nolan as the male taylor swift is funny - genius artist who guards the last dying embers of the monoculture - a popular mainstream hit maker whose work is also critically acclaimed and wins big awards - ludicrously productive and famously known to take care and pleasure in actually writing their own work and they're opposites in ways that are kind of gendered, too, in that the thing that makes them special is distinct. taylor swift's best music is memoiristic and about the emotional inner life of non-married women whereas christopher nolan's stuff is almost entirely unromantic, my favorite protagonists of his are dads, the characters don't really talk about their feelings unless they're telling you the theme of the movie (oppenheimer: let's have sex while i foreshadow the trinity test with this shiva quote in spontaneously translated sanskrit), and he excels at macro-level narrative spectacle rather than emotional interpersonal dialogue