Primer

While I understand that the movie Primer is intentionally meant to be confusing, I thought I would have a better understanding of what was happening by the end of the movie. This did not happen. The level the filmmakers took it to made me progressively more confused as time went on, and by the end I was just as, if not more confused than I had been when the movie started. Despite my frustrations, I believe this contributed to the overall effect of the movie because the subject of time travel is generally portrayed as very simple, such as in Back to the Future or the Time Traveler’s Wife, where the characters very easily go back in time, do fairly normal things, and while they do mess things up for the future sometimes, the consequences are never very severe and for the most part everybody acts responsibly. The fact that this movie was very technical and confusing, even for the creators of this time travel, shows how utterly complex and disastrous it can actually be. It also highlights human nature to be more realistically selfish because Aaron and Abe both take advantage of one another and even cut their original partners out of the invention because they want to reap all the benefits for themselves.