2021 · sci-fi · romance · drama
Bliss
Directed by Mike Cahill1h 44m2021
A mind-bending love story following Greg who, after recently being divorced and then fired, meets the mysterious Isabel, a woman living on the streets and convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is just a computer simulation. Doubtful at first, Greg eventually discovers there may be some truth to Isabel’s wild conspiracy.
Our read: Bliss (2021) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal sci-fi · romance · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured sci-fi / romance, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- surreal
- twisty
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