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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Primer is a 2004 independent film, written and directed by Shane Carruth. (Also produced by Shane Carruth, starring Shane Carruth, edited by Shane Carruth, Shane Carruth as director of photography and with a soundtrack composed by Shane Carruth.) It was made on a minuscule budget of $7,000, most of which went towards buying film stock. The film is a character-driven drama about two engineers who unexpectedly create a Time Machine, and an examination of how Time Travel (and the power it confers) affects them and their friendship.Quite possibly the single nerdiest film ever made, and one that brings technical jargon to a new art form, it is also one of the most believable via its starkly straightforward presentation.The film opens with two engineers and entrepreneurs, Abe and Aaron, building electronics in Aaron's garage. After achieving some success with their latest project — a room temperature superconductor — they discover it has an unexpected side-effect: creating time loops. Everything they place inside the Box runs back and forth through time for roughly 1300 iterations.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })By scaling up the Box, they're able to use it as a means to travel into the past. The device has its limitations: As it does not laterally bypass temporal mechanics, but rather inverts its progression, they have to take The Slow Path: to go back in time two hours, one has to remain in the box for the same duration. As it alters time only within its own dimensions and during operation, and offers only one 'exit node' back into standard temporal progression, they can only travel back to the time that it was turned on, not before or after.Even with the limitations, however, they figure out how to use time travel to make a nice profit, through effectively living through the same period a second time with foreknowledge of the stock market.Then something goes wrong. And that's when things get really confusing. The plot itself is non-linear. Most of the plot — including several crucial events — is neither shown nor described, just implied. And on top of that, the characters communicate almost exclusively in dense Techno Babble.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); }) Some helpful, spoilerific, graphs: A graphical representation of how time travel in the Box works. Abe and Aaron's paths through time.◊ The timeline(s) of the entire film.◊ Step-by-step breakdown and explantion of the film's plot. And to top it off, it is so complex that it even frustrated Randall Munroe, as can be seen at the bottom right of his comic about movie narratives.Yes, this is a movie that requires graphs to get a handle on.Shane Carruth later went on to direct (and write, produce, star in etc.) Upstream Color. | |
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Second-Hand Storytelling | |
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Second-Hand Storytelling: Half the reason the film is so mind screwy is because several key events are described rather than shown — and the characters doing the describing would rather be laconic than descriptive. | |
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The Slow Path | |
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The Slow Path: In both directions. To go back two hours, you have to sit in the box for two hours. This causes enormous problems when Abe and Aaron use the failsafe boxes. They travel backwards for days. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Abe and Aaron, but the events of the plot seem to push them apart. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Abe comes up with a very thorough plan to avoid causing Temporal Paradoxes, which turns out to be completely unnecessary (or not, depending on your interpretation of Granger's fate; the idea that he is suffering from temporal paradox — that the consequence of paradox is that the universe destroys you, rather than vice versa — was put forth by Carruth himself, whatever his opinion's worth). Still, points for trying. | |
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Homemade Inventions | |
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Homemade Inventions: The time machine. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Aaron's headphones.; Rats in the attic. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: They/he took from his/their surroundings what was needed, and made of it something more. Overlaps with Meaningful Echo. | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: Abe and Aaron's work clothes might as well be uniforms. At one point, Abe is shown sleeping in them. | |
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Clone Degeneration | |
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Clone Degeneration: Word of God for states that doubles created via Time Travel are imperfect copies. This is the reason for Aaron and Abe's earbleeds and the degradation of their handwriting when they begin altering their past. It may also account for their personality swaps. | |
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Checkpoint | |
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Check Point: Non-video game example; the Box's limit that you can only travel back to the point where it was turned on is similar to the function of a checkpoint. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "I hope you're not implying that any day is unimportant at Cortex Semi." A Wham Line not for the words itself, but for the fact that Aaron says it even though Abe had failed to remember the line that prompted it, revealing that he was reciting the conversation from memory, too. The lines before that also count, such as the fact that Abe has a secret backup time machine which has been running for most of the movie. | |
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White Male Lead | |
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White Male Lead: Abe and Aaron. Phillip, the one major character of color, is quickly sidelined out of the action, and the female characters never emerge from the background. | |
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Mistaken for Gay | |
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Mistaken for Gay: The pair speculates that this is bound to happen, what with the extended time they spend by themselves in a hotel room waiting to come out. | |
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Time Is Dangerous | |
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Time Is Dangerous: Excessive time travel causes strange physical problems in the protagonists: mysterious bleeding from their ears and deterioration of their handwriting. Word of God is that this is also a case of Clone Degeneration. In a more subtle example, repeated time travel also seems to cause Aaron and Abe to take on elements of each other's personalities. | |
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Spanner in the Works | |
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Spanner in the Works: Granger's surprise time trip (given the place and time he shows up, he's probably there to prevent a disaster resulting from the punch-Platts experiment). Abe tries to fix the Granger problem two different ways, once with one of the Thursday 5:00pm boxes (we see him running to get into place behind the house before the other Abe leaves the car), and then with his fail-safe box. The former trip left him with a quantum entanglement with Granger, since he had a 50/50 chance of using the same box Granger did — thus Granger lost consciousness whenever he got too close to Abe). | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses: The film leaves the viewer to figure a lot of the very complex plot out on their own. | |
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Hourglass Plot | |
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Hourglass Plot: Aaron starts off as a family man and rather risk-averse (note the scenes where he worries about needing eye protection and warns his wife against using the first batch of ice from the new fridge). Abe starts off unmarried and rather more devil-may-care. Over the course of the film, access to a Time Travel-powered Reset Button makes Aaron become more aggressive and willing to take risks, and he eventually leaves his family. Abe, on the other hand, becomes increasingly worried about the side-effects of time travel and oddly protective of Aaron's family. | |
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Techno Babble | |
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Techno Babble: In the absence of any solid Real Life physics supporting time travel, their hypothesizing about the technicalities can't be anything else. However, the language of mathematics and engineering has been leveraged to maximize plausibility. Within the framework of the film a lot of work has been done to keep things consistent. | |
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Meaningful Echo | |
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Meaningful Echo: They/he took from his/their surroundings what was needed, and made of it something more. Overlaps with Ironic Echo. | |
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Time-Travel Tense Trouble | |
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Time-Travel Tense Trouble: "Man, are you hungry? I haven't eaten since later this afternoon." | |
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The Ending Changes Everything | |
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The Ending Changes Everything: The second act of the film involves the use of very limited Time Travel. However, in the third act Abe learns that his friend Aaron has already used the time machine to change the past. So during the entire aforementioned second act, Aaron had actually been Aaron-from-a-week-in-the-future, manipulating current events for his own ends. | |
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Orbital Shot | |
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Orbital Shot: Seen when Aaron realizes Abe wants to make a bigger box. | |
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Time Machine | |
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Time Machine: Closest it comes is to a Terminator-type, but it's really in a category all its own. | |
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Sdrawkcab Name | |
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Sdrawkcab Name: Abe Terger comes to regret his work at Emiba which leads to a mise en abyme. | |
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Narrator All Along | |
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Narrator All Along: Hooded Aaron's phone message. | |
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Reed Richards Is Useless | |
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Reed Richards Is Useless: They invent a workable TIME MACHINE and the best use they can think of is to make money in the stock market? It is justified, however, since they're intentionally trying to keep as low a profile as possible (and avoid any possible paradoxes or issues with causality) with their time travel exploits until they fully understand what they're dealing with, and are also trying to raise funds for further experimentation. Besides which, using a time machine for profit is hardly an impractical use of such a device. | |
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Anachronic Order | |
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Anachronic Order: Maybe! It's difficult to tell when a linear plot would be going back and forth in time as well. | |
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Deadly Nosebleed | |
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Deadly Nosebleed: A symptom of improperly performed time travel. Granger leaped out of the box late (early from his perspective) because he didn't understand the precise mechanism. | |
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Set Right What Once Went Wrong | |
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Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The plot involves Aaron going back in time twice to save Abe's girlfriend, Rachel, from her psychotic ex-boyfriend. Thomas Granger, Rachel's father, is believed to have come back for similar reasons, but we never find out exactly what his motives were. | |
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Gambit Roulette | |
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Gambit Roulette: When you've already seen events play out, you can make plans work that involve things that would normally be completely unpredictable, but sometimes even having seen it happen once doesn't mean it will happen the same way again. | |
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Time Travel | |
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Time Travel: The central premise. | |
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Prelap | |
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Prelap: An ice machine is triggered on a refrigerator, but the sound is a piece of construction equipment from the next shot. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: Between the multiple time-travels, the non-linear plot and the sea of Techno Babble that the main characters spout at each other constantly is no wonder that most viewers can't keep things straight. It got to the point where the film actually needed graphs in order to explain what was happening. | |
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Clock Discrepancy | |
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Clock Discrepancy: Abe suspects that the Box is a time machine, and he confirms this by placing a digital watch inside it for a minute. Upon removing the watch, it's about 21 hours fast. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Platz is hinted to be one. At first, it seems like he's just your typical Bad Boss but a bit of dialog earlier in the movie refers to an event that happened "last year" and one of the characters saying he knew someone with a legal background that knew about "cases like ours." Suggesting Platz took an intellectual property invented by the characters (probably claiming that it was developed on company time with company resources, which is often covered in employment contracts) and kept the profits for himself while cutting out the people who developed it. | |
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The Story That Never Was | |
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The Story That Never Was: When the power of Time Travel proves too dangerous and too confusing for anyone to use, Abe Terger travels back as far as he can and interferes with his past self's experiments, hoping to stop the past versions of himself and Aaron from pursuing time travel any further. The future versions of Abe and Aaron, who went through all that character development, continue existing—since time travel in Primer results in the travellers cloning themselves unless they're careful to maintain a Stable Time Loop. | |
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Reset Button | |
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Reset Button: Various characters have back-up boxes going from the beginning of the story in case something goes wrong. Then they start folding up more boxes and bringing them back in the fail-safe one. | |
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Gambit Pileup | |
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Gambit Pileup: Two Chessmasters, a Time Machine, and no need to worry about causing a Temporal Paradox. Things get complicated. | |
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No Ending | |
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No Ending: We don't know whether Abe's plan succeeds, what Hooded Aaron is doing, or what Aaron Three is doing. | |
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Time Travel for Fun and Profit | |
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Time Travel for Fun and Profit: Abe and Aaron never got around to publicizing their time machine, because they were too busy using hourly time travel to make money day-trading stocks. | |
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Misapplied Phlebotinum | |
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Misapplied Phlebotinum: Abe and Aaron could have made money in a number of ways more efficiently than playing the stock market, though the movie shows that they go about it this way because they're trying to be as careful as possible about the impact they have on causality, as they don't know which rules apply to their type of time travel, and they're trying to hide their invention's existence until they fully understand it. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: They researched what would happen if you had two copies of the same cellphone. Turns out, some networks just look for the first one, and others ring both. Research into the physics of time has suggested that if a time machine was built, it would have at least one similar restriction as in the movie: it would only allow you to travel back to the point at which it was turned on. | |
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