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Abstract

Time is a complicated object of study because understanding time is closely related to periodization, history, and memory. Film is a medium for presenting manifestations of motion and time in visual products that can be captured by human senses. Tenet (2020) is a film that displays temporal dimensions in terms of both creative ideas and packaging through its cinematography and narrative structure. Tenet presents the idea of overlapping time consciousness of the past, present, and future. A revolving door machine in the film is used to signify the paradox of determinism or the condition of characters suffocated in a time loop. The form of aporia or deterministic indecision experienced by those characters reflects the dialogue of human consciousness on the temporal dimension. Tenet presents a debate on two human perspectives on or attitudes towards time, namely the modern and the postmodern, which are represented by the protagonist and Sator. From a more ideological standpoint, the film is full of ambivalences when presenting the dialogues and human attitudes towards time. This is in line with the perspective of metamodernism, namely a continuous pursue of the impossible. All of the actions taken by the protagonist and Sator will eventually prove to be impossible because they are trapped in an endless time loop

Bahasa Abstract

Waktu merupakan sebuah objek kaji dengan tingkat kompleksitas yang rumit, memahami waktu merupakan pembahasan perihal periodisasi, sejarah, dan memori. Film menjadi sebuah medium manifestasi gerak dan waktu dalam produk visual hingga tertangkap indera manusia. Tenet (2020) mengolah dimensi temporal melalui aspek sinematografi dan struktur naratifnya, baik dalam gagasan maupun kemasan. Tenet menghadirkan gagasan kesadaran waktu yang tumpang tindih dari masa lalu, masa kini, dan masa sekarang. Sebuah mesin pintu putar dalam Tenet digunakan sebagai signifikansi hadirnya paradoks determinisme atau kondisi tercekik dalam lingkaran waktu yang kontinu. Bentuk aporia atau kebimbangan deterministik yang dialami tokoh dalam Tenet merefleksikan dialog kesadaran manusia atas dimensi waktu. Tenet menyajikan perdebatan dua perspektif sikap manusia terhadap waktu, yakni perspektif manusia yang modern dan postmodern, direpresentasikan melalui tokoh Protagonis dan Sator. Dalam tahapan yang lebih ideologis, Tenet menjadi film yang penuh ambivalensi dalam menyajikan dialog perspektif sikap manusia terhadap waktu tersebut. Aspek ambivalensi dalam Tenet berkaitan dengan terminologi dan perspektif metamodenisme, yakni kemustahilan yang terus diusahakan. Segala agenda yang dilakukan oleh tokoh Protagonis dan Sator pada akhirnya akan berakhir pada kemustahilan, hal tersebut dikarenakan mereka telah terjebak dalam sebuah sirkulasi putaran waktu tanpa ujung.

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