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Movie Narrative Charts
http://xkcd.com/657/

Brilliant on its own. Priceless with Primer included.

(Primer being the best time travel movie ever made ... right up to the point where it stopped making any and all sense).

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XKCD is frequently awesome. And, I agree, Primer is amazing, although I didn't find it completely incomprehensible at the end (and I don't even like time travel movies).
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Jonkga wrote:XKCD is frequently awesome. And, I agree, Primer is amazing, although I didn't find it completely incomprehensible at the end (and I don't even like time travel movies).
I've often thought it would be a good movie to screen as a group, because I think it might take a group to tease out the complexities. :) I love its scientific approach to time travel; it feels *real* you know? But once the myriad timelines started overlapping, they lost me, mostly because the whole party subplot felt like it jumped out of nowhere. I think it came back together again at the end, but man, that was a bumpy ride in the last third of the movie.

Then again, based on what I've read about Primer ... that was the point. The director was trying to mimic the disorientation of time travel, and I think he did a good job with that. :)
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yeah, I'd agree with your sentiments - it got disorienting on purpose, but there were enough clues in the dialog to figure most of it out. And, I did watch it with others, so talking through the plot certainly helped.
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