Primer (film)
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Primer is a 2004 film about four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs who, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention, which appears to be able to distort time.
- Written and directed by Shane Carruth.
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[edit] Aaron
- You're talking about making a bigger one.
- Are you hungry? I haven't eaten since later this afternoon.
- I am trying, okay, I really am here.
- What's worse, thinking you're being paranoid or knowing you should be?
- That is no static shock.
- [narrating; repeated line] They took from their surroundings and made it something more.
[edit] Abe
- Aaron, I can imagine no way in which this thing could be considered anywhere remotely close to safe. All I know is I spent six hours in there and I'm still alive... You still want to do it?
[edit] Dialogue
- Kara: Did you call pest control?
- Aaron: Babe, I'm telling you, they're birds. You don't want a bunch of dead baby birds up there. Do you?
- Kara: They don't sound like birds.
- Aaron: [to Abe] She thinks there are rats in the attic.
- Abe: I just want you to see it the way I saw it.
- Aaron: I am trying, okay, I really am here.
- Abe: Look, everything we're putting into that box becomes ungrounded, and I don't mean grounded like to the earth, I mean, not tethered. I mean, we're blocking whatever keeps it moving forward and so they flip-flop. Inside the box it's like a street - both ends are cul-de-sacs. I mean, this isn't frame dragging or wormhole magic, this is basic mechanics and heat 101.
- Aaron: This is not mechanics and heat.
- Abe: [Notices Aaron's ear is bleeding] Whoa. You're bleeding.
- [Takes handkerchief and places in on his ear]
- Aaron: I got it.
- [Holds it to his ear]
- Aaron: Is this normal? This isn't normal.
- Abe: For the machine?
- Aaron: [Irritated] No, for people! What do you think, it's the machine?
- [Abe looks as if to help]
- Aaron: All right, I got it!
- Abe: Do you have anything important going on at work today?
- Aaron: I hope you're not implying that any day is unimportant at Cortex Semi.
- Aaron: Do you feel like a steak?
- [Abe gives him a bemused look]
- Aaron: To eat?
[edit] Taglines
- If you always want what you can't have, what do you want when you can have anything?
- What happens if it actually works?
[edit] Cast
- Shane Carruth - Aaron
- David Sullivan - Abe
- Casey Gooden - Robert
- Anand Upadhyaya - Phillip
- Carrie Crawford - Kara
