Name: The Perfection (film): meant to be a thriller / horror movie with twists
Item: The Perfection
Author: @gooddream

I say that it is "meant" to be because the twists are kind of interesting but especially the last big reveal is just kind of dumb.

I'm going to be putting spoilers in here because I don't think you should waste your time watching this film. If you want to punish yourself be my guest.... but you should stop reading now if you intend to see a film that I can't imagine how it got a 6.2 on IMDB.

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The movie starts out immediately annoying me as two attractive girls in their mid to late 20's are showcased as being the best cello players in the world (cellists?) They form a friendship and eventually end up making out and getting it on before going on a trip where one of the girls gets terribly ill and eventually has to cut her own arm off. Wait... what?

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This sequence is gory and actually quite well-done as far as grossing out the audience is concerned, but leading up to that occurance is a series of ridiculous events such as these wealthy people going on a really shitty bus trip that no wealthy person would ever go on in the first place and then the driver refuses to allow them to use the bathroom and when one of them gets terribly ill, he refuses to divert course to a doctor.

I know that bus drivers can be a pretty uncaring bunch, but when someone is throwing up all over your bus, you maybe would pull over to let them relieve themselves. Plus, this is China they are in, not the Congo, doctors are never very far away.

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as it turns out the entire story has a twist where what was actually going on from the start was a revenge plan on the part of one of the girls to "save" the other girl from being abused by their mutual teacher. One way she was going to accomplish this was by having her cut her own hand off - which makes total sense. It seems to me that it would have been a whole lot easier to simply get the guy alone and kill him seeing as how that is what ends up happening anyway.

This is another one of those films that has a decent trailer and that is what inspired me to watch it in the first place. However, the completely impractical series of events that had even the tiniest thing been a little bit different, the whole plan wouldn't have worked.

Other than having a few gore moments (which are actually very nicely done) the film is a dud with lots and lots of boring filler with a smattering of action here and there.

On a scale of "Urgh!" to "Wowsers!" I give The Perfection and overall score of.....

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Comments · 2

@iamevilradio(62)· 2581d

Oh hey, it's been a while since I've read one of your reviews. Bored and I thought I would dig into this one a bit.

I personally really enjoyed The Perfection. I felt like the Director borrowed heavily from Korean cinema and when viewed through that light, the bizarre nature of the choices that the characters make begin to make sense in some way.

Here's the thing about the film that I don't think you hit on in your review (maybe because you didn't enjoy it enough to actually talk about it), but is an aspect of what made it enjoyable for me. The film starts off with being a steamy girl flick, but then twists into a bit of a revenge flick. What made it intriguing to me is the third twist in which you realize Charlotte isn't doing this for revenge, but to protect the girls in the academy from the abuses that she received as a child. Therefore when she goads Lizzie into cutting off her own arm, at first it is played off in a way that makes it seem like she is jealous and getting revenge, but really its an act of mercy from her perspective to remove her from the abuses that she surely underwent and the hands of the academy.

It's at this point in which the film taps into something a bit heavier than I expected. Child abuse, sexual abuse, social satire, The Perfection deals with all of these but from a perspective that never really gets screen time which is both the act of covering up these actions and the complicit manner in which people behave.

There are some serious comparisons that can be drawn between this movie and the sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic church.

So when watching this in the third act, I started to think of it in terms of less of a revenge flick and more of a character trying to bring down an organization to absolve her own guilt about not speaking up about the abuses that went on in the organization. In that respects, to me, it's pretty effective. She doesn't hate this other girl. She feels guilt that she allowed these things to happen to her and does what she needs to stop it from happening ever again. The final scene, as bizarre and surreal as it is resonated with defiance for me. I think this movie could have been better, but overall a solid viewing for me.

@bozz(83)· 2583d

This is the movie I was trying to remember the other day when I was commenting on your other post. I didn't watch it but I ended up reading another write up about it where the reviewer pretty much gave the whole plot synopsis. I think it sounded interesting and whoever wrote it has a quite twisted way of thinking. Definitely not something I will probably watch though.