Primer is a curious, micro-budgeted science fiction drama that caught the attention of the world in 2004 when it won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
It follows 4 friends that, in their spare time, try to invent stuff in the garage of Aaron's house. Aaron and best mate stumble across a side effect to one of their experiments and decide to cut the other two out while they develop, the mysterious 'box' for themselves, while attempting to understand the practical applications of their discovery.
As an audience, we're made to work at deciphering the film...often not being told what the experiment initially is or what the ramifications are. Like a documentary without narration, we're allowed to observe and figure it out for ourselves. But essentially, the lads discover time travel and decide to give it a whirl... in a series of carefully thought out, 6 hour jaunts into the past. But like Groundhog Day and The Butterfly Effect...time travel isn't as simple as they expect.
It's an interesting, authentic feeling take on the subject which explores the repercussions on their lives and that of their friends and family. It's not always easy to follow, not only with the logistics of each experiment, but also in keeping track of the subtle variations of the timeline which are created with each journey into the past.
Intriguing, but not entirely successful.
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