Bliss movie7/5/2023 ![]() Toward the climax, there are too many things happening at once, and too many questions. Can inventions such as thought visualizers and brain boxes really serve for the betterment of humankind? Is it possible that people will someday achieve a state of bliss? Are the worlds of the city and the paradise starting to collide? The rest of the film consists of explanations. He’s still confused, but is finally convinced that they are “home,” that the city was a simulation, and this is reality (one that looks like his drawings). She is poised and maintains an aura of authority. The drab squalor of the city has been swapped for some sort of oceanside Eden, where everything is clean and everyone is relaxed and happy. When she and Greg awake, after ingestion, they do so in a different place. You’re getting sucked into the illusion and you’re dragging me in with you,” and promising that all will become clear if they take a different kind of crystal - blue ones. Greg’s confusion becomes tangible, causing a suddenly distressed Isabel to cry, “I’m worried about you. ![]() Then it switches over to the activities of Greg’s daughter, who is now searching through the city to find him but who, according to Isabel, is not real. Is she a part-time hooker? I don’t think so, but there are hints of that. Though the story centers on him, it keeps veering off to ponder some of what Isabel does. Soon there are drugs - glowing orange crystals called yellows - that give telekinetic powers to Greg there’s a throw-away story about Greg’s son (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.) who wants nothing to do with his dad because “I can’t trust him anymore” and some unnecessary - and unexplained - filler about Greg being arrested and immediately released. It’s kind of my fault that this world exists.” That he shouldn’t worry about killing his boss because his boss wasn’t real.īy the time she’s looking at Greg’s drawings and noticing that she’s in one of them, the film has achieved an air of intrigue, and it doesn’t intend to let it diminish. Her answers are to show him that she has telekinetic powers - that she can move objects with a wave of her hand - and a statement: “I will help you because I feel a little responsible for your situation. Owen Wilson has always been good at looking confused and concerned, and he’s very good at it here. Rattled over this turn of events and over a call he did take - from his daughter (Nesta Cooper), who wants to see him - he hightails it to a local bar, where Isabel (Salma Hayek) watches him from afar, then approaches him, then asks if he knows that he’s real. He’s caught, he’s fired, he accidentally kills his boss, he runs away, and while all of this is happening, the wallet on Greg’s desk starts flickering, in and out of existence. Greg Wittle (Owen Wilson) works at Technical Difficulties, a company with a large, open-seating space filled with people at phones, all of them telling callers, “Sorry you’re having technical difficulties.”īut Greg has a private office, where he ignores his ringing phone and concentrates on making a series of detailed drawings of some kind of vacation spot. ![]() There’s one other parallel: Neither of them is easy to explain. ![]() They are violent, action-filled science fiction-horror films this is an emotion-filled, multi-leveled fantasy. Both feature a protagonist who can’t figure out what’s going on, then eventually becomes comfortable with his state of affairs.īut the differences between “The Matrixes” and this one are more significant. Both involve ingesting special drugs to go from one “place” to the other. Fans of “The Matrix” trilogy will recognize, early on, that there are some similarities between those films and “Bliss.” Both are about certain people having choices of living in two different existences. ![]()
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