Has anyone here seen Shane Carruth's new movie Upstream Color? It's available through a variety of On-Demand or Download Options here and is also travelling around various theaters.
I am a huge fan of Shane Carruth's first film, Primer. I still re-watch it on occasion. I enjoy it's complexity and the fact that you're given just barely enough information to follow the story.
Upstream Color is equally as confusing as Primer, but with a very different subject matter. It's also incredibly beautiful. The music, the way things are filmed, the pacing, the sounds, all savory each on their own.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
If I hadn't been determined to enjoy and benefit from it going in, I don't think I would've. But I was and I did, and I don't believe to be purely a case of self-enforced reaction either. I knew it was going to be a challenging film at the outset, and that there would be a lot hidden beneath the surface. Or hidden on the surface in a sea of chaos that would require great care to see clearly. But having done the hard work, I feel I was rewarded with a movie and experience that wasn't just unconventional, but was effectively unconventional. That said, I enjoyed Primer a great deal more. That has become part of my regular rotation, whereas Upstream Color is not likely to make it in.
I connected to the isolation and confusion of the characters that I think the film captured very well. I'm still not really clear what role the sampler had either metaphorically or in the reality of the movies...
Hobbes Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
I had no idea what the Sampler was doing, or how he was really connected to everything and everyone else, the first time I watched it. This (SPOILER-FILLED) New Yorker review goes into a lot of detail, and points out things that I never noticed and probably wouldn't have noticed even after several viewings.
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