This is How Movies Should Be Made

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

It is a performances centric movie

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

I had heard about this film in my college film class while we were learning about sound in film. The final 5 minutes of this movie was used as an example, where all we heard was the beautiful music while they were deaf and trying to find each other. I almost started crying in front of 78 other students, so I figured that I should give this movie a watch. I am not usually someone who really watches romantic movies, but the premise of how they're losing their senses really grabbed my attention, as I do have an interest in apocalyptic movies (and yes, this counts as one of those). For a "romantic" movie, it did not go at a slow pace in any part. The loss of senses would come at perfect moments, allowing time in between for adaptation, then ripping it away with the next loss. It kept the movie feeling fresh and kept the pace going strong.I was not let down a single bit. This movie is such a wonderful emotional experience. The visuals are incredible, especially the cinematography by Giles Nuttgens. The soundtrack is gorgeous, especially when the deafness comes. The look of the movie is a cloudy, depressing look, and with good reason. It's an extremely depressing situation, and what lies ahead of losing their senses is inevitable starvation then death. So it makes sense that they went with a glummer visual tone. Also the dialogue was excellent, it felt like the two were really having a special connection, and nothing was corny about it. In fact it reminded me of real life relationships. The ending was absolutely spectacular. I wish that I didn't see it in my class because it would have been so much more impactful, but I still got to have the emotional response that I held back seeing the original clip. It made me want to do what they were doing; embrace someone. Overall such a phenomenal movie and it's unfortunate it didn't have more success than it did. I have absolutely nothing wrong with this movie, so I give it a 10/10. Definitely check this one out.

This is a movie about love and science fiction. But the fiction occurred here is unknown. Though men thing what about his-self is not always right. When love comes everything has changed. Human scene may not work well but the sense of love will stays forever once it occurred. No barrier can resist love. Couple can hate each other for few reason but if their love is from their core, then those reason may not resist them. In this movie we can see that love between the actor and the actress . Director is very successful about this charming love presentation. Another thing of this movie is running of life. Life is not stop running for any descent reason. When you have life that life will go on until its end. However some matter can slow it down a bit but can't stop it. So if you have life and love you can go through the darkness.

First all I absolutely love Eva Green.. 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.. Its erotic, emotional, funny, romantic, the visual art is beautifully done, Ewan and Eva's performance was captivating.. I really recommend this film it's an emotional roller- coaster and will leave you with tears in your eyes..

The log-line of "Perfect Sense" (directed by David Mackenzie) makes the movie sound gimmicky at best. "A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions"? Aside from imminent sentimentality, this description signalled to me the inevitable deployment of a cheap trick. Yet with Eva Green and Ewan McGregor leading the cast, I thought, give me a taste of the maudlin gimmick.Susan (Green) is an epidemiologist working on this sense-subtracting disease that begins with a few cases and ends up a pandemic. Michael (McGregor) is a talented chef at a high-end restaurant that shares an alley with Susan's apartment. Both characters are self-admitted assholes who fall in unlikely love while this affliction deconstructs their very personhood (along with everyone else's on the planet). I don't need to tell you to balk at my description if I've made the movie sound less watchable than the log-line has. Yet I will say that you'll be missing out if, based on any blurb, you dismiss this movie entirely. "Perfect sense" is a gem that increases in value the longer you look at it. "And what are we really?" it seems to ask. "A number of perceptual senses linked to a narrow spectrum of underlying emotions?" That's one suggestion it communicates before adding: "You've gotta love that." Prior to losing each sense, victims of this disease experience an uncontrollable surge of emotion: despair before losing smell, ravenousness before taste, rage before hearing, and, ushering in the loss of sight, all-encompassing love and hope. Darkness at last consumes all victims while blindly and silently they cling to loved ones whom they can also neither smell nor taste. Left with only the ability to feel the person beside them, all await the final subtraction (touch) that can only render them lifeless. Two of the many interesting things about this apocalyptic movie are the disease that sense-by-sense disassembles people, and the adaptive measures people take in order to cope with their ensuing condition. Those who can no longer taste begin to describe food in terms of texture, consistency or with onomatopoeia while artists attempt to reintroduce or at least remember flavor through music. So in a sense, synesthesia becomes a short-term savior. Though the movie provides much food for thought, at heart it's a love story between Susan and Michael. Remember that. Whether or not their love burgeons as a result of the apocalypse doesn't matter. We don't know what causes the disease. Is it environmental? Manmade? Gaia? Aliens? We never find out, so in that respect there's no didacticism. Neither are we subjected to some cornball yarn about love transcending space and time. The more existential and less literal question we're left with as a result is: Really, though, what else of any significance is there? I'm reminded of "Poem" by Al Purdy, particularly its last line: "there is nothing at all I can do except hold your hand and not go away." The sense of helplessness Purdy conveys when the narrator tries to console an ill loved one, a time when nothing can be done for someone other than to provide a loving presence, is nothing if not touching to the reader because of its understated, pragmatic truth: love, whatever magic it isn't, sustains us. It's sustenance. In the same vein, "Perfect Sense" isn't saying that love intensifies as the disease progresses. It isn't claiming that with all distractions removed love can be seen for what it is, all-important. Thanks for sparing us those sentiments by the way. Something of what the movie does say is that love, nurturing, care, warmth, whatever you want to call it, as we slowly fall apart, is the one thing we can still manage to express with each, however limited, piece of ourselves we have left—and right up until removal of our last sense snuffs us out. Potentially, perhaps coincidentally, yet for certain thankfully, love also happens to be all we need in perilous times like these. And if that's gimmicky then so are we.