Primer (film)
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| - | '''99 [[mindfuck]] [[movies]] by [[9gag]]''' is a movie list which was published in the late 2010s. | + | '''''Primer''''' is a 2004 American [[science fiction film]] about the accidental discovery of [[time travel]]. The film was written, directed, produced, edited and scored by [[Shane Carruth]], who also stars with [[David Sullivan (actor)|David Sullivan]]. |
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| - | [[1984 (film)|1984]], [[12 Monkeys]], [[2001 A Space Odyssey]], [[A Beautiful Mind]], [[A Clockwork Orange]], [[A Tale of Two Sisters]], [[Adaptation (film)|Adaptation]], [[American Psycho (film)|American Psycho]], [[Annihilation (film)|Annihilation]], [[Antichrist (film)|Antichrist]], [[Arrival (film)|Arrival]], [[Being John Malkovich]], [[Black Swan]], [[Blue Velvet]], [[Brazil (film)|Brazil]], [[Coherence (film)|Coherence]], [[Cube (film)|Cube]], [[Dogtooth (film)|Dogtooth]], [[Donnie Darko]], [[Enemy (film)|Enemy]], [[Enter the Void]], [[Eraserhead]], [[Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind]], [[Ex Machina]], [[Existenz]], [[Eyes Wide Shut]], [[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film)|Fear and Loathing]], [[Fight Club]], [[Get Out]], [[Gone Girl (film)|Gone Girl]], [[Groundhog Day (film)|Groundhog Day]], [[Happiness (film)|Happiness]], [[Hereditary (film)|Hereditary]], [[Identity (film)|Identity]], [[Incendies]], [[Inception (film)|Inception]], [[Interstellar (film)|Interstellar]], [[Irreversible (film)|Irreversible]], [[Jacob's Ladder]], [[Lost Highway]], [[Magnolia (film)|Magnolia]], [[Martyrs (film)|Martyrs]], [[Memento]], [[Midsommar]], [[Moon (film)|Moon]], [[Mother!]], [[Mr. Nobody]], [[Mulholland Dr.]], [[Oldboy]], [[Pan's Labyrinth]], [[Paprika (film)|Paprika]], [[Perfect Blue]], [[Pi (film)|Pi]], [[Predestination (film)|Predestination]], [[Primal Fear (film)|Primal Fear]], [[Primer (film)|Primer]], [[Prisoners (film)|Prisoners]], [[Requiem for a Dream]], [[Rosemary's Baby]], [[Se7en]], [[Shutter Island]], [[Signs (film)|Signs]], [[Slaughterhouse 5 (film)|Slaughterhouse 5]], [[Sorry to Bother You]], [[Split (film)|Split]], [[Stalker (film)|Stalker]], [[Sunshine (film)|Sunshine]], [[Synecdoche, New York]], [[The Butterfly Effect]], [[The Cell]], [[The End of Evangelion]], [[The Fall (film)|The Fall]], [[The Fountain]], [[The Game]], [[The Gift]], [[The Handmaiden]], [[The Holy Mountain]], [[The Illusionist]], [[The Killing of a Sacred Deer]], [[The Lighthouse]], [[The Lobster]], [[The Machinist]], [[The Matrix]], [[The Mist (film)|The Mist]], [[The Orphanage]], [[The Prestige]], [[The Sixth Sense]], [[The Truman Show]], [[The Usual Suspects]], [[The Wailing]], [[Timecrimes]], [[Triangle (film)|Triangle]], [[Un Chien Andalou]], [[Under the Skin]], [[Upstream Color]], [[Vanilla Sky]], [[Vertigo (film)|Vertigo]], [[Videodrome]], [[Waking Life]] | + | Two engineers{{snd}}Aaron and Abe{{snd}}supplement their day-jobs with entrepreneurial tech projects, working out of Aaron's garage. During one such research effort, involving electromagnetic reduction of objects' weight, the two men accidentally discover an 'A-to-B' time loop side-effect: objects left in the weight-reducing field exhibit temporal anomalies, proceeding normally (from time 'A,' when the field was activated, to time 'B,' when the field is powered off), then backwards (from 'B' back to 'A') in a continuously repeating sequence, such that objects can leave the field in the present, or at some previous point. |
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| + | Abe refines this proof-of-concept and builds a stable time-apparatus ("the box"), sized to accommodate a human subject. Abe uses this box to travel six hours into his own past—as part of this process, Original-Abe sits incommunicado in a hotel room, so as not to interact or interfere with the outside world, after which Original-Abe enters the box, waits inside the box for six hours (thus going back in time six hours), and becomes Future-Abe, who travels across town, explains the proceedings to Aaron, and brings Aaron back to the self-storage facility housing the box. At the end of the overlap-timespan, Original-Abe enters the box and ceases to exist. | ||
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| + | Abe and Aaron repeat Abe's six-hour experiment multiple times over multiple days, making profitable same-day stock trades armed with foreknowledge of the market's performance. The duo's divergent personalities{{snd}}Abe cautious and controlling, Aaron impulsive and meddlesome{{snd}}put subtle strain on their collaboration and friendship. These tensions come to a head after a late-night encounter with Thomas Granger (father to Abe's girlfriend, Rachel), who appears inexplicably unshaven and exists in overlap with his original suburban self. Granger falls into a comatose state after being pursued by Aaron; Aaron theorizes that, at some unknown point in the future, Granger entered the "box", with timeline-altering consequences. Abe concludes that time travel is simply too dangerous, and enters a secret second box (the "failsafe box," built before the experiment began and kept continuously running), traveling back four days to prevent the experiment's launch. | ||
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| + | Cumulative competing interference wreaks havoc upon the [[timeline]]. Future-Abe sedates Original-Abe (so he will never conduct the initial time travel experiment), and meets Original-Aaron at a park bench (so as to dissuade him), but finds that Future-Aaron has gotten there first (armed with pre-recordings of the past conversations, and an unobtrusive earpiece), having brought a disassembled "third failsafe box" four days back with his own body. Future-Abe faints at this revelation, overcome by shock and fatigue. | ||
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| + | The two men briefly and tentatively reconcile. They jointly travel back in time, experiencing and reshaping an event where Abe's girlfriend Rachel was nearly killed by a gun-wielding party crasher. After many repetitions, Aaron, forearmed with knowledge of the party's events, stops the gunman, becoming a local hero. Abe and Aaron ultimately part ways; Aaron considers a new life in foreign countries where he can tamper more broadly for personal gain, while Abe states his intent to remain in town and dissuade/sabotage the original "box" experiment. Abe warns Aaron to leave and never return. | ||
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| + | Multiple "box-aware" versions of Aaron circulate{{snd}}at least one Future-Aaron has shared his knowledge with Original-Aaron, via discussions, voice-recordings, and an unsuccessful physical altercation. Future-Abe watches over Original-Abe, going to painstaking extremes to keep him unaware of the future. An Aaron directs French-speaking workers in the construction of a warehouse-sized box. | ||
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| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | * [[List of American films of 2004]] | ||
| + | * [[List of films featuring time loops]] | ||
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Primer is a 2004 American science fiction film about the accidental discovery of time travel. The film was written, directed, produced, edited and scored by Shane Carruth, who also stars with David Sullivan.
Plot
Two engineersTemplate:SndAaron and AbeTemplate:Sndsupplement their day-jobs with entrepreneurial tech projects, working out of Aaron's garage. During one such research effort, involving electromagnetic reduction of objects' weight, the two men accidentally discover an 'A-to-B' time loop side-effect: objects left in the weight-reducing field exhibit temporal anomalies, proceeding normally (from time 'A,' when the field was activated, to time 'B,' when the field is powered off), then backwards (from 'B' back to 'A') in a continuously repeating sequence, such that objects can leave the field in the present, or at some previous point.
Abe refines this proof-of-concept and builds a stable time-apparatus ("the box"), sized to accommodate a human subject. Abe uses this box to travel six hours into his own past—as part of this process, Original-Abe sits incommunicado in a hotel room, so as not to interact or interfere with the outside world, after which Original-Abe enters the box, waits inside the box for six hours (thus going back in time six hours), and becomes Future-Abe, who travels across town, explains the proceedings to Aaron, and brings Aaron back to the self-storage facility housing the box. At the end of the overlap-timespan, Original-Abe enters the box and ceases to exist.
Abe and Aaron repeat Abe's six-hour experiment multiple times over multiple days, making profitable same-day stock trades armed with foreknowledge of the market's performance. The duo's divergent personalitiesTemplate:SndAbe cautious and controlling, Aaron impulsive and meddlesomeTemplate:Sndput subtle strain on their collaboration and friendship. These tensions come to a head after a late-night encounter with Thomas Granger (father to Abe's girlfriend, Rachel), who appears inexplicably unshaven and exists in overlap with his original suburban self. Granger falls into a comatose state after being pursued by Aaron; Aaron theorizes that, at some unknown point in the future, Granger entered the "box", with timeline-altering consequences. Abe concludes that time travel is simply too dangerous, and enters a secret second box (the "failsafe box," built before the experiment began and kept continuously running), traveling back four days to prevent the experiment's launch.
Cumulative competing interference wreaks havoc upon the timeline. Future-Abe sedates Original-Abe (so he will never conduct the initial time travel experiment), and meets Original-Aaron at a park bench (so as to dissuade him), but finds that Future-Aaron has gotten there first (armed with pre-recordings of the past conversations, and an unobtrusive earpiece), having brought a disassembled "third failsafe box" four days back with his own body. Future-Abe faints at this revelation, overcome by shock and fatigue.
The two men briefly and tentatively reconcile. They jointly travel back in time, experiencing and reshaping an event where Abe's girlfriend Rachel was nearly killed by a gun-wielding party crasher. After many repetitions, Aaron, forearmed with knowledge of the party's events, stops the gunman, becoming a local hero. Abe and Aaron ultimately part ways; Aaron considers a new life in foreign countries where he can tamper more broadly for personal gain, while Abe states his intent to remain in town and dissuade/sabotage the original "box" experiment. Abe warns Aaron to leave and never return.
Multiple "box-aware" versions of Aaron circulateTemplate:Sndat least one Future-Aaron has shared his knowledge with Original-Aaron, via discussions, voice-recordings, and an unsuccessful physical altercation. Future-Abe watches over Original-Abe, going to painstaking extremes to keep him unaware of the future. An Aaron directs French-speaking workers in the construction of a warehouse-sized box.
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