The Perfection
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Perfection |
| Original title | The Perfection |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Shepard |
| script | Richard Shepard, Eric Charmelo , Nicole Snyder |
| production |
Bill Block , Stacey Reiss , Richard Shepard |
| music | Paul Haslinger |
| camera | Vanja Černjul |
| cut | David Dean |
| occupation | |
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The Perfection is an American horror film with thriller elements from 2018 . The production was funded by Miramax and directed by Richard Shepard , who also wrote the script and co-produced the film. The main roles were cast with Allison Williams and Logan Browning .
The film premiered on September 20, 2018 at the Fantastic Fest film festival in Austin , and was released worldwide on Netflix on May 24, 2019 .
action
Charlotte Willmore, a talented cellist , had to break off her training at the renowned Bachoff music school to take care of her sick mother. After ten years, her mother dies, whereupon Charlotte contacts Anton, the head of the school. She travels to Shanghai where several Bachoff employees are looking for new talent to join the facility. In town, Charlotte meets Lizzie Wells, who had taken over her vacant position at the time and is now a celebrated musician. At a party attended by Anton, his wife Paloma and the two music teachers Theis and Geoffrey, Charlotte and Lizzie get to know each other better and become friends. In one night they visit several clubs together, then they go back to their hotel, where they have sex with each other in Lizzie's room.
The next morning, Lizzie wakes up with a hangover , so Charlotte offers her some ibuprofen , which Lizzie swallows with alcohol. Lizzie wants to go on a day trip despite her alcohol-related discomfort, Charlotte accompanies her. During a bus ride, Lizzie's condition worsens, so Charlotte receives ibuprofen again. Little did she suspect that Charlotte was not giving her ibuprofen, but her mother's levetiracetam , which, especially in combination with alcohol, could quickly lead to nausea and hallucinations . Lizzie vomits and sees maggots in her vomit , whereupon she panics, which is why the bus driver drops the two women in a rural area. Lizzie is becoming more and more delusional, she imagines vermin that crawl under her skin. Charlotte pretends to see this too, shows Lizzie a cleaver she stole from a restaurant, and causes her to sever her right hand.
A few weeks later, Anton and Paloma show the young Chinese girl Zhang Li through the school and show her the so-called chapel , a room with perfect acoustics in which only the best students are allowed to perform. That same night, Lizzie arrives at school and explains to Anton and Paloma that she was found unconscious on the side of the road in China but survived due to an improvised tourniquet on her arm . Lizzie claims that Charlotte is responsible because she is jealous of her. Anton seems to feel sorry for her at first, but then tells Lizzie very directly that she has to leave Bachoff the following day. Lizzie leaves and breaks a glass photo of Charlotte in the entrance hall.
Lizzie then drives to Minneapolis , overpowers Charlotte in her apartment with a stun gun , ties her up, locks her in her trunk and drives her to music school. Anton asks Charlotte about her motives, whereupon Charlotte confesses the truth: She saw in a photo in a music magazine that Lizzie wears the same note- shaped tattoo as her. All students who own the tattoo belong to an elite group within Bachoff. In this they are regularly raped and tortured by Anton and the teachers , among other things by clinking between piano keys when they play wrong, in order to learn a perfect game. Charlotte was also a victim of this abuse, which is why she wanted to save Lizzie from it and therefore carried out her plan. Anton is extremely upset by Charlotte's confession and forces her to perform in front of him, Lizzie, Paloma, Theis, Geoffrey and Zhang Li in the chapel . He chains her tight and promises to let her go if she plays perfectly. He threatens to rape Zhang Li if she makes one mistake.
After not flawless performance Paloma, Steve and Zhang Li left the chapel . Theis and Geoffrey stay behind, tie up Charlotte's hands and want to assault her. Lizzie gets ahead of them and supposedly begins to penetrate Charlotte with her stump when Theis and Geoffrey suddenly collapse. The two women kiss, it turns out they are cooperating with each other and Lizzie poisoned the men's drinks. Although she was initially angry with Charlotte after her amputation , she soon realized that Anton had actually abused and manipulated her, which is why she and Charlotte, with whom she fell in love, developed a plan of revenge. Anton finds Paloma, who was drugged and stabbed by Charlotte and Lizzie, whereupon he himself is attacked by the two with kitchen knives . He still manages to take a knife from Charlotte and use it to mutilate her arm before he is incapacitated by Lizzie with a poker . After a while in the chapel he comes to with amputated limbs and his mouth and eyes sewn shut. Charlotte and Lizzie play a piece for him, playing the same cello together and replacing the missing hand with the other hand.
reception
In the Internet Movie Database, the film achieved a rating of 6.1 out of ten stars based on 24,625 votes. On Rotten Tomatoes there was a critic rating of 73 percent based on 85 reviews and a viewer rating of 58 percent based on 279 votes.
“Two-thirds of the time The Perfection is a competent psychological thriller with elements of body horror, which in the end completely derails and leads to an almost grotesquely exaggerated finale under a #metoo-Revenge banner. Despite this trashiness, an entertaining B-movie with two great leads (Allison Williams & Logan Browning), which, especially at the beginning, has enough flair to cover up the fact that the script doesn't seem entirely conclusive. "
Mashable's Alison Foreman said the film aimed to appeal to fans of mainstream horror films like Conjuring as well as independent productions. She described the production as "original, surprising, unique, bizarre, disgusting and sexy". The film is a "feminist horror straight out of hell", to which the audience would react as if "they had their teeth pulled by an insane dentist". The action jumps are "constantly shrill", but at the same time inconsistent. One moment the film seems like a “bad Black Swan imitation”, the next scene is about “pure body horror” like in Die Fliege , then the viewer remembers scenes from 127 Hours , Boxing Helena and Allison Williams ' previous film Get Out . The production is both “bulky and supple”, but this mixture is so “new and surprising” that one reacts to it “with awe”. It is an “attack on the senses and emotions” because it is important to both increase the adrenaline level of the audience and to reverse the conventions of the genre. Foreman concluded her review by saying that anyone who watches The Perfection will feel violent about it, whether you love it or hate it. The production stands out in a genre that is becoming “more imaginative and competitive”. The "controversial, cunning and disgusting" film would make viewers "scream and then talk" first.
synchronization
The dubbing of the film was done at SDI Media Germany based on a dialog book by Edgar Möller and directed by Karim El Kammouchi .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Willmore | Allison Williams | Katharina Schwarzmaier |
| Charlotte (young) | Molly Grace | Anouk Elias |
| Lizzie Wells | Logan Browning | Lea Kalbhenn |
| Anton | Steven Weber | Markus Pfeiffer |
| Paloma | Alaina Huffman | Claudia Lössl |
| Theis | Mark Kandborg | Jacques Breuer |
| Geoffrey | Graeme Duffy | Mike Carl |
| Zhang Li | Eileen Tian | Carla Reiter |
Web links
- The Perfection in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the film on Netflix
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mike Fleming Jr .: Miramax Buys Richard Shepard's Next Pic, 'The Perfection'. In: Deadline.com. September 13, 2017, accessed October 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Amanda N'Duka: 'Dear White People' Star Logan Browning Joins Allison Williams In 'The Perfection'. In: Deadline.com. December 18, 2017, accessed October 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Dino-Ray Ramos: Fantastic Fest Adds Horror 'The Perfection' And 'Fugue' To Lineup. In: Deadline.com . September 17, 2018, accessed October 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Katie Hasty: Here's every 2019 movie release date so far. In: Entertainment Weekly . August 2, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019 .
- ^ The Perfection (2019). In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Matthias Hannemann: Mona Riche & everyday >> New to Netflix: The Perfection . In: blogs.taz.net . June 29, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
- ↑ Alison Foreman: Good luck fighting over Netflix's 'The Perfection' this weekend. In: Mashable . May 24, 2019, accessed October 24, 2019 .
- ↑ German synchronous index | Movies | The Perfection. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .