{"id":172304,"date":"2021-02-06T15:16:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T12:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-ending-of-bliss-explained\/"},"modified":"2021-02-06T15:16:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T12:16:57","slug":"the-ending-of-bliss-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-ending-of-bliss-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Ending of &#8216;Bliss&#8217; Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Ending of &#8216;Bliss&#8217; Explained<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.8--><em><strong>Ending Explained<\/strong><\/em><i> is a recurring <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> in which we explore the finales, secrets, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a>s of interesting movies and shows, both new and old. This time, we examine the layers of reality and figure out the ending of the Amazon movie Bliss.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>\u201cYou have to experience the good in order to appreciate the bad.\u201d<br \/>\u201cNo, the other way around.\u201d<br \/>\u201cExactly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ignorance is not all it\u2019s cracked up to be in <strong>Mike Cahill<\/strong>\u2018s <em><strong>Bliss<\/strong><\/em>, a sci-fi drama about the possibility that people are living in a virtual reality simulation, a la <em><strong>The Matrix<\/strong><\/em>. According to Isabel (<strong>Salma Hayek<\/strong>), who is either a scientist in a utopian future studying the effects of experiencing a miserable plain in order to appreciate the wonder of the perfect life or a homeless junkie needing to experience highs in order to escape the lows of the real world, we need a balance of fantasy and reality for a happier existence. Does it matter which of the two realms is the truth? What if the answer is that neither of them is?<\/p>\n<p>The easy analysis of the ending of <em>Bliss<\/em> is that Greg (<strong>Owen Wilson<\/strong>) has lost his wife, his family, his job, and now his mind. He\u2019s really just been living in a homeless camp and is doing a lot of drugs and hallucinating that he has magical powers and that he can <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> to the perfect world he\u2019s been dreaming about and drawing. Isabel is another homeless person with mental problems, perhaps schizophrenia, who leads him further down a dark rabbit hole of dope and delusion. If only he\u2019d been able to refill his prescription, maybe he wouldn\u2019t have fallen so far.<\/p>\n<p>But in the end, the utopia is revealed to be a dream world, and the grimy urban place where we first meet the characters is the real world, and Greg\u2019s daughter, Emily (<strong>Nesta Cooper<\/strong>), is also real and worth staying clean for. Following a spree of death and mayhem with Isabel, she goes to jail, he goes to rehab, and all is genuinely for the better again. Maybe Isabel never even existed and was just a figment of Greg\u2019s mind, as well as another personality, a la <em>Fight Club<\/em>. That\u2019s also very easy to claim since the only other major character \u2014 Emily \u2014 never encounters or interacts with her.<\/p>\n<p>No, the other way around. Exactly. What if Emily isn\u2019t real? Either? Perhaps, similar to Cahill\u2019s breakout 2011 feature, <em><strong>Another Earth<\/strong><\/em>, this movie is also about two worlds and neither is necessarily the real one? In my <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nonfics.com\/a-glitch-in-the-matrix-review\/\">review of <strong><em>A Glitch in the Matrix<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, Rodney Ascher\u2019s new documentary about simulation theory(coincidentally released on the same day as <em>Bliss<\/em>), I admit that I\u2019ve come away from such solipsistic ideas since becoming a father. How can we be living in a computer program when I\u2019ve got these kids who are made from me and are obviously very real?<\/p>\n<p>Even though I acknowledge that for men there\u2019s less of a physical creational bond to children as evidence of their being real, there\u2019s still a greater sense of these other souls than you have without being a parent at all. So it\u2019s very easy for Greg to be convinced by Emily that she\u2019s real and the memory from her childhood that she reminds him of is real and not an implant. And the relationship of father and daughter is wonderful enough, either way, that it\u2019s worth living in a world full of poverty and pain in order to have that. And well, as <strong><em>Inside Out<\/em> <\/strong>teaches us, we need sadness along with joy anyway.<\/p>\n<p>However, I don\u2019t think that the two realms seen in <em>Bliss<\/em> are equal plains, a la the parallel worlds of <em>Another Earth<\/em>. They\u2019re not side-by-side with a gate between them, two fenced-in areas where the grass is always greener in some manner or other on the other side. I think the utopian world is a simulation within a simulation. We never see the actual \u201creal world.\u201d What we do see in the first of the film\u2019s two settings, though, includes little hints that it\u2019s a glitchy simulation. There\u2019s the wallet on Greg\u2019s desk when he leaves his office. And there\u2019s the three-peated girl across the street when Isabel is telling Greg not to go to the police about his boss.<\/p>\n<p>Why would Cahill show us \u2014 and only us, not the characters \u2014 hints of this first world being a simulation if it wasn\u2019t one? At the same time, he never keeps narrative focalization limited to Greg, so we know we\u2019re not only seeing what he\u2019s experiencing or what\u2019s only in his head. There are scenes in which Isabel is doing her own thing separate from what Greg\u2019s doing, so there\u2019s no reason to accept that she\u2019s either not real within the story or real within the simulation. The same goes for Emily. We can recognize that the two women are as genuine as Greg is in that first simulation.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the second simulation level is merely an effect of hallucinatory drugs doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s still a different reality, albeit one that Isabel and Greg are able to share through a mutual experience and constant conversation about what they\u2019re seeing and doing. And it\u2019s a reality that overlaps and sometimes blends with the first one. A mix of virtual and augmented reality. Unfortunately for Isabel and Greg, the blending of worlds can get them into trouble in either, especially the first world, where to everyone else, Greg looked like he was directly knocking an old lady down at a roller rink.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <em>Bliss<\/em> is a movie, and we can always just explain that first \u201creality\u201d as being a simulation in so far as it\u2019s a fiction on screen, created and cast by Cahill and his collaborative gods. Every movie story is a simulated reality (sure, even documentaries to an extent). Cinema is a mirror, but it\u2019s also escapism. Do we want to escape to a world that\u2019s too much like our own, with all of its miseries but also with its more relatable characters and relationships or do we want to go to that more-perfect world of robots and asteroid mining? Can\u2019t we have both? Exactly.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Bliss\u00a0<\/em>is now streaming <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bliss-Salma-Hayek\/dp\/B08RNWBDDC\/\">exclusively on Amazon Prime Video<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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