Writer: Shane Carruth
Cast: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden
Two engineers out of a four engineering entrepreneurs team discover a means to time travel accidentally. The trust between them gradually erodes with the paranoia that sets in about the safety of the device and the bluffing around about who will have more control over the fail safe box.
I saw it again as a primer to my planned re-watch of Carruth's second feature 'Upstream Color'. Primer was made under a budget of $7000 but it does not look cheap at all. The much of its dialog is technical jargon and it doesn't use much exposition at all apart from the narration. The film will be totally incomprehensible without the narration. It is a total mindfuck like the idea of time-travel itself and the viewer is made to feel like what the characters themselves are experiencing. I really didn't get much of it even on second viewing and when you are twisting the plot around and as an audience if you are not totally getting it, you are made to feel like you are not intelligent enough. If it is thematic you can just use your own interpretation of it and be satisfied about it.
Primer is like an adult version of Inception and Carruth is much more versatile than Nolan himself. Primer is like a Nolan film in terms of plot convolution but with Upstream Color Carruth has proven that he can do thematic convolution in the David Lynch style. Hope he gets to make more films.
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