Thoughts and Questions on the film "Primer"

 

    I had never scene the film Primer prior to the showing in class. I did see the trailer and it got my attention and I was very interested to watch in class. The opening of the film seems to start in the middle of something which threw me off. I think for a good majority of the film I was trying to figure out what was going on. I thought originally they were making some some sort of gravity machine in the garage because the object they were using was floating but I was completely wrong. 

    It wasn't until the end and the class discussion until things started to make more sense. I really had no idea that there were body doubles let alone more than just one pair. I think the scene where the two main characters were in the field watching the storage units was a vital scene when they saw the body doubles. 

The confusion that I am left with is how many body doubles are there? It seems like they go into the machine multiple times. I also wonder how many times the body doubles go into the machine and create more. I also think that it was interesting at the end when the one guy decided to leave America and go to another country to build a large scale version of what they made. 

    I think that the film does a good job of regaining the audiences attention. It throws in key moments that make you question what is going on and then you try to put the pieces of the puzzle together to try and understand what is happening.