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Primer (2004)

Cast: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Anand Upadbyaya, Casey Gooden, Carrie Crawford, Jay Butler, John Carruth, Samantha Thomson

Director(s): Shane Carruth

Language: English

Genre: Science Fiction

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Synopsis

Former engineer Shane Carruth announces himself as a force to watch with PRIMER, his first film. Carruth wrote, directed, edited, produced, photographed, scored, and stars in the film, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. He plays Aaron, who, with his business partner and best friend, Abe (David Sullivan), experiments with a device that seems to have more power than they could ever have imagined. Playing with batteries, refrigeration, and other techniques and materi... [Get complete synopsis]

 

MasterWoodsman wrote on May 15, 2005, 11:49 am
Mood: Still scratching my head.
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I'll be honest: I didn't understand the whole movie. I was slightly confused for the first 60 to 70%, but then I got really lost and gave up trying to follow it. This time-travelling B-movie really captures the complexities of time travel and doing so leaves the viewer wishing they had a Coles' notes of some sort. To be fair, they did deliberatly make it confusing with the voice over and constant jumping around, especially at the climax of a scene. And these guys talk like two of the nerdiest people you would ever meet.

If you want to follow this, better brush up on your physics and mathematics, especially the parts about recursion. Very intelligent movie, no doubt. Either these guys were Physics majors or they did a lot of reading, because the subjects of their near-constant discussions was lightyears above the standard fare seen in other movies. It was pretty cool to see all the minute details involved in the creation of the machine.

Still, it was enjoyable despite the odds. No romance or action, an impossible to follow plot and B-movie quality (it cost $7,000) make this not for everybody. Think of the movie "Pi" without the psychology.

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