(2004) Inside a two-car garage of a suburban home belonging to Aaron (Shane Carruth), a young engineer, and his wife Kara (Carre Crawford), four amateur inventors - Aaron, Abe (David Sullivan), Robert (Casey Gooden), and Phillip (Anand Upadhyaya) - spend their evenings and spare hours working at developing an idea, using 8th-grade physics, into a marketable product.

Apart from the other two, Abe demonstrates an experiment to Aaron, who acknowledges: "It's stable. So it works." But there's an unexplained weirdness of device's continuing to operate without battery power plus their having no clue as to its practical application.

They entertain a potential venture capitalist, Thomas Granger, whose daughter Rachel is Abe's friend.

Needing a larger container for their secretive experimentation - using a protein buildup from a common fungus, Aspergillus Ticor, within an atmosphere of argon - they move their equipment into a unit inside a storage facility. The Weebles, their doubles, travel forward and back in time while Abe and Aaron remain inside the storage unit for several hours, breathing from oxygen tanks.

Using information obtained about future stock prices and sporting events ("We're prescient," says Aaron), they plan on cashing in without telling anyone else, except …. maybe Kara? but definitely not Robert and Phillip. "What's worse," asks Aaron of Abe, "thinking you're being paranoid or knowing you should be?"

However, paradoxes begin to arise from their cycling back and forth through time - reiterations of trying to reverse engineer the perfect moment; when the symmetry is broken, they lose control, as the narrator (who is he?) says: "the permutations were endless."

Director/writer/producer Shane Carruth's enigmatic, convoluted sci-fi drama may require several viewings to ferret out the details of an intricate story involving the question of how two people can trust each other with knowledge of tremendous power with opportunities for abuse.

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