Upstream Color (Upstream Colour) (2013)

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" As Carruth's earlier film, Primer (2004), the film likes to play with its audience a bit. And the film with its characters. Really unique film."

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"As Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color builds toward its third and most exhilarating suite, a nearly wordless passage of images and music in which a family seeks a resolution, the film drifts further and further into veiled allegory, relying less on conventional narrative devices than its capacity to suggest and evoke. An early climax involving, of all things, a sack of newborn piglets is astonishing for how lucidly it articulates a very real pain through metaphor, capturing the devastation of loss"

Upstream Color

“A confession: I eventually had to abandon Upstream Color with 30 minutes left to go. Look, you can bombard me with as much abstract and bizarre imagery as you want, but without a tether or reason to care about the abstract oddities, I will not care or invest my brain power and empathy into it.

Puzzle box movies are something of a mixed bag for me, as I can easily find many of them more in love with their own peculiarity and denseness than being actually involving or engaging pieces of art. Upstream Color is in love with its own impenetrability and vagueness that you could argue that this film is about anything at all. Or, it’s actually not about anything but its own disorienting schisms of time, place, narrative, and character.   It’s damn ambitious, I’ll give it tha” read more

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