Change Your Image
![](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjQ4MTY5NzU2M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDc5NTgwMTI@._V1_SY100_SX100_.jpg)
divinelightvibrations
Reviews
Perfect Sense (2011)
Disturbing. Oddly poignant. Spot on.
This tale of an undiagnosed epidemic that slowly takes away first our sense of smell, then taste, followed by sound and, ultimately, sight is definitely disturbing, oddly poignant, and spot on to watch in this time of Coronavirus shut downs.
For the plot turns in this love story amidst human panic, there is some kind of emotional outbreak of bottled up and unexpressed emotions--profound sadness, insatiable hunger, anger, cruelty--followed by the new sensory loss.
In the end, there is only love.
Although the story doesn't make a point of it, from where I was sitting, I instinctively leaned towards connecting the dots between the damage we do to ourselves, each other, and our planet with our fears and unexpressed emotions of love. How we disconnect from each other, mis-treat the Earth and its nature kingdoms, and blithely go through the motions of living; taking it for granted and truly appreciating little along the way. And how all that will, of course, upset the delicate symbiotic balance in our fragile human biological bodies and the world around us.
Community Theater Christmas (2019)
Unexpectedly engaging and different view of Christmas
The opening dedication is pitch perfect in setting up what you're about to see: Tongue-in-cheek irony about a community theater competing for a grant with an original Christmas play written by one of its members.
Shot like an amateur documentary with lots of pieces missing, each character is so perfectly imperfect, it becomes a lighthearted look at human ego in action with all its fears, egoisms, self-importance, searches for meaning, self-aggrandizing, and spiteful power games. If you've ever been involved with community theater--either backstage or in the audience--you'll recognize it in your bones. Plus, the actors all look like amateur actors and play it so over-the-top NORMAL with an excruciatingly bad Christmas play, there are times you forget its not a real documentary.
In fact, as the rehearsals and play progressed, there were a few times I stopped to wonder if the actors were really that bad or were they that brilliant? And therein lies the beauty of the film. It's different. And hits the bullseye of what it set out to do: Entertain you with tongue-in-cheek irony.
I can't remember the last time I saw a film through which I wore a smile all the way to the end. Watch it.