Primer

Primer makes my belief, that low-budget movies from independent directors are way better than over-hyped & over-publicized high-budget flicks, even stronger.

The plot is inherently complicated because of the implications of time travel.
Now when it comes to Time Travel, there are two ways to approach it:-
1. Consider that everything you did/do/will do is part of your destiny. The result will remain the same whether you toy with the past or not. The universe will course-correct itself if you meddle with it. You are a pitiful slave of your fate/destiny.
This is the approach taken by LOST so far, for everyone except Desmond.

2. The second approach is way cooler. Remember Back to the future? Go ahead, play with the past and get a brand new "present" every time you return back. This is what happens in Primer, even though there are very little repercussions of messing around with time.


I won't spoil the movie for you by going into the details of the plot, but here's an illustration of the mechanism involved in the time travel in Primer (courtesy Wikipedia). You can safely take a look at the pic, it won't spoil the movie for you.

--REMOVED :-(

Primer is a Sci-Fi movie "for the thinking man". There are no fancy gadgets or effects. Even the machine is never shown in detail, all we see is a box. This is the only movie that I've seen till now that comes close to The Man from Earth, in being a sci-fi without the standard Hollywood sci-fi elements in the movie (Robots, space ships, an abundance of artificial intelligence).


PS: When I say close, I am talking about light years. The Man from Earth is simply amazing.