Primer
“What happens if it actually works?”
Science FictionDramaThriller
A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.
VIBE
This is a dense, cerebral puzzle box that demands your full attention. It feels like a tense, low-fi experiment spiraling into an intricate web of temporal paradoxes and escalating paranoia, leaving you questioning reality and the nature of consequence long after the credits roll.
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distrustgaragemathematicsidentity crisistime traveltime machineparadoxmechanical engineeringdeterminismincredulous
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