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CMV: The movie Primer was unnecessarily confusing and should be remade

I really enjoyed the movie "Primer", although like most people I didn't understand what just happened the first time I watched it. The things that were great

* The plot.
* The acting\- so natural and not overdramatic
* The time machine, and its effects, which were really cool and well thought out

So, now that I've gone through and figured out what the plot even is, I've come to the conclusion that

1. its not actually that hard to understand what happened once i looked at the timeline charts online
2. The problem is in the movies execution, the plot is not inherently too confusing for mainstream
3. that this movie is a \*great\* candidate for a remake which more clearly explained things while keeping the plot exactly the same

Consider the movie "Memento" (which, obviously, is not a fair comparison because memento is a big budget hollywood movie and Primer is an indie on like a 10k budget, but go with it). The premise of memento could easily be incomprehensible, but instead it was easy for mainstream audiences to get. Memento deliberately invoked confusion in the audience to help us empathize with the main character, but took great pains to avoid confusion otherwise\- for example, using b&w vs color to separate the two converging timelines, showing us the beginning/end of each scene twice so we would make the connection, etc.

Primer is confusing unintentionally, and in the wrong ways. If the plot is complex the editing should be crystal clear, and it isnt. I often found myself unsure if Abe or Aaron was talking\- in other scenes (such as when Mr Granger shows up) the fast paced cuts made me have to rewind and rewatch what should have been a very simple scene (Abe and Aaron are planning to create a paradox, instead Granger arrives from the future to stop them and then collapses)

The final third, full of twists and reveals one after another, is inherently hard to follow and requires the audience to pay attention. This is a time when the action should have been slowed down, and the twists over\-explained. Instead the action sped up and half the plot points were implied in passing. This film is only 80 minutes long\- it needed another half hour of runtime. For some reason the beginning when they were building the machine is very deliberately paced but the final act is so breakneck its literally incomprehensible to most first\-time viewers? Weird pacing choice 

Therefore, I think Primer is perfect for a remake, either by a different director or by the same director with more experience and a bigger budget.
gpt
I would say it is editted in a confusing matter deliberately to illustrate how confusing daily time travel will eventually get. It's an obvious choice by the creator because you can mention the difference in pacing yourself in your initial statement. The whole point of the movie is time travel in practice is never going to be as cut and dry and easy to understand as Hollywood films make it out to be- and your suggestion is for them to make the film just like other Hollywood movies- thereby totally neutering its message.