Two viewpoints on Primer
Kevin Ohannessian wrote in the Fast Company Blog about the movie Primer, directed by and starring Shane Carruth and made for about US $7K:This film does a wonderful job of catching that excitement, the discovery of something new and the promise of success. It is an intimate representation of a process that has occurred hundreds of times. Many innovations have come from two guys in a garage. Whether we are talking about Apple, Atari, or Microsoft. [...]I made a response to that post, which you can read at their site if you feel you must. But for me the bottom line is this: it's only "Entrepreneur as Hero" for about the first third of the movie. Then it goes to docudrama sci-fi. It's about time travel paradoxes -- a common theme in sci-fi movies and literature, and in my opinion done better in The Butterfly Effect and TimeShifters, and probably WILL be done better in A Sound of Thunder. (Not saying very much here, am I?) Give Carruth the credit he deserves for making this watchable flick on a shoestring budget -- an entrepreneur's example if not an entrepreneur's movie -- and for his Sunshine Festival award, and let it go at that.
Primer cost a mere $7000 and has become a cult hit. Carruth did much himself, playing one of the two leads, besides editing and scoring the movie.
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