Primer

The movie, Primer, is a fast-paced science fiction film about time travel. This movie is hard to follow along with, due to its vague and unexplained scenes. Rather than answering questions that the audience may have throughout the story, the movie keeps moving forward rapidly; this movie ends without answering questions or clarifying the storyline. Contrary to other time travel stories, where the focus is usually on changing the past to make a character's life better or trying to ensure that the world isn't impacted by a small task that had been done, Primer focused more on the conflict between "doubles". Many time-travel films tend to disregard the idea of "doubles" and the concept of overlap in the timeline of the characters. Primer is definitely a refreshing film that changes up the stereotypical time-travel story. Additionally, this film seemed to suggest that time travel was not a bad thing, but humans made it faulty because of selfish reasons, which is a large element shown within the film.

Also, Primer has a lot of different filming techniques that people were not familiar to; making the audience less likely to enjoy the story. Due to the impact of Classic Hollywood films, most people are used to understanding the story by having a grasp of the entire setting of the film, which is established usually in the beginning of a film. We are used to understanding who, what, when, where, how, and why things are playing out within the story, yet in Primer, I was pretty lost. I was confused by the part when the "doubles" came out and and why towards the end Aaron and Abe, kept going back into the past, attempting to outsmart one another and stop the doubles from ruining their lives. I wasn't even aware that the Original Abe was replaced by the Younger Abe, until I read an explanation of the plot online.