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r/tenet • … • u/mercrazzle

My one question with inverted objects

When you pull an inverted bullet out of the wall, and you clean up the bullet hole that was already there from your perspective, the bullet hole I the wall is a bit weird.

Let's say I go to a shooting range and set up a target, and then later that day someone pulls an inverted bullet out of it, at what point does the bullet hole appear the in the target?

Is it just there from the manufacture of the target? It can't be because only the bullet is moving backwards through time, not the target.

From the bullet's perspective, its chilling and then shot into a target and leaves a hole. But the target has a different perspective.

Now they try to explain in the film that cause and effect are only our perception of linear travel through time. So is it that this, combined with "what happened happens" (or what "happened happened" not 100% sure on the line) means that yes, there is a weird inverted wound in the target, that is destined to exist on the target for the rest of the past, right back to its manufacture?

If this is true, and there are a lot of inverted objects and bullets, then the world should fall apart from the reverse propagation of scarring from interaction with inverted objects in any way.

Think about how many objects are going to be inverted in all of the future... and every single one that dents something, scratches it, or recolours it, or moves it, has to have happened from a forward perspective as having always been that way, but the cause (the inverted object interactio ) not happening yet.

The building of a complex object is impossible, because it is already destroyed from the forward perspective, before it is even built, and the destruction hasn't happened yet to be seen happening backwards.

Imo this is the only real paradox and plot hole.

When people invert, then they uninvert and they fix their own interactions because it all happens simultaneously. Like if you inverted and moved a chair, then you would have to have moved it back before you inverted, or after you uninvert. But with the scarring from an object, they never uninvert and fix their own loops

Am I understanding it wrong, or does that not make sense. Also just interested to hear people's takes on the bullet holes

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