[Bringer Of Funerals]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Perfect Sense (2011)

An unknown virus is spreading throughout the world. Firstly attacking it's victims with grief, followed by the loss of their sense of smell. As the loss of one sense leads to another the film follows two people (Ewan McGregor & Eva Green) in Glasgow who bond through a chance meeting and form a relationship which they try and work round the virus.

I went into Perfect Sense blind if you'll pardon the pun. Only picking it up seeing as it starred the lovely Eva Green. I knew it was a sci-fi thriller but wasn't sure if it involved mutants, zombies or any of the typical viral outbreak traits...

...it doesn't.

Perfect Sense is a brilliant film which puts the viewer through the emotional wringer. Many scenes are quite amusing, much of it seems very realistic and heartwarming then part way through you realise that the virus doesn't stop with the loss of smell, taste comes next. The film is so thought provoking, carefully examining the sense of losing the things we take for granted as to be brilliantly scary even though it's clear what the final denouement will be. When it comes, it's portrayed so well by McGregor and Green, and brilliantly directed and scripted that it's gut-wrenchingly agonizing to watch and such a thoroughly downbeat climax as to make Cannibal Holocaust feel like a rom-com.

I can't remember the last time i loved and loathed a film with equal amounts of desperation, and yet was as thoroughly engrossed in a movie with such a predictable final scene of futility.

Perfect Sense really is a film to be savored.

Superb.

Did you cry? I know I will watching this