30 Questions About Netflix's 'The Perfection' That We Need Answered
The latest Netflix horror flick, The Perfection, gets more insane as it goes on. The movie stars Allison Williams as Charlotte, a former cellist who returns to her academy after years away taking care of her mother. At a concert in China, she meets the new star student, Lizzie, played by Logan Browning. The movie is nearly impossible to spoil, because it's so confusing and becomes exponentially bizarre with each plot twist.
What begins as a cellist version of Black Swan evolves into a horror version of Whiplash with less social consciousness and way more Saw vibes. At the end of the film, there's a good chance you'll be googling how tourniquets work. But even with that answer, we had a lot of questions.
1. What cellist gets their own Times Square-sized Billboard?
2. Why did Anton reveal that much personal information about Charlotte’s departure from music in her public introduction?
3. Is this actually just a collection of iconic movie scenes, including homages to when Maya Rudolph popped in the street in Bridesmaids and when Mila Kunis went down on Natalie Portman in Black Swan?
4. Did Charlotte call the cops after leaving Lizzie on the side of the road to die?
5. At what point did Charlotte launch her plan to save Lizzie?
6. Did Charlotte go to China with that plan?
7. What if Lizzie hadn’t seduced Charlotte?
8. What if Lizzie hadn’t invited her on that trip?
9. Why did the man having the affair have the same symptoms as Lizzie?
10. Can an amateur tourniquet save your life if your arm is cut off with an ax?
11. If so, how long can you survive?
12. How did Charlotte know the side effects of the drugs would manifest in those hallucinations?
13. What exactly does the music note tattoo mean?
14. Is that music note tattoo just another punishment? Or is that something Anton convinces you that you want?
15. Was the pitch of this movie, “Have you seen Whiplash? What if we did that, but bad?”
16. Even with assistance from Charlotte, how was Lizzie able to get Charlotte in the trunk and drive from Minneapolis back to the conservatory?
17. Is Charlotte’s post-conservatory treatment low key endorsing electroshock therapy?
18. Could Charlotte not have taken a more logical approach to saving Lizzie before having her cut her own hand off?
19. Do they just keep an evening gown on hold, in case an old victim comes back and needs to be bound for a performance?
20. Was that random knife at the end that went through Charlotte’s arm the tomato knife?
21. Where did Charlotte’s fancy performance wig come from?
22. Why did Charlotte’s electroshock therapy (again, a question in itself) require her head to be shaved?
23. With only one working hand each, how did Charlotte and Lizzie manage to undress Anton and sew his eyes and mouth shut?
24. How could Anton still be alive after losing four limbs? You can only live on about six pints of blood, and you know he lost more than that.
25. What was in that fluid bag they had Anton hooked up to?
26. How did they apply four tourniquets to his severed limbs, as well as the necessary tourniquet for Charlotte’s arm?
27. Did Anton ultimately get what he wanted by having the two of them play together as one performer?
28. What happened to Mingzhu? Is she still sleeping upstairs at the conservatory?
29. Seriously. What was Poloma’s deal?
30. Did Charlotte and Lizzie bring those fancy pantsuits with them on the revenge mission?
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