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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

If you like time-travel movies (and hey, who doesn’t?), you should check out Primer, which we watched on DVD last night. It won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance two years ago, but I only learned about it from a Netflix recommendation. Yes, Virginia, you can make a sci-fi movie for only $7,000. It’s confounding and opaque, but brilliant. It is by no means an action movie; it’s more of an intellectual mind-fuck. I’m not sure if anyone totally understands the plot - I needed help from this plot diagram (which is equally confounding at first glance) - but the movie is only 77 minutes long, and it has cute actors and compelling cinematography. Totally worth seeing.

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  1. I loved it…although I can’t claim to make any sense out of it at all!

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