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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Primer is a 2004
American science fiction/drama film about the accidental discovery of a
means of time travel. The film was written, directed, and produced by
Shane Carruth, a mathematician and a former engineer, and was completed
on a budget of $7,000. Primer is of note for its extremely low budget,
experimental plot structure, philosophical implications, and complex
technical dialogue, which Carruth chose not to simplify for the sake of
his audience. One reviewer said that "anybody who claims [to] fully
understand what's going on in Primer after seeing it just once is either
a savant or a liar." The film collected the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance
in 2004 before securing a limited release in US cinemas, and has since
gained a cult following.
