![]() ![]() ![]() More noteworthy still, the construction of the narrative employs editing that's sharp, fast, and jarring, and the purposeful obfuscation that keeps viewers guessing to some extent also makes it difficult to engage with the picture. There's strong violence that includes sexual assault and abuse, and pervasive nudity themes of deception, manipulation, exploitation, and psychological and emotional torment and dialogue including instances of homophobia, and a long-running thread of sexism. Despite every appearance to the contrary, this is a great, finely made film. And in so doing, I've been very much impressed. It's only within the very final stretch of the film that everything is made clear, and all the loose ends are tied together. Sequences inserted throughout, following characters other than the protagonist, seem wholly out of place and arbitrary. Is it a dream? A hallucination? A paranormal happening? A movie? An actual conspiracy? All of the above? The narrative is so consciously disordered that a fleeting moment relatively early on, suggesting the truth of the story, has to be taken with a grain of salt. Yet that seems to rather be the intent of the film-makers, as the very plot pointedly defies easy discernment. Usually it doesn't take long for me to begin to form an opinion here I was flummoxed. I spent most of 'Bliss' entirely unsure of what to make of it. ![]()
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