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Shane Carruth engineered his famously complicated 2004 time travel film Primer for exactly seven thousand dollars by writing his own musical score and ruthlessly limiting his…

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Time travel is confusing enough without making a movie about it using pocket change and garage equipment. Microbudget sci-fi is usually just code for 'terrible CGI in the woods,' but Carruth opted for mind-melting narrative complexity instead, famously creating a cult classic so scientifically dense that audiences need flowcharts just to figure out who is currently in what timeline.

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