History Film / UpstreamColor

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:The Thief is never connected with the conspiracy and gets away without punishment, though his source is cut off so he'll never be able to do this again]].

->''After he had lain still there about an hour he heard a low and seemingly very distant sound, but singularly grand and impressive, unlike anything he had ever heard, gradually swelling and increasing as if it would have a universal and memorable ending, a sullen rush and roar, which seemed to him all at once like the sound of a vast body of fowl coming in to settle there, and, seizing his gun, he started up in haste and excited; but he found, to his surprise, that the whole body of the ice had started while he lay there, and drifted in to the shore, and the sound he had heard was made by its edge grating on the shore- at first gently nibbled and crumbled off, but at length heaving up and scattering its wrecks along the island to a considerable height before it came to a standstill.''
-->--''Walden'', Henry David Thoreau

* BigBadDuumvirate: The Thief and the Sampler, though it isn't clear if the even work together or if they just benefit from each other's schemes.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Surprisingly, the film ends this way. The Sampler is dead, the drugs are cut off from The Thief and the Pigs are being taken care of in a healthy way by Kris, Jeff and other people who have been affected by the parasite.]]

* OhCrap: The Sampler has this reaction [[spoiler:when Kris gives him a Death Glare while he's observing her through the parasites.]]

* SecondHandStorytelling: Like ''{{Film/Primer}}'' before this, several details of the story are merely implied by what is happening on screen. Some people may see a GainaxEnding to the film because of this.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:The Thief is never connected with the conspiracy and gets away without punishment, though his source is cut off]].

'''''Upstream Color''''' is a 2013 independent film written, directed, and scored by Shane Carruth. This is his long-anticipated sophomore film following the 2004 cult hit ''Film/{{Primer}}''. Much like that film, it was made on a small budget (~$50,000) with Carruth [[CopiouslyCreditedCreator taking a large role in the production]].

'''''Upstream Color''''' is a 2013 independent film written, directed, and scored by Shane Carruth. This is his second, long anticipated, sophomore film following the 2004 cult hit ''Film/{{Primer}}''. Much like that film, it was made on a small budget (~$50,000) with Carruth [[CopiouslyCreditedCreator taking a large role in the production]].

'''''Upstream Color''''' is a 2013 independent film written, directed, and scored by Shane Carruth. This is his second, long anticipated, sophomore film following the 2004 cult hit ''Film/{{Primer}}''. Much like that film, it was made on a small budget (~$50,000) with Carruth [[{{AuteurLicense}} taking a large role in the production]].

* ShoutOut: ''Literature/{{Walden}}'' plays an important role in the film.

* BodyHorror: The Parasite.

'''''Upstream Color''''' is a 2013 independent film written, directed, and scored by Shane Carruth. This is second, long anticipated, sophomore film following the 2004 cult hit ''Film/{{Primer}}''. Much like that film, it was made on a small budget (~$50,000) with Carruth [[{{AuteurLicense}} taking a large role in the production]].

'''''Upstream Color''''' is a 2013 independent film written, directed, and scored by Shane Carruth. This is second, long anticipated, sophomore film following the 2004 cult hit ''Film/{{Primer}}''. Much like that film it was made on a small budget (~$50,000) with Carruth [[{{AuteurLicense}} taking a large role in the production]].

'''''Upstream Color''''' is a 2013 independent film written, directed, and scored by Shane Carruth. This is second, long anticipated, sophomore film following the 2004 cult hit ''Film/{{Primer}}''. Much like that film it was made on a small budget (~$50,000) with Carruth [[{{AuteurLicense}} taking a large role in the production]]. The film follows Kris, a graphic designer that is drugged by a small-time thief and has her life flipped upside-down because of it. She later has a chance meeting with a man named Jeff, who has a similar story. Unbeknownst to the two of them, they are caught in the metaphysical life-cycle of an ageless organism, traveling through "the microscopic world, moving to nematodes, plant life, livestock, and back again", and begin mirroring its actions.

* RiddleForTheAges: The origin of the blue substance is never revealed. We also never learn the exact relationship between the Thief and the Sampler. Were they in a knowing partnership or an unwitting symbiotic relationship is left unknown.

* [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding: Surprisingly, the film ends this way. The Sampler is dead, the drugs are cut off from The Thief and the Pigs are being taken care of in a healthy way by Kris, Jeff and other people who have been affected by the parasite.]]

* OhCrap: The Sampler has this reaction [[spoiler:when Kris gives him a DeathGlare while he's observing her through the parasites.]]

* {{Brainwashed}}: A surprisingly realistic variation of this trope happens to those infected with the parasite.

* [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding: Surprisingly, the film ends this way. The Sampler is dead, the drugs are cut off from the thief and the Pigs are being taken care of in a healthy way by Kris, Jeff and other people who have been affected by the parasite.]]

* [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding: Surprisingly, the film ends this way, with the Sampler dead, the drugs cut off and the Pigs being taken care of in a healthy way by Kris, Jeff and other people who have been affected by that parasite.]]

* DeathGlare: Kris levels one at the Sampler when she's finally able to sense his presence.

* OhCrap: The Sampler has this reaction when Kris gives him a DeathGlare while he's observing her through the parasites.

* RiddleForTheAges: The origin of the blue substance is never revealed. We also never learn the exact relationship between the Thief and the Sampler. Were they in a knowing partnership or an unwitting symbiotic relationship.