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Re: Primer (spoilers again!)
Posted By: Don the Monkeyman, on host 66.11.82.41
Date: Monday, September 26, 2005, at 12:37:10
In Reply To: Re: Primer posted by Stephen on Sunday, September 25, 2005, at 14:28:09:

> What'd you think of it?
>
> Stephen

I loved it.

I had gone in cold, as recommended. I did know that it was supposed to be complicated, and that I would need to pay a lot of attention, and so I did, and for a long time, had no idea why people had so much trouble understanding the whole thing. I patted myself on the back a bunch, thinking maybe my knowledge and experience as an engineer was helping me follow the story better than most.

Then the Granger Incident happened, and my fragile little mind and overinflated ego were both shattered.

After reading a bunch of stuff on the PrimerMovie forum, I started to feel more comfortable with my understanding of the movie. I then watched it again with frum (second viewing for him as well) and my brother and another friend of ours (first viewings for them), and I did manage to make more sense of it all. I did come away with some new questions, though, which I think have now been resolved by some more reading at the forum.

> Yeah. One of the rules of time travel Abe writes down is something like "now is the only time that matters" and the narrator tells us something similar.

Is this one of the rules that Abe gives Aaron to read before Aaron's "first" trip in the box? I kind of want to watch the movie again and freeze frame on that shot and try to read more of that list -- it looked really interesting. Is there a forum post where someone has transcribed everything on that sheet?

I have plenty more spoilery stuff I could say/ask, but I'm going to hold off for now.

Don Monkey

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