Upstream Color (2013)

[RichWS]

Over Midnight? Shame on you!

 

I haven't seen it yet! It took me six months to see Tree of Life in theaters a couple years ago. Sometimes, I'm just really slow.

[acsc1312]

I haven't seen it yet! It took me six months to see Tree of Life in theaters a couple years ago. Sometimes, I'm just really slow.

Really?! Go see it this weekend. It expanded again

[RichWS]

Really?! Go see it this weekend. It expanded again

 

Good thinking. That is my mission!

[4815162342]

I can wait for DVD, because then I can watch all three Before films for the first time back-to-back-to-back

[Hatebox]

Hot-damn this film was good. For the first 15 mintues I thought it was going to be completely abstract, but there's actually quite a strong narrative. Shane Carruth may just be the most exciting 'new' movie-maker out there now.

Edited September 1, 2013 by Hatebox

[Plain Old Tele]

I pretty much loved this. Beautifully abstract -- I wish we had more American filmmakers doing this sort of thing. The movie references Thoreau repeatedly, but I think T.S. Eliot is appropriate too:

 

With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling

We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring 

Will be to arrive where we started 

And know the place for the first time.

Edited January 12, 2014 by Telemachos

[DAR]

My reaction was hmm. And huh? I'm not in love it with it like some of you. And there were a few times I wondered where it was going or really what the point was. But in the end I liked enough. B-

[tawasal]

I am having hard time finding this movie. DAMN, I will keep looking. 

[JohnnyGossamer]

Uh... One of my favorites of 2014. Unnerving yet comforting experimental science fiction. I trumpet what Tele said... If only more American filmmakers did more film akin to Upstream Color.

[Deep Wang]

I am having hard time finding this movie. DAMN, I will keep looking.

It's on Instant.

[luna]

an audacious and highly abstract experiment that attempts to represent human lives, or life itself, or even the entirety of the material universe as some interconnected conglomerate pulsating with emotion and desire. well, yeah. i dunno how successful it is, or whether its elusive goal even makes sense, as the characters seemed to be one step away from spitting phrases such as 'life force', 'chakra', and 'zero point energy'. whatever the case, it's nice to see something original. hypnotic too.

 

6.5/10

[lolifofo]

Today I learned something new. I hate experimental cinema.

What a shitty, boring, torturous-to-watch movie. I get it, but it just doesn't work for me. I could barely finish this once, so I really don't understand how some of you can or will watch this again. 

 

F

[Goffe]

Had to reach Wikipedia for help every 20 minutes. It's pretty much impossible to follow on its own. One of these movies where the abstractness of it all is more detrimental than beneficial for my enjoyment of the film. 35/100

Edited August 16, 2016 by Goffe