BOKEH MOVIE SYNOPSI UPGRADE
The question, he asks, is not “What is happening?” but “What do we do about it?” His mojo is “Re-stock on every important item in the food and clothing stores, then establish squatters rights in the most comfortable house in town and upgrade with a bigger, better automobile. In the circumstances, the boy is the pragmatic one, accepting his fate with glee and a smorgasbord of multiple choices. If it’s a plague, where are the bodies? If it’s an alien invasion, what happened to the space ships? In the 90 minutes that follow, bewilderment and confusion morph into fear and a feeling of uneasy isolation, then a mixture of resignation and eventual despair. On their laptop computer, no emails, posts or texts of any kind from anyone. From their cell phones, they try to make some calls. The deserted streets and sidewalks are the same powder blue as the pastel sky above them-as stark as an X-ray. For the rest of this unique and imaginative film, they try to make sense of what happened-to them and to the rest of the world as they knew it. Riley and Jenai, a young American couple on vacation in Iceland wake up one morning and discover, to their horror, they are the last two living people on Earth. In Bokeh, the spectacular scenery provides a perfect pastoral backdrop for an unsettling dramatic premise. This is a land of frozen green meadows, icy gorges, rustic country churches and gushing waterfalls. I’ve never seen anything of Iceland beyond the Reykjavik airport, but when you see this movie, opening this week in limited cinemas and on the internet, you will be forced to agree-we’ve all been missing something. Starring: Maika Monroe, Matt O'Leary and Arnar Jónsson Written and directed by: Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan And so it is with a neat, low-budget surprise called Bokeh, from-of all places-Iceland! Yes, that country has a film industry, although it, too, is minuscule, but with this film as evidence, quite capable of producing movies that are fascinating, valid, and off the beaten track. Sometimes the best things come in small packages: truffles, painkillers, diamond rings.
Better yet, buy two first-class tickets to Iceland like they did.Matt O’Leary and Maika Monroe in Bokeh. See the world through Mitch's and Collin's eyes and you'll feel a bit better about the journey.
This is an enjoyable film, which looks lightly at some of the issues associated with growing older that many baby boomers just like Mitch and Collin face today. It's the incredible geography of Iceland, which Mitch and Collin explore throughout the movie. In this movie, there's a third main character that never speaks. It seems like every road trip movie is written this way. It starts sort of rocky, gets into a swing, there's a trumped up moment that drives the characters apart, then there's resolution. This is a road trip movie that follows a set pattern. It's giving nothing away to tell you that the movie spends five minutes in Kentucky and the rest of the time in Iceland. The two were married to a pair of sisters, which makes them ex-brothers-in-law but more important, old friends. I took the title of this review from the 1976 Jethro Tull album, which is an appropriate time period for this movie because Mitch and Collin, the two main characters in this movie, appear to be either pushing 70 or in their 70s like many boomers.
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