Bokeh movie release date7/27/2023 What we get here seems an awfully safety cushioned apocalypse where Iceland’s geothermal power sources has meant that the power conveniently stays on. The other aspect is the survival story and how people are left to improvise in the ruins. ![]() We get a few scenes of Matt O’Leary and Maika Monroe running crazy through supermarkets, wandering the streets, occupying an empty home but not much. Usually the End of the World genre comes with great images of people alone in the ruins of civilisation, doing as they want, of everyday objects left abandoned their purpose now rendered meaningless. ![]() Unlike many other End of the World films, Bokeh doesn’t dwell too much on the imagery of the deserted world. Maika Monroe, Matt O’Leary in an inexplicably deserted Iceland Like The Quiet Earth and many of the modern efforts mentioned above, there is no explanation of what happened and why they were spared, although Maika Monroe does spend various sections of the film seeking some kind of divine purpose behind the catastrophe. Instead of a Man Alone, we have a young couple who are alone for almost the entire film. We have seen a resurgence of this theme in recent years in films such as The End of the Animal (2010), The Last Seven (2010), Vanishing on 7th Street (2010), The Midnight After (2014) and Alone (2017) where in all cases the nature of the catastrophe remains enigmatic and unspecified.īokeh draws undeniable influence from The Quiet Earth. There was the tv movie Where Have All the People Gone (1974) but the classic treatment of the theme was the New Zealand-made The Quiet Earth (1985). There were several ventures into this theme made during the Cold War with Five (1951), Day the World Ended (1955), The World, The Flesh and the Devil (1958) and Last Woman on Earth (1960), all centred around survivors of a nuclear holocaust. The title Bokeh is a Japanese term from photography referring to part of a photo that is out of focus.īokeh falls into a spate of catastrophe films wherein everyone on Earth vanishes bar one or a handful of people. Both had worked in various aspects of the industry – Orthwein as an editor and then as director of the Sword and Laser (2012– ) fan podcast, Sullivan the head of an advertising agency. ![]() Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan are two friends from New York who make their debuts with Bokeh.
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