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Motion Picture: Primer


This week I saw the movie "Primer", which is an independent film that was shown at the Sundance festival in 2004. It was created by Shane Carruth. It is a science fiction film with a theme of time travel. I really liked it and there are a number of reasons:

1) The writer tried very hard to make the scientific conversations actually real, they are talking about real technology, etc. This is great because a lot of the time I am bugged immensely while watching movies with computers and technology and everything is horribly simplified (and wrong) for the average movie consumer. It is refreshing that someone took care in making a movie that isn't blatantly wrong in its scientific aspects.

2) Although the movie is slow, and this is a complaint by most people, I liked the pace. I like other movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Andromeda Strain.

3) The movie is pretty complicated and I didn't understand it all after a first viewing. This is great, because I like to watch movies again, but sometimes they aren't as good the second and third time, because you already know what is going to happen. Hence I long for the movie that you have to watch multiple times, and each time you get it a little bit more. I like movies where you have to think.

4) Time travel movies are always interesting to me.

5) The creator/director of this movie did it all for $7000, and it is a nice piece of work. That is neat that someone could make such a good-looking movie for so little money. It is quite the accomplishment.

You can read more about this movie online, and I encourage you to go to see it. And if it is not your type of movie, so be it.

The official site for the movie is found at www.primermovie.com. There is also a forum there to discuss the movie, which is very interesting.

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