Primer

I thought that primer was very interesting. I was particularly interested in the way time travel worked in the movie. There was a set of rules. They could only go back in time and had to stay in the box and away from their doubles. When Aaron eventually broke the rules paradoxes were created in time. Doubles of the charters were brought into existence and they could not get rid of them unless they used their failsafe box to go back to the very beginning of their time traveling.
All of these rules shifts in time, and paradoxes remind me of the hypertexts we have read. In most of them there is a set of rules that the reader has to operate within to get the story. There are shifts in where links will take you and almost like time travel certain links will take you back and forth within the story.
I did think that the movie was kind of hard to follow as a plot. I had to look up some extra information after watching it. Parts were missing or not explained fully. I did not really understand why they wanted to stop the gunman from not shooting anybody at the party. Rachel’s father who used the box somehow. I also felt that they left out the creation of the failsafe and how the doubles were created but maybe I just missed that.
The way that the plot went was also reminiscent of a hypertext though. The gaps in the plot only made me more interested in what was going on and how the story was being told in particular. Were there reasons that they left out these important scenes? It added to the confusion that the characters may have been going through. Not knowing what would happen to them as they time traveled. What the consequences of their actions may have been.
While researching to try and figure the movie out I found this timeline for the events. http://www.freeweb.hu/neuwanstein/primer_timeline.html I thought it was interesting because it looks like the contents of patchwork girl withal the different places that the story goes. Very similar to hypertext as I have already said.


The way that they explored the time travel reminded me of the way that Navidson and his friends explored the house. At first they just went for a couple hours testing the travel and how it works. Then they went further attempting to use it for their own personal gain. Eventually they went to far like Holloway and got trapped within the paradoxes that they created with no way to go back and change what they had done.