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MarvinGardens

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39. Primer (2004)

Fri Dec 14, 2018, 04:52 PM

Dec 2018

A couple of engineers accidentally invent a time machine allowing local time travel. I.e. they can travel back to the time that the machine was turned on. They initially use it to make money, then things get weird.

I enjoyed it because the dialogue seemed so real, like I was a fly on the wall watching ordinary scientists or engineers, not actors, invent something in their garage.

The later half of the movie is also a brain teaser. Things get confusing with repeated time travel events, and the ending is open to interpretation. I think this is my favorite movie of all time.

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