Primer

Director: Shane Carruth (who wrote, directed, acted in and scored the music for the movie. Good on him. It won something at Sundance.)
Starring: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan

One of the things director Shane Carruth says on the commentary of the Primer DVD is he didn’t intend to make a sci-fi movie. He wanted to make a movie about the trust between people.

But Shane Carruth is an engineer by training so, there you have it.

Primer centers on two best friends, Aaron and Abe, who make error-checking devices in their garage (I know, I went “Huh?” too). In their spare time, they geek around hoping to come up with the Next Big Thing.

At this point, you gotta ask yourself:

• If you and friend invented the Next Big Thing, how long could you keep it to yourself?
• If the price of getting everything you ever wanted was merely doing something over and over again until you died, would you be able to do it? Or would you suddenly want to change things?
• If there was more than one you, would you feel you’re the ‘original’ one? Who gets to decide?

Primer is about these things.

Aaron and Abe invent something by accident, and though they realise how easily things can fuck up from here on out, they cannot stop themselves from finding out just how far this thing can go.

A lotta science fiction movies are about one thing that changes the world or the very fabric of the universe / space-time continuum. This is just about two friends, and the consequences their invention visits upon them unravels the only universe that really matters – theirs.

I found it very interesting.
I even found it disturbing and creepy in places.
And it’s been a while since that happened.

Come to it the way I did.
Watch the trailer.