Perfection - Laura Brownlie

Perfection

Written and directed by 

 Karen Lin.

'"I'm just trying to make you more perfect." - Mom
From infancy, an Asian American woman learns the game of perfection - but if your goal is perfection, will the game ever end?'

The first thing that is noticeable in the film is that there is no colour it is all in black and white. The black and white makes everything seam more simpler, and that she has one simple goal, perfection. 

Time from the game

Through out the film the timer on the game is counting down, each time we see the timer is in a different part of her life this is showing us it is not only counting down the game but counting down to a certain point in her life. When the timer starts the music also starts a non diajetic sound track is played over the top of the films. The music starts of very slow and quiet, But as the timer gets closer and closer to finishing the music speeds up and gets a lot louder, this builds up the ending and makes the time seam to go faster to wards the end giving the impression that she is running out of time.  The last few seconds before the timer runs out the the music slows right down and becomes quieter again, the creates a bigger impact when the timer does finish and we get the 'Bang' showing again that she a has not achieved perfection.

ECU of someone else

We never see anybody else in this film all the shots are close ups or medium close ups of her, the only

other people we see, we only see an extreme close up of part of there body of their back we never we their faces, This shows us that it's completely her story and every thing is completely focused on her.  We never see her mums face but she appears a lot in this film, and it could be looked that the mum is applying the pressure for perfection, she starts her on the game when she's a baby. Late we see the mum correcting on thing or doing them for her, and then we will see her doing it her self.

Her Mum applying her lipstick for her

Her applying lipstick herself in a later shot.

She is scene working on a number of occasions

The main character in this film is Asian, and is portrayed in some stereotypical ways, There is a stereotype saying that all Asians are good and maths and very clever, in this film we see her working hard and getting her degree. this goes along with the stereotype that she is good at maths or the subject she is taking, but it also show behind the scenes she has to put in a lot of hard work.

A Sound Bridge is use to show the passing of time For example we see her finish practicing playing her violin, and start of hear a round of applause the next shot is then of clapping hands at her performance.

Clapping starts

We then see everyone clapping.

I found this film on YouTube and looking at the comments on it show that a lot of people can relate to  it. It gives people an opportunity to look at their own life and see if they are always under the pressure of being perfect or living however they are happy. because of this I think the Audience for this film would be people in their mid 20's - 30's.

A Comment on the film showing that people do relate to it