Jacob M.
This whole Primer business has blown up all over the place recently, so I decided to check it out myself a few weeks ago since it is about something that I am interested in. I did watch it twice in two days just like everyone else on earth seemingly has, but only to clear up one scene in the film. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about exactly why my mind was not blown by this movie like everybody else’s was. I thought maybe I wasn’t ‘getting it’. I found this chart online, and realized that no, I did understand perfectly, except the timelines I had in my head were much simpler and less redundant (nine timelines not counting the perfecting of the shotgun situation? More like 6! AmIRiteLadies?). I don’t know, maybe it’s because I read too much theory on actual time travel and paradoxes that it just didn’t phase me. Also, their boxes worked much better as cloning machines than time machines. |
