Bokeh is a Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Drama directed by Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan and starring Maika Monroe and Matt O'Leary. The film premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival before being released theatrically in 2017.
The film is about a young American couple on holiday in Iceland who wake up one morning to discover that everyone else on the island and the rest of the world has vanished.
Tropes:
- Adam and Eve Plot: Janai and Riley find themselves as the last man and woman on earth.
- After the End: The movie follows the main characters as they discover and try to find out why everyone else on earth has disappeared.
- Apocalypse How: Either Class 0 or Class 3.
- Caught Up in the Rapture: Jenai speculates this to be the explanation for why everyone has disappeared.
- Downer Ending: The film ends with Riley discovering that Janai committed suicide and he is left to survive alone as seemingly the last human on earth.
- The End of the World as We Know It: The world becomes this for the characters when humanity has all but disappeared.βIs this it?β¦ Is this the rapture??β
- Last of Their Kind: Jenai and Riley are the last two humans on earth. This is briefly averted when they discover another person, Nils. However, Riley truly becomes the last human after Nils dies and later Jenai seemingly commits suicide.
- The Unsolved Mystery: Why everyone disappeared and whether the strange light in the sky that Jenai saw was responsible are never solved.
