Review of Bokeh (2017) by Shares G — 04 Dec 2018

It is a fantasy land worse than Harry Potter, let's wave a magic wand and suddenly all the people have vanished, but everything else remains intact. "Car is still in gear", but is not moving, has not crashed on anything, everything is perfectly arranged with no signs of damage anywhere. No fires, no crashes, no ships run aground, no crashed planes.

The sole surviving couple do very little, if anything to plan ahead. A few glimpses only of spending more than 5 seconds thinking about the future. Electricity, telecomms, it all functions perfectly, but it will not last long. And how do we prepare for this? Do we try to scavenge/acquire and store petrol generators, fuel tanks, water tanks, canned food, medicines and first aid kits, batteries and torches? No, we simply travel around and take photos of the scenery! And then he get in a lift on his own. What if there is a power cut or a fault - who exactly will ever get him out? Is he that much retarded? Apparently he is not entirely dim, because he eventually spends some time fabricating a rain water tank and pump to feed his kitchen tap. Great, because their future survival depends on the kitchen tap. And I may have missed it falling asleep, why did the kitchen tap stop but everyting else seems to work perfectly? How do they flush their toilets?

They go out "exploring" but instead of visiting the ports, the airports, the power stations, the water works, instead they go around in the countryside taking photos. Really?!

The characters are so unreal and behave so illogically, both of them. They behave as if on a holiday with almost no care in the world somehow thinking they will be provided for!

And then suddenly we have a field of ponies! We have not seen anything else living up to that point. No insects, no flies, no birds, and fish? Oh I forgot, they did not even try to go to the coast! But now we have ponies and of course we also have vegetation, so it might seem all that was taken in this apocalytpic world are the people. An Alien or Biblical event therefore? Do they sole survivors even attempt at some basic logical deduction?

And do they even try to get hold of a short wave? No. Instead they stroll around in desoltate super markets buying clothes!

What a ridiculous scene inside an abandoned department store where she actually goes into a changing room and draws the curtain! What? Who is she so worried might see her?

Would this whole movie be even bearable if Jenai was not so pretty? Have you noticed and counted the unending close up shots of her? This is the essense of this ridiculous film: take a very young and beatiful girl, spend around half the time showing just her and her always impeccable hair, add a little bit of nude just when the audience have drifted off, and voila, we now have a movie!