The vibe is different. It wants to say different things are cool but its still wants to ingore things like Miami Vice did and was critised from when it came out.
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The importance of plot vs “vibes” or whatever other elements depends on the context of the work but I do think a lot of modern audiences focus too much on plot. Lots of twitter/tik tok personalities make content about interesting works but focus on “plot holes” or how they think something didn’t make sense and it’s a bummer to go into a work of art and come out with that narrow response, and I feel bad for them. Overall if a work contains paradoxes and conflicts with itself, if it’s a rich and well crafted work as a whole, sitting with the challenges of those perceived inconsistencies is an important part of the experience and being an engaged audience. That is a different thing than an artist who made something bad and produced a scattered and confused work, but I think some people assume something that they didn’t respond to well in the moment is indicative of the latter, when may be an instance of the former.
Plus the nudity, the intensity of the scene, etc. stand in contrast to the elite academia and theoretical jostling we’ve seen so far. Yes, he is in fact a human man and all these important discoveries and decisions are inherently tied to corporal, carnal bodies…something that haunts him later.
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Plot is overrated. I can watch a whole film about Sam Wilson trying to get a bank loan. Characters > plot. (I love plot too, but it's better if you have Characters, with a capital C) ((I know that's not the argument, but I just want to be a part of this conversation. ))
There are plot-heavy films and non-plot heavy films. They are trying to do very different things, so it would be like criticizing a drama for not being a comedy. However, that feels like it is being retroactively applied to Tenet. It is a plot-heavy film. The logic of the time travel thing does not really work but you can just ignore it.
You latch on to watching backwards time fights. If you don't want to watch those your In the wrong place. It's the only movie ever with them.
Listen, you have to approach it where it lives. And it lives in a world where a super-powered national military hero would still be subjected to the same petty bigotry as anyone else. By "it" I mean the plot, not Sam.
When you look back at your favorite moments from shows or movies, it is usually the character moments that resonate. Plots come and go.
And the plot moments that to stick out as the first thing I remember are all from deeply flawed shows like LOST and Game of Thrones.
I think of Friday Night Lights as a prime example. There are some really dumb plot developments, but those characters are so endearing that you can make it through it.