Primer part 7

Film: Primer
Directed by Shane Carruth
United States (2003)
Science Fiction/Psychological Drama
8 Parts/ 77 mins


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(Rated PG13 by MPAA)


Prepare your brain to be put through a blender with this ultra low-budget gem (made on a budget of $7,000) by first time director Shane Carruth and winner of the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic film at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. A thinking man's (or woman's) science fiction film that has generated a cult following because of its innovative plot structure and complex, technical dialogue. A rare science fiction film does not insult the intelligence of its audience by sugar-coating the science behind the fiction of the timeworn subject of time travel so often seen in other less-imaginative sci-fi films, and as a result, the director presents and reworks ideas and themes of past films in the genre in a refreshing manner. The most attentive viewers may have trouble finding their bearings as the film opens with a quick flow of engineering jargon, and anyone who can follow the temporal twists and inversions of the film's final third probably deserves an engineering degree. Primer is a witty, well-shot, and convincingly acted science-fiction brain twister, leading one to suspect that on repeated viewings a rock solid narrative will reveal itself. (And trust me, YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS FILM AT LEAST 2 OR 3 TIMES.)

Synopsis:

A group of four tech entrepreneurs, toiling away in a garage, have successfully created an error-checking system for their clients. But their recent work seems to have created an unexpected and seemingly impossible side-effect. Suddenly, two members of the group realize they are in possession of a device that can double, or perhaps even quadruple, the space-time continuum of anything that enters it. What at first seems like a windfall of astronomical proportions eventually proves to be much more than they bargained for. As the duo attempt to manipulate time to their financial advantage, when they begin to use the device to manipulate their personal lives, the two find themselves in an endless series of paradoxes and a growing amount of distrust. What seems like the standard foray into science fiction is revealed to be an ethical and philosophical rumination on the subject it tackles.

There is a moment in Primer that sums up the filmmaker's point-of-view quite nicely. It's not the line quoted in many reviews, where one addled engineer asks another, "Are you hungry? I haven't eaten since later this afternoon," although that line exemplifies Carruth's prickly wit. It takes place before the main characters' great, accidental discovery when two men discuss NASA's efforts to develop a pen that would work in zero gravity. After spending millions trying to work out the problem, the agency ended up using a simple pencil. Primer is the science-fiction film equivalent of that pencil, and the remarkable amount of bang the film gets for its buck is only one of its virtues. Primer is also a textbook example for young filmmakers that a film can be as big as you want it to be when creativity is your budget.

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[scimath42]

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[Sunoco]

My brain is being raped.

[Jkchunt]

I am 100% too drunk to understand this shit.

[Callofdutysniper1]

Wait...what?

[Pisces3124]

@Suolperos hes speaking to the original aaron, the one he subdued. His purpose is to explain why he was drugged and locked in his attic for a couple of days

[Suolperos]

@fowad27 The narrator is Aaron - the same Aaron that poisoned the milk and subdued the original Aaron from that timeline and hid him in the attic. Who he's speaking to though is never stated. just that Aaron's apparently indebted to him.

[Suolperos]

Rrrrrggghhh WHY is the music that plays at the beginning of this scene NOT on the soundtrack CD??!! Neither is the music in the last scene! They're two of the best songs in the movie! >_<

[GameChatterDCS]

This smashes inception and gives time travel movies a new model for how they need to be made

[SilogramRice]

:O

^^actually what i looked like as i watched this part

[IdahoMasher]

"we know everything- we're prescient" 

[thegmanofEAP]

@buddhastalin I think most people think to hard when they watch "Inception". Sure, its complicated, but its not impossible to follow. They basically spell out where they're going. The ending is the only thing that leaves interpretation.