nor able to sweep up brick dust on the floor for decades because it is “destined” to be reverse-bullet damage that is fixed in the future.
(In the movie, you see them walk into a pre-damaged room that is later ‘repaired’ by the inverted gunfire that caused it)
That’s why everybody in the movie constantly says “Don’t think about it too hard”.
It’s more of an action movie, not some deep cerebral sci-fi. The way it works is an excuse to make some exquisite scenes and is totally worth it.
The whole thing is an exploration of one concept: temporal pincer maneuvers. The entire movie is one, and you have 3 more during the movie (car chase, Freeport, Stalsk).
I feel like the whole movie is just an excuse for them to blow up that one tower from both directions, meaning it only ever existed for a few seconds. That’s peak.
I guess you could say that they pincered the tower though, in which case I agree.
The whole movie was just an excuse for Nolan to run a plane into a building. That shit was real and epic.