I have included some cool links concerning the movie Primer. First and foremost is the movie’s website, Primermovie.com. But beware: it only becomes more confusing, and I would recommend finishing the movie before you play around there. Below are two interviews that I enjoyed reading:
A Primer Primer–An interview with Shane Carruth for The Village Voice
The Creator of Primer Discusses His First Film–Rebecca Murray interviews Shane Carruth for About.com (there is even an insightful Gatsby reference in this one).
Also check out this article from The New York Times: “Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don’t.”
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wow this movie was a stinker compared to “Being John Malkovich.” which is also quite post-modern.
I think the reason I chose this movie (first coupled with Borges, mind you, but a better fit with Vonnegut) is to question the idea of fate and free will, and to look at some realistic “time-tripping” (if that makes sense). Remember that, according to the Tralfamadorians, only on Earth is there any talk of this concept of free will. Plus it is a nice movie to study technically–from costumes, to shots, to music, to dialogue.
I’m not sure I would consider it a postmodern film, although I agree that almost anything by Kaufman would fall neatly under postmodernism. “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” would be a great companion piece with “Slaughterhouse,” simply because we have time-shift via memories, which seems very similar to Billy Pilgrim’s “condition.”