12 Recent Sci-Fi Movies That Are Future Classics

8. Upstream Color

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Almost a decade after he previously scrambled sci-fi minds with his uncompromisingly jargon-heavy low-budget debut Primer, Shane Carruth went one better with this abstractly experimental puzzle; a rigidly unconventional piece of genre cinema more than worth surrendering to.

Tracking the paths of two individuals who discovering that their actions may have been influenced by a parasite of some kind before they met, it's a deep endeavour that arguably leaves more questions than answers - but it has a bold, quasi-poetic brilliance in its unrepentant nature.

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