Perfect Sense

Plot synopsis:
An epidemic begins to spread throughout the globe, causing humankind to lose their sensory perceptions one by one. The story focuses on two people: Susan, one of a team of epidemiologists who are trying to find the causes of the disease, and Michael, a chef who works at a busy restaurant located next to Susan's flat. The two meet and get to know each other as the epidemic progresses, a relationship which soon turns to love.
Humans begin to lose their senses one at a time. Each loss is preceded by an outburst of an intense feeling or urge. First, people begin suffering uncontrollable bouts of crying and this is soon followed by the loss of their sense of smell. An outbreak of irrational panic and anxiety, closely followed by a bout of frenzied gluttony, precedes the loss of the sense of taste. The film depicts people trying to adapt to each loss and trying to carry on living as best they can, rediscovering their remaining senses as they do so. Michael and his co-workers do their best to cook food for people who cannot smell nor taste.
The loss of hearing comes next and is accompanied by an outbreak of extreme anger and rage. Michael experiences it first and is verbally abusive at Susan who flees in fear, losing her own hearing shortly afterwards. Despite her knowledge that it was the disease that caused the outburst, Susan cannot face Michael again. People struggle to adjust and to go on living. One day, every person on Earth suddenly experiences a feeling of joyful euphoria. Susan realizes she both forgives and still loves Michael and rushes to his job. The two find each other and embrace just as they, and the rest of the world, become blind.

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Review:
The shared affliction of this story is poetic metaphor; however, like most good art, this film is about its characters, not its literary devices.The cast's performances are not only authentic, they are illuminating; particularly Ewan McGregor's and Eva Green's central couple.
By those prerequisites, we would also be forced to give _Hamlet_ or _Citizen Kane_ one out of ten stars._Perfect Sense_ is a film whose "point" is not to make its audience comfortable or to provide the adrenaline buzz of a "thriller." Its purpose is to portray authentic human experience in an impossible situation.
Maybe that's what the movie is all about, love is the only thing that makes sense in our lives.
Wonderful idea of a world taking revenge on its inhabitants, and this movie could have been following the same theme, but it's done differently.I love the progress of the character development, especially when Michael experiences the same selfish narcissistic tendencies (or so he thinks) in his new love interest that he has portrayed in the past.
The blatant exposure of self when the loss of sensory perception shows how transparent and weak we actually are really brings a perfect sense of reality to those watching.True, the character acting is superfluous, but with the actors available, what else would you expect (I was completely ready for Eva Green to die of consumption whilst Ewan MacGregor sings an Elton John tune at the top of his lungs...
Because first, it is usually at the age of 14/15 that authors try to reveal the ultimate light of truth to humankind (as this project does), and it is again at that age that the longing to feel each other's bodies (the "perfect sense" as we realize at the end of the show after complete sensory darkness obliterates everything else) is most pungent and dismissive of anything else human experience might have brought.
i am a great fan of science fiction/fantasy/apocalyptic movie types ,even if there is a love theme running through the script, but this was just a complete waste of time and money.I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone and i know personally i will never sit down to watch it again.I even heard other cinema goers on the night i seen it verbally abusing it as they left...
It's about a virus that takes senses away, but it's not about it at all, it's about making sense of why we exist, love, feelings, emotions, connections.Believe me, it will change you, change the way you live life, it will make you think, it will definitely make an impact.
She's a very talented actress and I have yet seen her in something I disliked..this movie was very artistic and poetic in its picture and frightening in the sense that what if something like this was to ever happen..although it was a complicated love story it was beautifully portrayed in the mist of a horrifying epidemic and chaos..the plot was intriguing and left you questioning life in itself and how we take the simplest things for granted..
The main idea is the same, though, and just as lacking satisfaction for people like me, who want to see themselves in the characters and actually be able to change something.Bottom line: my wife liked the movie, she resonated with the deep feelings evoked in the film; I saw no point in watching some folks doing nothing but floating in the current until they crashed, doing nothing but admiring the water and feeling alive for some reason.
Perfect Sense (2011)Take a whole new end of the world idea, one that's preposterous and chilling, and layer a naturally "perfect" romance into it, and you have this ambitious, lovely movie.
That is, he's not doing indie movies (yet), but he sometimes moves through a less obvious zone of really compelling projects with high production values, like "Trainspotting," "Moulin Rouge!," and "Cassandra's Dream." So he has a likable (some would say lovable) quality here as a regular guy, a serious chef who's selfish in relationships.Until he meets, by chance, the other lead, Eva Green, who is distant and reluctant and gradually won over by this sweetness of this man.
Perfect Sense is another global pandemic movie, coming in on the heels of Contagion, and tries to set itself apart by presenting the pandemic as a backdrop for a romance between Ewan McGregor and Eva Green.
As such, it obviously requires us to gather a stake in their relationship or at least them individually, so that we care about them in order to care about the state of the world.The film overall presents some interesting themes about what can happen to mankind when they start to lose their basic senses (as each shuts off one at a time, for some reason), but the problem for me was that I couldn't care about these two characters at the front of it all.
Of all the global outbreak and/or apocalyptic movies out there, "Perfect Sense" takes the cake for most unique premise: an epidemic with seemingly no scientific basis begins to rob people of their senses one sense at a time.
He's terrific at lapping up the chemistry between stars Ewan McGregor and Eva Green and creating some stirring moments in what's an otherwise quiet film, but the odd nature of the epidemic is almost too much to overcome.The loss of each sense is preceded by some kind of an emotional episode, which is unusually and maybe even refreshingly poetic considering other sci-fi films centered on epidemics, but it takes awhile to get comfortable with the idea.
Considering the soft, string- dominated tone of almost the entire film, this is like a scene out of a ridiculous B horror movie.As you might be able to deduce, "Perfect Sense" is at its best when it focuses on McGregor and Green.
An epidemiologist and a chef who discover each other in the early days of the epidemic, their lives are personally and professionally impacted by the loss of the senses (and in Green's character Susan's case, that there appears to be no way of understanding or stopping it).
The arc of their relationship feels abbreviated and considering the complexity displayed in McGregor and Green's chemistry, their highs and lows should probably be a bit more developed and complete.Even if an entire movie wasn't necessarily needed to make the point, "Perfect Sense" still deserves credit for raising the question of how essential our sense are in leading happy lives and feeling love.
It's a great discussion topic and one you can't blame Aakeson for wanting to discover.So even though the sci-fi context ends up being distracting and is a bit mishandled in certain instances when it comes to preserving the film's tone, there's enough to merit the attempt at this genre-hybrid exercise, if for nothing else than a couple moving romantic performances and some food ...
In the middle of this unusual pandemic is Susan (Eva Green), a scientist researching it to find a cure and Michael (Ewan McGregor), a chef in Glasgow who cannot cook effectively without his sense of smell.
Both of them have their own baggage and they start to fall in love, all while humanity begins losing more senses—the characteristics that make us human.Perfect Sense is a terrifically acted movie and has a wonderful, haunting score.
It is easily one of the best performances of McGregor's career.Perfect Sense is a love story set in the foreground of the end of the world, but it is also about humanity's need to seek an equilibrium, to develop a new balance when something has changed.
Some people would give up life and just run amok, but most want to carry on with their lives and adapt to changing circumstances.There is a simple but clever idea behind Perfect Sense: how would we react to the loss of something we all take for granted?
But there are moments of artistic flair when deafness hits and all that can be heard is an unpleasant ringing sound—the world did feel like it had descended into silence.Perfect Sense is certainly worthy viewing, but because of its more intimate tone and approach, it is more fitting for the small screen.Please visit www.playeraffinity.com.
As they lose each sense, people experience an emotional outburst of some kind.This movie is trying to take the apocalyptic scenario to a more poetic landscape.
David Mackenzie, who I knew only for his quite unpretentious half-drama- half-comedy "Spread" with Ashton Kutcher, directed a wonderful movie showing apocalyptic world and how each of us would act if we started to lose that nature's invaluable gift – five senses.
The main attraction for me to this film was Eva Green, I'm always curious to see what projects she takes on, she always seems to go for strange, offbeat and slightly strange roles, and this is no exception, she's one of those actresses that will always be one step away from the a list because of her role choices, but that's the thing u like about her, she's not a sellout, and also we have Ewan Mcgregor, who is also basically the male counterpart of Ms Green, he's an effortless actor who always impresses.
The film itself is a strange one, it's kins of got two story lines, one is the story of the world losing all the senses, one by one the epidemic overtakes the world, combined with this is the love story between a chef and a medical researcher and the way their romance copes with this epidemic.
The acting is great, Ewan and Eva are the main part of the film, you don't really notice anyone else as they are in every scene, the cold and almost apocalyptic feel of the world crumbling is also a great feel to have for this kind of story.
Also worth mentioning are the scenes when mass amounts of people lose a sense, they react in a feral like way which is highly effective in the message its trying to put across.All in all I would say that Perfect Sense is a good film, albeit far from amazing, it's still better than a lot of other films out there.
Soap apparently tastes delicious, but it will still burn like hell when it gets in your eyes.The movie was entertaining, even If Eva Green let the world know she is not shy about her body at all..
A research scientist (Eva Green) and a chef (Ewan McGregor) meet, fall in love and are then faced with the dire adversity of the world's situation.
Having only just recently watched the thematically similar, brilliant 'Blindness', I was not expecting Perfect Sense to have any sort of impact on me but good Zeus, it truly left me in jaw-dropping awe.The bleak premise, the harrowing fear, the scorching anger are all eggshells on humanity's rotting floor -- but they don't come alone.
In delicate balance, there is always hope tiptoeing around them, hope and the drive to move forward, maybe on instinct or feigned ignorance perhaps, but it's there, the need to not just survive but experience and live until life is no more.An eroding world which could have surrendered in anarchy chooses to keep up the fight in structure, instead striving to clad itself with some semblance of normalcy through a bull- willed grip to the familiarity of old habits.Ultimately, humanity ends in comfort.Bearing in mind I don't usually go for melodrama -and through the emotive use of music and sound/color play this often borders on beautiful depression- it somehow connected to my every point, and to my every level Perfect Sense made just that; perfect sense..
I've become so used to Hollywood showing us disaster movies on epic proportions and utilising millions of dollars worth of special effects, that I seriously doubted a film about the end of the world using absolutely no shots of the Golden Gate bridge collapsing on itself or the White House being blown up by mutants could actually worked.I was wrong.Perfect Sense gives us an apocalyptic vision through the eyes of a pretty ordinary couple (if Ewan McGregor and Eva Green are your average Glasgow residents) and through the use of montages.
He and Eva Green do an excellent job together with the material -which I would think would require some serious trust in your director as they suddenly lose each of their 5 senses and eat lipstick, mustard, soap and whole raw fish between moments of violence, sadness and several love scenes.
In 2008, Blindness succeeded in showing what will happen when a destructive virus (or bacterium) causes global blindness rapidly.Perfect Sense, however, with Ewan McGregor as Michael and Eva Green as Susan (and an excellent supporting cast), provides a more complete picture (no pun intended), showing what would happen if humanity gradually lost all of its senses: smell, taste, hearing, speaking, seeing and, finally, feeling/touching.
This film is about a chef and an epidemiologist in Scotland, amidst a backdrop of a mysterious disease that robs people of their senses."Perfect Sense" tells the story of a strange disease that makes people sad, then losing the sense of smell.
They start to lose their senses.I like this movie.
Yes nicely made with filming and cast all that but absolutely awful film With all the rest no logic no sense and disturbing , the writer must have tried so hard not to shoot himself making this make believe end of the world but seemingly wannabe we can do better even if we lost something original concept.
If you want to see her boob go see the film Yes nicely made with filming and cast all that but absolutely awful film With all the rest no logic no sense and disturbing , the writer must have tried so hard not to shoot himself making this make believe end of the world but seemingly wannabe we can do better even if we lost something original concept.
It even gave the movie a sense of realism, which is also thanks to its well written characters and actors playing them.Ewan McGregor and Eva Green are a convincing young couple and they play well off each other.
As the story mainly focuses on these two there aren't a whole lot of periphery characters (Connie Britton and Stephen Dillane offer some support) to take plot-time away from McGregor and Green -- which is a good thing.As the title works on many different levels, I think there are a few ways at looking at this film -- I look at it positively with the beauty the story offers (its may be grim at times ...
Perfect Sense – CATCH IT (B-) A Perfect Sense is a very unusual human apocalyptic British movie about a chef and scientist falling in love when the whole world becomes a victim of epidemic, in which they start losing their sensory sense one by one.
While the movie does make some interesting points about the importance of our senses, and maybe lack of importance in terms of relationships, the main theme is purely a basic love story, and I believe that's been done before...Good performances by Ewan McGregor and Eva Green in the lead roles.
Reading the description of this movie, I felt like it would be a boring traditional end of the world romance.
Disaster movies, being such formatted, are rarely convincing, however Perfect Sense arouse curiosity at first glance with its high potential premise.If seeing the population adapt to the problem that's been put it front of it is interesting — sparkled with some well thought-out touches of quirky humour —, one doesn't feel a lot of emotions towards the developing romance despite the obvious chemistry between Ewan McGregor and Eva Green, who by the way are excellent.The story is too linear and ultimately the movie doesn't stand out from other productions of the same genre.
The ending of the movie is aptly tragic, yet terrifyingly beautiful, with humanity in perfect sense with what really matters..
Oh my god, what did i just see?, best of the best i have seen this year, even though i thought nothing could surpass my number one this year "the skin i live in", anyway, this movie is incredibly awesome, it has all, from the drama, to terror, throughout sci-fi and all that tied by romance between the two main characters, i mean i just finished watching it and rush here to let you know that its 110% worth watching, as for the plot you may already have read what is it about, people around the globe start losing senses , one by one, and that happens through a pretty intense rampage of emotions.
I don't, for one minute, actually believe she's an epidemiologist.The central conceit of the film is, of course, absolutely ridiculous -- an inexplicable epidemic is gradually depriving humanity of its senses, starting with smell and taste, then going straight for hearing and sight.
Workaholic scientist Susan (a wonderfully radiant portrayal by Eva Green) meets and falls in love with womanizing chef Michael (a fine and charming performance by Ewan McGregor) around the same time that a mysterious worldwide epidemic breaks out that causes everyone to lose their sensory perceptions.
I have always been drawn to apocalyptic or end-of-the-world movies, but I did not find "Perfect Sense" meaningful or entertaining.
Basically, however, the movie takes place in a few locations in Glasgow.The scope of the film is even narrower than that, however, because the meat of the story is the relationship between two people, an epidemiologist and a chef, who discover each other, have lots of sex, have a falling out, and reconcile just as the last sense goes.
All I can say is that this movie sure got me thinking about the simple things of life I normally take for granted and I thanked God a lot for having all my perfect senses..
Jeez, I don't want to live in a world where people lose ALL of their senses.