History Fridge / Tenet

* Inverted cars probably shouldn't work: they need outside air in the same way a person does. Moving normal air through an engine properly, and whether it would react with inverted gasoline, means an inverted car doesn't work without major modifications, if it could be made to work at all. The explosion at the end of the chase has the same issue, it is inverted gas burning with normal air. Battery powered cars would work, however, since the battery is entirely contained in the car. If only it took place a decade later...

* Inverted cars probably shouldn't work: they need outside air in the same way a person does, and if the gasoline is inverted, whether inverted fuel would burn in normal air is questionable. The explosion at the end of the chase has the same issue, it is inverted gas burning with normal air. Battery powered cars would work, however, since the battery is entirely contained in the car. If only it took place a decade later...

* Inverted cars probably shouldn't work: they need outside air in the same way a person does, or the engine would have to work somehow with fire burning in reverse from normal gas and air in an inverted engine. Setting the gas from the car on fire might also not work for the same reason, it is inverted gas burning with normal air. (Some other parts of the car chase may be iffy, but this troper's knowledge of the cars in question is thin due to not driving much.) Battery powered cars would work, however, since the battery is entirely contained in the car. If only it took place a decade later...

** In the airport scene where the Protagonist has a bare-knuckle fight against an inverted faceless goon who is later revealed to be himself, the "main" one (who at the time didn't know he would meet himself) is very lucky he didn't tear his opponent's jumpsuit or ripped his mask, which would have caused a skin-to-skin contact between two versions of the same person, not only prematuraly killing the Protagonist(s) and Neil, but also annihilating a civilian airport and all the workers and travellers inside it.

** Rotas is the freeport company used to hide the first turnstile the Protagonist encounters ("rotas" refers to rotation or turning things around).

** We don't see inverted cars, do we? Just inverted people driving non-inverted ones.

** The antagonist is named Sator ("SATOR" means "seeder" or "founder"; he's the one who kicks off the plot)
** The forger is named Arepo (no meaning has been given to this word; but if we were to consider "Opera's" meaning, in the context of the film Arepo would be a "creator/laborer of false works")
** Tenet is at the core of the film ("tenet" means a principle that one believes in)
** The first action sequence is at a Kiev opera house ("opera" means "work" or "labor")
** Rotas is the freeport company used to hide the first turnstile the Protagonist encounters ("rotas" refers to rotation or turning things around)