Bliss (2021)
This movie is so weird! If you’re looking for a cross between Inception and The Matrix, you can find it here. Owen Wilson stars as an unhappy tech support worker with poor relationships with his adult children (I know, I can’t believe he has adult children either). When he gets fired, he has a terrible lapse in judgement and attacks him, accidentally killing him. He flees the scene to a neighboring bar, where he meets a ridiculously grungy Salma Hayek. She tells him to relax, since nothing in this world is real. He didn’t really kill his boss, he just imagined it in the fake world.
But is she telling the truth? She shows how they can use magic to warp the fake world by overturning cars with a wave of a hand, and they can get back at all the bad guys by just wishing it hard enough. But why do they have to take magic blue crystals to return to the “real” world? Are the blue crystals just street drugs, and are they just hallucinating their powers? In the real world, everything and everyone is beautiful, and scientific breakthroughs have made the impossible possible. Is Salma really a renowned scientist, or is she a homeless bum? What can Owen believe, and what will the audience believe?
This movie will really appeal to some, but unfortunately, I was not one of them. I was interested in the cast, but futuristic “what is real” movies are not my genre of choice.
More Owen Wilson movies here!
But is she telling the truth? She shows how they can use magic to warp the fake world by overturning cars with a wave of a hand, and they can get back at all the bad guys by just wishing it hard enough. But why do they have to take magic blue crystals to return to the “real” world? Are the blue crystals just street drugs, and are they just hallucinating their powers? In the real world, everything and everyone is beautiful, and scientific breakthroughs have made the impossible possible. Is Salma really a renowned scientist, or is she a homeless bum? What can Owen believe, and what will the audience believe?
This movie will really appeal to some, but unfortunately, I was not one of them. I was interested in the cast, but futuristic “what is real” movies are not my genre of choice.
More Owen Wilson movies here!