Apocalyptic narrative with the theme of feeling lost

Lela 2022-03-23 09:02:27

"Feeling Perfect" is, of course, a love story, but one that is so "different". The arrival of the end of the world is no longer an external natural disaster such as a flood, but a process of gradual loss of feeling that occurs from within people, and in this process, the world falls apart.

People lose their sense of smell first, then lose their sense of taste after a burst of loneliness and madness, and then lose their hearing, lose their voice, and finally lose their sight after a chaotic violence and mania. As a result, people completely fall into the dark world of silent and tasteless.

However, after each loss of a feeling, people are plunged into confusion and fear, but before long people return to normal life and work. Before finally people are ready to lose their sight, the night is over, the dawn comes, people find that they can still see the light and the world, so they embrace each other excitedly, and finally enter the world of complete darkness in the embrace.

In fact, it's not new to discuss something in terms of people losing a certain feeling. In "Blindness", people lost their sight and became blind; in "One Hundred Years of Solitude", there was a period of time when people had amnesia... Before the film started, I thought this was nothing more than a lovely story, far from It is not as cruel and terrible as "Blindness", but the director has made people lose almost all senses step by step - of course, if touch is also a kind of feeling, then it has not been lost, but who can guarantee Woolen cloth?

Either way, it seems like an interesting story to make people feel lost, even if the film itself may not be that great.

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Perfect Sense quotes

  • Susan: What do you want?

    Michael: What do I want?

    Susan: Yeah.

    Michael: Well, soon I'd like to close my eyes and try and go to sleep. Which is a big deal for me 'coz usually I... I can't sleep in bed with someone.

  • Susan: I'm trying to take care of myself.

    Jenny: Right. You do that a lot, don't you?