Lindsay Robertson and her quote from James Vernier of the Boston Herald, “Being hard to understand is not the same as being smart.” doesn’t really apply to Primer. There are a lot of things that are hard to understand and smart at the same time. Primer is one of them. She is right that the actors’ lack of enunciation makes the film unneccesarily hard to understand but considering the whole thing was produced, directed, scored and written by one guy, Shane Carruth, and he carried the lead acting role we can forgive them that. I will concede a little more ground to Lindsay and say that anyone attempting to consume this film should either be very clear-headed and ready for a science class along with their sci-fi or maybe get really stoned so they can ignore it.
If you decide to go through with watching it and still have questions (as I did) here’s a page that breaks the whole movie down.
Switch the pieces around on this board to make music. So what if it’s French. It’s fun.
