The Five Senses (2000)

The greatest movie ever made..!

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

These are interconnected stories with the individual senses as the theme. Ruth Seraph is a massage therapist with sour teenage daughter Rachel. Anna Miller is Ruth's client and Rachel loses Anna's young daughter. Rachel is infatuated with voyeur Rupert. Robert is a professional house cleaner with a superior sense of smell. Rona is a cake maker who lost her sense of taste. Dr. Richard Jacob is an optometrist going deaf.Some of the characters are more compelling than others. In the end, I don't connect with the stories that much. This movie's central idea feels more like a gimmick. I'm interested in Ruth and Rachel. However there are some characters that feel like unwanted interruptions in the flow of the movie. It's disjointed and I can't find its flow. It would be a more compelling story if it's told more straightforwardly.

I really feel the splendid ideas of scripts and the good quality of cinematographer and music too. But overall, this s a second-handed-European-kind-of-style film that might be hundreds out there ever year in Europe and all better than this one. This one is not so fell into place. The pace is not nessecerrily slow and dreadful yet the links of 5 senses are too weak and trying too hard to be connected. It's much like it tries too hard, too hard to wanted to fall in 5 senses in order to speak the film's name. I really believe Jeremy could do better with much mature skill after years practice. Mary-Louise Parker is so not acting well this time, really not knowing what's wrong with her depth of acting, it's just as on the surface as the tone and expression she acts. anyway, I love art films like life, this one, really is a well intentions and ideas but so poor in flavor and style.

I got this film after reading the back of the cover. It sounded wonderful: An exploration of the five senses through the lives of five people that interconnect. After watching the movie, I wondered where the movie that the box described went. I didn't learn anything about anything. The only good thing that has come from this film is the quote "I'm tense because your making me tense." Its been awhile since I saw the film, but I do rememeber that this film does not live up to its expecatations at all. If you've only seen Hollywood movies, then you might think that this is art, but otherwise, your in for a dud.

It's out on rent so, rent it. Man, is really good. It deals with a few stories that are connected if you think about it, mainly by a building. Love, lost, memories and discoveries are the main emotions that drive this movie. Again, another perfect film that's plot-less. This film even has an event, which has been done over and over in film but, just because you are not attached to a plot it seems like the most original event in the movie. Mothers, daughters, friends and fathers are all living their lives, like any of us, not noticing the small things in life. Our sense, specially sight and sound are over stimulated by this beautiful movie. The little simple things is what drives this movie and god that's filmmaking, that's art. Let me tell you how good it is, is so good, the movie was over and I stopped the DVD and started it again, I was it twice last night I think I'll see it tonight again.