I'd really like to avoid spoilers, so let's just say that Primer's a amazingly naturalistic science fiction movie, with Carruth taking a plot that could have been a $80-million special effects extravaganza and instead making a version dripping in realism for $7,000. (Yes. $7,000. And it was even shot on 16mm film.) Despite not making complete logical sense -- at least on first viewing -- Primer succeeds wildly: Partly because Carruth has an amazing eye and editing sense, partially from the various ways it plays off of the theme of trust, and partially in how it takes the mundane (especially in engineering, Ed) and making it exceedingly important. ("How do cell phones work?" is almost a life-or-death question, as are the statements "But back there in the car, he had a two- or three-day stubble" and "Wait, [whatever team] is supposed to win by two.") I'm not completely sure how to explain my feelings about this film, which I love despite maybe understanding 50 percent of it. (In the last ten minutes, more like 20 percent.) But from moment to moment, scene to scene, it's so emotionally gripping that any parts I don't quite get are still griping to watch. And here's the kicker for some of you: It was made by a card-carrying evangelical Christian, although admittedly that fact doesn't really play a role in the film (other than that it's the cleanest PG-13 film ever). Engineering types: Rent it now.
--- Contest updates.
I still haven't heard back from TCM, which I'm considering a bad sign. I also haven't heard from the Yale Glee Club, which was supposed to decide on a winner in late April, but I'm not considering that a bad sign because (a) they said they would let everyone who entered the contest know who the winner was, and (b) they said they would post the winner on the website, which it isn't. So.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
