I picked it up this week, but haven't found the time to watch it...maybe after Deadwood tonight
I've watched the film twice (still have it via Netflix), and I plan on watching it a third time. It's a good solid science fiction film, w/ exponentially more depth than most blockbusters combined. It *is* confusing, and intentionally so, because the characters themselves are confused about what's happening to them. There is a good amount of psychological subtext going on, and I love the metaphor connecting paint primer w/ trying to fix the past. Absolutely beautiful.
If it's true he's a Christian (and a Christian science fiction writer too!), awesome. The best witness is excellence, and a movie like Primer would do more to get the lapsed and jaded blue staters to think about religion and Christianity positively (once they know the director is a person of faith), than any # of simplistic Left Behind books or Christian bands who rewrite Green Day songs w/ Jesus in the chorus. Creativity counts, God gave us the imagination, let's use it. Carruth has real talent for storytelling, and I look forward to his next film, and I'll pray for his success. You could tell by the director's commentary on the DVD, that he was a family guy who loved his (still married) parents and his siblings.
Sounds like one hubby might like. He likes most of them, but today he was disappointed by "national treasure" found it boring and Nicholas Cage a bad "action hero". I liked it, but I'm a history geek, so I don't prove hubby wrong. I also really LOVE any movie that is clean these days, and "National Treasure" was, insofar as I saw.
"Primer" is definately one to keep in mind, thanks for posting this!