Shane Carruth, writer and director of the nearly indecipherable time travel flick Primer, has now done himself one better and made a completely indecipherable film: Upstream Color . . . I got vibes of Wrath of Khan, Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, and Kaufman's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Adaptation . . . though I can't promise you are going to love it, I will say this, though it's a purposefully obtuse story, it's rather easy on the eyes and ears, and it's not terribly long, so give it a shot (and then you can read this insanely long New yorker analysis of what probably happened, and how it might be inspired by both Thoreau and toxoplasmosis gondii).
Toxoplasmosis killed Tommy in Trainspotting so throw a nod to Irvine Welsh in there too.
ReplyDeleteVery nice pull, Z.
ReplyDeleteAnd Kaufman wrote the screenplay for Eternal Sunshine, but it was fully realized by Michel Gondry.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Orwell's pigs were jerks.
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