Storyline
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.
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Salma Hayek, Owen Wilson, Ryan Allen Carrillo, Linda Wang, Darin Cooper, Joshua Leonard, Guy Perry, Steve Zissis, Madeline Zima, Gichi Gamba, Mercy Malick, Heath McGough, Katie McCabe, Kayla Adams, Nesta Cooper, DeRon Horton, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Jock McKissic, Sanja Vejnović, Ronny Chieng, Nova DeJhemani, Debbie Fan, Bill Nye, Slavoj Žižek, Eugene Young, Dayne Catalano, Adam Zastrow, Lora Lee, Roberto Montesinos, Kosah Rukavina, Tanya Alexander, K.T. Thangavelu, Manny Cartier, Branko Smiljanić, Damien D. Smith, Hassan Abdelghani, Upasana Beharee, Roshan Maloney, Whitney Brown, Vanessa Knight, Dayna Dooley, Marcus Bailey, Amanda Juni, Jim Palmer, Tommy Franklin, Candice Heiden, Bella Cruz, Courtney Enea, Zach Hainey, Derek Leonard, Elaine Reid, Crystal Rosenborough, Noah Valinsky, Appelusa McGlynn, Megan Le
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63
Washington Post
Bliss isn’t really all that interested in trafficking in the stuff of mass-market science fiction: the bells and whistles, in the form of nifty hardware, special effects and the like. Rather, Cahill’s latest film is an exercise in existential inquiry.
58
The emotional impact of those shots comes mainly from Wilson, who’s captured in several dialogue-free long takes. His signature drawl is silenced, and his face is forced to do work the screenplay hasn’t. He gives a weighty performance, delivered into a simulated void.
50
I wish the results were better, and a lot stranger. Cahill’s world-building has its moments, though. And the filmmaker did determine — correctly — that it’d be fun to have Bill Nye, the science guy, in a bow tie, portraying a sniffy scientific researcher.
40
As with both of his previous works, the filmmaker delivers an undeniably ambitious mind-bender that bites off more than it can narratively chew.
30
Cahill gets so bogged down in hair-splitting rules and exposition that he loses track of the bigger themes.
