| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | The Manchurian Candidate (2004) |
| Director | Jonathan Demme |
| Writer | Richard Condon (novel), Daniel Pyne & Dean Georgaris (screenplay) |
| Lead Actor | Denzel Washington |
| Cast | Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Kimberly Elise, Jon Voight, Jeffrey Wright, Vera Farmiga, Ted Levine, Bruno Ganz, Simon McBurney |
| Genre | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Release Date | July 30, 2004 (USA) |
| Duration | 2h 9m (129 minutes) |
| Budget | $80 million USD |
| Box Office | $96.1 million USD (worldwide) |
| Language | English |
| IMDb Rating | 6.6/10 |
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Primer is the most realistic time travel movie I have ever seen. This is because instead of fantastic time machines, stunning visual effects, or severe paradoxical outcomes, Primer abandons grandeur in favour of a low-budget, personal feel and makes the science and the dialogue of time travel more important than the act of time travel itself. It has some of the most realistic overlapping dialogue I’ve ever seen in a film, especially one so low-budget.
What if you and your pals accidentally invented the flux capacitor? Four tech industry friends, in their spare time, have been building a box for which they have no purpose. We are introduced to the project midway and are not told what, if any, the reasons for building the box are. But two of them, on their own, discover that their mystery box allows time to fold in on itself from within. The next logical step? Of course, it’s to build another box big enough to fit a person inside.
The two use the machine to get rich on the stock market, and it’s refreshing to see a time travel movie where the protagonists aren’t muddled by ethics or morals. This is a movie that presents the viewer with a question: if you had the chance to go back in time a short distance, what would you honestly want to do?
As the pair begin to distrust each other, the situation becomes disastrous. We are no longer sure what we are watching, or if the characters in any given seen are in their original time, and several mysteries present themselves, which I can’t even be sure after finishing the film, were resolved.
The movie is one that leaves viewers asking more questions than it answers, and we, as the audience, were lucky to have writer/director Shane Carruth deliver a brief Q&A. Without it, the movie definitely needs to be watched multiple times to catch all the angles and hooks. It’s a tricky one, but it’s extremely clever, and lots of fun for a new look at the dangers of time travel.
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