::A Geek in Korea::

Remember how awesome Memento was with the whole “Movie going forwards and backwards at the same time” thing? There is a movie that completely and utterly blows Memento out of the water for time-traveling and general “WTF?”  messing with the audience. It was made on a $7000 dollar budget, and is a Sundance winner. It’s probably one of the coolest movies I’ve seen in a long time, and I can’t wrap my head around it yet.

Primer

Which is available, in it’s entirety, at Google Video. (77 minutes)
Intensive Film Warning: This is a movie where you have to pay close attention to EVERYTHING that happens, watch carefully, and you STILL won’t understand it the first time around. You aren’t even supposed to. Anyone that claims to understand this movie the first time around is a savant, or a liar.

This film does not go out of it’s way to explain anything that is happening, and throws science jargon around a bit. It’s a cruel mistress, but rewarding in the end. It’s really amazing that this film was created at all, and despite the SHOESTRING budget, looks SO good. The budget never seems to impact the film at all.

The Basic Plot

Primer is a story about four engineers that work out of their garage trying to get rich inventing something and filing patents. Two of the engineers discover a weird effect as a byproduct of their latest experiment, and decide to cut the other two out of the group as they decide the best way to cash in on this new invention. As they begin to explore what they can do as a result of their invention their partnership is strained when they have different visions of the best use of the technology. Things happen, causality is played with, and your brain will start to hurt.

I saw it. Now what?
Here is a timeline explaining WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED after you watch it the first time.

I’d like to spread the love for this film, and also talk about it. If anyone else has some mind blowing movies to watch, please share in this thread.

The mechanic of Time Travel in Primer
A general description of the plot.
Wikipedia
Interview with the maker of the film.
An entire FORUM dedicated to trying to figure out this movie.

Cross posted with the Geek in Korea forum.