SinceMemento, Nolans filmmaking has changed a lot.

Hes gone from making small-scale, low-budget thrillers to helming mega-scale,big-budget blockbusters.

But he set the stage for the latter with one of the earliest directorial choices of his career.

Split image of Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, John David Washington in Tenet, and Guy Pearce in Memento

20 years later,Nolan expanded that reverse-filming experiment into his spy-fi epicTenet.

InTenet, a ton of different scenes are played in reverse.

At the end of the film, these two timelines converge to bring the story together.

An SR custom image showing Robert Pattinson and John David Washington in Tenet, with imagery of a clock behind them

Nolan continued to experiment with the passage of time in almost all of his subsequent movies.

IfMementoseemed complicated, that was just the tip of the iceberg.

InInception, time moves slower and slower in each successive dream level.

Christopher Nolan smiling in front of a poster for Inception

Christopher Nolan landed his first Academy Award for Best Director forOppenheimer.

Dunkirksimultaneously chronicles a week on the land, a day at sea, and an hour in the air.

The one thing he can remember is murder of his wife, for which he wishes to exact revenge.

Guy Pearce from Memento

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The Protagonist wears an oxygen mask in Tenet

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Christopher Nolan’s Memento is a psychological thriller that tells the story of Leonard, a former insurance investigator who suffers from a disease that prevents his brain from storing short-term memories. The one thing he can remember is murder of his wife, for which he wishes to exact revenge. Starring Guy Pearce and Carrie-Anne Moss, the movie was released in 2000 to widespread acclaim, launching the director’s successful Hollywood career.

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