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Mar. 16th, 2008 03:44 amJust watched this movie the roomie told me about that he got on DVD called Primer. Its a really interesting and mind blowing movie concerning a certain popular sci-fi concept, which I won't mention because I realize they don't even mention it is about that until well into the movie. They try to be a little more science-y about it, which is kinda cool, but they don't dumb it down, which can lead to confusion. If the roomie hadn't told me about the movie over dinner one night, I might have had trouble grasping the concepts. Because the characters talk about the science of it as if its ojv('Man, its obvious!') Heck, there were a couple of times where they'll go along a line of thinking, not even finishing the sentence and expecting the audience to infer what they were gonna say.
The guy who made the movie is all, he doesn't expect people to get it the first time through, and anyone who says they do is an effin' liar. Which is a little pretentious thing to say. But its true. Hell, I've just watched it a second time and had the roomie talk about the movie before I even saw it and there are still points of confusion. I don't care how smart you are, there are things you just won't see because you're not looking for them, even if you know what the plot of the movie is. I mean, when I saw Sixth Sense, I had heard there was a twist (didn't know what it was though), but just knowing there was a twist I was able to figure it out what it was when Bruce Willis goes to meet his wife at the restaurant and you think she's pissed because he's late. I figured it out, and the rest of the movie, I was thinking "brilliant!" how they cleverly disguised things. This movie, I knew some of the plot elements going in, and while there was a clue or two to one of the twists, there's a lack of context to use that info to figure things out.
Speaking of being aware, people have prolly seen this awareness test already, but I thought it was neat, and slightly creepy.
( Spoiler commentary (on Primer) )
The guy who made the movie is all, he doesn't expect people to get it the first time through, and anyone who says they do is an effin' liar. Which is a little pretentious thing to say. But its true. Hell, I've just watched it a second time and had the roomie talk about the movie before I even saw it and there are still points of confusion. I don't care how smart you are, there are things you just won't see because you're not looking for them, even if you know what the plot of the movie is. I mean, when I saw Sixth Sense, I had heard there was a twist (didn't know what it was though), but just knowing there was a twist I was able to figure it out what it was when Bruce Willis goes to meet his wife at the restaurant and you think she's pissed because he's late. I figured it out, and the rest of the movie, I was thinking "brilliant!" how they cleverly disguised things. This movie, I knew some of the plot elements going in, and while there was a clue or two to one of the twists, there's a lack of context to use that info to figure things out.
Speaking of being aware, people have prolly seen this awareness test already, but I thought it was neat, and slightly creepy.
( Spoiler commentary (on Primer) )
