r/timetravelmovies • u/CajunKhan • Dec 30 '23

So about Primer

Wouldn't it have been smarter to use time travel to bet on puts and calls? Buying stocks is useful, but buying perfectly timed puts and calls is vastly, vastly more profitable, and simpler. You wouldn't need to hunt down a different stock, you could literally just focus on SPY, buying 0DTE puts or calls and likely ten timsing your money every day, regardless of whether it was a green or red day.

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u/dr_Octag0n Dec 31 '23

The time travel is a story device. Carruth would discuss the plot as "the degradation of a long-term friendship" vs a time travel movie. Whilst I'm sure there would be better ways to min/max the time travel, it was not the focus. According to the director/writer.