Wednesday, December 03, 2008

PRIMER timeline

For those who are just now discovering Primer on Netflix -- a timeline. Which is not very helpful at all, actually, but fun to try to figure out.

46 comments:

  1. Wow, you read my mind!
    I just finished watching that movie a few minutes ago.
    Thanks for the link.

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  2. I've watched that movie several times over the last year and I still can't follow the timeline. Maybe that was the point :)

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  3. What a great little sci fi movie. Still looking for ward to see what he does next.

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  4. Anonymous2:24 PM

    Great premise, big letdown of an ending. Still, great premise.

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  5. Okay, so for whatever reason I had never heard of this movie. But now, within 3 minutes of reading about it here, I am watching it on my 360. That is like 10 kinds of awesome.

    William Gibson (and the Boss) were right - we're living in the future.

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  6. Okay, that's... interesting. Not quite processed it yet.

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  7. Anonymous6:13 PM

    I got PRIMER for Christmas a couple of years ago. I've watched it five times. I can't for the life of me claim to have it all figured out, but I see something new every time I watch it.

    What I mostly like is that there's no omniscient viewpoint. In a Heinlein time travel story, a third person narrative would explain the various paradoxes as they happen, so we would understand the whole back story behind the crazy, sleepless, unshaven fellow who shows up at some point, runs away from our heroes, and lapses into a coma. As it is, we're left to speculate on what could have led to that kind of personal timeline editing. It lends the movie a lot of verisimilitude.

    The movie reminds me a lot of Gerrold's classic THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF, without, y'know, all the handjobs. Which is a distinct improvement all the way around.

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  9. Anonymous6:43 AM

    @wage slave
    Yes! Every time i watch this video, it becomes more and more circumstantial:) I asked myself the question: Iam forgetful?
    No is the answer!
    Day by day i change my thinking a liddle bit, and with another "thinking" you see the movie from a different angle.
    Mhh- thats only my meaning! Greets

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  10. Anonymous12:38 PM

    I first watched PRIMER very late at night at a friend's house on a whim.

    My other friend and I who watched it were flummoxed in the best possible way. I've since made other friends watch it when I could. Every time I get a little more insight but I don't know that a state of relative omniscience can really ever be obtained with that movie. Maybe that's the point though - time travel is really f'ed up when you think about it.

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  11. Oooh, a new movie recommendation.

    Serendipity? Need one for tonight.

    Killer question - to watch it stoned, or not stoned?

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