The realm of time travel movies is all about the 'What if you COULD do this' scenario. We all think about this, what if you could make your life better or make more money or make this girl or boy fall in love with you, or stop an assassination from happening.
With Shane Carruth and his first feature film, 2004's Primer, he wasn't so much interested in the 'what if's as much as showing hardcore, honest-to-goodness scientific PROCESS. How does the procedure work to put together a box made out of metal and screws and electrodes and full of energy from car batteries (if that's what it takes) to make time travel possible? Is there a method to it? Should we even know about it?
Jack looks this week at this stone-cold science fiction take on the time travel scenario - a flip-side, one could say, of our previous Cinema Immersion Tank episode of Andrew's Back to the Future episode - and if it gets and deeper or more revelatory after 5 viewings in 5 days.
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