy for an object, you could reverse the flow of time for that object, so the story is grounded in credible physics." 而在影片中，与熵相关的理论被诺兰设定为：“如果你能逆转一个物体的熵流，你就能逆转这个物体的时间流，所以这个故事是基于可靠的物理学原理的。”
"Don't try to understand it. Feel it." “不要试图去理解它，去感受它！”
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