Primer

Primer
[2004]
Dir: Shane Carruth


A los que les guste la ciencia ficción: si no vieron esta peli, lean sólo este primer párrafo y omitan el resto del post, por no quitarle gracia a la primera media hora de la película. Que les baste con saber que, aunque algo difícil de seguir, tiene un guión muy original. Y para ser un film prácticamente casero (7000 dólares) los resultados son sorprendentes.
Hay películas que dejan mucho para rumiar. En este caso, y creo que nunca me pasó antes, apenas terminé de verla me puse a verla por segunda vez.


Atención: SPOILERS AHEAD, no lean más si prefieren (como yo) no saber nada del argumento.

Here is what is going to happen. I'm gonna read this, and you are gonna listen.

-How does it feel?
-I don't know... I don't know if I am making it up


Abe.. it's 7... Abe, it's 7 at night


There was value in the thing... clearly. That, they were certain of. But what is the application?


-You have anything important at work today?
-I hope you are not implying that any day is unimportant at Cortex Semi

-You thought it was a joke, right?
-It IS a joke

-What's next is not a prank, ok? I wouldn't do that to you, and I am not doing it to you. So when you see this you can't yell or make any noise or run away... ok?
(...)
Who was that, Abe?


-At 8:30am I set the timer for 15 minutes (...)
-ok... I lost it
-What?
-Why the timer?
-Because, the moment we start those machines, is the moment we'll end up getting out of them
-Right, got it
-And I don't want to be around when they do

-I got into a hotel room and tried to isolate myself
-What do you mean isolate?
-I mean , I closed the windows, unplugged everything in the room, telephone, TV, everything. I didn't want to take the chance of running into someone I knew or seeing something on the new that might .... If we are dealing with causality, and I don't even know for sure... I just took myself out of the equation
-Err on the side of caution
-Yes

-What is your opinion on how safe this thing is?
-Aaron, I cannot imagine any way in which this thing could be considered anywhere remotely close to safe. All I know is that I spent 6 hours in there and I am still alive. You still wanna do it?


They idea had been spoken. And the words wouln't go back after they had been uttered aloud
-So, you are understanding this, right?
-Abe, you don't have to sell me not doing this, ok?
-No, the thing is, even if you do stop yourself, your double, from hitting Platts, then why would he, your double, get in the box?


-I figured, at least you'd understand this
-Understand what? You've never been like this!
-That's what I mean. You see how different things are.
-Different, how are things different?
-You see it, ok? I know you do.

-Are you kidding?
-I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I forgot it was on my pocket
-It's Kara?
-Yeah
-How do cell phones work? If there's duplicate phones and I call the same number, do they both ring at the same time? it's a radio signal
-That's not how they work, it's a network. It checks each area and when it finds the phone it stops ringing. It rings the first one
-This one is ringing
-Right
-So the one your double has in Russelfield can't be
-Right. I think we broke simmetry


Two mg of oral triazolam every seven hours induces a safe sleep state and a minimal metabolic rate.

OJO, siguen los SPOILERS:

Bueno ahora los que ya la vieron, o los que no se aflijan con spoilers, les cuento que Primer presenta un modelo muy interesante de viaje en el tiempo.

El principio es seguramente algo confuso con toda la jerga técnica; no se aflijan -aunque también está bueno sobre todo si uno es nerd- Lo más sorprendente es la forma en que se resuelven las paradojas de causalidad y líneas temporales. Es tan bueno que me quedé pensando...
LA PUTA MADRE, ASI ERA COMO TENÍAN QUE RESOLVER EN LOST LAS LINEAS TEMPORALES PARALELAS EN LUGAR DE LA PUTA MIERDA DE QUE ESTABAN TODOS MUERTOS.

Bien. No lo sigo más. Si quieren aprovechar esta película, vayan a verla, y cuando terminen, prepárense para verla otra vez (al menos la segunda mitad) - salvo que la tengan re-clara, lo más probable es que sólo hayan podido intuir lo que pasó. La seguna visión es necesaria y tiene su recompensa. Y después, sólo después, confirmen lo que vieron con estas dos muy buenas explicaciones:

Primer: The Perils and Paradoxes of Restricted Time Travel Narration.
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