I liked the movie. The artists play well, the music is great. Despite the fact that the film is a disaster, no painful feeling was not experienced. Plus the director. There is darkness and light, there is peace as we imagine it. There is the sun and the sky that we can see, the wind, the rustling of leaves, the sound of rain that we can hear, the world of colors and sounds. So let’s love the world now, let’s treat each other better, less rage and anger, more warmth and understanding, forgiveness and love for the people around us, love and kindness now, before our world really sinks into darkness. The final is great.
I mean, people have forgotten how to love. I don't see true love. I haven't seen it in my time! – Alexander Kuprin, “Grenade Bracelet” He wanted an intimacy that was more intimate, refined, original, personal. — Theodore Dreiser, “The Financier” The woman is sacred; the woman you love is doubly sacred. Alexandre Dumas, Count of Monte Cristo Everything in the world is fragile except love. Love can't go astray unless it's true love, not a frail freak stumbling and falling at every turn. - Jack London, "Martin Eden" I think love has no dimensions at all. There's only yes or no. — Sergey Dovlatov, “Suitcase” Only the heart is bright. You can't see the most important thing. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince This is a great movie about how to love. To love... first and foremost is life. I got the idea. Extraordinarily painful. And the soul. I recommend it. 👏
Michael works as a chef at a London restaurant and can't fall asleep when someone else lies next to him in bed. Susan works as an epidemiologist and takes out anger from a failed relationship, throwing stones at seagulls. They meet when a mysterious new epidemic is discovered on Earth. People in different parts of the world for some reason lose their sense of smell. And this, it seems, is not so scary, but some time later, in similar circumstances, the sense of taste begins to disappear.
David McKenzie's best film, in my opinion, is even better than his later patriarchal neo-western, At Any Cost, which I also like very much. Well-calibrated timekeeping, a clear progressive development of the plot, where you on the one hand can predict further events, and on the other - it does not strain and does not give cause for boredom. Drawing a picture of the inevitable coming apocalypse and the love story of two difficult people unfolding against this background, the director miraculously avoided, firstly, tearplers, and secondly, planting a sense of hopelessness in the audience. His main message is that no matter what happens, if life continues, it is worth living.
This is surprising, but even when things get really bad, the people who would be the first to cover themselves with a sheet and crawl into the cemetery draw strength from the feelings that have arisen between them to overcome adversity and, one might say, transmit this power to the auditorium. Of course, the main thank you for this is to say Ewan McGregor and Eva Green, who are as good here as possible. Probably the best movie couple I've seen in the last few years. Of the rest of the cast, I can’t help but mention Ewan Bremner, a great image, a strong game. For the musical accompaniment in the film is the fashionable German composer Max Richter.
Ideologically, the film echoes another chic drama about the ensuing global mutilation of humanity – “Children of Man” directed by Alfonso Cuaron. This is another brilliant image of a parallel present in which people lose their sense of existence and actively engage in self-destruction. I recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it.
I'm sorry if I oversalted with the praise, but I liked it so much that I don't even want to criticize anything, except the camera shaking excessively in some scenes. After all, do we often find films that end in a tragic happy ending?
P.S. In this picture, there is a kiss scene in medical masks, filmed 10 years before it became mainstream.
To appreciate life and love, one must experience the end of the world and death.
A relatively short philosophical drama. Causal relationship: people lose their sense of smell ... and without smells, how do the memories associated with them disappear? It's controversial, but it's philosophy.
Interesting. After all, one of the symptoms of the coronavirus at one time was considered the loss of smell.
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What feelings can you do without? It is said that blind people, for example, sharpen other senses tactile so that they can almost "see" touching a person's face with their hands, they hear better, are better oriented in space, if you compare them with people who will be blindfolded and let down the street.
The loss, the death of something, even one of our senses ... makes us more in need of something, of intimacy, perhaps, in the film. Coronavirus infection in a way united humanity. At one time, oddly enough, Hitler and Nazism did the same: as a result of the great war, more peace-loving countries appeared, world organizations like the UN appeared, where different representatives of different countries were able to find a common language, even during conflicts.
Maybe if you take away all human feelings, you can solve a whole bunch of problems, no matter how strange and cruel that sounds. Imagine that you see nothing, feel nothing with your fingers, smell no smell, hear no sound, or taste. Imagine, for example, during sex, not to feel the warmth of the partner’s body, not to smell, not to see a person, not even to achieve orgasm. Well, probably in this form without feelings, humanity will disappear completely in a month. Terrible... and it would be very interesting to see it. But that's not what we mean. Our authors didn't go that far. It is impossible that they would dare such game, such unthinkable brutality over people. This is incredible!
It is even worse if the feelings go away not at once, but gradually. One punch after another. Humanity is waiting in horror or waiting for the end, although no one yet knows how it will be and whether the disappearance of another feeling.
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If you compare a state without feelings, then the closest to it is a dream or even a coma. The body is relaxed, in a dream it spends less energy, biorhythms are reduced, we feel not so everything, much is dulled by the brain intentionally so as not to interfere with sleep. At the same time, when other feelings seem to be cut off ... we actively begin to work as if imagination ... sleep ... we dream. Another reality. And this movie is like a dream. Someone's imagination.
I re-watched it exactly 11 years later (they advised me at the bar and I forgot I had seen it before). The score hasn't changed - the insanity voiceover, pacified with notes of moralizing says banal things, and the last 30 minutes are so slow that it turned on the speed of 2x, but it still looked insanely slow.
"Last Love on Earth." A dramatic love story. Sad, melancholic, she makes you think about what tomorrow may not be.
An unexplored epidemic is sweeping the planet. People are slowly losing their senses. At first, the virus exacerbates emotions, the sick begin to cry, get angry, feel hungry, and then one of the five senses turns off. First it is smell, then taste, then hearing. The characters of the film Michael and Susan meet at the very beginning of the epidemic and love wakes up between them. For both of them, this will be the last love on earth.
The main characters learn to live without tastes and smells, to look for moments of joy in beautiful and aesthetic things and music. Later, when hearing is lost, people begin to seek solace in touching each other, in vibrations, but what happens when the most important things are turned off? Vision and touch?
The film is beautiful, but very, very sad. From him somewhere hurts inside and although in general I liked him, but, to revise his desire does not arise. The plot itself, of course, is very tragic, but the very atmosphere of the film also leaves a strong imprint. It is gray, hopeless and even the moments between lovers Michael and Susan do not brighten up the viewing. Naturally, this is the idea of the director to make the film at such a pace and tones, but it turned out too melancholy.
Eva Green and Ewan McGregor showed a good couple in love, but they did not feel strong emotions and passion. Still, the film is about the last love on earth and it would be possible to show this love brighter and more emotionally.
In general, I repeat, the film is not bad. I really liked the idea, I have never seen a similar story. It’s really scary to lose the most important feelings one by one. What awaits the heroes and humanity at the end? The answer is obvious. And this awareness is not on its own.
After watching, you sit, thinking, and this film, beautiful music and the last lovers on earth do not come out of your head. I recommend watching the movie. This picture will excite frozen feelings and make you think about important things.
8 out of 10
Drama, dystopia, post-apocalypse. A high-quality post-apocalyptic European drama about how humanity disappears in turn all their senses: smell, touch, hearing, vision on the example of a couple of lovers. Taking into account the European slowness and realism of the entourage and acting, an excellent soundtrack and the overall drama of the film turned out very, very good. And, most importantly, extremely realistic, willingly believe that this is how everything would most likely actually happen in such a development of events, believe both authors and actors. And this is not to mention what can be hidden when you think about what and how there is inside the human soul and civilization as a whole in this kind of misfortune.
The ending is monstrous. I usually blame films for the poor quality of their performance, for the lack of ideas, emotions. Everything's fine here. The film is very qualitatively made, but what it leaves... is complete despair. The voice at the end tries to sum it up to some life-affirming epilogue. Liar. Everyone will die. A terrible, monstrous death. Humanity, living out its last days, crawling in the mud, seeing nothing and hearing nothing, feeling only its womb, scraping walls with its nails, slowly dying of hunger like the reflexive simplest.
A person as a product of processing of external information or is the author of his life?
Amazing and very unusual apocalyptic film - very lively about the living.
In the center of the plot is a young couple who, against the backdrop of a global epidemic, along with all people on earth, loses the ability to perceive the outside world and in parallel builds their relationships.
A very deep and philosophical film, raising several hot and hot topics at once. One of the central is the essence of man: what is being and consciousness - how is the consciousness and will of man connected and what he perceives with the help of his senses. And what remains of a person if he is deprived of the opportunity to perceive this world.
The second interesting topic is the line of relations between the main characters against the background of the apocalypse. This is a very difficult relationship of difficult people in very extraordinary circumstances.
The film clearly shows how dependent a person is on the organs of perception of reality. This is a system of orientation in the external space, a security system, a system of determining values, and, most importantly, our system of communication with the outside world. And then, at full height, the eternal question arises - what is Man? Is it simply a product of consumption and processing of what comes from the outside, or is it more than a system of digestion of external information? Can you create something unique and unique?
On the one hand, a person who is unable to perceive external reality becomes extremely vulnerable to this very reality, and without the help of other beings it is banal to survive. But at the same time, many people with disabilities and those who work with them and interact with them, say that after losing 1 or 2 organs of perception, people develop additional channels. And if a person loses his sight, then his hearing and touch are greatly aggravated, and if he loses his hearing, he learns to read his lips and notice the smallest visual details that other people do not notice, etc.
Perhaps if you take away all 4 or 5 senses, you will have a third eye, telepathy, the ability to see other worlds, foresee the future, move objects at a distance and see the true essence of things. Maybe, but we don’t know for sure.
This film makes us think deeply about human nature and what we are at this stage of evolution. There are at least two options for development. The first is the path to total awareness and reflection. The second is the exit from the paradigm of consumption and processing of external information into something more authorial and deep. However, the second way without the first, in principle, is impossible.
Interestingly, one of the locations where the action takes place in the film is a restaurant where the main character works as a cook. The restaurant is a purely human invention, hedonistic and civilizational. And, on the one hand, food is a biological need of a person, but food in a restaurant is an elevation of this need to the level of aesthetics and higher social meanings. Thus, the author probably wanted to show us how the biological and the higher are connected within us. This is the case when humanity has made something of its own from a basic need.
Another very interesting topic in the film is the connection between the loss of another organ of perception and the emotion that arises due to this loss. Here, in fact, it is very difficult to understand what exactly the author meant, and what relationship he built, and whether he built at all. But some logic still builds up if you look at this chain from end to beginning. This is the logic of frustration. Moreover, both at the situational level and at the level of frustration of this world as such – a meeting with its limitations and imperfections. This is the logic of moving from total love, through frustration and anger, to sadness.
And then, looking at such an inversion chronology, it seems that the filmmakers decided to return a man to his lost paradise, taking away from him everything that “made him so unhappy.” Put him back in an embryo. Either security or freedom.
As for the topic of the relationship of the main characters - it is very difficult and quite interesting. On the one hand, there is a very important element here – a catastrophe, an apocalypse that exposes true values and makes people think and feel differently. Real values are exposed, and all the momentary and far-fetched fades into the background. Ordinary fears cease to be so frightening in the face of real danger. Against this background, building relationships is an incredible amazing quest. This is a kind of thanat therapy (there is such a direction in psychotherapy - death therapy) for relationships. And if we take the love line as the main one in this film, and the apocalypse as the scenery, we see how the souls of the main characters are healed, how their fears and previous traumas are erased, and how they build these relationships on true values and needs. And that's amazing. In a sense, this relationship can be seen as an instruction on how to build a relationship.
They go through various tests during the film. The test of humanity and the ability to support each other. Without him, building further relationships is pointless. You can stretch your tails in front of each other forever, pretend to be a superhero, but real life is not about that. And it is very important to be able to see, and most importantly, to accept each other with all guts, and not only when the partner is all in white and on horseback.
In addition, they are tested for equality and the ability to remain themselves as opposed to fusion and codependency. Later, they find meaning and intimacy in their imperfections, and that is the basis of intimacy and collaboration. In general, this is the story of a person’s desire for another person in difficult moments of life and in difficult times.
And if you go back to the topic, what exactly did the author want to say? There is an idea that it consists in the fact that you can take everything from a person, but he will have the most important thing that he has and that is above all the “organs of perception” – and this is Love. Love makes a man a man. You can take everything and the person will survive. But if you take away love, you will not survive. Or stop being human.
“Last Love on Earth” is not about the specific relationship of the main characters, but about the feeling that can not be taken away by any force. Thank you to the filmmakers for such a deep and powerful message.
“Last Love on Earth” is what we now lose in the light at the end.
To date, the theme of the “end of the world”, like the virus of mass destruction, has managed to irreparably affect many areas of the spiritual life of mankind.
All-knowing science tells us about innumerable scenarios of the death of life on Earth. From the global ecological catastrophe to the extinction of mankind through the fault of bad Uncle Covid (Covid-19), scientists from day to day so actively, but so far unsuccessfully trying to prove their unlikely occurrence.
The religion with many children due to the abundance of its types, thanks to its followers, does not stop its futile attempts to convince each of us that the same Judgment Day is imminent, and all will be overtaken by the deserved punishment of God according to the Holy Tradition in Christianity, or the end of the cyclical world according to the Great Kalpa in Buddhism.
Alas, the list of the above is not limited to this.
Meanwhile, while science “thinks” and religion “believes”, film art offers us to come as close as possible to all kinds of concepts of the end of the world, which at the same time attracts attention and horrifies.
Despite the countless number of films that reproduce the causes of the total collapse of mankind, they can be divided into four groups.
So, the first group of “Natural catastrophes” include, for example, the classic representatives of the post-apocalyptic Roland Emmerich in the spirit of “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004) about global warming, “2012” (2009) about the prediction of the end of the world by the Mayans, as well as “The Sign” (2009) by Alex Proyas about the total burning of the Earth by a solar macroflare.
In the second group “Cosmic Troubles”, in which a celestial body collides with the Earth, boldly call themselves the exciting “Armageddon” (1998) by Michael Bay with his flying asteroid, the satirical “Don’t Look Up” (2021) by Adam McKay with his falling comet, the fresh “The Fall of the Moon” (2022) by Roland Emmerich about the collision of the Moon with the Earth.
The third group, Alien Invasion, with all its blockbusters, is particularly distinguished by Roland Emmerich’s exhilarating Independence Day (1996), Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds (2005), Doug Lyman’s Edge of the Future (2013) in a closed time loop, as well as Scott Derrickson’s modest, but no less intriguing, The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008).
The fourth group of “Epidemic and Pandemic” immediately include the plausible “Infection” (2011) by Stephen Soderbergh, the frightening “Epidemic” (1995) by Wolfgang Petersen, the heartbreaking “Virus” (2013) by Kim Son-soo, and the incomprehensible “Phension” (2008) by M. Night Shyamalan.
David McKenzie’s peer-reviewed Last Love on Earth, which belongs to the aforementioned fourth group, is, in my opinion, the most terrible form of destruction of mankind, based on its inherent features.
The events of the film unfold in the Scottish city of Glasgow, in the cloudy gray tones of which a glimpse of the traditional life of the classical bubbling life of the local population of the metropolis. Its simple inhabitants in the person of epidemiologist Susan (Green) and chef Michael (McGregor) are not remarkable in life. The syndrome of delayed life, characteristic of both heroes, enhances the sense of everyday life, in which one (Suzan) chooses the position of a victim of workaholism, the other (Michael) along with hot scrambled eggs as a chef, also prefers to fry unfamiliar girls in gusts of casual sex, but not as a chef. One day there is a chance meeting of Susan and Michael, instantly turning into a stormy and insatiable romance with all its inherent ups and downs. And while the heroes seemingly discover a new stage of life, the entire population of the Earth is gradually covered by an inexplicable terrible pandemic. The consistent loss of each of the senses (smell, taste, hearing, sight) plunges the world into an irreversible nightmare of harsh reality, in which the relationship of Susan and Michael will be seriously tested.
With all the insatiable appetite of the Movimakers for the theme of the “end of the world”, and an abundance of films on this topic, “Last Love on Earth” obviously breaks ahead in the degree of its uniqueness.
First, the original idea of the end of the world. If in some of their predecessors, the main but reversible catastrophe is transmitted through: a curable virus (Epidemic (1995); Infection (2011)), or compromising aliens (The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008); or cease natural disasters (The Day After Tomorrow (2004), 2012 (2009)), or space-exploded asteroids bypassing the Earth (Armageddon (1998)), then in this film everything is not so simple. The pandemic that engulfed humanity in the film has no information about the causes, timing, prevention and healing. A sudden encounter with the unknown and irreversible has always been more terrifying than a predictable and solvable collapse scenario. And if humanity does not have a simulated plan of survival, then this end of the world, paradoxically, is the most nightmarish. What is only the imagination of the figure of the average person, deprived of all the senses in a row, completely unadapted to a new life, and absolutely helpless (since the entire humanity is covered by a pandemic). Undoubtedly, a collision with the same asteroid or a battle with zombies will seem like a paradise, compared to living in deep darkness and frightening silence without any hope.
Second, focus on a live acting ensemble. Often, the cast in disaster films is intended solely as a template appendix to the plot (the same "Don't Look Up" by Adam McKay). Unlike most of his representatives of post-apocalyptics, the creation of David McKenzie conveys the essence of what is happening exclusively through acting performance, avoiding the use and, accordingly, the emphasis on computer technology. The mood swings, the mutual play of feelings and the synchronized emotional swings rocked by the brilliant tandem of Scottish actor Ewan McGregor and French actress Eva Green for 80 minutes attract from their first appearance. Frank scenes of sex and spiritual intimacy, which make up a significant part of the film, allow you to feel the sensual side of the characters, and try on the image of a person who found himself paired with the same recently lost.
Unfortunately, the film was undeservedly defeated by a flurry of negative reviews and reviews of film critics, due to which the overall perception of the film by the evaluating audience remained mixed and controversial. Although the rejection of the emphasis on the social and scientific sides took place, however, the creators made a bold decision to “paddle” in the direction of philosophy with its metaphysics, ideally reinforcing it with a sensual component against the background of the coming end of the world, reflected in the traditional manner for art house. Although we can talk about partial borrowing of the plot idea from “Blindness” (2008) Fernando Meirelles, nevertheless, this does not detract from its merits. Noted on Rotten Tomatoes with a rating of 58%, on IMDb with a score of 7.10, as well as an average score of 7.6 out of 10 at Kinopoisk, I believe that this picture was and is far underrated today. Paying attention to “Last Love on Earth”, every viewer who can see real art will remain far from indifferent, and the sea of emotions and impressions is guaranteed to leave their “beautiful scar” in the soul and consciousness.
Since childhood, we are taught that there are five basic senses: smell, taste, hearing, sight and touch. Few people wonder how life would change if people lost even one of these feelings. What about several?
The film “Last Love on Earth” answers this question very interestingly. In the story, an epidemic begins on the planet, which first takes people’s sense of smell, then taste, and then moves on. Moreover, each stage is accompanied by side symptoms - emotional or physiological. Simultaneously with these events, the relationship of the characters Michael and Susan is tied up, who do not immediately understand how long-term their relationship should or can be.
If we talk about the merits of the picture, first of all I want to note the truthfulness of reactions and situations. In the film there is no sweet love story and “licked” characters, on the contrary, there are real people who not only fall in love and develop their best qualities, but also have flaws, pain points and fears. Especially now, when society is learning to adapt to a pandemic, we can well understand the characters and their attitude to unexpected circumstances.
This film shows life as it is in the modern world, whether we finally like to look at ourselves from the outside or not. In some ways, this approach resembles the format of the animated film Anomalysis (2015), where the characters are shown cleanly, without background music, without cut details, for real, and it catches and keeps in tone until the very end.
In addition, it is impossible not to note the emotional intensity. Despite the fact that gradually the plot begins to seem predictable, there are still details that encourage you to look further. Also in this regard, documentary inserts help, which create a special sense of belonging to what is happening.
In terms of casting and acting, Eva Green and Ewan McGregor have done well in developing characters both as couples and as personalities trying to cope with the surrounding uncertainty. Emotions (and their spectrum in the film is quite wide) are shown naturally, although at some points it seemed that the actors behave somewhat strained and their characters are not fully disclosed.
Speaking of shortcomings, one of them is very significant. It's a translation of the name. In the original, the film is called “Perfect sense”, and if the viewer does not know about this nuance and will perceive what he saw as a story about “the last love on Earth”, he can expect a great disappointment.
This film is more about how many feelings and emotions pass through the background and go unnoticed. Fear and existential terror are pushed deeper inward, and the person does not know what to do with them, if accidentally all this breaks out. Hatred — a strong feeling — also try to restrain, and therefore it is difficult to cope with it, if the fetters are removed. And if a person is not aware of even such basic things happening to him, how can he really love?
If the sense of smell disappears, cooks can artificially enhance the taste. If the taste is lost, a variety of food texture will come to the aid. Without hearing, attention to vibrations and sensations will appear. Tactility can partially replace vision. But what will remain if the touch is lost?
This is the perfect sense.
Love does not need to be reinforced in cunning ways or try to change it – it just is. In order to feel it in all its impeccability, you do not need to have special knowledge. You need to be aware of your emotions and feelings, and not exist in automatic mode. And then the search for perfection will be successful.
You can understand those who did not like the film. It leaves a heavy aftertaste and perhaps even a little disgust and a sense of helplessness. Especially this result is possible if the viewer fell for the specified genre of “melodrama” and expected an easy exciting story about falling in love.
But if you look at it through the prism of a heavy and deep ode to love, the impressions will be completely different. Therefore, in spite of everything, “Perfect sense” deserves your attention.
9 out of 10
How literally everything is presented in this film, did anyone pay attention?
One of the indicators of literality, which has already encroached on the most vulgar, is the Russian translation of the (only) name.
Like the product of the film industry (calculated for the mass audience), a rare reviewer, of course, addresses someone specifically; in the answer, moreover, without needing – he prefers to imagine a curious life position of the interlocutor before he perceives and evaluates (especially if his life position is limited to a few words).
If a person (woman or man) has not lost (or achieved) this very “perfectionism” in the comprehension of objects of art, the film industry – there is still an opportunity to give at least a self-report (beginning to perform the functions of a lightning rod by the middle of spring) that, in principle, a law enforcement officer, a teardrop, kneeling in the middle of the sidewalk, a fresh fish dealer, retraining as a salt fish distributor – they are rather the result of the efforts of not the most industrious, wasting time at factories, rather than the “excussionist” (excruptory). And like any object of attention of the masses - once they come to the consciousness of this sudden clouding (be it operettic tears or insatiable hunger): the state of mind by that time forces the product to enjoy even the fact that someone takes and weighs it, without removing it from the package, in the palm.
In this context, it is necessary to trace the reactions of the main actors, in whose relations the concept of “love” is presented, thanks to the final scenes with “effective” blackening of the screen (the same literality, perverted blindness) – as a kind of attachment stimulated by chemical exchange, interference with it. There is no need to talk about it.
The second point is the disease, retroactively endowed with self-awareness. In the idealistic universe, every manifestation of negativity is seen as a “not-self,” while in the positive energy, the self is unquestionable. Nothing but an empty hope of catharsis can prevent a reasonable spectator from considering the desire of the "loving" to embrace each other - the reverse side of the revelation experienced at the previous stage of the disease and the accompanying disappointment. Their attraction, sharpness of impulse, in other words, if the disease is overpowering - not ' swan song' but devaluing any fight against infection symptom. Why else, losing sight, drawn into the arms, slow down the step?
Getting rid of feelings requires determination. Agreeing that you are free from feelings (beyond will) needs more determination. Accepting that what happened against your will is just a projection of your will, will it not require a superb degree of determination?
Unfortunately and pleasure, this question remains beyond the frame and, hypothetically, the long experience of the writer.
It is, of course, not about “love”, but – smell, touch, vision, hearing, the ability to experience satisfaction during absorption, with exclusive diligence and a sincere desire to serve cooked dishes.
The inability to renounce “love” is a literary ploy; which is not explained by the laboratory cynicism of the reasoner in this spirit, by any means – “renunciation” in itself has as little to do with individual abilities as Allah does with the misanthropic practices of Islamists. But the tendency to seek liberation from “ordinary” chemoreception is a much more significant role in her life experience, as a novelist who is on the way to deserved fame, and who has not moved up the career ladder for 15 years, but who is considered invariably successful and even young, a “10-hour man” or, if not less sincere than a chef in a London restaurant, a girl of behavior no less easy than the speed of the formation of cigarette butts under the side window of Alfa Romeo waiting for her.
However, do not ignore the possibility of reading this film. In my case, the realization of this came in the last half hour.
There is no good music, there is a pleasant cast, the work of the operator can not be called inventive, but there is an opportunity to move during the session from the proposed directly, slide the ringless and middle of the fingers on the shiny surface of the new hot-bird Pontiac' and to climb on the dusty bicycle left at the gutter pipe, which played in the recent past, probably all possible nocturnes for the fourth capital of Great Britain, left lost all his feelings, except for a new hot-bird Pontiac' and now you are able to keep a bicycle from such a job, and to understand, at the same time;
I would define the genre of this film differently, calling it a psychological thriller in the truest sense of the word. Periodically review, and each time I experience a unique cocktail of feelings, which includes in a fair amount and horror, and delight (to shake, but not mix).
People are slowly losing their senses, and I, as a spectator, feel it directly with my analyzers. I was particularly impressed when people began to lose their hearing. At that moment I thought I was deaf. It's terrifying. On the other hand, every time they somehow adapt to it, and it inspires hope and joy.
Despite everything, I consider the finale ' Last Love on Earth' (horror, how unpleasant and incorrect translation of the title!) a happy ending. With tears in the corners of the eyes and shocked silence in the cinema.
However, the film is mandatory to watch. At least to understand how important the simplest things are. That the mere ability to see, hear, smell and taste—that is, to live—is a tremendous wealth. Not to mention, all this makes it possible to find your other half and make life even richer.
The first time I tried to write a review in 2014. I’ll try again now – in 2020, when ‘Last Love’ gets a special meaning and a new sound.
Okay. Perfect Sense. In fact, I think the translation of the title was a disaster twice. Perhaps for the first time they wanted: “Last on Earth is love”, which at least corresponds to the meaning of the film, but then someone decided that this formulation did not fit and corrected it to the idiotic “Last Love on Earth”. I'll start with visuals: very beautiful shots, I've done more screens than I've done recently when watching movies. Even if the plot was a complete disappointment, the visual can not be taken away. I think this is the first movie where I listened to the original voice of Eva Green. And, my God, that's perfect.
Also about the visual: interruptions from photos and a la documentary footage somehow reminded me of the film I Origins (2014) dir. Mike Cahill. These shots created additional tension, since the heroine of Eva Green spoke behind the scenes about everything that was happening, as if it had already happened. That is, you immediately understand: for humanity, everything will end badly.
After writing two reviews to the channel right after watching, I realized I didn’t want to do that anymore. I decided to pause to reflect on what I saw. And after that movie, what I was thinking most about was how the action before losing another feeling is related to the feeling itself. Yes, they are obviously opposites (the only connection with smell is not clear to me): gluttony is loss of taste, screaming is deafness, love is darkness. And after a while of thinking, I suddenly saw another meaning, another level. I mean, yeah, it's a fantastic story, but only because it's hyperbolized and presented as a virus. But when you think about it, it happens to us. It was not the loss of taste that caused an attack of gluttony, but we in ordinary life eat anything and, it seems, gradually really lose the taste for “ordinary” food, eating chips, crackers and all sorts of fast food. Screaming is also not just a fit of rage before deafness: how often in ordinary life do we selfishly behave that we do not hear the other person. We don’t physically lose our hearing, but what does it matter? And if we stop loving, we will be in darkness. And in that sense, the ending of the film is very bright. Yes, humanity failed on many fronts, but love won in the end. I share this position: Do I believe in the victory of love?
I would also like to point out how humanity has been shown to adapt to everything. Very vital. Look at how the world learns to live with this cursed coronavirus.
You could say that Eva Green and Ewan McGregor embodied on the screen some apocalyptic version of Adam and Eve. Only if love was the first sin for the latter, then for the heroes of the film - imperfect, with their cockroaches - it served as a healing and a return to light.
During the forced self-isolation, almost everyone watched or re-evaluated the previously unnoticed film of 2011 with a pathetic title in the Russian translation “Last Love on Earth”. The original picture is called “Perfect sense”, i.e. “Perfect sense”, which has a more obvious connection with the plot.
The apocalyptic film tells about a mysterious epidemic of an unexplored virus that simultaneously infects the entire population of the planet. Susan is an epidemiologist who studies a terrible disease that gradually affects all people’s senses: first the sense of smell, then taste buds, hearing and, finally, vision. Michael is a chef at a restaurant opposite Susan's apartment. Accidental conversation brings the characters together even before the pandemic, but with the increase in the number of infected, with the increase in panic and chaos, the careless acquaintance of two singles grows into something more: first in the physical need to be close to each other, and then in sensual love, which helps not to go crazy in this terrible time.
The idea of the film is simple: to show how with the loss of the ability to feel smells, tastes, and then hear and see people begin to appreciate the lost simple joys. The aroma of her hair, hot coffee in the morning, the fresh air of the spring forest, the face of a loved one, the noise of the city - all this disappears, becomes only a distant memory. It is only when one loses something or is about to lose that one realizes the true value of previously insignificant things or moments.
Last Love on Earth is primarily melodrama, not fiction. The concept of a mysterious disease is very schematic, but it seems to me that David McKenzie did not seek it. He focused on the sensual, metaphysical side of the virus pandemic: how two people who love each other experience the destruction of the world and civilization. And here it is impossible not to mention the camera work: intimate scenes fully convey those awe, passionate tenderness and love that take possession of the characters. They, by the way, are played by Eva Green, irrationally attractive and mesmerizing the audience with her dark eyes, and Ewan McGregor, fading against the background of his partner. Nevertheless, they managed to create a harmonious couple, who, having lost four senses, were able to find the “perfect” feeling in simple touches, hugs and kisses.
7 out of 10
I found this film in a lot of recommendations. “Cool fiction, amazing love story, gorgeous post-apocalyptic drama!” Don't believe me. I fell for just such reviews and an intriguing annotation, telling how once on the whole planet people began to lose their senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch) – one after another feelings leave people for an unknown reason, and this is preceded by some strange behavior. In the end, there is only one feeling: love. Romantic and unusual, isn't it? So I decided, sitting down to watch this film in anticipation of something cool and unusual. However, p.
There are certainly some echoes of what is written in the annotation in the film - feelings really disappear, strange behavior "before" is present, an apocalypse of an unusual kind, too. As for love, I would argue that the heroes of Ewan McGregor and Eva Green just met, and true love simply did not have time to originate there. Given what is happening and animal fear about this, it is no wonder that the characters cling to each other, because they have no one else. There's no love, there's no romantic history. The characters behave hysterically and wildly, which is understandable to some extent, but this couple did not cause me any sympathy.
The idea of the film is new, I liked it, but the implementation was extremely unsuccessful. It wasn't a good movie. It turned out a kind of chamber fiction (art house fiction), which was more like a real horror movie, because the screen is very frightening. There are no zombies, psychopathic killers and other residents of horror, there is only a terrible atmosphere and a nightmare of what is happening to people – if this happened in fact – it would be the most terrible horror in reality, that’s serious.
I also want to warn you that the film is full of nasty scenes, and I highly recommend watching it after eating (and especially during the time). I also warn that the oppressive atmosphere of the film is likely to spoil your mood and drive you into depression – you also need to be prepared for this. Personally, after watching it, I needed to watch something pleasant to drown out at least half of the impressions before going to bed.
The final was quite impressive, for which, together with the novelty of the idea, the film received 7 points from me. But the picture even at the same time unconditionally goes to the basket of the worst movies watched.
7 out of 10
Artificial art for artificial people. The film celebrates sensuality and there is nothing about love at all. This was originally a stupid idea, because there is no explanation for the loss of feelings. What's this about? How do you win? Can this be won? How does society change from this? How do the main characters change? There is simply no answer to these and many other questions. The only idea I get is to appreciate the feelings you have. But they will not get away from me, there are no such diseases in reality. I don’t want to talk about acting, it’s good. Some people praise camera work, but to me, shaking footage and shooting from under the left egg is bad. All the closed spaces, it feels like you're in a maze.
This film is a terrible dream of a dog, one continuous nonsense, showing the spiritual state of most native Europeans. In the field of ideas, Europeans do not know where to go, so they shoot all sorts of nonsense under the sign ' independent' art house cinema.
The dumbest movie I've seen in a year or two.
Humanity loses all its main senses: smell, taste, hearing, sight. At the loss of this, at first, there is a certain attack - tears, hunger, anger and anger, love.
Perhaps the theme of love is hidden in the story. It will not be broken by any virus or disease. You may not hear, but you may see. Not to see, but to feel, to touch. Even with loss of taste, people adapt - make food more spicy, sweet, sour.
I was very impressed with the hearing loss. It didn't happen at the same time for everyone. The main characters were frank and sincere with each other. But when there was a fit of anger, anger, the collapse of everything around ... everything that I thought and imagined, I was afraid to say — said all this filth in a few minutes. Regret, but you can't get anything back, you can't get a rumor back. You say your apologies that it wasn't you, it wasn't you at that moment, but you can only hear yourself, deep inside, or rather your thoughts.
Paying close attention to this fragment, I want to say that one should pay attention to words. You can apologize, but these words can not be returned. It is easy to offend a person, but ...
In the end, darkness sets in, but before that, a fit of a passionate desire to see your loved one.
Without hearing, you feel breath, touch. Kiss and hug. This is the perfect and invisible side of love - feelings.
Could it be a message or a message to us, to humanity? What is worth paying attention to, at first glance, such seemingly small things. But will we be able to live without them?
P.S. I would like to do this experiment. If a person begins to be rude, he loses his hearing. No, not forever, just for a while. I wonder if he would satisfy his desires, knowing that he does not hear anything, but sees the emotions of another person.
If it were the opposite, I think, then people would learn to read lips - caused by interest ' And what was she / he yelling about?'
We know quite a lot of films about utopia and the apocalypse (", War of the Worlds, End of the World, etc.). And to surprise sophisticated viewers is sometimes quite difficult. “Last Love on Earth” exceeded my expectations.
Not to mention the incompetent translation of the film. In the original, "Perfect sense" conveys the full meaning. So when you see the title of Last Love on Earth, you think it's some kind of melodrama. But don't wait. That's better.
I would like to express special thanks to director David Mackenzie and screenwriter Kim Phops Okeson. The unusual idea of the plot development makes you applaud standing.
Many of us are afraid of the dark. But what if darkness came everywhere and with everyone? Imagine? We often don’t appreciate what we have. So your senses were taken away. How to live? And is life possible after that? The smell of the forest, the body, the taste of your favorite food or just to see the dawn after the mysterious “switching off” of your organs would be a breath of fresh air.
Appreciate life, do not be afraid to love, because at any moment fiction can become reality.
Very strangely designed movie. More precisely, a very strangely designed pair of good and new thoughts. Was the whole movie worth blowing up for a couple of thoughts? Sometimes, maybe it was. In this case, no. In order.
It all starts with the opening credits, where we see the mention of the BBC, BBC Films ... The Air Force makes wonderful documentaries and science films, colorful, informative, etc., etc. Something artistic was planned here. So for me, that was the first call. I immediately imagined something acology, all-encompassing, comprehensive, global, humanistic, edifying, incomprehensible. I'd be glad to be wrong, but I didn't have to. Imagine going to a classical opera (no matter what), you want to hear it. But, before you almost immediately unfolds avant-garde crazy action, where they do not even sing, but dance. Here we go. I will say right away that I have a neutral-positive attitude towards Ewan McGregor himself. Among other things, I really liked his serial-motorcycle trip “Long Way Round”. But here he did not show himself, to put it mildly.
So, the film begins as quite artistic, with a slight admixture of theatricality and television. We get acquainted with the main character - a chef who for some reason can not sleep if another person lies in bed with him. Why this detail is emphasized is a mystery. I suppose – in order to assess the very metamorphosis of GG, which will occur after the meeting with her. Metamorphosis as such we will not see, because it was supposedly played very badly. Yes, there will be some spontaneous and artificial manifestations of “feelings”, but this will be limited. Then comes the phase of love relationships and all kinds of bedtime pleasures. This is the part of the movie that I can’t blame. Because it's part of any melodrama -- is and is, OK. But it's important! From this part must flow the very meaning and morality to which the creators lead us. However, by. What is played is passion, a kind of oblivion, a morbid dependence, but not love in the meaning that is placed. The reasons are miscasting and very, very bad and inconclusive play. And the actors themselves do not believe in what they are filming. And this is not surprising, because the next component of lettuce is an epidemic, where people eat raw fish and all sorts of rot. And then they lose all their feelings one by one. But, of course, except for her, the same, all-consuming ...
Now for implementation. If all of the above was a salad, then the dressing is the notorious “bibibissism”. The whole film is saturated with endless slowo, symphonic music, violin passages and “wise monologues”, which in the complex creates the effect of the philosophical nature of what is happening, but in fact is a quasi-philosophy of the film, the genre of which I find it difficult to accurately determine. Very, VERY low level of acting, murky and superfluous characters, existential torments from love that has not been shown, and much more. However, the authors managed to raise two important questions in me: “Why did they shoot this?” and “Why did they shoot it like this?” Of course, there will be no answers.
We have seen many stories about the apocalypse. Many of them are filled with action, but what if the end of the world is not in natural disasters, but in an unknown virus that will kill people slowly and ruthlessly?
Such an interesting hypothesis was put forward by the creators of the film “Last Love on Earth”. He came out truly soulful and romantic. Both characters experience personal dramas and find outlets in each other. It does not take long for each of them to fall in love and remain subservient to this feeling, even as the Earth is doomed to perish.
This film focuses not on the incident itself, but on two specific people and how they feel about each other. On their strong and incredible love. The resulting story is unlike anything and is surprising in its originality, because personally I have never seen anything like it.
In many ways, it is deserved to praise Ewan McGregor and Eva Green, who once again proved to be excellent actors. There was a strong chemistry between them, which made them worry about their heroes’ relationships over and over again. For me, “Last Love on Earth” became the most beloved picture in Eva Green’s career, and she herself opened from a new angle.
I also liked the style in which the film was made. Interesting camera plans, dim colors, because life on earth is about to end. Everything in general created both an anxious and warm feeling, which is very difficult to escape even after the end of the viewing.
“Last Love on Earth” is an emotion. It makes you believe in true love, which can be acquired even after a series of misfortunes. This picture in some moments seems quite protracted, but still keeps in suspense, because before the end of the viewer does not leave the question: “And how will it all end?”
I would definitely recommend it to everyone, because this film will be a great audience experience. Of course, not everyone will like it because of some specificity of the narrative, but I think it is worth reading it.
8 out of 10
I have to share my thoughts and emotions immediately after watching this film, until, as they say, the soul is cold. To say that this movie shocked me is to say nothing.
The film is created in the spirit of already weary ideas about the coming apocalypse, which as soon as not presented to us by different directors – natural disasters, zombie apocalypse, for example, as the hottest and most common. But this film is something different, something different from everything else. It's like a breath of fresh air for me.
Imagine for a moment a world where people lose their senses, one by one. You stop feeling the taste of your favorite ice cream, then you don’t hear any birdsong or any sound at all, then you lose your sight and never see the sunset on the seashore again. What will happen to the world? What will happen to people when all feelings are gone? This is what this movie shows.
Against the backdrop of a horrific catastrophe, two people met: a frivolous womanizer who goes through life without much moral trouble and a doctor-epidemiologist who was disappointed in the previous relationship. What will unite them? Of course, a world that is collapsing before our eyes, in which the only thing you can do to survive, not to break down and not to go crazy is to find love.
The cast is great. Two actors with their game keep the viewer in suspense until the end. You believe him, Ewan McGregor, an actor quite diverse, whom I sympathize with, and her, the inimitable Eva Green, who brilliantly played the mysterious and slightly dark Vanessa Ives in Scary Tales. The film is designed in gray and extremely dull tones, which corresponds to the oppressive plot, the soundtracks are sad and incredibly beautiful, they complement this film, merge with it.
Personally, I love movies, after which you begin to ask yourself a lot of questions that I never thought about before, this movie really liked, so, wiping away the tears that caused the film, I recommend it to watch.
To watch for everyone who likes complex, philosophical, emotional films that make you think about the world around us, about the fact that we do not value everything we have, to watch those who are sad and sad (you will understand how little is necessary for happiness), to watch if you want to feel and feel all the feelings that we have again.
10 out of 10
Today I got to the movie, which I was told about for a long time, but I added it because of the actors, without even reading the synopsis, and when I read it, the desire to see only increased. The idea seemed very powerful. Despite the idea and the actors were slightly confused by the rating, 7.6 for such a film suggests that the film did not fully realize its idea.
Already in the first half an hour I understood where this rating came from, the film is not exciting at all, you are watching something detached. Very often during the film went into himself, was so boring thrust on the screen. I think this idea could have been played much better. Although I started watching the film because of the actors, and I really love both Eva and McGregor, in the film I did not like them at all, played poorly, did not hook. The characters are cardboard. They don’t want to feel sorry, they don’t want to fall in love. I’m familiar with the couple’s other films, but I think they lacked charisma. And there are questions about the cast, I think these actors are not quite suitable for these roles. The same Zoe Deschanel would look more organic, I think. The connection between the characters is not felt, there is no chemistry, it seems that before the end of the world they just came together to have sex, because it is so convenient, do not need two single people to look for anyone.
I want to talk about the operator separately. I don't know much about it, but even I could see, in a few scenes, what was filmed was terrible. Shaking camera, fast-moving footage. It seems that our filmmakers were filming.
On the soundtrack, there are no questions, in places not bad, in places usually, the result:
6 out of 10 just for Eva Green's idea and breasts.
- You weren't at work. Were you sick? - No, just unhappy. - Same thing.
The film tells the love story of Michael and Susan. He works as a chef in a restaurant opposite her house. She's an epidemiologist in the city lab. Fate confronts them randomly and gives them a small gift. People all over the world, due to some kind of infection, gradually begin to lose all their feelings. What will happen to our heroes when they lose their feelings?
I'll start with the title of the movie. We need to give father's bream to our localizers for translating the title of the picture. It is not clear why the word “perfect sense” was translated as it was translated. And if you open an English-Russian dictionary, you can choose a much more plausible phrase, "perfect feeling", for example. And in my opinion, this phrase is much better characterizes this film, and in general more pleasant.
The film presents an interesting concept of the end of the world. There are no natural disasters, global war, invasion of aliens or spiders – cannibals. It's much simpler -- a virus. However, it is not a virus that causes you to become a zombie, or your hands and feet are taken away. A virus that deprives a person of feelings, deprives them of feelings gradually, one after another. So what do we do then? What if you can't hear, touch, see, taste and smell? This is the real end of the world. It is painless and at the same time painful. The simple truth is that you really appreciate something only when you lose it.
It is also interesting to see how a person can adapt to hardship. The smell is gone — people are trying to recreate it with sounds, touch, visual organs, memories. People adapt. It was before, and it will always be. But what do you do when you lose all your feelings? Interestingly, the loss of each of them is preceded by some confusion. Before the loss of smell, for example, people cry, taste go crazy, hearing go mad. And only before losing sight, in the film it disappears last, which is the end of the plot itself, people experience pleasant sensations.
“There were moments of joy...the deepest gratitude for being alive, but most of all the shared strong desire to be with each other, to offer warmth, understanding, approval, forgiveness, love...”
The soundtracks in the tape are great. Violin and piano – it always works, especially in films of this genre. Space, gentle, airy compositions perfectly complement the atmosphere of Hell on Earth.
Michael is played by Ewan McGregor and Susan is played by Eva Green. What's there to say? Those who are familiar with the work of these actors, and I think everyone has met them on screen, and more than once, will understand without words. They're perfect for these roles. Eva is attractive, charming, charismatic. Ewan is more reserved, deep, thoughtful. Perfect.
We're coming to the end. Scary, tragic, and at the same time very strong, high-quality and motivating drama. Of course, the main idea of the film is love. A feeling that no one can ever take away from us. No virus or disease. This feeling is above everything in life. That is why the original name is closer to my liking - really "perfect feeling." Cinema for people living in a frantic rhythm in pursuit of money, fame and other temptations. It often happens that we complain about our life, our work, our relationships, friends, failures and so on. I think after watching this movie, everyone will think for themselves, and is everything really so bad in my life? I am healthy, I can see, speak, hear, feel. I can just go outside to look at the sky, smell the baked goods from the bakery nearby, listen to the birds singing, talk to someone. I'm a bloody happy man! Involuntarily, you begin to appreciate things that you previously did not attach much importance to, took them for granted. Definitely to watch.
Realism hit the nerves, good soundtrack - then silence, then sad music, a good game of actors who showed the love of our time. I am not even surprised that there are no romantic promises of the moon, idle for hours under the window of the main character, etc. pink nonsense. She opened up to him and cried, he stayed with her, they fooled around like children eating soap, more like love than all the vows of eternal love put together.
Down with the pink snot!
The cinema of our time.
That must be a little sad. That's the world. It's love, and then screaming hate and breaking furniture.
It’s good that the movie ended the way it ended. It's the perfect ending and it's worth spending an hour and a half of your personal time for. I would be disappointed if the film ended differently and regretted the time.
What else is it?! Adaptability. Losing the sense of smell, no one rushed from the roof or under the train, wrote notes, worked, put the world in order. Desperate, but did not give up, destroyed, broken, then repaired, built, lived on.
I did not understand what was the phrase about the grass in the stomach of a mammoth, but otherwise the avalanche descending between the mountains was fascinating.
I recommend watching, but I warn you that the film is long, boring, overweight. But a connoisseur of quality things may find something for himself.
The film is unique, even so. His slow plunge into darkness has its own charm.
8 out of 10 isn't sorry.
As a rule, films of this genre I put “7 – 8”, sometimes “9”, because when executed well, the picture gives a great mood and smile, sometimes focuses on something important, but in this case I do not want to limit this splendor to the framework of the genre and evaluate it on a standard scale. This film does not raise any doubts about the merit of his assessment, after watching I know, and as if always knew that it is a “ten”.
This film may not like those who do not understand the essence, and then I would recommend repeating this experience after a while, but also it will not like those who have not grown up to it. This film makes you think, but often people are happy only in ignorance, ignorance, stupidity, and they can not be reproached for this, just as you can not reproach a person for wanting to be happy. But he who hovers in eternal reflections, who is always mobile in his views, who dreams endlessly, who sees in melancholy not anguish, but inspiration - he will surely draw from the film invaluable knowledge, wisdom, which the author wanted to share with us.
Returning to the title of the review, I will explain what I meant and how I understood the idea of the film. One might think that the loss of each of the senses in the film was distributed chaoticly by the author, but that would be a profound delusion. The first thing that leaves people is smell and taste, and here is the irony, because fools have long forgotten how to see and hear, creating a cult of food, orgasming from a piece of steak in the mouth and giving this tremendous importance in life, but food is the most primitive salvation of man, salvation from starvation, an absolutely physiological process. And now imagine how incredibly superior in this matter is hearing and sight, because they can save not the body, but the soul, through beauty, music, words and even silence. Losing your hearing becomes really scary and it’s hard to imagine what’s worse: not seeing or not hearing, but the answer comes in the moment when you realize that there is someone or something in the world whose beauty for you is the whole world. And what, after losing sight, does everything lose meaning? What remains is that which is weightless, invisible, unprovable, but despite all this, we feel it and it is called love. Everything before her is nothing, as well as without her, but with her is the apotheosis of happiness, and she herself is its quintessence.
The silent scene at the end of the film, where Michael can’t get Susan’s attention, and their paths almost diverge forever, is heartbreaking. A fraction of a second and they would forever remain unhappy people in anticipation of death, but they managed and became the happiest. This is how love and lack of it change people’s lives.
Rarely do I have the desire to write a review, and even in such cases usually overcome laziness, but this work of cinema just knocked me down, leaving me no choice.
10 out of 10
Life itself is given to man with love and in the name of love. Life is love. Without love, no other sense is needed. After all, having lost hearing, vision or other senses, a person can live on. But without the love and help of loved ones, no. It is also necessary to love yourself again sometimes.
Without love, humanity would long ago have disappeared from the face of the earth, destroying each other in wars and/or nullifying the instinct of procreation. Without love for each other, he would have lost his relevance. So life without love really becomes the most terrible and main step to the apocalypse.
Love is needed by man as air, without which the meaning of life is lost.
10 out of 10
Fantastic melodrama. Yes, I know that the original title of this film is different, but this is one of those cases where the Russian adaptation of the title is better than the original title – “Great Meaning”. I first saw this picture not so far away in 2013, and then it made a strong impression on me, and now, against the background of interest in Eva Green, I decided to revise this picture, and planned to view several more, so in the near future expect opinions on the paintings with her participation. Let’s return to this picture – a masterpiece art house, do not add not to reduce. I will describe the strengths of this picture:
1. The story is interesting, and quite original. The creators decided to answer the question “What will happen to us if we lose all our senses?” It's creepy, isn't it? So I felt uncomfortable watching. There are only two people in love.
2. The atmosphere is oppressive. Everything plays on it - the picture, the music. Gloomy sky, dirty streets - a real decadence and decline of mankind. The creators did a great job. It is the atmosphere that creates the right mood.
3. The relationship between the main characters is simply beyond praise. There really is love between them. And the actors play at a high level, but more on that below. The last time I saw it was La La Land.
4. The finale is predictable, although some may be shocked. What I want to say is, "Everything came to this." I think you've guessed by now that the ending is -- let's just say "sad." It is here that all the intensity of feelings that appeared in the viewer when watching converged.
The painting has one drawback that I cannot help but mention:
1. The presence of several disgusting scenes – I will not describe them, since they are related to the main story, I will only say that I understand why they were included – without them, there would simply be no holistic picture of what is happening.
And now it is the turn of the analysis of the main characters:
1. Michael played by Evan McGregor is a restaurant chef, a womanizer, not a very honest person. Accidentally meets Susan, and falls in love with her without memory. Old Evan played here the way he did in my favorite 2001 Moulin Rouge movie. My feelings for Susan were especially good. And his voice - I highly recommend watching the picture in the original, to feel all this. His hero here is also multifaceted, although here he is not a romantic, but an ordinary guy - sloppy, or if you want a "bad guy."
2. Susan, played by Eva Greene, is an epidemiologist, very lonely, with a very tragic fate. I saw Michael once, and then I went. Despite his gentle nature, he cannot find the other half. Eva is just a brilliant actress, I am convinced of this once again. How she can play the full range of emotions - bravo. It can at one moment turn from a fragile and calm flower into a beast that sweeps away everything in its path. How she plays with her eyes! I used to think there was only one person who could do that, Johnny Depp. I just love this actress. And the bed scenes are brilliant. Great actress, just great.
In conclusion, this is one of the few arthouses I liked (the previous one was Dogville with Nicole Kidman in 2003). And this is an achievement, given that I did not like the painting “The Womb with Eva” at all. And the picture makes you think about many things that we sometimes forget. I am glad that there are such paintings that remind us of this.
10 out of 10
This is an extraordinary story about how Michael and Susan met in the most ordinary circumstances at a very strange time. He is a chef in a small restaurant, she is an epidemiologist, preoccupied with some terrible “disease” that began to strike the whole world with incredible speed: all people on the planet have lost the sense of smell. After this, the sense of taste, and the whole world is already in despair shouting: what will happen when everything else disappears?
What will the world be like when it plunges into the silence of complete deafness?
What happens when the darkness of blindness hides from you those closest to you?
And how long will all this last before the last connection – touch – disappears?
Quite depressing, the movie "Last Love on Earth" (Perfect Sense) nevertheless does not leave strong oppressive sensations after watching - a big plus to the director David Mackenzie , who did not slide into one particular direction, but deftly balanced on many sides: both scary for the shown, and touching, and a sense of happiness close to catharsis, when the film skillfully ends just then and exactly as it should. After all, a good feature film, like music, should excite emotions, and the perception of a single picture is not always easy to express in words – in such cases it is usually said that it is “just need to see”. Despite a small budget and a failed English rental, the film is very decent - albeit dislocationally, without a major display of a collapsed society, anarchy and desperate people - all this is in the faces of the main characters who, like the rest, experience the same - pain, rage, shock, depression, stress, humility.
Ewan McGregor and Eva Greene played very well, each of them has a scene in the film that compresses the heart so much that you sincerely empathize: what is it like to meet at the end of the world, when one of the dying five senses is replaced by another, until they all disappear, and how can you prove your own existence in such an ending?
A good movie is a strong, memorable, and even somewhat gloomy melodrama, which accompanies the last two people to the wonderful music of Max Richter from piano and violin.
Shocked by grief, people remember everything they have lost: lovers they never had, all friends who have gone; they think of people who have been hurt.
