Primer

Movie • 2004

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Brace yourself for a quantum headache—this lo-fi powerhouse crams doctoral dissertations’ worth of paradoxes and technical jargon into its compact runtime. Bonus points for diagrams and wild Reddit threads.

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Few films play so ruthlessly with narrative structure and causality as 'Primer' does. Carruth's labyrinthine script is a puzzle that rewards obsession—time travel has never felt so mentally taxing. 'What if every choice creates a new path?'—this film runs wild with that premise.

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A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.