Still confused by the twists and turns inside Shane Carruth's time traveling indie Primer? Never fear, someone has finally made the ultimate guide to Abe's wild time-traveling ride. Behold the world's most complicated time travel movie, solved. (Sort of.)
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If you need a quick brush up on your Primer time traveling rules check out this chart (which explains how time travel works in the film) first before you start digging into this graph of the timelines. Click to enlarge, or right-click and select "open link in new tab."
As far as we can tell this design is pretty perfect, and it's very interesting to see where all the off-camera moments take place, especially the Parisian box scene.
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DISCUSSION
My only confusion is why people love this movie so much- because every time I've tried to watch it, I've fallen asleep before anything happens. Not that it's necessarily the movie's fault- I am a very sleepy man.