Perfect Sense

2012 "Without love there is nothing"
7| 1h33m| R| en
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In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.

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Protraph Lack of good storyline.
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
lukefine2799 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.
Persephone Good actors who unfortunately are mired in a slow moving, depressing movie which is full of plot holes. Some scenes were so trite, they were painful to watch. This movie was definitely not what I expected. Very repetitive and predictable in some areas. I saw this movie a few weeks ago, and I still can't get the bad taste out of my mouth.
Mark C It is a love story that is strange and different. I can't argue with anyone that doesn't like it, as I can see it is quirky and different so won't follow everyone's expectations. Those who like these odd make you think style films those who like La La Land, those who like Ruby Sparks, those who like Age of Adaline...these are the people who will like this. Perfect casting and nice to see a film that feels like the attention to its message and to its environment is as good as the attention to the cast. It may not be pretty but it is moving.Watch it, stay with it, try not to judge. I can't say much about the plot without giving away spoilers for me it is a mix with part erotic love story under the cloud of an unusual rare disease and those studying and those affected by their sensory apocalypse. A haunting voice over will stay in your mind with you all the way through the credits.
Ironically Unimpressed A rarity to stumble across a movie in which I do not find Eva Green's usual acting stiffness... unnecessary. In fact, I have only praise for the chosen cast since the, at times, lackluster chemistry between the two protagonists actually translates extremely well in terms of realism.Now, about the film itself... 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.