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Nominated
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Achievement in directing
- Shane Carruth
Best First Screenplay
Best Debut Performance
- David Sullivan
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Primer
Writer/director Carruth's debut film might be the world's first thinking-man's time travel movie, beautifully shot for an absurdly low $7,500. Winner of the 2004 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, the plot revolves around two engineers, Aaron (Carruth) and Abe (Sullivan), who, while trying to develop a patentable invention, accidentally construct a box that allows them to move backwards through time. Carruth piles on the technical jargon, which will either hopelessly confuse viewers or make them love the director for respecting their intelligence. (No character ever whines, "Tell it to me in English, Doc!") At its core, Carruth's film is a meditation on trust, obsession, power, and the chaos surrounding innovation, combined with a nonlinear storyline that should inspire more repeated viewings than "Donnie Darko."
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80 minutes
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PG-13 - Parents Strongly Cautioned
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I wasn't thrilled about this, and even my hubby, who is a fan of movies like Memento and time travel type plots, did not think it was good either. Maybe it's just because I get lost easily with nonlinear storylines, but I generally didn't really dig this. Plus I could hardly understand what they were talking about for the first half hour, and the whole Robert Altman-style overlapping dialogue just annoyed me.
Forget El Mariachi. Primer wins the crown for my favorite movie made for under $8000 bucks. Yeah, it's confusing, but it's also rewarding, inventive, and bad-***. Not for the slow-witted.
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If you always want what you can't have, what do you want when you can have anything?
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Color
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No
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DVD
Distributor:
Warner Home Video, Inc.
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