Upstream Color

Dafuq did I just watch? Chaos with worms, pigs and flowers that, from a formal standpoint, it’s impossible not to admire. It’s an exceptional author’s film, I enjoyed it, but only for 35 minutes, then I got lost and I couldn’t find myself again. (27.04.2013)

The breeze of butterfly wings causes an earthquake on the other side of the world, or everything is connected to everything else, the world and everything living in it is unity, unity of causes and destinies, in which there is a connection from anything to anything else, where civilization contracts itself into the smallest elements and vice versa or precisely because of it - man is just a molecule in the Brownian motion of the world. Above all, the film and its story mimic this creative movement, while the narrative also explores forbidden connections, time, space, and the fates of characters reside in close proximity, to the extent that they are permeable or even interchangeable - one can complete the other because they are just fragments of a single existence of the world. Sound can pass through scenes just like the intentionality of the protagonist's actions in Hollywood films. Human characters can be nothing more than unprivileged particles in the game of nature. /// As an atheist, I am reserved towards this main idea, and the film also seemed (but it's just an impression, after all, like everything in this film) typically American - Americans are hopeless optimists (it's a shame that it's more of an ideology of optimism, but that's irrelevant here) - in how (but it doesn't deviate from the logic of the film) even in the most chaotic world, two people can find each other on public transportation in an act of fate. (07.10.2015)