If you’ve ever watched Christopher Nolan‘s Tenet, you know how mind-bending and headache-inducing sci-fi feels. Nolan’s spectacle meets WTF to bring this complex film to life in an experience you have to watch more than once to make sense of it. Tenet was innovative upon release, but a similar groundbreaking sci-fi film preceded it many years earlier. With a vastly smaller budget, 2004’s Primer tested the audience with its complicated time-travel storytelling puzzle.
The early years of the millennium saw Shane Carruth direct, star, edit, and score his first film. One coudl say Carruth only had a camera, a dream, and a screenplay that went full tech-speak from minute one, and delivered Primer as the end product. The film was lauded at Sundance with the Grand jury Prize,but its legacy as a game-changing sci-fi movie is its biggest award. Its cult status might not be known to all, so if you want to jump on this bandwagon, prepare to be amazed – and go WTF not once, but for the whole film rather.
‘Primer’ Places the earth-Shattering origin of Time Travel in a Modest Garage
