Conflagration, Catastrophe and Christopher Nolan (work in progress)

Conflagration, Catastrophe and Christopher Nolan

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30 June

Conflagration, Catastrophe and Christopher Nolan (work in progress)

Prescient conflagrations and the possibility of Earth-shattering catastrophe were foregrounded preoccupations of TENET (2020), so it seems likely that Christopher Nolan's preserved them in #Oppenheimer... pic.twitter.com/9h2LA7ElWo

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Having soon recognized that Nolan's (ahem !) central conceit is part of, well, revolving his usual interest in cause and effect, the impetus to consider 'but for' (or 'what if') and how guilt arises, the idea of constructing a square of one's own became inviting.#UCFF offers... pic.twitter.com/Ek8f3CWoCQ

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² From Wiki :

The word AREPO is a 'hapax legomenon' (i.e. it appears nowhere else in Latin literature).

Some academics believe it is likely a proper name or potentially a theophoric name, that was adapted from a non-Latin word or was invented specifically for the Sator square.

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 1, 2023

All 'the best' word-squares, so #UCFF is told, rely on using trade-names and the like... pic.twitter.com/rSR4ffv4bA

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TENET (2020) Reloaded : Is Nolan's film a full-on Blakeian prophecy - so impenetrable that we miss the light between the trees ?

TENET (2020) Reloaded : Is Nolan's film a full-on, so impenetrable, Blakeian prophecy... ?

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2 November

TENET (2020) Reloaded : Is Nolan's film a full-on Blakeian prophecy - so impenetrable that we miss the light between the trees ?

'For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction'

- head on meets -

'Do not say

'"I will do to him as he has done to me ; I will pay the man back for what he has done"' pic.twitter.com/wmW7H8fPCg

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 1, 2022

It's 'intriguing' that The Telegraph appears, um, to be making literal capital from alleging - in the shock-tactic mode of 'revealing' stuff *and* a nick-name ! - summat to do with flights by the European Commission's President :https://t.co/VEQS56oFDr#KatharinaBlumWasNoLie !

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 3, 2021

It's intriguing, because *this* - which anyone could have said, any time [as it didn't really need a Werner Tötges on the case] - is apparently 'revealed' hypocrisy, but cute little #Shove, etc. or even banker Mirage are fine ? :https://t.co/LDLMatExbIhttps://t.co/osT5G0cs1T

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 3, 2021

Yes - we saw Biden with eyes closed. But we only saw Johnson animated.

— Dominic Minghella (@DMinghella) November 2, 2021

Other way around ?

His interests are only their interests, as that rag-doll of a puppy-idiot suits them as well as it suits him, and make him 'happy' and 'fun' :

If we mistake cause for effect, we miss that it's pretty Nietzschean [Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ ?].

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 3, 2021

Musing, as I am now (a year on frm Tenet (2020)), and finally seeing much that Nolan submerged in it (a good film ?) - with his use of the palindrome in the Sator / Rotas word-square, and with Sator (played by Branagh), pressing a button à la Strangelove to end all Strangeloves : https://t.co/RBPk3JPree

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As with Brecht's Arturo Ui, or Frisch in Biedermann und die Brandstifter (and the latter's chilling Epilogue, from the 1960 revision), it's working that saying about history as a reversal of time (and referencing Cher's song in writing my response) :

* https://t.co/5eTfbZMhq1. pic.twitter.com/5sdNgKnQJL

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 3, 2021

yeah, but back then it was THE ONLY FILM

— Anton Bitel (@AntBit) September 11, 2022

I really meant 'Sator / Rotas word-square', as - looking into it* - it seems that it had 'started its life' / had predecessor versions in which 'Rotas' was the first line (and 'Sator' the last), not vice versa.

Of interest to 'Paul is dead' theorists ?

* Albeit not minutely... pic.twitter.com/mHhCPZqIrx

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I don't think that Schrader means it that way anyway / either way ?

Kill Bill Vol. 1 would be far, far worse for patients' sense of well-being, etc. !#ComaScene

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 11, 2022

Ah, but Schrader was in hospital, and Tenet's run-time is c. 2½h ?

I have :

(a) Re-thought it loads since my review in 2020,

(b) Read the screenplay [first spotted at NFT shop¹], and

(c) Re-watched it.

¹ I didn't need or want to pay a x2½ uplift on cover-price (= £25²) !

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 11, 2022

² No least as, where one would expect to find cast, crew and technical info (which IMDb often does so poorly), there's none - instead, it's bulked out with storyboards, fitted two per page in a portrait page-format, when, if included at all, they need landscape and one per page.

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