#anyway yeah tenet made me think about this again aauggjfjnjfndgg

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ok ok ok so this is digging up a phrase that I had forgotten I used to use a lot (specifically when discussing Les Miserables tbh), "wide scope, small scale". which is just to describe stories where the scope of the narrative, the plot and its stakes, are really large and all-encompassing, but the scale, the focus, is honed in to just. people. so you have this massive story going on but at the heart of it all is humans. and it can be, you know, a lot of different humans (like Les Mis, where there's like... a couple dozen major characters throughout the course of the novel) or just a few (i.e. Ruta Sepetys' Salt to the Sea, or, in this specific case because I'm currently losing my mind, Tenet 2020) and it doesn't really matter who they are or how many of them there are. a wide scope-small scale story just means that no matter how huge the circumstances are, no matter how tangled and intertwined and all-encompassing the narrative is, the heart of the story is humanity, as shown through its characters. wide scope, small scale.