23rd March, 2013.
You know, I have to confess, I think — think — that title’s quite possibly right.
You see, I’ve just rented the little science-fiction film, Primer, from the iTunes store.
As you might just have guessed from the poster.
And I’m thinking, here, that it’s possibly a work of genius: because I’m — frankly — wondering what else to call it …
Hmmm … let me sleep on that, folks … !
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27th March, 2013.
Busy, busy, busy … !
But I think I can say I’ve slept on Primer*.
And … ?
Well …
Primer tells the story of a pair of engineering students — Aaron and Abe, played by Shane Carruth and David Sullivan — who, along with friends Robert and Phillip, meet regularly to brainstorm new ideas that they can patent.
And, in the finest tradition of garage engineers, everywhere, making a fortune on the lines of Wozniak and Jobs, or Hewlett and Packard.
That’s not quite the way things goes, though.
Abe and Aaron initially start working on a box-like machine for reducing an object’s mass.
Which turns out not to reduce mass.
No …
It turns out what they’ve accidentally invented is a time-machine: something the pair use to milk the stock market.
Much as it’s tempting to say “With Hysterical Results” … it’s really not.
Not when the pair realise they’ve got tangled up in their complicated time-loop …
~≈§≈~
Now, I’m actually going to be perfectly frank, here, if I may … ?
I really couldn’t tell you whether Primer is a work of genius. Or otherwise, frankly.
But I am pretty sure the film is something of a gem: that I, for one, feel is worth you spending some time with.
With a 77 minute run time, this is a film that, had I the money, I would want to buy. Primer is an intellectually dense film that I’m — as I write — watching again on my iPod. Given that it’s a film one needs to pay attention to, buying it would allow me to watch it as many times as possible: it’s complicated, as well as watchable.
Given that … ?
I think I have to give Primer a four star rating …
Primer
★★★★
* I should add, at this point, I managed to work out how to turn on my iPod’s closed caption switch. For those of us watching a closed captioned film the same way — via and iPod Touch running iOS 6.x or higher — you’ll need to go to Settings>Video and set the Closed Caption switch to ‘On’. I hope that helps.
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