Primer

The way Primer was filmed made the movie seem much more realistic than other time-travel movies I have seen. It appeared to be incredibly low budget, almost documentary-like. One thing that stood out to me was the way that the actors had conversations, especially in the opening scene. When they were all sitting around the table and talking, some were talking over one another, others were talking slowly as if they were actually thinking about each word before they said it, and I feel like this is something that most movies overlook because conversations are always so smooth and uniform, whereas this movie actually mimicked real life. This is important to the overall feel of the movie because it makes the audience feel like they are watching something that has the potential to be incredibly real, rather than some elaborate, high-tech, and beyond our time, futuristic plot. In a way, the realism made Primer one of the creepiest things we’ve watched in class all year because it made time travel seem so possible.