Movie

Out of Blue

2019 · 110 min

A dreamlike, unsettling mystery that drifts between cosmic wonder and buried trauma, demanding patience as it slowly folds back on itself.

Tagline: Can you explain your place in the Universe?
Overview: Mike Hoolihan is an unconventional New Orleans cop investigating the murder of renowned astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell, a black hole expert found shot to death in her observatory. As Mike tumbles down the rabbit hole of the disturbing, labyrinthine case, she finds herself grappling with increasingly existential questions of quantum mechanics, parallel universes, and exploding stars. The hunt for a killer draws a detective into an even larger mystery: the nature of the universe itself.
How it feels: Eerie, melancholic, dark and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Memory, identity, death, obsession
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
identity
death
obsession
mystery
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
twist ending
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild