Review of Perfect

Perfect (II) (2018)
10/10
If thine eye offends thee
15 April 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Most people have given this movie a low or bad rating and with contemporary thinking, the poor ratings are right. Stay with me a moment and allow me to explain why the more intellectual among you should watch this.

I have given this movie a 10, not for watchability, because this movie isn't entertainment, But rather for its capacity to coerce people to face the darker aspects of human consciousness.

We live in an age through which we have become dissociative from the causative affects of neglect.

Apathy, disconnection have flourished to such an extent that we are no longer aware of the horrors that our civilisation inflicts on each other and to the planet on which we live.

What would a higher consciousness think of us?

A mind which transitions from unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence, enters a kind of purgatory at the first realisation that we are not seeing the world as it is, we are seeing the world as we are.

This purgatory of conflicted understanding; that all that has been taught to us, our sense of self, is corrupted by our Limbic responses, the amygdala and the biochemical impulses that collectively form our consciousness.

What if by trying to be too perfect, we become bad?

Perfect speaks to our imperfections, to the extent of our human depravity, to our indignity.

We blindly consider ourselves perfect, yet we condone the murder of innocent children in resource wars and regional conflicts that have devastated millions.

This dichotomy of perfection a path leading to an abomination, is resolved through the introduction of metaphoric narrative of a horrific biblical principle:

"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for. thee that one of thy members should perish, and. not that thy whole body should be cast into hell."

This is where perfect leads us:

Paying penance by attempting self immolation as a path to purity. Only to discover that the aspects we have discarded, were the better parts of self, until all that is left is a monster.

The abomination.

If power corrupts, then ultimate power corrupts ultimately. If purity is angelic, then ultimate purity descends to become wholly Narcissistic, that purity in and of itself becomes self destructive.

Such has been the plight of every person who lost their way on the path to their purity.

Hitler, Mao, Polpot, the list goes on.

Each sought to achieve purity, and through their purge, perpetrated a great evil. The seed of their ideas Has created an abomination.

As the cognitive veil is lifted, we suddenly see the corruption that we as a race of people have Harboured and perpetrated.

We are left understanding that we can not trust our self perception, because we do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.

Which takes us back to the beginning.

We are not seeing this movie as it is, we are seeing this movie as we are.

Understanding our inherent fallibility, We are able to watch this movie understanding our fundamental imperfections.

Self love ultimately forgives all and comes to acceptance, the true foundation of human improvement is that we bring order to chaos through self acceptance, unconditional love and self-forgiveness.
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