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Title: Bokeh (2017)
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| Maika Monroe | ... | Jenai | |
| Matt O'Leary | ... | Riley | |
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Arnar Jónsson | ... | Nils |
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Gunnar Helgason | ... | Ivar |
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Berglind Rós Sigurðardóttir | ... | Tour Guide |
On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wake up one morning to discover every person on earth has disappeared. Their struggle to survive and to reconcile the mysterious event lead them to reconsider everything they know about themselves and the world.
Some viewers have been generous in the description of this movie, labeling as "existentialist", "intellectual", "original/imaginative" and even a "masterpiece"... I'd say those viewers are easily amused by pretentious mediocrity labelled as "art".
Bokeh drives home 3 (and only 3) concepts successfully;
1. Cinematography: High praise to the Reykjavik Tourism Board and the filmmakers for capturing the most beautiful and remote locations in Iceland...Some might say that the film tries so frantically to capture them all that it comes across as a 1/5 hour advertorial... some might say.
2. Highlights that in your 20's (and mainly in this day and age) you are UNFIT to choose a MATE that reflects who you are! Jenai and Riley were so ideologically and morally different, and they had such different expectations out of life that it was never going to work out in the long term, in the real world, much less likely in a post-apocalyptic wonderland.
3. REALLY drives home the concept that LOVE, on it's own, is simply not enough! People need individual space to pursue their interests and technology to support (and reflect) their lifestyles. Some people more than others...
I must admit some of the dialogue was so annoying and overtly pretentious that I just had to fast forward through the endless diatribes and pseudo-intellectual "banter", mainly by Jenai, who was overtly emotional and utterly insignificant and helpless... This brings me to the biggest mistake this movie made; portray the female lead as this sanctimonious, unstable, weak, emotional, boring and empty stereotype of a vessel, which I wouldn't want to associate with MUCH LESS identify with!!! REALLY Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan?! Is that the best female lead you can conjure up?!!!