Who wants old school gravity? It will only bring you down. source: Screen Media Filmsīut we don’t live in a Newtonian universe any more, do we? The universe we now inhabit demands more complexity, more sophistication. But even from the opening montage, after the initial arrival in Iceland, the weapon was brandished in full view of the camera: see this? We knew it was going to explode. Demanded by audience expectations or dictated by the unwritten laws of narrative fiction, who knows? Such things seem to have evolved as an unconscious, symbiotic collaboration between writer and audience. It’s one of those rules that seems to have a Newtonian certainty to it. However insignificant it may appear, the audience will be disappointed if the weapon is not fired in later scenes. Cut at speed, this brief introduction of passionate young lovers revelling in the freedom of an exotic environment brought to mind Chekhov’s truism regarding a gun being shown in the first act of a play. I started getting nervous in the opening scenes of the film where a blissful holiday montage establishes the intimacy of the two protagonists. Bokeh proposes that Jenai and Riley, played by Maika Monroe and Matt O’Leary, are the last people on the entire planet. For Crusoe, it’s only the island that is his world and I Am Legend’s Neville is merely the sole survivor in New York City. But as far as I’m aware, it has never been treated this directly as the subject of a film.

You could say it has been touched on in different ways in poorly received treatments of Robinson Crusoe, for example, or I Am Legend. That’s a hallmark of genius of which anyone of a creative bent should be rightly jealous.

It’s the kind of idea that seems so simple, so elegant and yet potentially so fruitful, that its USP may be that you can’t quite believe that it hasn’t been done before. What if you woke up one morning to discover that you and your partner were the last people on Earth? This is the opening gambit for lovers Jenai and Riley, twenty-something Americans vacationing in Iceland. Bokeh, the new film directed by Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan, bears an intriguing title and a premise that can only be described as utterly delicious.

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