Perfect Sense is another film in the apocalypse science fiction category, sub-category biological contagion outbreak. We see this story unfold through the eyes of Michael (Ewan MacGregory), a master chef and dedicated hedonist who lives his life totally dedicated to in physical senses and perceptions, allowing his interaction with the world to go no deeper than that. We also meet Susan (Eva Green), a dedicated scientist, an epidemiologist whose work is one of the early clues as to the coming disaster. She is absolutely dedicated to her work, but has nothing else in her life, just data, labwork and experiments. These two unlikely souls find themselves falling into each other's orbits when the wave begins cresting upon the world and the effects of the disease began to be felt. Slowly, surely, the people around them find their senses being taken away from them by the biological attack. This is especially tragic for these two, as just when the world is allowing them to begin to perceive the world beyond their limited horizons, their ability to experience it begins to be stripped away.
We take our senses for granted. And we also give them much more credence than perhaps they warrant. We don't think much about what they do tell us and we often forget there is more to the world than what they can tell us.
But as the song says, you don't know what you've got, til it's gone.
The human side of the end of the world, probably the best side through which to experience it.
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