https://vo.rs/tags/hard-sci-fi/Latest from the Hard Sci-Fi desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 07 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/primer-the-time-travel-film-that-refuses-to-explain-itself/<p>Most time-travel films worry that you will not follow them. <em>Primer</em>, Shane Carruth&rsquo;s 2004 debut, worries about the opposite problem — that you might mistake understanding for something easy. It was made for a reported seven thousand dollars, shot in the suburbs of Dallas by an engineer with a maths degree and no film-school training, and it won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance largely on the strength of being the most confident, least ingratiating science-fiction film anyone there had seen in years. Two decades later it remains the genre&rsquo;s great endurance test: a movie people diagram, chart and argue about, and a movie that is genuinely superb long before you have understood a word of it.</p>Tue, 07 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000