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I'm Jesse Thorn Shane Karuth's two films are mind benders primer was beloved by fans for its dense

Tought script about time travel his new movie upstream colors were organic, but no less packed to the gills with ideas and emotion

Neither is what you might call a popcorn movie and he doesn't think he'll ever be asked to make one

Like what kind of the only James Bond movie I would ever want to see is the one where like he loses a hand and the only

Superman movie I'd ever want to see is the one where Superman comes to understand that people have become too reliant on him and

And

He can't be their god anymore and basically actively doesn't help them

And and and and and people end up dying in the learning process that they can't rely on their god anymore

Shoot that sounds kind of amazing

It's bullseye

This week I talked to the director Shane Karuth his new movie upstream color has almost no dialogue involves a kind of

Abstract science fiction premise that keeps you engaged the whole way through

They'll explain how he strikes that

I'm not acting like it's all magic or anything. There's there's an analog to the way everything works

But it's not being talked about. It's just what you're visually watching happens

Then I talked to Rodney Asher directed room 237. It's a documentary about the film The Shining it doesn't go behind the scenes

It features interviews with people who have radical amazing theories about the movie

One guy even says that the whole movie is an allegory for Kubrick's faked moon landing

Not that the moon landing didn't happen

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