Everything that happens in Primer makes logical sense if one takes the trouble to work it out, but the feeling of disorientation it initially produces is intentional. Aaron and Abe decide to use their time machine to make a killing on the stock market, but when Aaron asks Abe who makes the first journey back—or does he? All that matters is that the price will go up.
Shot on a shoestring budget and running a compact 77 minutes, the film is a cautionary tale about the nature of discovery, featuring protagonists who stumble onto something world-changing only to employ it for petty, ultimately ludicrous ends.
Abe and Aaron exit back in the morning. Aaron exits a little soon so he gets a zap. They go back and start filling in the life of Aaron and Abe who are in the hotel room. They know which stocks to buy and they buy. Later another day, in the evening, Aaron and Abe are talking about what they want from their lives.
Aaron mentions how he would go meet his boss, punch him in the face and then go back and tell himself to not punch the boss. Abe tells Aaron that he can NOT do that, no changing history; it would lead to a paradox. They continue to make money off stocks. They also decide to not tell the other two friends Robert and Phillip. One morning Robert tells this to Abe. Abe is angry with Aaron for putting his life on the line without caring for his wife and kid. Abe mentions that Rachel is stupid to get into those scenarios.
They continue time travelling the next day. They start the timer and head to the hotel room. When they are in the hotel room, Aaron gets a call because he forgets to switch off his mobile phone.
He takes the call. Talks to his wife and hangs up. They get to the machine and enter the B end. They check to see if each other is feeling fine. At PM, the machine starts up. When in the room, say at about PM, Aaron gets a phone call. He picks it up. The concept of phone towers is that when a call is made to a phone number, a grid wise search for that phone is done, the first grid that finds the phone, rings the phone. That is the break in symmetry. That night, Aaron and Abe are woken up by a bunch of brats whacking cars with sticks setting off car alarms all over the road.
They both stand in the kitchen and talk. Abe suggests an idea to mess around with a paradox. Then get in to their boxes and travel back to the point in the night when the kids are whacking the cars. They scare the kids away. This will ensure that they are not woken up, they never have the conversation they are having, they would continue to wake up in the morning and prep the box and travel the usual 6 hrs. This action however would leave two sets of Aarons and Abes in the next timeline.
Aaron asks Abe how they are to travel back to this point as the machine is not on. Abe admits that he did leave the machine running at PM. So the two of them set off to experiment. Aaron mentions that earlier in the day, her dad was all clean shaven, but this one in the car had a 3 day stubble.
This means that the guy in the car has travelled back to this timeline. This confirms that the guy in the car is from a future time. They take him home and stash him in the guest bedroom. Abe and Aaron go to the facility to see if the machines are fine, and they are.
They both deny of having any such thought. The permutations were endless. It looked like he exited the box too quick and that ended up zapping his brain like we had mentioned before. Abe worries about what he may have changed. But instead they are at home talking about the comatose dad. Aaron feels nothing much could have changed. The point of focus is that, the timelines are being terribly messed around with and that scares the daylights out of Abe. Abe decides that the consequences of this time travel is just too dangerous.
He tells Aaron about another machine which Abe has left running from before his very first time travel. This is referred to as the Failsafe. Abe plans on inducing a long-ass sleep and going back all the way to the beginning and stopping himself from ever travelling through time. That way everything would go back to being how they were supposed to be and will revert to Timeline 1.
No time travel, no problems. Abe uses the Failsafe and goes back to Timeline 1 or at least he thinks he is. He drugs the original Abe from the timeline in his sleep. After that, Abe-from-the-Failsafe lands up on the park bench to meet Aaron.
His plan is to have a general conversation with Aaron and let him go to work. That way neither Aaron or Abe from the original timeline do their first time travel and everything will be undone. But the long-ass time-travel in the Failsafe has made Abe weak. What he also notices is that Aaron continues to have the same conversation they have in Timeline 2 regardless of what Abe says.
As Abe falls to the ground, it is revealed that Aaron on the bench is simply following a recorded conversation that they had from Timeline 2. This means that Aaron is also from the future and is simply trying to re-act a conversation already had between him and Abe. Therefore this is not Timeline 1 or Timeline 2, this is some sort of an altered Timeline???.
On a very high level , Primer tells the story of two white-collar engineers, Abe and Aaron, who inadvertently discover time travel while conducting garage experiments with electromagnetic weight reduction. The men begin to use their machine to their financial and personal advantages, but are soon forced to deal with an increasingly confusing and dangerous set of consequences.
Time travel deconstructs this belief by allowing characters to literally face up to different versions of themselves. What would we do if we met ourselves? Would we like that person? Primer delves into these questions. Many scenes are not actually depicting what they initially appear to be, which further rewards repeated viewings.
He makes things even harder by dropping us into the middle of these technical conversations without much prior context, making Primer a practically exposition-free movie. With a budget of only seven thousand dollars, he took the ultimate DIY approach, starring as Aaron himself and even composing his own music for the score. Although the plot itself becomes almost intractably complicated, the basic time travel paradigm is simple.
The time machine, a box constructed with PVC pipe and duct tape and housed in a storage locker, only supports time travel to the past.
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