Last film of the fest for me this year, and one of the best. Jam packed showing at the Ryerson tonight. Primer is ultra cool, low budget, brilliantly scripted and executed...you want to see this one (Kyle, anyway). Having said that, it's often difficult to understand (and believe) the non-linear and complicated plot. Basically, it's about an unlikely, unsuccessful garage-based start-up company of four preppies that moves in wildly unexpected directions. Overtones are menacing and super-serious, but the film does have a huge sense of irony. I won't give it away.
Stylistically, at the start the dialogue is pure Mamet, overlapping and obtuse, but then it settles into its own rhythm of wildly cryptic, often frustrating double-speak...as the plot moves into hyperspace. It's almost as if writer/director Shane Carruth fashioned this obscure mode of dialogue and editing by taking traditional conversations and pulling out every second sentence, or third word. The main question at the Q&A was "what happened when...."
Nevertheless, highly recommended and coming, I'm sure,to a theatre near you.
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