Upstream Color 2013 123movies

Watch: Upstream Color 2013 123movies, Full Movie Online – Kris is attacked one night, and hypnotized, using a grub with hypnotic properties, administered by a thief. She follows the thief’s instructions to give him everything, even taking out loans. After the worms are extracted, she wakes up to find her life ruined. She’s lost her job, her finances are destroyed. Years later, she meets Jeff whom she may have a lot in common with..
Plot: A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
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Ratings:

	6.5/10 Votes: 33,727
	86% | RottenTomatoes
	81/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 628 Popularity: 12.354 | TMDB

Reviews:

Stays with you
I attended this film solo (only one other person in the theater) which turned out to be a good thing as distractions were nil. Carruth has a lot of respect for the viewer. He doesn’t do exposition. And if you pay close attention to this film, you wont need it. Unlike other reviews I’ve seen, I found Primer much harder to suss out than Upstream Color. There was a clear narrative here and the main protagonists arc is clear to see. I loved it. It was intense, beautifully shot, scored, and of course acted, especially by Amy Seimetz, the lead. She was amazing. If you like your films delivered to you on a silver platter, then this is not for you. But if you like to think a little bit, you will find the 90+ minutes of Upstream Color thoroughly enjoyable. I hope it does very well. And I hope Carruth doesn’t take another 8 yrs to do his next one.

Oink oink.
It’s hilarious reading some of the comments for this movie, people give it ten stars but at the same time (if you read their comments) you can see they haven’t got any more of an idea what the film is about than those who said it was rubbish and gave it just two. It seems then that some like to lie their way into making you believe they understood something you didn’t. Pretentious? Most definitely.

The film is just a collection of random scenes then. And you will find your brain struggling to find something that connects them all. A few times I thought I might be getting there, but just when you think the door of perception is opening…. Slam, it shuts in your face again.

The film begins with a guy collecting maggots from the base of a plant, and scraping off some blue powder from it’s leaves. The collected maggot(s) are then fed to a woman who’s left a club and the effect is she’s hypnotized into withdrawing sums of money collected from the equity on her house. Once out of her trance she tries to remove her inner maggots (which now seem to have magically changed species into tapeworms) and are seen crawling under her skin. She gets a knife and tries half-heartedly to cut them out to no avail. She then goes to some pig farmer who appears to remove them but afterwards shes not the same person she was before, becoming vacant and kind of disturbed and depressed.

Later on, we see her on a train where she meets some other weird soul and they strike up a relationship. From here it all gets a bit wishy washy with apparently pointless dialogue and no real direct thread of a story. At one point the girl thinks she’s pregnant and goes to a hospital where they tell her shes been operated on at some stage, even though she herself disagrees (a reference to the pig farmers removal of her maggot/tapeworms), but then she’s told shes had cancer but it’s all gone now.

Later there are scenes of some people collecting blue flowers growing near a river where the farmer from earlier had been throwing piglets in a sack to their death. We are shown the dead piglets rotting in the river, and the ooze that comes out seems to rise up through the roots of riverside plants being fed on by maggots. Was this a connection then? Dead pig juice being picked up by maggots in plants which were given to the woman which hypnotized her? Your guess is as good as mine.

Eventually the couple are lead via sounds (the pig farmer liked to record sounds on some equipment he had) to the farmer where the woman shoots him and a bunch of other people turn up (which we are shown on what looks like some medical kind of records) and they take over his farm. There’s a cut then to the flower collectors from earlier who can no longer find the blue flowers they wanted (only white) which seemed to indicate that whatever was making these blue flowers is now gone (no more dead pigs in the river maybe?). And that’s about it.

Basically, the film is pig swill. It looks great, cinematically, and I think I’ve probably put up the best explanation yet here of what the film is actually “about” – even though that seems to be nothing at all. I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said something like: An audience not understanding, is an audience not emoting – and that’s exactly what happens in this pile of pig poo. My advice then is don’t waste your time on it, or if you do, don’t pretend you got it. I don’t believe you.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
Budget 100000
Revenue 444098
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Sci-Fi
Director Shane Carruth
Writer Shane Carruth
Actors Amy Seimetz, Frank Mosley, Shane Carruth
Country United States
Awards 5 wins & 35 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Stereo
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Digital (HD)
Cinematographic Process AVCHD (1080p/24)
Printed Film Format DCP