Minor Premise

I'm a screenwriter and this flick really stunned me. Totally original, compelling sci-fi from an Indy studio that focused on script and story, not CGI. Really impressive work. Finely drawn characters and grade A performances from the whole cast and the director, too. It's up there with PRIMER and INTACTO.

Hello scifi lovers, I saw this flick last night , I was curious mainly because de good reviews here, but couldn´t finish, I coud no make it though the first 30 minutes. It's so difficult to follow, everything is a mess though the director makes some ineffective attemps to clarify things. You will get mess up with the neuroscience jargon, the formulas, the whole context is so complex. If you are lucky you might grasp some of the thread of the story and try to follow it but it is so demanding intellectually thay eventually you get tired and bored. When a movie becomes causes the same degree of tension as a math exam then it is no entertainment, it becomes a torture labeled as art. minor premis, minor entertainment

I'm not sure if this film is very, very smart or very, very stupid, which probably says more about me than the film. I will say one thing definitively and that is it's fairly intriguing if you let yourself get into it. The lead actor, and more or less the whole show with one smaller exception, is played by an actor who seemed so familiar to me yet there is nothing in his credits that I have seen. His name is Sathya Sridharan this is a whale of a role for any actor and he mostly pulls it off. This low budget budget film, and it shows now and then, is about a man dealing with 10 aspects of his consciousness as he has separated them from being one entity. Beyond this intricate scenario he changes from one aspect to another every 6 minutes. So we see him jumping from apathy, exuberance, anger, psychosis, etc. He is sometimes at war with himself somewhat like a split personality. While a lot of this is very interesting some of it is not very clear at times particularly the time jumping. He has brought this dilemma on to himself by following in the footsteps of his father who pops up every now and then as well though I'm not so sure how much this character is needed. As an on and off assistant to him in all of this is his very patient ex-girlfriend who is the one exception that I mentioned. This will either be boring, nonsense or intriguing depending upon the individual watching. I suspect that the first choice will be the most common, but for serious sci-fi buffs you probably want to take a peek at this.

It was a really interesting concept with the split personality angle but difficult to grasp the thread of what was happening for much of the film. This would have been fine if you were invested in the characters but they were hard to root for as their motivations just did not seem convincing. I didn't really believe in the protaganists passionate, single minded pursuit of "the work" nor his partner's total commitment to stick by him in the most extreme circumstances. A great example of how to execute this kind of story really well is Shane Carruth's 2004 film 'Primer' and although Minor Premise evoked some aspects of that film it was much less enjoyable, for me.

I can't understand the amazing reviews on this. I couldn't even finish this film. The plot was weak, horrible acting. It was as if we watching someone who was so bored by lockdown that they were trying anything to get through but for us the viewers it was irritating and boring.