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• MOVIE page: Upstream Color (2013)
• Rate: 6.8/10 total 3,929 votes 
• Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi
• Runtime: 96 min
• Gross: $415,067 (USA) (17 May 2013)
• Director: Shane Carruth
• Stars: Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig | See full cast and crew
• Original Music By: Shane Carruth (original music by)  
• Plot Keyword: Actor Director Writer | Two Word Title

Writing Credits By:

(in alphabetical order)
• Shane Carruth 

     

Plot: A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives. |  »

Story: A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

Produced By:

• Meredith Burke known as co-producer
• Shane Carruth known as producer
• Scott Douglass known as executive producer
• Casey Gooden known as producer
• Brent Goodman known as executive producer
• Toby Halbrooks known as co-producer
• Ben LeClair known as producer

FullCast & Crew:

• Amy Seimetz known as Kris
• Shane Carruth known as Jeff
• Andrew Sensenig known as The Sampler
• Thiago Martins known as Thief
• Kathy Carruth known as Orchid Mother
• Meredith Burke known as Orchid Daughter
• Andreon Watson known as Peter
• Ashton Miramontes known as Lucas
• Myles McGee known as Monty
• Frank Mosley known as Husband
• Carolyn King known as Wife
• Kerry McCormick known as OB / GYN
• Marco Antonio Rodriguez known as MRI Tech
• Brina Palencia known as Woman in Club
• Lynn Blackburn known as HR Manager
• Trey Walpole known as Bank Investigator
• Dave Little known as Veterinarian #1
• Julie Mayfield known as Veterinarian #2
• Ben LeClair known as The Sampled
• Gerald Dewey known as The Sampled
• Leticia Magaña known as The Sampled
• Rebecca Frances known as The Sampled (as Rebecca Waldon)
• Lindsey Roberts known as The Sampled
• Cody Pottkotter known as The Sampled
• Julie Santosuosso known as The Sampled
• Steve Jimenez known as The Sampled
• Jack Watkins known as The Sampled
• Ted Ferguson known as The Sampled
• Juli Erickson known as The Sampled
• Karen Jagger known as The Sampled
• Jason Barnes known as Roth
• Wendy Welch known as Neighbor
• Keith Copeman known as EMT #1
• Nettie Yovanovitch known as EMT #2
• Tony Tomaj known as Intern #1
• Wheeler Williams known as Intern #2
• Tommy Watson known as Security Guard
• Joe Cutler known as Grocery Store Clerk
• Joy Leigh known as Dream Member (uncredited)
• Mollie Milligan known as Maggie (uncredited)

Production Companies:

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Upstream Color (2013) Review by hellsfoxes from California
UPSTREAM COLOR is already baffling the hell out of the world and willespecially draw disapproval on IMDb.

The plot is not delivered in a way that is traditionallycomprehensible, only to those paying close attention to the themes thatunite it all. If you're already rolling your eyes THIS MOVIE IS NOT FORYOU.

If however you have experienced or would like to experience films whereyou have to dedicate your ability to assess and determine theunderlying idea that is linking a series of enigmatic actions andsubtle scenes, UPSTREAM COLOR will intrigue and probably charm you. Itvery much plays to the TREE OF LIFE crowd.

For me, it's undoubtedly a massive artistic accomplishment. Hugelyevocative and if you unearth those ideas, the ability to have humanconnection, abuse, hope and language among them, you'll have no problemfollowing along and the ending will be very satisfying.

If you want to say "you're not supposed to understand it, just feel it"that's fine. I think that if you stop and ask yourself what idea isdriving moments, you can follow along just fine. The story is in thethemes. Details are abstract to drive home this point.

I took off two stars because I found the serious tone and sombre scoreto be so focused and constant, the atmospherics became a little moremonotonous than I think was intended. The briefest of levity here andthere might have offset the heaviness.

If you're still reading, check it out.

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Upstream Color (2013) Review by Trentflix from trentflix.com

The last paragraph will contain mild spoilers; this is a film you don'twant to know anything about before going in so I still recommendskipping it. But I offer it as a jumping point into understanding thisfilm, as I'm sure many will be upset and wonder about that.

I attended the world premiere of Upstream Color at Sundance 2013 alongwith a Q&A from writer, director, actor etc. Shane Currath. I am a bigfan of Primer and I also appreciate esoteric/enigmatic and visualworks. Upstream Color definitely can be described with those words. Ithink Primer is complex and intelligent/intellectual yet can be enjoyedby a broad audience. Upstream Color is easy to understand on a literal,plot level but the themes and allegory are a little harder tounderstand (I don't claim to fully understand it yet). Needless to say,it's not one that the majority of movie-goers will appreciate.

Aesthetically, it is a beautiful film full of poetic-imagery. It isvery visual not unlike the work of Terrence Malick. Our protagonistsare exceptionally acted, especially Amy Seimetz as Kris, she iscaptivating as is the film itself. I'm not going to talk about the plotbut keep in mind that it is an allegory. I can't say whether or not I'enjoyed' this film, but while watching it, it had my fullest attentionand it has consumed my thoughts since trying to make sense of it. Iwonder if it could have been more effective if it had been clearer. Tothe movies credit, the last third has no dialogue but none is needed,the film has established an emotional and visual language that theaudience fully understands and embraces. This film could be genius; itcould just be a lot of pomp with a compelling façade. The film had somereal moments of emotional resonance yet at the end I felt hollow andunsatisfied. I probably will revisit this film to understand it and myresponse better.

The Q&A was interesting, Shane Currath didn't inspire confidence thathe had a singular vision and intent for this film (from his answers itsounded like he had some loose ideas and put it on screen). The filmprominently features Walden, I thought it may tie in thematically buthe stated that when he read Walden it seemed like something you wouldmake someone read as torture – and in the film, it is used loosely assuch. It may be ironic or purposeful that this film may be aWalden-esque torture as well for some in its transcendental/opaquenature. He also stated that this movie is about tearing people down andtheir having to build their own narratives. They also may notunderstand that there are outside forces affecting them, yet they canfeel it on some level. That's probably the most-helpful advice inunderstanding the film.

(mild thematic and plot detail spoilers follow): Keeping those last twostatements in mind, at one point 'The Thief' tries to sell drugs toindividuals with a worm inside of it that hypnotizes them, let's takethat both literally and figuratively as in he is a drug dealer who istrying to get people addicted to drugs which control them and make themdo mindless things whilst high and financially bankrupt them. The wormcan be viewed as the addiction itself. These people then hitrock-bottom and once they recover they aren't the same people anymore.There were external forces working on them that they weren't/aren'taware of but now they have to build a personal narrative of how to dealwith the consequences of their addiction. The part I haven't figuredout yet is The Sampler and the pigs but I'm sure the answer is theresomewhere, hopefully the previous interpretation I gave is somewhataccurate and helpful.

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Upstream Color (2013) Review by thraengorn from United States

A question that is likely to plague many that have the pleasure ofviewing Upstream Color is regarding what defines "a film," or, morespecifically, a worthwhile film. In my view (and many will and are freeto disagree), one of the most exciting and interesting characteristicsof film is the ability to take an abstract concept or complex socialforce we all encounter and manifest it into a narrative via a characteror concrete mechanism for the protagonist to interact with or confront.Furthermore, film, as an audiovisual medium, can be best used toexpress ideas or develops through carefully considered combinations ofimages and sounds. Expositional dialogue is present in so many moviesthat it is refreshing to come across that rare filmmaker who dares totake a more symbolic or lyrical approach. Should aforementioned imagesand sounds be beautifully captured, as they are here, all for thebetter.

I actually view Upstream Color to be both substantially superior to andless confusing than Primer, his debut. So what is Shane Carruth goingon about? Primarily, our conception of identity and forces that perhapswe are unable to perceive - much less understand - that mold thisidentity. It is obvious to even the most casual observer that our livesare overwhelmingly influenced things outside of our control. The plotwe see, then, might be viewed as simply an innovative way to introducethese ideas into a film. Kris (Amy Seimetz) is accosted by a man whoforces her to ingest a parasitic maggot that allows him to easilyhypnotize and control her, with the ultimate goal being to stealeverything she has. Once he's achieved this goal, he exits abruptly,leaving behind a ruined life. At this point, a mysterious figuresurgically transfers the parasites from Kris to a pig, for motives morecomplex. No longer physically infected but still influenced by forcesshe doesn't understand, Kris encounters Jeff, a man similarly broken,and together they struggle to reassemble their lives and make somesense of what has happened to them.

In many ways, Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" may be the key. First, theThief has Kris copy Thoreau's work as he prepares to wrench away allher material possession, an act which, despite its obvious malevolence,allows Kris to have a spiritual journey of sorts, to build her life upfrom the ground floor and truly seize life, as Thoreau sought to do in"Walden". As we see Kris reciting lines from "Walden" while retrievingstones from the bottom of a pool, she is expressing not only that sheis beginning to remember some of what happened to her, but also thatshe is becoming aware that her life is not her own and that she musttake action to secure her agency, which one could argue is the corethesis of Thoreau's novel. Finally, referencing "Walden" as ananalogous narrative demonstrates that the Thief, Sampler and Orchidgatherers as a cycle represent Carruth taking advantage of that mostelegant possibility offered by film to heighten and personify all ofthe inexplicable things that shape our lives. To make any of thesefigures entirely comprehensible (i.e. scientifically) would defeat thepoint, and ultimately make for a less intriguing narrative.

The title, then, is quite fitting. Most structurally, it refers to theblue chemical that flows downstream to affect the development of theorchids. Yet, in a metaphysical sense, it refers to theindistinguishable waves vastly divergent from actions taken far outsideour perception, their ripples influencing the trajectory of our lives.As suggested by the trailer of the film, we may be able to force theshape of our story, but the color, the details that may define itsrichness are decided long before we have any say. Likewise, theoblivious and likely mostly benevolent florists, the morally grey orsometimes compromised Sampler and the explicitly exploitative andunethical Thief exist in a cycle, entirely dependent on each other withvarying degrees of awareness, true of the power structures that weinteract with ubiquitously.

Of course, it would be a mistake to trivialize the importance ofromance in this film. In fact, much of the romantic development servesfor a crucial springboard into the more ontological issues, and viceversa. What Kris gets from her time with Jeff beyond just companionshipin an otherwise bleak existence, is some sense of self-worth, someunderstanding that fractured she may even be able to be loved to anextent previously unknown. Along the way, we see refreshing glimpses ofthe insecurities and questions of trust associated with opening yourlife up to another person. Carruth's framework for the issues thatplague these characters allow the realization of such tender truthsthat the endurance of the film in the hearts of the willing viewer ispractically ensured.

Despite the centrality of the romance, this is Kris' story andSeimetz's expression of the character's emotional trajectory isriveting. Carruth is great as the essential but reserved supportingcharacter of Jeff, and succeeds in that his presence never detractsfrom the immersion. In a leading role, blemishes may have appeared, butthere are none here. The score, sometimes reminiscent of CliffMartinez's score for Soderbergh's Solaris, is universally captivatingand worth listening to independently. The soundscape and visual cuesserve to demonstrate how the characters most directly perceive a worldcontrolled informed by powers they have no way of rationalizing orverbally expressing, and are always hypnotically rendered. The editing(done in collaboration with David Lowery, himself burgeoning withtalent) facilitates a powerful emotional relevance and further aids insuggestion of thematic connections.

Destined to be lauded as a masterpiece by some and condemned aspretentious by others, Upstream Color is at the very least an ambitioussophomore effort from writer/ director/ producer/ editor/ actor/composer/ distributor/ cinematographer Shane Carruth. I hope to unravelmore of its carefully constructed mysteries in much-anticipated futureviewings.

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