What is ’ Upstream Color ’ About ? Here’s My Interpretation | Rope of Silicon
▻http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/what-is-upstream-color-about-a-review-commentary-and-stream-of-though
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uUnjGq61u4o
Un #film différent avec plusieurs niveaux de lecture, une narration qui a décidé de ne pas se réciter et se vautrer dans le didactique, un foisonnement de réflexions sur l’humain/animal, la mémoire, l’identité, les instincts, quelques très belles scènes sur le son, bref, un #ovni.
And so, to Upstream Color, a film I took to be entirely metaphorical, though told as something of a horror, romantic, sci-fi thriller. However just attributing those words in an attempt to fit it in some sort of box seems to distort what makes it a wholly unique piece of work.
I won’t pretend I understood every piece and fragment of the film, but for the most part I feel I was in tune with its teachings.
The heart and guiding light of Upstream Color is Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 publication “Walden”. Thoreau, a noted transcendentalist, spent two years in a cabin he built and among his many goals recorded in the book, were those of self-sufficiency and simple living. Thus begins the roots of Upstream Color, a film that takes a look at what makes us human and what happens when we are stripped down to the bare essentials and any preconceived notions of self. Essentially starting anew.
Et aussi une critique du Guardian
Yet his juxtapositions are not really spiritual in this way, and Carruth often looks like a materialist Terrence Malick. We are heading to something other than the wonder. When his film detects similarities and parallels, it seems as if he is an extraterrestrial observer dispassionately noting molecule-movement through an impossibly powerful telescope, seeing that humans, pigs, thoughts and soundwaves are all just made from the same Earth-based material.
▻http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/29/upstream-color-review
Quoi qu’il en soit, je pense qu’il faut lire Walden pour avoir non pas toutes, mais plus de clés.