European Movie Review: Perfect Sense (2011)

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Monday, Feb 6, 2012 8:00PM / Standard Entry / European Movie Review / Members only
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Etchy blog readers will recall that I didn't care for 'Contagion' very much.... so I was happy when I realized that 'Perfect Sense' would not be another 'Outbreak' rehash. This one tries to be more 'human' and less 'science'.... rather than focusing on the disease and transmission vectors, it focuses on the impact on society and people's lives, specifically the lives of Ewan McGregor and Eva Green are two people who happen to fall in love while the world falls apart. In this case the mysterious disease makes people lose their senses one at a time, first smell, then taste, then hearing, etc.

Despite the sci-fi thriller premise, this actually is more of an art-house film. That's a good and bad thing.... the scenes of society coming apart at the seams are shot very beautifully, but as a scientifically thinking person, the fact that they never try to explain how this disease is spreading or how to counteract it is quite frustrating. But all the nudity from Eva Green distracted me from my nerdy concerns for a while... :-P

4/10.

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vikster78
posted on Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012 10:35PM [Report]

Haha! Am warning you though..it's a seriously weird plot with a rather controversial ending..:-)
Etchy
posted on Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012 5:33PM

vik - ok, I'll check it out! if there's nudity, even better. ;-)
vikster78
posted on Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012 4:26PM [Report]

Yeah it was a bit strange with all the soap-eating etc. If you like Eva Green, you'd probably like Womb..another art-house type movie which deviates quite a bit from the average romantic plot.
KakPah
posted on Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 11:35AM [Report]

salam Etchy,

nudity distracted u, that's good, shows u're normal men :-)