This is why, with it's grainy look and unapologetic geekiness, Primer is a true twee film.
The film embraces it's nerdiness, never talking down to it's audience or trying to portray it's heros as hyper-masculine or tough. Despite their sophisticated dialogue, the main characters Abe and Aaron, have a twee, childishness about them. Director Shane Carruth says in his commentary that he wanted to depict them as kids screwing around in a clubhouse rather than mature inventor's pondering the secrets of the universe.
The film embraces it's rough edges as signs of authenticity. Carruth also noted in his director's commentary that he chose the slightly un-balanced, yellowish color on purpose for it's rawness. If you want to see how DIY this thing really was, just get a look at it's wiki page.
While this wasn't my favorite film we've watched in class, I can appreciate the work and DIY spirit put forward by Director/ Producer/ Writer/ Actor/ Musician/ Editor Shane Carruth.
You have violated the "no movie review" rule here. Granted, you do classify it as a twee film, but that's just putting it in a genre or movement at this point. More connections needed.
ReplyDeleteSide note: the director talked about the costumes just being a carryover from their prep school days, that both of them are just sort of entitled, relatively clueless jerks. Are they really Twee protagonists? They're pretty awful to one another at the end. And the idea that they've increased the number of their doubles in the world isn't a good thing for any of us, given the last scene. Whatever beauty they stumbled on to they exploited for gain. You never sensed the band in God Help was after anything like that.