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   From: giaotanj@hotmail.com   
      
   In article <1b7em9dnbx.fsf@pfeifferfamily.net>, pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu   
   says...   
   >   
   > Titus G  writes:   
   >   
   > > On 05/07/18 02:52, D B Davis wrote:   
      
   > >  _Primer_ features two main characters who   
   > >> occupy nine separate, distinct time lines. Think of it as nine   
   > >> subplots in one overarching plot. AFAIK the phone company uses seven   
   > >> digit phone numbers because that's the optimal quantity easily stored   
   > >> in short term memory by most humans. Keeping nine sub-plots in mind   
   > >> taxes most people's short term memory. The movie spends the first   
   > >> half hour setting the stage for what follows. After the initial setup   
   > >> a scene change in the movie typically implies a time line change.   
   > >   
   > > After looking up Wikipedia, I remember watching Primer on television   
   > > years ago but had forgotten the name. (Primer 6 characters, Triangle   
   > > even more.) I lost the plot, (perhaps more than one?), but still   
   > > enjoyed the movie and later found explanatory diagrams after a web   
   > > search. I would watch this again.   
   > >   
   > > Two great recommendations, thank you.   
   >   
   > I read a playscript a while back that, based on a time travel premise,   
   > sounded like something that would be fun to direct.  The timelines   
   > turned out to be so convoluted that the script included a spreadsheet   
   > showing how the events appeared to the different characters.  Ah, no,   
   > I'm nowhere near good enough to stage that in a way that would be   
   > comprehensible to an audience...   
      
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