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)
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.