Upstream Color by Shane Carruth

Thursday, July 30th, 2015

Upstream Color by Shane Carruth

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Okay; done spamming you. Just see it. Or don’t. Jeremy…

Saturday, May 11th, 2013

Okay; done spamming you. Just see it.

Or don’t. Jeremy Kay, reviewing it in The Guardian, called it “meticulous, methodical and educated – but also extreme, and extremely pretentious.”  So if you’re the kind of person who fears being thought pretentious by The Guardian’s reviewerit might be safer to give it a miss. But I think you should risk it.

Sometimes a movie can work without needing to satisfy a focus group’s (or a critic’s) idea of how much it should explain. In the ticketing system we use to track projects at work, there’s a set of choices we use when resolving a ticket. Sometimes (most of the time) the resolution is “fixed”. Sometimes, though, it’s “wontfix”, or  ”worksforme”. Those categories are important to have.

So are movies like Upstream Color. Its resolution may not be completely satisfying for some viewers. But it doesn’t need fixing. And boy, did it work for me.

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“I wanted to explore the concept of trying to recognize that you’re in a narrative, one that you may…”

Saturday, May 11th, 2013

“I wanted to explore the concept of trying to recognize that you’re in a narrative, one that you may have made up yourself, or one that was [impressed] on you from an outside force.”

http://filmmakermagazine.com/68172-shane-carruth-explains-upstream-color-in-528-words/

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