The Perfection

I don't know that this can adequately be reviewed, or even described, without giving away important story information. And once you see it, I still don't know how to explain it, other than to say it will haunt you for a long, long time. Without giving anything away (or, as little as I can), the set-up is that Charlotte, once a prized pupil of a private cello academy, has returned after a very lengthy absence in which she tended to her dying mother. In the decade away, a new star pupil has been groomed. Told in four acts (literally, there are four numbered title cards, like chapters in a book), the story unfolds into a bizarre, unbelievable narrative of horror. Just never the one you're expecting. The description on Netflix makes it sound like some kind of old-guard-hates-the-new-kid jealous stalker story ... and then it looks like it's going to be a pathogen/epidemic movie ... and then it turns again, and again, and again. This movie might exhaust some with the twists and turns, because this movie turns a LOT. The turns never feel unfair or forced. But there are a lot of them, and it may tire some viewers. You may even guess one or two of the turns. But you won't guess them all.