Let me also join in and say as a marketer, this film's marketing was terrible. Totally gives folks the wrong idea if they're expecting a neat little sci-fi film.
"Bliss" is not a sci-fi film. It's not quite a fantasy film either. It is a film about designer drug addiction, homelessness, mental illness, depression, separation of a family. It's about a man played by Owen Wilson, whose whole world fell apart at once. He was already on the edge of everything: homelessness, drug addiction, etc.; as he's going through a divorce, his family was split. He loses his job and meets a real bohemian, homeless, street prostitute, drug addict played by Salma Hayek. She convinces him to take a synthetic designer drug and escape to a whole world where they are together is not the real world.
The film's marketing makes you think this is going to be a kind of sci-fi/fantasy feature, but it isn't. Maybe the thought was to make it one, but it couldn't fit in the drug addicts and homeless as that took over the film more than "the other world." It tried - it tried. It started well - the twist with his boss was funny, and then meeting Selma's character in a bar and how she laid it all out had that sci-fi/fantasy promise.
Then the movie goes into the homelessness and addiction and prostitution, and you get as confused as Owen's character, so by the time they get back to the sci-fi/fantasy element, you know it's a drug trip.
There is no happy ending here. Just go in knowing this is another way to show co-dependency, drug addiction, homelessness, surviving on the street, period.
"Bliss" is not a sci-fi film. It's not quite a fantasy film either. It is a film about designer drug addiction, homelessness, mental illness, depression, separation of a family. It's about a man played by Owen Wilson, whose whole world fell apart at once. He was already on the edge of everything: homelessness, drug addiction, etc.; as he's going through a divorce, his family was split. He loses his job and meets a real bohemian, homeless, street prostitute, drug addict played by Salma Hayek. She convinces him to take a synthetic designer drug and escape to a whole world where they are together is not the real world.
The film's marketing makes you think this is going to be a kind of sci-fi/fantasy feature, but it isn't. Maybe the thought was to make it one, but it couldn't fit in the drug addicts and homeless as that took over the film more than "the other world." It tried - it tried. It started well - the twist with his boss was funny, and then meeting Selma's character in a bar and how she laid it all out had that sci-fi/fantasy promise.
Then the movie goes into the homelessness and addiction and prostitution, and you get as confused as Owen's character, so by the time they get back to the sci-fi/fantasy element, you know it's a drug trip.
There is no happy ending here. Just go in knowing this is another way to show co-dependency, drug addiction, homelessness, surviving on the street, period.