The Perfection (2019)

[Olivia Bauer]

AWFUL! AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL!



This is probably in my top ten worst movies ever list. It's terrible beyond words.

Okay, so the premise is that these two cello players fall in love. They're on some sort of bus to some place I can't remember when one of them becomes ill.
The characters name's are Lizzie and Charlotte. I had to look that up on IMDb because I already forgot. Lizzie starts puking up worms and at first I thought something supernatural was going on. That's what I was hoping. Up to this point the story has been super boring and the acting is atrocious so I was dying to have something interesting happen.
They get tossed off the bus and Charlotte tries to walk Lizzie to a city but Lizzie is freaking out too much from her illness. Bugs begin to erupt from Lizzie's hand
and Charlotte pulls a meat cleaver OUT OF f**kING NOWHERE and says "You know what you have to do". The scene ends with Lizzie swinging the knife at her own hand.

My assumption is that this had to be in the fevered imagination of Lizzie because it makes no sense for Charlotte to even have a butcher knife. But nope. It goes back
in time and shows that Charlotte stole the butcher knife, hid it in her purse, gave Lizzie bad drugs claiming it was ibuprofen, and implanted the idea in her head that she's
full of bugs, all in a plot to make Lizzie chop her own hand off. It's the most cockamamie non-sense plot that could go wrong for a million reasons:

1) What if Lizzie got over her headache too soon and never took the "ibuprofen"?
2) What if Lizzie refused to take the "ibuprofen"?
3) What if Charlotte was spotted STEALING the butcher knife?
4) What if the driver never kicked them off the bus? Most people wouldn't, because that's an awful thing to do.
5) What if Lizzie didn't hallucinate bugs? That'd be pretty bad if Charlotte insisted there were bugs and Lizzie didn't see them.
6) What if the drugs made Lizzie pass out for the entire trip?
7) What if the drugs just KILLED Lizzie? These drugs were for Charlotte's dead grandma's cancer and she took A LOT of them.
8) What if Lizzie chickened out of cutting off her hand?

There's so many variables that make this plan practically impossible to pull off. So I guess the film implies Charlotte did this because she was jealous Lizzie's cello skills.
Lizzie got into some prestigious cello academy and Charlotte didn't. Anyway the owner of the academy, Anton, kicks Lizzie out because she can't play anymore.

Because as we all know it's IMPOSSIBLE to play with one hand!

Lizzie tracks Charlotte down to get revenge and brings her back to Anton. Charlotte wakes up chained to a stage and we get a pretty stupid plot reveal. So, apparently, when Anton takes in a student he gives them a song note tattoo. But to earn the tattoo you have to play a song perfectly. If you miss a chord, Anton will rape you. That's not a joke, that's actually where they took the plot. I'll talk about this later.

So Anton forces Charlotte to play while Lizzie hands out drinks to everyone watching the performance. After it's over Anton leaves the room and commands his two goons to rape her. Lizzie says she's going first and implies she wants to shove her arm stump in Charlotte's vagina. However this turns out to just be her stalling for time while a poison she slipped into their drinks end up killing the two goons. Lizzie tells Charlotte that she was right the entire time and then we get a reveal of what actually happened.

Basically Charlotte thinks she "saved" Lizzie from Anton by cutting her hand off so she can't play cello anymore. She claims that she had to do it in a roundabout way to get around Anton's brain washing. Here are some other things she could have done:

1) Report Anton to the police. He has a cello room with f**king chains in the floor, have fun explaining that to the cops.
2) Murder Anton. She'd be facing serious charges already for cutting someone's hand off. Why harm the victim when you could just slice his f**king throat?
3) Literally talk to Lizzie about this at all. She doesn't even TRY to persuade her.

This movie is seriously trying to JUSTIFY her actions.

So anyway, they beat the s**t out of Anton and intentionally film it in a way where we can't see them doing it. The final scene features them playing the cello together for Anton who's had his all his limbs surgically removed and his eyes stitched shut. No clue how that managed to pull that one off.

I could tell this movie was going to suck from the acting but I was absolutely astonished by how poorly thought out it was. Let me tell you something about using rape in your story.
My sister was raped so I have to pretty strong f**king feelings about this subject. I do not have an issue with using rape in fiction. However it's a story element that shouldn't be thrown around like a f**king toy. It's a very sensitive and serious issue. The only thing they use the rape for is as a kick the dog trope. It's nothing more than "Look how evil our villain is! He's a rapist!". It's extremely distasteful. An example of not f**king this up is Kilgrave in Jessica Jones. The allusions to rape in that show put the spotlight more on the victims and Kilgrave himself is a complex character who comes down to more than just "rapist". The way The Perfection uses it is just shock value. That's this entire f**king movie. Shock value.

It's an empty, idiotic, poorly thought out mess of a movie and the film makers (As well as Netflix) should be f**king ashamed of it.

1/10

[Svengoolie 3]

Sounds like this may be the most inaccurately movie ever if nothing else...