My study focuses on the perceptive alterations that modify the relations among and between characters and their narrative contexts in contemporary cinema, which I will analyze from the perspective of the crisis and disappearance of the subject. I am also interested in the ways these alterations can contaminate cinematographic language. Amnesia, insomnia, hallucination, blindness, memory dysfunctions, are all narrative elements that work both at transforming the cinematic mechanisms through what they tell and how, and at dismantling the subject inside the contemporary horizon of narration.