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Bokeh movie synopsi12/6/2023 ![]() She does, and this was the point in the film when I felt compelled to look at my watch, and I was shocked to see we were only an hour into this 116-minute opus.ĭespite their individual charms as performers, Pratt and Lawrence have very questionable chemistry. The cliché-laden script-during one conversation with Aurora, Jim says “Can’t slogans be true?” which I reckon must be something screenwriter Jon Spaihts has asked in his own actual life-demands, of course, that Aurora learn of Jim’s deception. The movie has a remarkably lumbering pace. This movie is directed by Morten Tyldum, who made 2014’s prestige picture “ The Imitation Game,” and its direction is even more dutiful and personality-free than that of the Alan Turing biopic. But then again, the movie is always a little coy where it’s customary to be a little coy, just as it hits the most predictable beats while hammering its way to a conclusion that’s as egregiously contrived and corny as it is predictable. As Humbert Humbert once noted of a protégé of his, “you see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.” Nevertheless, the movie is a little coy about developing their romance. ![]() He makes it look like an accident, he commiserates with her as she freaks out, and he cultivates their friendship. He learns about her-her name is Aurora Lane, she’s a writer, nobody in her life has ever noticed that her name sounds like that of a thoroughfare-dreams about her, and eventually makes a very ill-advised decision. (Or, rather, Pratt is fitted with a very unconvincing beard, full Kurt Russell in “The Thing,” and it doesn’t suit the actor, at all.) And then he develops a crush on another sleeper, one who looks just like Jennifer Lawrence, and is played, appropriately enough, by Jennifer Lawrence. But Jim, an engineer, is not particularly bookish-had his character been more like that of Burgess Meredith in that “Twilight Zone” episode about the last man on Earth and a library, we would not have a movie here-so he runs out of high-tech things to amuse himself with over the course of a year. He does have one friend on the ship, an android bartender, Arthur, played by Michael Sheen. Seven out of ten from me.This freaks Jim out a bit. All in all a mixed film that I personally believe, needed to offer a little more focus, to have broad appeal but is still an interesting watch nonetheless. In this respect this film really is quite outstanding. Its wide screen cinematic's are really quite breath taking when combined with Iceland's exceptional, rugged natural beauty. What is remarkable, is the visual quality of this film. The problem with this film is its so quiet and so subtle, that is, out of focus, that its very understandable, that its meaning may be overlooked.Personally I liked Bokeh but I can fully appreciate why others may not be so taken with it. Indeed, as the only supporting character hints at, we are "one and one and one". ![]() One see's the beauty and opportunity in their newfound "freedom", whilst the other simply feels constrained, isolated and oppressed by it. As the film unfolds, what it means to be alive clearly has different meanings, for the main characters. Most specifically, its true message, as I understand it, is about the meaning of "existence". It's message has a diffused quality that's difficult to pinpoint. Certainly, there is much about this film that's out of focus. Its an appropriate starting point, when discussing this film. Bokeh is a Japanese term that describes out of focus points of light.
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