From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fwd: Screening passes to see PRIMER
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:43:01 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

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From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Cc: <leeandalexis at hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 9:40 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Fwd: Screening passes to see PRIMER

> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:13:10 -0400
> From: "Ivory Zorich" <izorich at allieddc.com>
>
> Dear Washington Science Fiction Association:
>
> I handle the promotions of films in the DC area for THINKFilm, and am
> currently working with them to promote the film PRIMER, which won the
> Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival.  Since the
> plotline evolves around an engineering breakthrough, I am contacting
> science organizations in the area to see if they would be interested in
> distributing advance screening passes for the film to their members.
> Please see below for screening information and for the film's synopsis.
> If you are interested in receiving screening passes, please let me know,
> and I will be happy to send them to you for distribution.
>
[...]
>
> Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and
> the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for advancing science and technology in film,
> PRIMER is a mesmerizing and unique experience that introduces us to a
> gifted new filmmaker, Shane Carruth.
>
> PRIMER is set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an
> unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe (Carruth) and
> Aaron (David Sullivan), are members of a small group of men who work by
> day for a large corporation while conducting extracurricular experiments
> on their own time in a garage.  While tweaking their current project, a
> device that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by
> blocking gravitational pull, they accidentally discover that it has some
> highly unexpected capabilities--ones that could enable them to do and to
> have seemingly anything they want.  Taking advantage of this unique
> opportunity is the first challenge they face.  Dealing with the
> consequences is the next.

Bullshit pseudo-science.   Mass and gravitational pull are two entirely
separate things.   Mass continues to exist in a weightless condition.
Sounds like your standard "three wishes" wish-fulfilment machine.
Produces rabits from hats whenever one is needed by the plot.

It's possible the movie is better than it sounds from this description, but
as PR aimed at "science organization" guys, this is *lame*.

--Ted White