Perfect Sense (2011) (original) (raw)

Susan, an epidemiologist, reemerges from an affair gone sour and encounters a peculiar patient -- a truck driver who experienced a sudden, uncontrollable crying fit. Now he is calm, but he has lost his sense of smell. Susan soon learns there are hundreds of people across the globe beginning to suffer strange symptoms, affecting the emotions, then the senses.

Susan, an epidemiologist, reemerges from an affair gone sour and encounters a peculiar patient -- a truck driver who experienced a sudden, uncontrollable crying fit. Now he is calm, but he has lost his sense of smell. Susan soon learns there are hundreds of people across the globe beginning to suffer strange symptoms, affecting the emotions, then the senses. (less)

Director: David Mackenzie
Writer: Kim Fupz Aakeson
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Connie Nielsen, Stephen Dillane, Denis Lawson, Ewen Bremner
Producer: Gillian Berrie

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Review by Brian Orndorf, January 26, 2012

7 / 10

�Perfect Sense� has a killer hook for its take on the end of the world. Instead of bombs or the wrath of nature, the film details the final days of civilization as a gradual loss of sensory function, spreading as a global pandemic. It�s reminiscent of last autumn�s �Contagion,� only here the erosion of society is handled more artfully and rationally, recognizing that such loss of perception wouldn�t crash the planet at first, but bring it to its knees slowly. David Mackenzie�s feature is frustrating at times, possibly too insistent when it comes to screen poetry, but the concept is intriguing, ...read more...

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