![]() ![]() Still, there are people who would be worth spending time with at the end of the world, even if they’re *ahem* just sitting around talking. ![]() (A tepid joyride by Riley in a supermarket wagon ends in a minor mishap that would appear to have put the kibosh on them trying anything fun afterward.) Debuting writer-directors Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan have nothing meaningful to say about Jenai and Riley’s predicament, and they find nothing even slightly diverting in their situation: their protagonists don’t run naked through the streets or joyride buses around the city or anything. The problem with Bokeh is that the stuff in focus, their new lonely little life, isn’t terribly compelling. With no planes flying, obviously, they can’t go home, so Jenai and Riley start to make a lonely life for themselves, living off the well-stocked supermarkets and automated geothermal power. They wander the city trying to find someone, anyone else, and wonder what happened: The Rapture? Aliens? Why were they left behind? Is God messing with them? They don’t ask any questions we haven’t heard in numerous similar science fiction dramas, and they find no answers, except that it does appear that all of humanity has disappeared: the Internet is still working, though of course no sites have been updated, and live webcams are showing that public places all over the planet are absolutely deserted. There are no bodies, but whatever happened, it was instantaneous: they find a car in the middle of a Reykjavik street that isn’t only running but is still in drive. B okeh is a photographic term that, to quote Wikipedia, means “the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image.” I suppose that the philosophical application of that could be something like: “Life is what is happening in the foreground, and all the stuff that’s out of focus behind you may be pretty but isn’t as important.” And I suppose that that is meant to be advice to - or a lesson to be learned by - Jenai (Maika Monroe: Independence Day: Resurgence, The 5th Wave) and Riley (Matt O’Leary: The Lone Ranger, In Time), an American couple on vacation in Iceland who wake up one morning to discover that, while they were asleep, everyone else on the planet seems to have disappeared. ![]()
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