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"To be is to be perceived." - even if reality is out there within the everyday objects we see; touch; hear; taste and smell, our sense-data nevertheless still needs to pass through our cognitive and mental processing faculties prior to its acceptance as the knowledge we have of reality. This faculty of perception lies centrally behind the way we understand the story in "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not" ( la folie...Pas du tout), as our perspective, dictated by the cinematography, clouds the potential capabilities of judgment we could have about the reality of Angelique and Loic's lives.

The empiricist way in which we collect such information to be channeled to our perception is well-shown by the movie. How is logic used? Empiricism offers us the power of inductive logic, where continual, consistent appearances of a phenomena gives us reasonable grounds to suspect an underlying, constant principle or cause for its existence. The movie from the start exposes us to the world only from Angelique's perspective. We see Angelique seemingly being ignored by Loic at the medical conference; her being stood up at the airport by Loic when they were booked for a trip to Florence; him being affectionate with his wife Rachel even as he was said to have promised Angelique to divorce her soon. As Angelique's friends begin to talk bad of Loic for having "neglected Angelique", we look at the evidence for supporting such a conclusion. By induction, all that indifference Loic has for Angelique leads us to be biased towards the same conclusion as Angelique's friends. This perspective, excluding Loic's point-of-view thus points to an induction that is actually distorted - we only find out later from Loic that he had never been in any way together with Angelique, not even being able to fault him for our perceived "neglection".

Taken to the extreme, this movie is a play of Idealist concepts. Idealism asserts that nothing, or rather no reality exists inherently by itself - be it events; objects; data. The latter is only but a massive collection of sense-data. What would make sense-data reality would therefore be absolutely only our perception. Perspective, in this sense, is hence the filter through which we select sense-data to match our ideas and thoughts. Angelique, as an erotomaniac, starts off with a basic proposition after her being given a rose by Loic - that Loic is in love with her. Unlike the empiricist fashion, this mode of thinking begins proposition-first, evidence-second. Even

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