Perfect 10

For my last blog entry I went to see the film Perfect 10. It was very interesting and funny. I’m really impressed with the work the producers did and at the same time the film really had a good lesson to learn.

The film is about Mara, a girl that is not happy with her body image. Since she was a little kid she had been told that she was fat and ugly and everyone used to make fun of her. That stayed with her for the rest of her life that she never felt happy about the way she looked. Mara was married and even though his husband loved her just the way she was that wasn’t enough for her. Then Mara was invited to attend her tem-high school reunion, but the only reason that she wanted to go was because her first love, the love of his life Danny was going to be there. She lied to her husband so she could go to the reunion so she went with her best friend Libby. At the reunion she took her ring off because she didn’t want Danny and the rest of her friends to find out that she was married. Even though Libby wasn’t okay with this she supported her at the beginning. Libby knew that when they were in high school Danny never liked Mara and that he always used to make fun of her, but Mara didn’t care about this. Mara wanted to feel wanted at least for once in her life. She wanted to feel wanted by an attracted man. That’s why she was willing to lose her husband for Danny. During the high school reunion Mara and Danny confessed their love to each other but soon Mara found out that Danny was married to another woman that looked just like her and he never went to look after Mara. During high school he never liked Mara, and when he found out that he loved her he never went to look after her, so it was too late. Mara realized that her husband was much more worth it, and he always loved her just the way she was, so she went back with him and even though she apologized, she was honest with him telling him that she didn’t know if she would do this again. During this high school reunion Mara’s as well as Libby’s lives changed a lot. The reunion opened their minds and helped them to see things differently.

The main concepts from class that we see in this film are the stereotypes about women’s body image. Most people; in this case man have the idea that for a woman to be beautiful she needs to be skinny, young looking, with curves, etc. This is the idea that Mara had, that’s the reason why she could never be happy with her body image. She went to the gym, she even lost weight but still that wasn’t enough, but by the end of the movie she realizes that what really matters about a person is what’s inside, not the physical appearance. Wee see this by how at the beginning of the movie it starts by Mara looking herself at the mirror in her underwear, and her face expression doesn’t look happy at all, but the last scene of the movie is the same scene but now Mara is looking at herself in the mirror and she is completely naked, showing that finally she’s happy with the person she really is and that’s all that matters. For me the lesson was “always be you and don’t try to go along with the myths and beliefs of this world.” Another interesting scene that I found is when the teacher tries to touch Libby and she stabs him with a fork. What Libby mentions after is that she accepts that she likes to play around with guys but that doesn’t mean that she wants everyone to touch her. Guys assumed that for the way she acted she wanted to play around with every guy but this was not true. At the end of the movie she finally gives hope to a guy that always used to like her since high school.

I really liked this movie. Attending the SIFF festival was a great experience for me and what I liked the most was that I got to meet the producers and some of the actors and actresses. I think this is the first time that I have an opportunity like this and I even got to say hi to them and asked them some questions. It was very fun.