Think about Perfect Sense what you want but the main plot kept me thinking for days after I watched the movie.
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The idea of being somewhere, deaf and suddenly you and everyone around you is blind. No one that can help... everyone is lost. No way of communicating, to find home, to find food, to find anything.
Just thinking about this scenario makes me crazy.
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It's a strange question to ask oneself whether one would commit suicide or wait until something kills you.
In principle, we should try to fight until the bitter end. But with such severe damage to my brain, unless there's a reason to believe it will revert, I'd likely kill myself before I lose the chance to do it.
Sense of current muscle positions would probably be the point of no return; at that point it's hard to even fire a gun at your own head.
But all of this is nothing new. Multiple types of brain injury leave you in similar positions; loss of motor control for example leaves many people very helpless in the real world.
But how would you even find a weapn at that point ? Starving or thirst will at least kill you first
shareI agree, the ending was quite devastating. I can't even fathom the kind of horrors that followed.
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Yes arguably more disturbing than day of the triffids
shareDid anyone feel a little like they should have attempted to depict the ultimate outcome of them losing all their senses? I kind of felt like they should have gotten into that a bit before ending the movie so abruptly.
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Ah Ma I love im awful.
Oh God, you poor thing.
Yep. Ending was waaaaay to abrupt. Slo-mo shots of people falling down stairs, into lakes, out of windows. Some suicide, some accidents.
I think there should have been at least another two minutes.
But then again, we all know what followed, so why see it right?
That would kinda of defeat the purpose of the movie, the movie is about what really matters (love) in a world where often get caught up in the nonsense, hence the intro narration, the world as it seems to us. It isnt a horror movie :) logic pretty much tells us what appens next, people starve and those that dont go insane from having major senses gone until they lose sense of touch pretty much removing the ability to wander even aimlessly.
shareReally great post, but perhaps you may have simplified it to much. We have not seen much of a world where all senses are lost it can almost be the opposite where love cannot save anything.
shareFeeling/touch is arguably the last sense to go when dying. That's the end. There is no more. The two were locked together, in each other's arms, because nobody wants to die alone.
In a literary sense, this story is, I think, a metaphor for the state of world and its inhabitants: humanity is gradually destroying itself and the planet. The only end, if nothing changes - or even if everything changes, ironically - is death, as we know. The writer has simply shown an accelerated process of what's happening as we live, breathe and finally die.
This is an intriguing horror story and one to keep in mind.
I've seen an awful lot of movies and a lot of awful movies...
If you lose all senses, including touch (thus being unable to feel even pain, since the haptic nerves that provide the sense of touch are the same that make you feel pain, so if the loss of touch is extended to every part of the body you can no longer have an haptic feedback and thus feel pain from everywhere in you) do you really exist?
What remains is pure thought and emotion, and the fact that you have a body is largely irrelevant, since you can only use your brain to think and feel, nothing else. I think & feel therefore I exist(at least until I starve), or no sensory feedback = no existence? Does it really count as existing if you are an isolated, immobile, senseless, speechless and totally useless shell of pure thought & emotion?
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Agreed, I would have liked to see some of the aftermaths, and what the experience of a loss of touch was like, how would that have been depicted?
shareWith the last one to go the sense of touch that is it. You can't walk, you literally await to die where you are. It will be like limbo. What a horrible idea. :(
shareWhile the filmmaker chose to show the blackness of their sight loss, the narration expressed that they could feel each other's embrace and tears on their cheeks. But sadly, we can then imagine what a loss of the final sense would mean for them and any survivors. Human interaction would've been useless; while there are people physically everywhere, they are essentially alone now. There would be little to see on film, though I wish narration had touched on it (no pun intended).
The loss of touch would have rendered everyone completely helpless and terminal. Perhaps some odd body movements and squirming could be depicted, but basically they would be brains trapped in bodies that can no longer perceive space. If you can't feel that your sitting, standing, laying, walking, holding something, etc...there is no hope. They would all perish fairly quickly from lack of food and water, as there is no way to find and properly consume any since they have lost their critical last sense.
After their final sense of touch is gone, people would be locked in their minds with only their thoughts until death set them free. In a sense (no pun int.), they would all die without any input from the physical world around them. But they would hopefully die with their best memories...especially of those they loved and what they used to look, smell, sound, taste, and feel like.
"Don't get chumpatized!" - The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
two words: helen keller
shareBut even Helen Keller had someone to teach her how to survive without 2 of her senses, and I would guess that her other senses became hyper-sensitive which helped her to compensate.
These people in this movie couldn't taste or smell which would have made it much harder to live without hearing, and finally sight.
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But even Helen Keller had someone to teach her how to survive without 2 of her senses, and I would guess that her other senses became hyper-sensitive which helped her to compensate.
These people in this movie couldn't taste or smell which would have made it much harder to live without hearing, and finally sight.
Gangway for miracles! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za6gGdFaBSo
shareI loved the meaning of the movie (at least what I think about it), and the ending I think it is perfect. Suddenly they became in peace with themselves (defeating their own fears), and that's all you need to know. From my perspective, it's an happy ending :)
My view of the movie, is that we live in a world that somehow stopped paying attention the senses. A superficial world were you only look to what the others think that is beautiful and not to what you think that is really beautiful, were you produce food waste when there's millions of people starving, and similar thoughts to the other senses ... in a way the the only solution to save mankind is to loose all the senses, one by one, so that people start to appreciate what is really important and how good is to be alive. I talk in mankind because I think that this epidemic only affects humans. There's a scene (Eva Green's character at the lab, after loosing her hearing) where we can see some animals, and they don't seem to be acting strange.
There's some hope in this movie too. In another scene, someone is saying that a baby has born with all senses ... like this epidemic only affects those who are already "corrupted" by the madness of our world.
Great movie. It's opened to a lot of interpretations!
Totally agree. By turns,incredibly powerful, moving and frightening.
shareI know, I just imagined all of the hazardous places a person could have been at the time. It made me insane for a bit.
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