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The Last Sci-fi Blog: 'Upstream Color' Is Transcendental Romantic Science Fiction

It may be a good thing that this year's SXSW film festival was oddly lacking in science fiction movies -- Shane Carruth's Upstream Color would have made them all look bad. That's not to say that this film is for everybody. Like Carruth's previous film (the uber-complicated, intellectual time-travel film Primer), Upstream Color plunges audiences into a bizarre world with no obvious answers and no hand-holding, sprinting ahead and not caring if you can't keep up. However, Primer fans may also find themselves alienated by what Carruth is doing here, replacing any and all hard science with pure, unadulterated romanticism. Some may even argue that Upstream Color isn't even science fiction and depending on their definition of the genre, they may even have a...
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Jacob S. Hall 15 Mar, 2013
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Source: http://www.movies.com/movie-news/romantic-sci-fi-upstream-color/11552?wssac=164&wssaffid=news
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