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Primer

2004 · Science fiction · Shane Carruth · 1h 17m

Two engineers building something in a garage on evenings and weekends realise the box does something they were not aiming for. Made for almost nothing, and it explains nothing.

  • Strongly complicated
  • Strongly intimate

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Describe: Primer

Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

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    2013 · Science fiction

    Eight friends at a dinner party start noticing odd things the night a comet passes overhead, beginning with the phones. Almost all of it happens in one house, with the cast working from an outline.

    • Strongly complicated
    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly heavy

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    Describe: Coherence

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

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  • Identity

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    2003 · Mystery

    Ten strangers are stranded at a desert motel in a rainstorm and are killed off one at a time. One location, and it is built like a puzzle.

    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly complicated

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    Describe: Identity

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

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  • 2014 · Science fiction

    A time-travelling agent working his last case sits down in a 1970s bar and listens to a stranger tell the story of their life. Small, talky, and it asks you to keep track.

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    • Clearly fantastic

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    Describe: Predestination

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