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libertangoJust watched 2004's Primer for the first time through Netflix' streaming. I've been wanting to ever since I saw this review by Kottke.
Very enjoyable. I dunno, though. Primer has the reputation of being very difficult to follow, but perhaps because I was expecting that, it didn't seem so much to me. It felt like a weird mashup between Robert Silverberg's Project Pendulum and the solution(s) to The Prestige, with a bit of fairly realistic mock-documentary of a tech startup.
Fun to know it was made for only $7,000 with auteur Shane Carruth writing, directing, editing, scoring, and acting in it. It was filmed in five weeks, and then Carruth spent two years in post-production. Let's be conservative and say he started mulling it over in 2000. I note The Prestige came out as a book in 1995.
Very enjoyable. I dunno, though. Primer has the reputation of being very difficult to follow, but perhaps because I was expecting that, it didn't seem so much to me. It felt like a weird mashup between Robert Silverberg's Project Pendulum and the solution(s) to The Prestige, with a bit of fairly realistic mock-documentary of a tech startup.
Fun to know it was made for only $7,000 with auteur Shane Carruth writing, directing, editing, scoring, and acting in it. It was filmed in five weeks, and then Carruth spent two years in post-production. Let's be conservative and say he started mulling it over in 2000. I note The Prestige came out as a book in 1995.
