Perfect Sense (***1/2 out of ****)

Ewan McGregor has quite the great year. Beginners which he starred in is one of the year's best. Now comes Perfect Sense which teams him back up with the underrated director David Mckenzie. The film is one of the most moving of the year. In the sense of emotion in is perhaps the best. The Tree of Life and Beginners are both moving in their own right but not like this. This is a entrancing romance mixed with sci-fi epidemic. It's the strongest in perhaps both categories this year.

There is a virus spreading on a global scale. It cause people slowly to lose their sensory perception. First goes smell, then taste and so on. It's actually horrifying when you think about it. Losing a sense creates fear, distrust and irrational behavior. However the theme of the movies is also the result of the virus. Humans adapt to the situation that befalls on them and they move on with their life. The ideas presented in the film over how people dealt with the senses were both brilliant and heart filled.

McGregor plays Michael who is a chef in Glasgow. A chef is the perfect career for this film FYI. He meets  Susan (Eva Green) who is a scientists who originally helps to try to cure the virus. The two begin to get close and become very romantic. Green's and McGregor's chemistry is hypnotic. Personal lives and emotions are much better topics when talking about a global catastrophe. Melancholia showed a single family dealing with the end of the world rather and it was astonishing. Contagion told multiple stories that got us involved because of big name actors but was a bit of a let down. Perfect Sense has found a good middle ground where we see the world panic but are moved more by the love story presented. This is the film Blindness should have been. Perfect Sense for me was one of the profound and emotional experiences in some time.

***1/2 out of ****