That Movie You Got From Netflix That You Haven’t Watched? It’s Really Angry. That Movie You Got From Netflix That You Haven’t Watched? It’s Really Angry. Video and place for commentary at NPR. November 14, 2008 by Bibliofuture Uncategorized 1
If you have Netflix
If you have Netflix here is a movie in the “Watch Instantly” area that I highly recommend: Primer
Summary: Primer won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and has drawn 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 (David Sullivan) 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. If this sounds like a very commercial, science fiction thriller, Primer is anything but that. Shot on 16mm for $7,000, the film has a tantalizing, sealed-in logic, akin to Memento, that forces viewers to see the fantastic with a certain dispassion. One may be tempted to sit through Primer again to more fully understand its paradoxes and ethical quandaries.