How fast would you fall in love if the world was about to end? You'd either hole up in your house, stocking food and water and massaging your shotgun, or you'd be out there in the world trying to do it as much as possible. That's how the trailer for Perfect Sense figures, sort of. It starts off like a typical romantic drama, with attractive boy (Ewan McGregor) meeting attractive girl (Eva Green) and flirting a bunch. Can you believe that two perfectly telegenic people could fall for each other? I know, me neither.

But thirty seconds in, it takes a turn. All of a sudden, people are losing their senses -- not figuratively, their actual senses, taste and sight and touch and the others. Then it takes this weird Blindess-meets-Children of Men tone, with lots of people shouting and crying, riot police in the street, city blocks turned into war zones. It's just like Black Friday! All the while, McGregor and Green continue canoodling, because what else is there to do? 

These movies about society crumbling to bits following some global catastrophe are getting to be too much. How is anyone suppose to deal with their standard neuroses when there are so many fictional ones to pile on top? Viral pandemics, sensory loss, mass sterilization, zombie-fication. Everything seems like the worst. But yeah, this one looks pretty alright. It came out earlier this year at Sundance, but it'll get a nationwide release on February 10, 2012.