Two Hours I’ll Never Get Back’: Tenet Didn’t Like…Christopher Nolan’s Gym Coach! And the Principal Learned It in Middle Class

Even if Oppenheimer’s recent success suggests otherwise, Christopher Nolan doesn’t just have friends among his moviegoers. So while he was suffering in front of a sports coaching video, the host attacked one of his movies.

Invited on stage to win the best director award New York Film Critics CircleChristopher Nolan told this embarrassing anecdote:

I (…) was doing HIIT. I was dying and the instructor started talking about one of my movies and said, “Has anyone seen it? Because these are two hours of my life that I will never get back.

The internet being the internet, this coach named Jen Sherman’s speech has resurfaced on the internet. We can hear him say this (eg THR):

“This song is from the soundtrack to a movie called Tenet. Has anyone seen this shit? Am I the only one? Because someone needs to explain it to me. I need a book. I’m not kidding, but what the hell was going on in that movie? You know? Seriously, you’d have to be a neuroscientist to understand. And I I want these two and a half hours of my life.”

Here is an excerpt from his speech:

Christopher Nolan ends the anecdote with a humorous tone, but then returns to something more serious: “When Rex Reed raves about your movie, he’s not asking you to practice! In today’s world where everyone can express their opinion, there’s an idea that film criticism is democratized. But for me, “criticizing movies shouldn’t be instinct. But the profession.”

Like the director of Inception, do you think film criticism should be reserved for professionals? Or that everyone should keep their opinion to others without showing it on social networks? Your keyboards!