Wohnungskonzerne enteignen: Darf man das?

Die Berliner können ab heute für einen Volksentscheid unterschreiben, mit dem die Vergesellschaftung von mehr als 200.000 Wohnungen angestrebt wird. Die Chancen für die Initiative stehen recht gut.

Die Berliner können ab heute für einen Volksentscheid unterschreiben, mit dem die Vergesellschaftung von mehr als 200.000 Wohnungen angestrebt wird. Die Chancen für die Initiative stehen recht gut.

Berlin: Linke Autopartei?

Trotz Klimanotstands fällt der Berliner Linkspartei der Abschied vom Verbrennermotor schwer

Trotz Klimanotstands fällt der Berliner Linkspartei der Abschied vom Verbrennermotor schwer

Review: Thought-provoking sci-fi drama Bliss works on multiple levels

Is it real, or is it a simulation? And how could you ever be sure?

Screenshot from Bliss trailer

Enlarge / Greg (Owen Wilson) and Isabel (Salma Hayek) find themselves shifting between a beautiful and an "ugly" world—but which is real, and which is the simulation? (credit: YouTube/Amazon)

A depressed man finds himself questioning the reality of his existence when he meets a free-spirited woman who insists he's inhabiting a simulation in Bliss, a new film from director Mike Cahill that stars Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek. Sure, it sounds like an indie riff on The Matrix, and there are a few shared elements, but Bliss is markedly different in theme and tone, and it is very much Cahill's unique vision.

(Major spoilers below the gallery. We'll give you a heads up when we get there.)

As we've reported previously, Cahill also directed the 2011 indie sci-fi film Another Earth—his first feature—which received a standing ovation at its premiere and won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Cahill's 2014 followup feature, I Origins, also snagged the Sloan Prize; in fact, he's the only director to have twice won the award, so he's got some serious indie sci-fi film street cred.

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