[Locke]

Just watched Upstream Color, it pains me to spell colour wrong.

Carruth gave purpose in his other directorial effort to make it as complex as possible, here, the complexity feels out of place. Is it a love story? A thriller? A sci-fi? A horror? I have no fucking idea. What I do know is it is slow, boring, and pretentiously panders to such extent that the movie loses all purpose and meaning.

I have no problems with art cinema, I have no problems with abstract cinema, but when it's so abstract it's barely cohesive then I'm sorry you can't expect me to honestly say it's good. The best art films provide more than pretty visuals, the worst think that is all they need.

And the saddest thing is, the narrative is so utterly simple you could have made this without all the pretentious waffling and it actually would have probably been a better film for it.

And there are rare moments where the fog clears, and it seems the movie is doing something special, but them movie itself seems so unclear on what it is doing that you can't help but wonder if you're so bored you're just creating your own narrative that the film deserves no credit for. Blah.