Primer [2004]
Director: Shane Carruth
Actor: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan
Writer: Shane Carruth
Abe and Aaron work full time jobs as engineers. In their spare time they work on creating a new superconductor out of Aaron’s garage together with two others. A creative difference drives the group of four apart, and Abe and Aaron focus themselves fully on the superconductor. They build a small prototype, and for the longest time they can’t get it to work. Once they finally do, they notice strange things about the machine that they can’t quite explain yet. When one of the test samples shows signs of a build up of exellerated fungal proteine they struggle to understand what’s happening. If their sample spends some time in the machine, it comes out with enough fungal proteine on it equally five or six years of time passage. Slowly but surely they realise they have accidentally discovered a way to influence time. They both become obsessed by the machine and finally manage to develop the machine to the point where they can travel six hours back in time. The only problem is that they leave behind duplicates of themselves…
This movie is absolutely amazing. Complicated and hard to follow, but amazing. If you like Pi, then go and see this film. It boggles my mind, but in a good way. Also, it won the top award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, and it was made at a budget of $7000, but manages to never look cheap. Wow, wow, wow.
