Primer.
Who else has seen it? I knew a few of you have.
It's honestly one of my favorite films, and one of the best I have ever watched. It's an absolute mind****, but in the most amazing way possible. I read up about it for several days before I actually sat down to watch it. I knew the plot, and had looked at diagrams. And then I watched it and was still confused as hell.
But even better, I had the undying urge to watch it again immediately. I kind of wish I did, to be honest. I've still only seen it once. I want to watch it a few more time because it's just that good. And because I still can't understand the damn thing.
For those of you who haven't seen it... Yes, it is about time travel. From Amazon:
"Primer won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and has drawn repeat viewers eager to crack writer-director-star Shane Carruth's puzzler of a time-travel drama. Carruth, an engineer by training, plays inventor Aaron, whose entrepreneurial partnership with fellow brainiac Abe (David Sullivan) unexpectedly results in a process for traveling back several hours in time. The men initially use these rewind sessions to succeed in the stock market. But a dark consequence of their daily journeys eventually complicates matters. If this sounds like a very commercial, science fiction thriller, Primer is anything but that. Shot on 16mm for $7,000, the film has a tantalizing, sealed-in logic, akin to Memento, that forces viewers to see the fantastic with a certain dispassion. One may be tempted to sit through Primer again to more fully understand its paradoxes and ethical quandaries."
If you search Google Video you will find it there for free. Please, do yourself a favor and watch it.
Who else has seen it? I knew a few of you have.
It's honestly one of my favorite films, and one of the best I have ever watched. It's an absolute mind****, but in the most amazing way possible. I read up about it for several days before I actually sat down to watch it. I knew the plot, and had looked at diagrams. And then I watched it and was still confused as hell.
But even better, I had the undying urge to watch it again immediately. I kind of wish I did, to be honest. I've still only seen it once. I want to watch it a few more time because it's just that good. And because I still can't understand the damn thing.
For those of you who haven't seen it... Yes, it is about time travel. From Amazon:
"Primer won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and has drawn repeat viewers eager to crack writer-director-star Shane Carruth's puzzler of a time-travel drama. Carruth, an engineer by training, plays inventor Aaron, whose entrepreneurial partnership with fellow brainiac Abe (David Sullivan) unexpectedly results in a process for traveling back several hours in time. The men initially use these rewind sessions to succeed in the stock market. But a dark consequence of their daily journeys eventually complicates matters. If this sounds like a very commercial, science fiction thriller, Primer is anything but that. Shot on 16mm for $7,000, the film has a tantalizing, sealed-in logic, akin to Memento, that forces viewers to see the fantastic with a certain dispassion. One may be tempted to sit through Primer again to more fully understand its paradoxes and ethical quandaries."
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