Perfect Sense

Perfect Sense is a 2011 turned science fiction drama directed by David Mackenzie. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2011.

Action

The chef Michael works in a high class restaurant in Glasgow, which is opposite the apartment of an epidemiologist Susan. Both are relationship- weary people and while Michael fills his time with short-lived love affairs, Susan has retired and is mainly human contact in their work. In this it also comes with the first cases of a previously unknown disease in contact. First, the victims fall into great sadness and break in memory of mistakes that they made, and people they once loved, in tears. Shortly after she goes to them calm down the sense of smell is lost. As the epidemic is spreading and people therefore remain at home, Michael meets one evening in the courtyard on Susan. The restaurant is empty and so he invites her to dinner. That same evening also breaks with her from the first thrust of the disease, and Michael brings home. He too ill and the next day both have lost their sense of smell.

It quickly becomes clear that every thrust of the disease initially preceded by a crisis in which people briefly lose control of themselves and act as in mania. Once they regain consciousness, they have lost another sense. The encounter of Michael and Susan grows by those around them very slowly collapsing world a love relationship, in which both provide stability in the face of their helplessness. Both and people generally first try to deal with the epidemic and its consequences and continue their life as much as possible. As the second thrust to loss of taste leads, wants Michael's Restaurant offer guests eating at the beauty of garnishing and the nature of the tactile impression of the food palatable, so to compensate for the loss of a sense reinforced by the operation of the remaining. In the third thrust the people of the sense of hearing is lost then, making the social life and more drastic changes and is now beginning to disintegrate the society. In the last step of the epidemic is waning eyesight and while Michael and Susan zutasten to each other in the yard, to darkness falls on both.

Background

The film was shot in various locations around Glasgow.

Reviews

The reviews of Perfect Sense fell mixed. Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film at 50 %. Tirdad Derakhshani from the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote in his review: "The film loses its charm with annoying sequences which a narrator to us using the" " to explain and what really matters in life, namely love, love, love " sense of the whole. Stephen Holden of The New York Times described the film as " a solemn sci-fi parable that plays in today's Glasgow and its deepening foreboding is amplified by the enigmatic, pseudo- biblical reflections of an unseen narrator. ".

2011 in film David Mackenzie (director) Screenplay Film score Max Richter Giles Nuttgens
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