

Isabel begins to see elements from the simulation leak into her view and hypothesizes they need to go back into the simulation and take more blue crystals in order to fully exit it. During the celebration, Greg wanders off and encounters a ghostly Emily, who implores him to come back to her. Greg still has vivid memories of the simulation, but Isabel warns him the simulation pulls tricks on the user.Ī gala is thrown for the Brain Box. Greg does not remember this world, and Isabel says that after a long dark period of poverty, most problems on Earth were eliminated, allowing humanity to flourish. Isabel reveals they are a couple in this world and takes Greg home, showing him his drawings were recreations of this setting.

He is told that he has been experiencing a simulation within a Brain Box created by Isabel to study alternate realities and their effects on the human brain. She plans to eject them both out of this "false" world using blue crystals.Īfter snorting the blue crystals, they wake up attached to a giant computer along with several others. Isabel decides she needs to prove what reality is to him. When he returns, Isabel is there, furious that he called Emily, asserting she is not real. He finds Emily's phone number and calls her, but gets the answering machine. One day Greg wakes up in Isabel's tent and finds her absent but sees his drawings posted. She gives him her phone number and asks Greg to call her. While Isabel gets more crystals, Emily spots Greg on the street and attempts to rescue him. Greg is released and his daughter Emily searches for him.
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There she offers him yellow crystals and teaches him how to manipulate the world telekinetically.Īfter an altercation at a roller rink in which he and Isabel telekinetically trip a bully, he watches police arrest the bully, only to discover himself in the back of the squad car. After Isabel sells Greg's cell phone, she takes Greg to a tented area. After they leave the bar a walking woman appears from nowhere multiple times. After Greg does her a favor, she telekinetically makes Greg's boss's death look like a suicide. She speaks about having created this world with unintended consequences. In the bar, he meets Isabel, who appears to know what he has done. After Greg is fired, he accidentally kills his boss and conceals the body before leaving the office for the bar across the street. After he is called to his boss's office, forgetting his wallet on his desk, Greg's wallet glitches out. Greg Wittle spends his work hours daydreaming and drawing. It was released on February 5, 2021, on Amazon Prime Video, and received mostly negative reviews from critics, who compared it unfavorably to The Matrix. It then evolves into an emotionally frenetic psychological storyline where the viewer is drawn along with the characters and left to decide what is "real" and what may be a simulated reality.

The film initially aims to portray Wilson's character as an overworked divorced dreamer, lost and confused while keeping a strained relationship with his adult children. The viewer is left to question whether he is actually caught up in a layer-upon-layer simulation or whether he is experiencing drug induced psychosis. He struggles to discern reality from fantasy. Befriended by a homeless woman (Hayek), he gradually falls deeper into what appears to be drug addiction. The film follows a middle-aged man (Wilson), recently divorced and estranged suffers a psychotic break when he is fired from an unhappy job.

Bliss is a 2021 American drama film written and directed by Mike Cahill.
