Primer

I watched this sci-fi movie yesterday. One of the rare cases a director was able to tell a scifi story without to strain the usual devices like phantastic machines and those foolish explanations about their functionality and the like. The movie hasn't any philosophical content nor intentions (paradoxes about parallel worlds and changing one by doing something in the other, even though the protagonists have to deal with them) and you can simply enjoy their profane and technical dialogs, which cover most of the film.

PRIMER is set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe and Aaron, are members of a small group of men who work by day for a large corporation while conducting extracurricular experiments on their own time in a garage. While tweaking their current project, a device that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by blocking gravitational pull, they accidentally discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities--ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.

Primer
WB.