Shane Carruth and David Sullivan in Primer…

From my original write up on Examiner.com:

“Good thing this movie is short (77 minutes total running time) because it takes multiple viewings to truly start appreciating the seeds sown in this film. And if right now you’re thinking, “Man, movie plots are all the same and predictable and I can follow anything you throw at me,” then consider yourself challenged. Watch Primer once and tell me you completely understand the depths that this movie delves into. And on the flip side, if you are the type of person that always asks questions during movies and has trouble following films like The Whole Nine Yards and Ernest Goes to Jail (what with the Ernest P. Worrell lookalike and all), then don’t even worry about trying to follow along with what’s going down. Just allow yourself to be swept up in the pure movie making of it all, the tension, the suspense, the whole feeling of “what the eff is going on?” By the end of the movie, you may not be too sure about what you have just seen, but you will know that you’ve seen something great.”

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