“Primer” won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and tends to draw 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 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. Shot on 16 mm film for $7,000, the film has a tantalizing, sealed-in logic that forces viewers to see the fantastic with a certain dispassion. You may well find yourself sitting through this one more than once to more fully grasp its paradoxes and ethical quandaries…
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:41:27 +0000
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