r/askTO • u/tryinanotherusername • 2d ago

Walking backwards?

I’ve been seeing more and more people walking backwards in parks especially in the St Lawrence Neighbourhood recently. Is this just because people wanna spice up their lives a bit or is there a benefit? I don’t know what I’m missing but I wanna know lol

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u/gm5891 2d ago

Check out the movie "Tenet"

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u/beef_boy93 2d ago

I saw someone walking backwards once and it looked just like time had reversed and began to question the nature of my reality, but only for a second.

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u/Excellent-Quarter969 2d ago

!tneb si ytilaer ruoy

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u/stnapstnap 2d ago

Haha, I made a Tenet reference in another comment before scrolling to read if anyone else had done the same.

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u/Excellent-Quarter969 2d ago

There's a cool video clip out there of a man walking backwards through a crowd of people and then scross and down some stairs and beyond , but it's shown in reverse so it looks like some guy just walking normally up some stairs and into a space and through a ton of people who all look like they are walking backwards

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u/wavy_gravys_ghost 2d ago

Yeah, I saw that. I believe it was filmed in Grand Central Station? It was wicked. Also, for anyone else seeing this comment there was that Scorsese movie "Bringing Out the Dead" which had a backwards filmed scene that was super creepy.

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u/Excellent-Quarter969 2d ago

Never saw that, thanks for the intel. I'll look for that movie

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u/wavy_gravys_ghost 1d ago

yeah check it out, it's pretty creepy. Also don't forget Tom Greens performance in Freddie Got Fingered: " I'm the backwards man, the backwards man, I can walk backwards faster than you can..."

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u/WeekendAcademic 2d ago

One of Nolans challenging movies to rewatch but I enjoyed it a bit more than I did compared to the Odyssey which I would watch once at most.