Review: Bliss

Bliss

Starring: Iza Calzado

Directed By: Jerrold Tarog

Genre: Suspense-Thriller

 

The film tackles the story of Jane, a struggling actress that is on the verge of burning out from her work. One unfortunate day came in the life of Jane that changed her life as she had an accident on the set of her movie, from right there series of bizarre events haunted Jane as she felt like she is trapped in her own dream and she couldn’t escape it.

Okay I will try not to spoil the movie, coz the movie is really good it will make you think and it will surprise you. The story of Bliss unfolds when you get near the end so make sure that you pay attention to the details of the film from start to finish for you to understand it better, it’s like a puzzle put into pieces to tell what the story of the film is.

Bliss is a movie within a movie, maybe Jerrold Tarog wants his audience to be psychoanalytic, meaning they need to observe the character of Jane played by Iza Calzado for them to understand not only the character, but the whole film per se.

You may find the movie draggy as the sequence of events will continuously repeat, but every scene though it looked like it is repeated it always variate and it will surprise you, well I could say that it’s like Inception with a little bit of insidious and a little bit of “Before I Go To Sleep” (It was a 2014 movie starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth).

 Bliss is a beautiful crafted movie, it is well written and greatly executed, and all the sequences were all perfectly stitched together to form a great movie that will play with your thoughts and your imagination.

When it comes to the acting department, Iza Calzado left me in awe with how different she delivered her character in this movie very far from the usual characters she always portrayed, she really went out literally. You will see Iza Calzado at her finest and like you’ve never seen her before.

The movie really has a matured theme, but I think it didn’t deserve the X rating given before by the MTRCB, it was decent and it’s art this movie isn’t just any bold films out there this is a movie that the matured movie goers deserves to see.

All in all this is so far the mind boggling movie I’ve seen this year, the movie may sometimes leave you at the edge of your seats and will leave you clueless with what’s happening, but the moment you reach the end and the catharsis there you will feel and experience  Bliss.

 

Rating: 10/10