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Two main Tenet actors: John David Washington (left) and Robert Pattinson Photo: VCG
Director Christopher Nolan’s Hollywood blockbuster Beginning crossed two marks of 100 million on Saturday: 100 million yuan ($ 20 million) at the Chinese mainland box office and $ 100 million internationally.
Nolan’s new reverse-time thriller has sparked a heated discussion among Chinese audiences, with numerous netizens posting their reviews and impressions after seeing the film in theaters.
Although they were only able to watch the evening screenings after work, two Beijing residents decided to support the film on Friday, its first opening day.
Wang Ying, who bought tickets for a 11:30 pm screening, told the Global Times that he needed to catch a plane the next morning, but “I had been looking forward to this movie for a long time and if I didn’t see it on the first day I wouldn’t I slept well “.
Some netizens who said they were going to see the movie pointed to Nolan’s past work as a guarantee of quality.
“I believe in Nolan and he has never let me down. So I bought a ticket for the first day,” wrote a netizen on China Sina Weibo’s Twitter on Thursday.
A poster for the Christopher Nolan movie Tenet on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood on August 19. Photo: AFP
The film’s hashtag had been viewed more than 700 million times as of Sunday afternoon, while the film itself has a 7.9 / 10 on Chinese media review platform Douban of 149,000 reviews, proving its popularity. .
However, like Nolan Start, the new sci-fi thriller has left some audience members wondering what they just saw.
“I think Nolan overestimated my IQ. Although he has said that audiences should feel the film rather than understand it, I felt uncomfortable sitting in the cinema in a stupid state,” commented one netizen in a review of Douban.
Shi Wenxue, a cultural critic and professor at the Beijing Film Academy, commented that Beginning it is more complicated than previous director jobs.
“The reason is that there are not many omens during the first half of the film and the third act reveals too many secrets, which causes confusion in the audience,” he told the Global Times on Sunday.
Compared to Start as much as Interstellar, Shi said he thinks Beginning it provides a better response to the present reality, which is to “protect the present even the future.”
