The Charlotte Post Life! THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 SECTION B Hornets launch voter initiative for elections By Ashley Mahoney [email protected] FILE PHOTO The Charlotte Hornets are the latest professional sports franchise to unveil a voting initiative. UNCF’s annual Women Who Lead luncheon will take place Sept. 26 with a virtual format. “Swarm the Polls,” announced by Hornets Sports & Entertainment on Sept. 1, is designed to educate people about the importance of voting, how to prop- erly register, and encourage them to vote. Similar to UNCF’s fundraiser the Carolina Panthers’ “Your Vote Counts” initiative, “Swarm The Polls” targets voters in the Carolinas and creates a specific space on the Hornets’ website with voting resources where people can check their reg- istration status, find a polling place, request an ab- moves to virtual space sentee ballot and use links to register. “Swarm the Polls” extends across the Hornets, By Herbert L. White to www.uncf.org/mawwll. Glenda Baskin Glover, inter- Spectrum Center, the G-League Greensboro Swarm [email protected] The event will also include a vir- national president of Alpha Kappa and the Hornets Venom GT, a digital gaming team. tual HaTitude competition to de- Alpha and Beverly Evans Smith, Sports venues like Spectrum Center, Bank of Amer- The Women Who Lead luncheon termine the fiercest headgear. You national president and CEO of ica Stadium and Bojangles’ Coliseum were approved is a virtual affair. must be registered for the lunch- Delta Sigma Theta. as early voting sites due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The annual UNCF fundraiser is eon and go to www.uncf.org/hati- The luncheon has also added a Mecklenburg County voters can cast ballots at any Sept. 26 and for the first time will tude to participate in the HaTitude virtual shopping mall to support of those sites regardless of their designated polling be an online-only event in re- competition. The deadline to sub- Black-owned businesses selling locations. This is the first time Spectrum Center will sponse to the coronavirus pan- mit photos is Sept. 14. hats, designer masks, jewelry and serve as an early voting site starting Oct. 15-31 from demic. The luncheon will honor leaders Greek paraphernalia as well as art, 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m. weekdays, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sat- Organizers will have a virtual of four historically Black soror- spa services, cosmetics and hand- urdays and 1-5 p.m. on Sundays. The Hornets organ- photo booth on hand so partici- ities: Sarah Catchings-Smith, inter- bags. ization will make details about free parking locations pants will have a chance to be national president of Sigma To shop online: in the future. The Hornets worked with the North dressed from head to toe for a Gamma Rho, Valerie Hollings- http://e.givesmart.com/events/h Carolina State Board of Elections, the South Carolina great cause. worth Baker, international centen- Df/page/UNCFVirtualShopping/ Election Commission and RISE to Vote, a nonpartisan To register for the luncheon, go nial president of Zeta Phi Beta; extension of RISE group focusing on civic engage- ment in professional sports, to create “Swarm the Polls.” Hornets head coach James Borrego will host a free Please see CHARLOTTE |2B Charlotte resident overcomes setbacks to Misinformation become one of nation’s healthiest seniors By Ashley Mahoney working with seniors. I spread could hinder [email protected] really do. It is just so re- Exercise made Dora Tay- warding to hear their lor a stronger and more in- stories and other tes- COVID treatment dependent person. timonies I get from other Four years ago, the Char- seniors, as well as from By Melba Newsome lotte resident had her left Dora herself. It is just a re- NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH NEWS hip replaced, making the warding industry when There is cautious optimism among public health area to Taylor’s calf en- you are working with sen- officials that a vaccine to combat the novel corona- tirely metal. Following sur- iors. We all want to get old virus that has turned the world upside down might gery, she decided on more and still be fit, focused and be available by the end of the year. than the confines of a on this journey of life and A vaccine to combat COVID-19 is the best chance walker and now Taylor is a living independently.” we have to end the pandemic and return to some- 2020 Swanson Award top Working with Andrews thing resembling normal life. But what happens if a 10 finalist as one of the helped Taylor not only re- significant number of people refuse to be immu- healthiest and most active cover from surgery, but nized? seniors in the country. The also Bell’s Palsy, which In an Aug. 14 NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, 71 award is presented an- causes muscle weakness percent of Americans say the coronavirus is a real nually by SilverSneakers, on one side of the face. De- threat but only 35 percent say they won’t get vacci- the nation’s leading com- spite struggling with Bell’s nated. munity fitness program for Palsy, Taylor still went to Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of seniors. class. One of her eyes COURTESY DORA TAYLOR Taylor, popped out of its socket, Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said herd immunity, On The Net Dora Taylor of Charlotte is a finalist for the Swanson Award as the 63, was but the facial exercises she where enough of the population is immune to stem http://silvers- nation’s healthiest senior. the spread of infection, is less likely if only two- nomi- did helped her recover neakers.swan- Patty and she made me feel has been replaced in those thirds of the population were vaccinated. nated by quickly. sonaward.com comfortable, I was able to three places, they may That concern is shared by health officials across her trainer, “It corrected itself within do the exercises,” Taylor need compensation for North Carolina. Family practice physician Lisa Reed, Patty An- two weeks, and my doctors said. “She does modifica- those areas.” said between 5-10 percent of families in Buncombe drews, who were amazed,” Taylor said. tions for those could not Taylor’s bone density, County don’t get routine vaccinations such as those runs Moveit2Loseit-Senior Andrews prioritizes mak- move their full body. She balance and blood sugar against measles. That number has been even higher Fitness (4822 Albemarle ing her clients feel com- made it accessible for me. have improved, and she no during the pandemic. Road LL 315). Voting for fortable with wherever Once I started doing them, longer needs assistance to Reed worries that this vaccine hesitancy in Ashe- the winner ends on Sept. 4. they are in their fitness I became stronger.” do everyday activities. She ville and the surrounding community will be even “I decided I needed better journey. She showed Tay- Said Andrews: “Most sen- has a good bill of health greater for a coronavirus vaccine, resulting in a dra- than I was doing,” Taylor lor modifications to fit iors have shoulder prob- from her doctors and is matic impact on herd immunity. said. “I went from a walker what she needed at that lems, hip problems and/or committed to staying fit. “As a tourist town that relies very heavily on people to a cane, and from a cane time, and they have been knee problems because While COVID-19 has kept coming here to enjoy our mountains and everything to being able to walk by working together since. they have had a shoulder Taylor from a physical stu- else that we have to offer, it is really unfortunate that myself now. I learned a lot “It was hard because you replacement, hip or knee dio, she exercises through we could be a place that isn’t able to offer safety in of things along the way.” are ashamed of the way you move, but once I met replacement. If something online classes. 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LYDIA BITTNER-BAIRD; Artist De’Angelo Dia. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS This July 21, 2014 file photo shows actor Chadwick Boseman posing for a portrait in New York. Boseman, who Dia takes played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown before finding fame as the regal Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, has died of cancer. His representative says Boseman died Aug. 28 in Los Angeles after a four- joy in art of year battle with colon cancer. He was 43. drawing Chadwick Boseman By Ashley Mahoney [email protected] De’Angelo Dia uses art as a way of re- claiming joy. A Goodyear Arts collective artist, he didn’t just play the earned a bachelor’s degree in applied communication and sociology from Ap- palachian State University, master’s in literature from UNC Charlotte and a master’s in divinity from Union Presby- terian Seminary. He is a theologian, writer, performer, poet, and photogra- icons. He was one. pher. His message of social conscience remains the same, but the medium South Carolina-born actor, dead at 43, played several legendary roles changes. Twelve of his large-scale drawings are By Jake Coyle film. He played men who advanced a bean, any country in Africa, in Eu- part of Constellation CLT at the Mint THE ASSOCIATED PRESS people’s progress, a trail he helped rope,” Boseman said. “So you’re see- Museum’s Uptown location, which are blaze himself. He played icons, and ing people from all walks of life that on exhibit through Jan. 2, 2021. Mu- The image that keeps replaying in died one, too. look like you but they sound differ- seums are permitted to reopen at half my head since the death of Chadwick “There’s a lot to learn from Jackie ent.” capacity under North Carolina Gov. Roy Boseman is from early 2018. It was Robinson. There’s a lot to learn from That early development of an ex- Cooper’s Sept. 1 executive order, which just days before “Black Panther” James Brown. There’s a lot to learn pansive, historical understanding of goes into effect Sept. 4 at 5 p.m. and would open in theaters and the exhil- from Thurgood Marshall,” Boseman African American identity surely fed runs through Oct. 2. aration aroused by this long-in-com- said that day two and a half years the grace and humility of Boseman’s Constellation CLT is in its second year ing cultural event was everywhere ago. “I would like to say that some of most famous roles. It wasn’t until he and designed to activate the Mint Mu- around Boseman. Flocked by fans, he those qualities have infused them- was in his mid-30s, after a handful of seum’s public spaces while also con- repeatedly paused for pictures until selves into me at this point.” brief television appearances, that he necting local artists, the institution and he was handed a months-old Black Boseman started out as a landed his first leading role as Rob- museum-goers. Three of Dia’s pieces child whom he gently held, beaming. playwright. He was raised in the inson in “42.” He was, from the start, can be found on the Plaza level, four on Boseman’s family said that the manufacturing town of Anderson, a self-evident movie star with a rare, the second floor, two in the mezzanine, actor, who died Friday at the age of South Carolina, the youngest of three effortless charisma. Rachel Robin- two on the third floor and two on the 43, was first diagnosed with colon boys. As a junior in high school, he son, the Hall of Famer’s widow, said fourth floor. cancer in 2016. Did he know when he wrote and staged a play inspired by it was like seeing her husband again. “It’s him grappling with the systemic held that baby that he might not live the shooting death of a basketball In the hours of shock since the racism that he experiences every day of long enough to see a child of his own teammate. Before he was a Holly- news of Boseman’s death, the story his life in every aspect of his life,” Mint raised? Did he know that in playing wood star, he penned numerous hip- of how Denzel Washington paid for Museum chief curator Jen Sudul Ed- Jackie Robinson, James Brown, Thur- hop-infused plays: “Hieroglyphic Boseman and other Howard students wards said. “There was this urgent so- good Marshall and T’Challa — in so Graffiti,” “Rhyme Deferred,” “Deep to attend a summer theater program cial message attached to it, but also this gracefully filling the screen with the Azure” — and directed others. In at the University of Oxford has been profoundly beautiful craftsmanship. dignity of Black lives — that he was New York, he performed with the Na- much retold. It’s especially fitting be- He’s a beautiful drawer. His ability to helping to cradle another generation? tional Shakespeare Company. cause it, as if by fate, links Boseman combine color is so masterful and again In a tragically brief but historically He compared his alma mater, How- with Washington. Like his long-ago on one hand there’s this really urgent sweeping life as an actor, Boseman ard University, to his own personal benefactor, Boseman exuded sociocultural message where he is cele- played men of public life and private Wakanda. strength and self-possession. When brating different manifestations of Af- pain. Before Friday, we didn’t know “If you have a blanketed idea of he played Robinson and Brown (in rican culture and the African diaspora, he, too, was bearing such a burden. what it means to be of African des- “Get on Up”) and Marshall (in “Mar- Please see DE’ANGELO | 6B That has only magnified his accom- cent and you go to Howard Univer- shall”), Boseman’s power wasn’t plishment, bringing him closer to the sity, you’re meeting people from all asked for or worked up to. It was in- «MOVIE REVIEW great figures whose shoes he wore on over the diaspora — from the Carib- Please see CHADWICK | 6B ‘Tenet’ is a time-bending thriller for Akon moves ahead with ‘Akon City’ By Krista Larson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS bended time DAKAR, Senegal — American R&B By Jake Coyle singer Akon is moving ahead with plans to create a futuristic pan-African THE ASSOCIATED PRESS city, announcing Monday that con- I went in fresh to “Tenet.” I didn’t have struction will begin next year on the $6 any real sense of the plot, yes, but it’s billion project despite global tourism’s more that it had been some five months uncertain future. since I was last in a movie theater. Akon, who first announced his idea That’s a long hiatus — a dark ages for for the utopian city back in 2018, has sitting in the dark — for someone, described it as a “real-life Wakanda,” anyone, used to going to the movies comparing it to the technologically ad- more days than not. The last film I had vanced fictional African place por- seen in a cinema, back in March, was the trayed in the blockbuster film “Black Vin Diesel vehicle “Bloodshot,” so you Panther.” can imagine my eagerness for a new af- On Monday, Akon said he hoped his tertaste. project would provide much needed It’s complicated, in a way, to parse the jobs for Senegalese and also serve as a experience. There’s the feeling of being “home back home” for Black Americans THE ASSOCIATED PRESS back in a movie theater, and then and others facing racial injustices. In this Nov. 14, 2016, file photo, Akon, international music star and co-founder of there’s the sensations particular to “The system back home treats them Akon Lighting Africa, speaks at a news conference at the Climate Conference, “Tenet.” For Christopher Nolan, whose unfairly in so many different ways that known as COP22, in Marrakech, Morocco. American R&B singer Akon is moving films build their conceptual architec- you can never imagine. And they only ahead with plans to create a futuristic pan-African city, announcing Aug. 31 that ture around the metaphysics of movies go through it because they feel that construction will begin next year on the $6 billion project despite global tourism's themselves, it’s kind of one and the there is no other way,” he said. uncertain future. same. His movies are designed, from a “So if you’re coming from America or molecular level, to unlock innate cine- Europe or elsewhere in the diaspora capital where construction has yet to needed, but declined to publicly iden- matic powers and glorify the almighty and you feel that you want to visit Af- begin. tify his investors, citing non-disclosure Big Screen — a lonely god these last few rica, we want Senegal to be your first Tourism Minister Alioune Sarr said agreements. After construction begins months. stop.” Akon’s launch comes at a time when in early 2021, the first phase of the As the first major film released in the- Akon, who was born in the United private investment is scarce and badly project alone could take more than aters since the pandemic began, States to Senegalese parents, spent needed. International flights have re- three years, he said. “Tenet” has swelled in the minds of much of his childhood in the West Af- sumed in Senegal, but at the moment The almost surrealist, water-like de- anxious moviegoers, adopting the role rican country where in only 44 percent are only for citizens and residents with signs of Akon City were inspired by the of savior. Nolan vs. COVID-19 is as of rural households had electricity even a few exceptions. shapes of traditional sculptures long much part of the drama of “Tenet” as in 2018. “COVID-19 has sown doubt every- made in Africa’s villages, he said. Ho- anything on screen, and just as con- Senegalese authorities have em- where. This means that those who had wever the gleaming structures of Akon voluted and disorienting. Seeing braced him as a native son, introducing doubts about the attractiveness of City will be made of metal and glass, “Tenet” for this critic meant crossing him by his given name Aliuane Thiam Senegal, and Africa in general must not wood. numerous state lines and watching it at and praising him for investing in Africa convince themselves that there are A hotel within the city plans to fea- a nearly empty movie theater — a lux- at a time of such global financial uncer- men and women who believe in Africa,” ture rooms decorated for each of the 54 ury of social distancing that won’t be tainty. he said. nations of Africa. However, the project possible for most, even in reduced ca- On Monday, he traveled with govern- Akon said the project already has se- was designed by a Dubai-based archi- pacity theaters. At its best, moviegoing ment officials to the grassy fields in cured about one-third of the $6 billion Please see MOVIE | 6B Mbodienne some 62 miles outside the Please see AKON | 6B 6B A&E | The Charlotte Post Thursday, September 3, 2020 De’Angelo Dia takes great Chadwick Boseman joy in the art of drawing Continued from page 5B took on iconic roles and how that finds itself Continued from page 5B to be featured on.” uniquely in the culture de- nate. It was there already. “When I hit It’s mind-boggling what Boseman veloped by Black and the stage, people better be ready,” he was able to accomplish, facing down brown people in the United says in “Get on Up.” “Especially the an industry’s historical prejudice States. There’s that aspect white folk.” while suffering through cancer treat- of it, which is beautiful and Many would have, after playing Rob- ments. But it’s equally hard to meas- moving, but there’s also inson and Brown, turned a blind eye ure what lay in front of him. In less this merging of all of these to biopics. But by playing a young ver- than a decade, Boseman changed the different techniques. It’s sion of the Supreme Court justice in movies. His more recent films suggest the graphic illustrations “Marshall” (which he co-produced) the next decade was going to be at that he has picked up out Boseman confirmed the ongoing na- least as interesting. In last year’s “21 of his love of comic books, ture of his project, one that would Bridges,” a film he also produced, but also that really master- reach a staggering climax in “Black Boseman plays an NYPD detective ful blending of color and Panther.” Boseman first made his whose cop-killer case uncovers the line that he learned as an debut as King T’Challa in “Captain department’s own persistent corrup- art student.” America: Civil War” in 2016, the same tion. Boseman’s very presence re- DE’ANGELO DIA These works stemmed year he was diagnosed with colon orients the story. from late night creations at De’Angelo Dia’s “Betty” on left, and “Charlie.” cancer. During the filming of “Black Pan- Goodyear Arts, which more and more attention. flowers and forgetting After playing a string of pioneers, ther,” Boseman said he was communi- served as Dia’s escape “I was creating these about the horrible things Boseman led the “Black Panther” rev- cating with two boys who had from insomnia. It allows characters late-night after that are happening cur- olution. terminal cancer. They were hoping to him to explore a social work at Goodyear Arts,” rently, and have always “We all know what it’s like to be told make it long enough to see the film. “I analysis but also an analy- Dia said. “No one was taken place on some scale, that there is not a place for you to be realized they anticipated something sis of self. He is a self-de- there. I could create in iso- but in the midst of doing featured — yet you are young, gifted great,” Boseman said in a SiriusXM in- scribed content-driven lation. I don’t get that op- the work for systemic and and black,” Boseman said, accepting terview. The kids, Boseman said artist, meaning whatever portunity in my day-to-day social change, I needed the film’s Screen Actors Guild Award through tears, didn’t make it. But in point he believes will best life often. There was no in- that space for joy for my- for best ensemble. “We know what it’s his unjustly short career, Boseman express his point at a par- tent of showing anyone self because I was getting like to be told there’s not a screen for held in his hands a world, illuminated ticular time dictates the these characters. I was exhausted. Creating these you to be featured on, a stage for you on screen like never before. type of medium he doing them for myself. characters allowed me to chooses to use. We’re dealing with so reclaim some of that joy “The content for me typi- much now worldly that I that had been taken away.” cally always stays the needed an outlet not only Dia has created a per- same,” Dia said. “The to process for myself, but I formance for this body of Akon moves ahead with content for me is examin- also needed an outlet to re- work with choreographer ing my identity, my em- claim joy for myself. Al- Reba Bowens and sound bodiment. Where do I though I am writing about artist Dylan Gilbert called stand in the universe, and serious topics on the back- “Apnea,” written by Dia. A ‘Akon City’ in Senegal what is my understanding ground, I smear that out. I timeline for the perform- of what it means to nurture rubbed the writing out so ance is to be determined Continued from page 5B “honor.” inspiration was deeply per- community?” that it almost becomes il- due to COVID-19. tect because Akon said he Plans eventually call for sonal: he found his grand- Said Edwards: “The best legible, and what you are “I try to be very inten- couldn’t find a suitable one Akon City to have its own mother was still using creative productions often left with is the character. tional when I am trying to in Africa fast enough. It’s hospital, police station and candles in Senegal to light come out of responding to “The reclaiming and the sleep and when I am trying also unclear what percent- even its own cryptocur- her home. a need, and what more ur- joy is that these are very to create these characters age of the building materi- rency already named “It just doesn’t make gent need than one when similar structure and de- that I am processing, in als and construction teams AKoin. Without giving spe- sense how 20 years can you’re seeking solace and signed characters from my spite of all that is going on will be sourced locally. cifics, the singer also said pass by and the condition respite when you most childhood that gave me a there is something to cele- Akon City is promising a he’s considering franchis- doesn’t change,” he said desperately need it and lot of joy. It’s an idea of brate,” Dia said. “This per- bit of everything: a seaside ing the concept to other back in 2016. can’t find it.” looking at joy as a rev- formance around what’s resort, a tech hub, countries on the continent. In Mbodienne, hopes are Dia’s drawings became a olutionary act, and joy as keeping me up, and how recording studios and even Akon rose to R&B fame high that this project will space for him to express something that we can re- do I celebrate in the midst a zone dubbed “Sene- after his 2004 debut album change lives even if two- his energy and concern as claim in the midst of of these horrible things wood” that developers but has increasingly fo- thirds of the funding 2020 continued to shift storms, and joy as a rebel- keeping me up.” hope will help develop cused on development needed has yet to be se- from a pandemic to a lious tool in many ways. For more information: Senegal’s film industry. projects in Africa in recent cured. world where social and ra- Not that we should be https://mintmuseum.org/c The singer acknowledged years. “We have a lot of hope. cial justice demanded dancing through the onstellation_clt/fall-2020/ the comparisons made be- In 2014, he started Akon Many promised us proj- tween Akon City and the Lighting Africa, which ects, but we saw nothing,” utopian society in “Black backs solar energy projects village chief Michel Diom ‘Tenet’ is a time-bending thriller Panther,” calling it an in rural areas. For him the said. Continued from page 5B that puts James Bond-like tion” wasn’t so different, has always been thrilling, tropes through a collider, but the mission plunged even dangerous. That may it’s very much a compan- directly into his subcon- be doubly so right now. ion piece to “Inception” (a scious. Nolan, a visionary For better and worse, heist movie with a sci-fi filmmaker, can sometimes “Tenet” is just a movie. It spin) and just as laden with be too busy conjuring vi- won’t beat the virus and it continual explanation. sions to build a character. won’t single-handedly save The central conceit here Time is Nolan’s real pro- movie theaters. It won’t is that a rare mineral can tagonist, anyway. Its loss read books and even really blow your reverse the entropy of ob- was the agony of “Interstel- e-books, listen mind. But for much of its jects. That means time lar.” A ticking clock, on 150-minute running time, travel, inverted weapons, three different temporal to audiobooks or Nolan’s globe-trotting sci-fi car chases that speed both tracks, measured “Dun- stream movies and riff on the spy thriller will ways and the biggest kirk.” In “Tenet,” it moves provide a dazzling escape, blockbuster to ever look a in circles: backward and music for FREE. one dense with singular little like the backward- forward like waves in the imagery and intellectual running Pharcyde music ocean. It’s a distinctive puzzles. And, perhaps video “Drop,” by Spike characteristic of the Sign-up for a most vitally, it will give a Jonze. These weapons are movies, and it’s one you cool, brutalist refresher of the “detritus of a coming can feel Nolan investigat- Library card today. the movies’ capacity for war,” we’re told; the future ing and experimenting awe, for imagination, and, is attacking the past. with. It’s easy to imagine yes, for tiresome grandios- The Protagonist’s jour- “Tenet” was born in an ed- cmlibrary.org/getacard ity. For the palindromic ney brings him in touch iting suite, while a shot was “Tenet,” it cuts both ways. with a British fixer named rewound and epiphany Neil (a delightfully know- Naturally, “Tenet” opens struck. 704-416-0100 on a crowded auditorium. ing and especially dashing #CMLibraryGetCarded At an opera house in Kyiv, Robert Pattinson; you want just as the conductor is him always to say more LLCSUMLCSUM Charlotte Post Ad 9.20.indd 1 88/17/20208/17/2020 1:58:31 PM raising his baton, a barrage than he does), a Mumbai of bullets rings out and arms dealer (Dimple Kapa- masked men take the dia) and ultimately a Uk- stage. Outside, a squadron rainian oligarch named of covert American agents Andrei Sator (Kenneth Bra- are stirred. They pick a nagh). To reach the insu- local police patch for their lated Sator, the Protagonist shoulders, and one among finds an entry through his them (John David Washing- wife, Kat (Elizabeth De- ton, known only as “the bicki, the film’s most suave Protagonist” in the credits) and affecting performer), maneuvers to rescue a man an art dealer who has come who sits in a closed bal- to detest her husband. cony. He greets him with As a film, “Tenet” rum- the coded phrase “We live bles like a jumbo jet. Its in a twilight world.” sheer tonnage is what most As he’s trying to stop strikes you. There are bombs from going off in trucks and ships, giant tur- the theater, an odd thing bines and helicopters, con- happens. Tussling with crete masses and 747s. It’s one of the terrorists, a bul- a literally heavy movie. let seems to fly backward The settings, which span into the gun. After being from the Amalfi Coast to taken hostage and tor- the “closed cities” of Rus- tured, he blacks out. When sia, give “Tenet” a techno- he wakes up much later, logical backdrop of he’s told that he’s been re- ecological destruction. If leased from the CIA and anything, I wish Nolan had been enlisted in a shadowy taken his future vs. past organization known as concept further, instead of Tenet. The mission goes situating it so firmly in the beyond borders, he’s told. more familiar (in movies) A Cold War — “ice cold” — world of black-market is brewing. He’s to try to weapons dealers. prevent World War III and “Tenet” lacks the elegant an apocalypse worse than mastery of “Dunkirk” or nuclear holocaust. the cosmic soulfulness of The details of this secret “Interstellar,” but it has a war — who’s on what side, darkly grand geometry. As what’s at stake — take a instruments in an abstrac- while to unspool. But just tion, most of Nolan’s pro- as Nolan’s last film, the tagonists verge on the gorgeously synchronized hollow. Washington glides WWII survival tale “Dun- through the film with char- kirk,” was arranged ele- isma and preternatural mentally by land, sea and smoothness but his char- air, “Tenet” is spliced be- acter’s inner life goes unex- tween past, present and fu- plored. Leonardo ture. A heady genre movie DiCaprio’s Cobb in “Incep-