"It wouldn't be a stretch to compare Paradise to Alphaville, what with its imagining of the modern as otherworldly, or to imagine it as a capsule made by an outer-space explorer who visits Earth and finds layers of mystery in the mundane." - Jeremiah Kipp

Paradise unfolds like the steady accumulation of a worldview, an actual personality distilled into the component acts that gave birth to it. It's a tangle of ideas related, like a series of anecdotes, solely through the prism of Almereyda's personal experience. Not just a chronicle of humanity's creative, adventurous, enterprising impulse but a product of it as well.