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* FateWorseThanDeath: Anton's fate at the end, having his eyes and mouth stitched shut and all of his limbs cut off, kept on life support and forced to listen to Charlotte and Lizzie play a perfect composition...after which, they most likely will finish him off.
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* {{Hallucinations}}: Charlotte induces them in Lizzie by giving her what Lizzie thinks ibuprofin, but is actually her late mother's levetiracetam which has this side effect if mixed with alcohol (she gave it to her as a hangover cure). She then makes Lizzie there are bugs crawling under her skin (literally) to trick her into cutting off her own hand.
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* {{Hallucinations}}: Charlotte induces them in Lizzie by lying to her and giving her what Lizzie thinks ibuprofin, but is actually her late mother's levetiracetam (claiming it's ibuprofen), which has this side effect if mixed with alcohol (she gave it to her as a hangover cure). She then makes Lizzie there are bugs crawling under her skin (literally) to trick her into cutting off her own hand.
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* {{Hallucinations}}: Charlotte induces them in Lizzie by giving her ibuprofin, which has this side effect if mixed with alcohol (she gave it to her as a hangover cure). She then makes Lizzie there are bugs crawling under her skin (literally) to trick her into cutting off her own hand.
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* {{Hallucinations}}: Charlotte induces them in Lizzie by giving her what Lizzie thinks ibuprofin, but is actually her late mother's levetiracetam which has this side effect if mixed with alcohol (she gave it to her as a hangover cure). She then makes Lizzie there are bugs crawling under her skin (literally) to trick her into cutting off her own hand.
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* BittersweetEnding: Charlotte and Lizzie are both permanently disabled, but they succeed in making Anton (and every other member of the academy who was complicit in their abuse) pay.
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* BittersweetEnding: Charlotte and Lizzie are both permanently disabled, but they succeed in making Anton (and every other member of the academy who was complicit in their abuse) pay.pay, can still play musical instruments and are presumably in love, so the sweet outweighs the bitter.
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* GenreShift: The film is divided into different 'acts' with the tone and genre shifting throughout.
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* GenreShift: The film is divided into different 'acts' with the tone and genre shifting throughout. At first it seems like a psychological drama, then it seems to be slipping into a zombie horror film, then to psychological thriller that seems like a cross between ''Film/AllAboutEve'' and ''Film/BlackSwan''. Then comes the twist. Essentially, it's a psychological horror.
* HateSink: Anton, obviously. At first he comes across as nothing more than a smug, slimy, tactless jerk, then he turns away Lizzie after Charlotte forces her to cut her hand off, saying that her talent is gone, despite the fact that amputees can still play musical instruments and then later it turns out that he's a serial rapist.
** His equally perverted henchmen, Theiss and Jeffrey count as well.
** His equally perverted henchmen, Theiss and Jeffrey count as well.
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* TheSociopath: Anton. A sadist ephebophile who rapes his female students when they make a mistake. He also never takes blame for his actions, justifying himself that he's "sick" and he can't help it.
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* TheSociopath: Anton. A sadist ephebophile who rapes his female students when they make a mistake. He also never takes blame for his actions, justifying himself as a "taskmaster, [[BlatantLies not a monster]]" and "[[BelievingTheirOwnLies not some random pervert]]" but just "having a little fun". Later on, he begs for mercy and feigns remorse, saying that he's he is "sick" and he can't help it. needs help, showing that all of his justifications are bullshit.
* TheVoiceless: Theiss and Jeffrey, [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Anton's fellow music teachers]]. They're supposedly great musicians themselves but we never see or hear them play, making this an informed ability.
* TheVoiceless: Theiss and Jeffrey, [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Anton's fellow music teachers]]. They're supposedly great musicians themselves but we never see or hear them play, making this an informed ability.
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* BittersweetEnding: Charlotte and Lizzie are both crippled for life, but they succeed in making Anton (and every other member of the academy who was complicit in their abuse) pay.
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* BittersweetEnding: Charlotte and Lizzie are both crippled for life, permanently disabled, but they succeed in making Anton (and every other member of the academy who was complicit in their abuse) pay.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: Much of the film's violence is off-screen offscreen, with the aftermath shown later.later.
* {{Hallucinations}}: Charlotte induces them in Lizzie by giving her ibuprofin, which has this side effect if mixed with alcohol (she gave it to her as a hangover cure). She then makes Lizzie there are bugs crawling under her skin (literally) to trick her into cutting off her own hand.
* {{Hallucinations}}: Charlotte induces them in Lizzie by giving her ibuprofin, which has this side effect if mixed with alcohol (she gave it to her as a hangover cure). She then makes Lizzie there are bugs crawling under her skin (literally) to trick her into cutting off her own hand.
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* TheSociopath: Anton. A sadist ephebophile who rapes his female students when they make a mistake. He also never takes blame for his actions actions, justifying himself that he's "sick" and he can't help it.
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* TheSociopath: Anton. A sadist ephebophile who rapes his female students when they make a mistake. He also never takes blame for his actions justifying himself that he's "sick" and he can't help it.
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*VomitIndiscretionShot: Lizzie is shown vomiting multiple times, as well as a man in Shanghai in act one.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Anton Bachoff (pronounced “back off”).
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-->'''Lizzie:''' This is for what you did to me... (''thwack!'') ...and for what you did to Charlotte! (''thwack!'') And this... this is for every other girl who trusted your ''SICK, SORRY ASS!!!'' (''thwack!'')
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-->'''Lizzie:''' This is for what you did to me... (''thwack!'') ...and for what you did to Charlotte! (''thwack!'') And this... this this? This is for every other girl who trusted your ''SICK, ''sick, SORRY ASS!!!'' (''thwack!'')
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* EyeScream: Anton's eyes are stitched up at the end.
*** MouthStitchedShut: Anton's mouth is also stitched up.
*** MouthStitchedShut: Anton's mouth is also stitched up.
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* EyeScream: EyeScream[=/=]MouthStitchedShut: Anton's eyes and mouth are stitched up at the end.
*** MouthStitchedShut: Anton's mouth is also stitched up.end.
*** MouthStitchedShut: Anton's mouth is also stitched up.
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* AndThisIsFor: Lizzie to Anton as she pummels him with the sharp end of a fire poker near the end.
-->'''Lizzie:''' This is for what you did to me... (''thwack!'') ...and for what you did to Charlotte! (''thwack!'') And this... this is for every other girl who trusted your ''SICK, SORRY ASS!!!'' (''thwack!'')
-->'''Lizzie:''' This is for what you did to me... (''thwack!'') ...and for what you did to Charlotte! (''thwack!'') And this... this is for every other girl who trusted your ''SICK, SORRY ASS!!!'' (''thwack!'')
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* GoryDiscretionShot: Much of the film's violence is off-screen with the aftermath shown later.
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* RapeDiscretionShot: A flashback shows Anton naked about to rape Charlotte but the film cuts away before the viewer sees anything else.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: While Charlotte is in Lizzie's bed, the camera focus on a tattoo of a musical note on her shoulder. The tattoo means that Anton has made them his victims, and that they perform concerts for the staff of the school, while .
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*** MouthStitchedShut: Anton's mouth is also stitched up.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: While Charlotte is in Lizzie's bed, the camera focus on a tattoo of a musical note on her shoulder. The tattoo means that Anton has made them his victims, and that they perform concerts for the staff of the school,while .while being abused.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: While Charlotte is in Lizzie's bed, the camera focus on a tattoo of a musical note on her shoulder. The tattoo means that Anton has made them his victims, and that they perform concerts for the staff of the school,
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'''''The Perfection''''' is a horror film directed by Richard Shepard.
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* PrimalFear: Act 2 has a lot of bug related things going on. Including the idea that Lizzie has bugs crawling inside of her.
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* RapeAndRevenge: Charlotte and Lizzie end up teaming together to take revenge on Anton for raping them, as well as starting a whole abuse cult inside the school.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TagLine It's time to face the music.]]'']]
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The movie is a twisty thriller filled with things that only make sense after a while and has many fake outs about its own genre.
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* SlippingAMickey: Charlotte gives what Lizzie thinks are hangover pills but are in fact seizure medicine whose side effects include vomiting and hallucinations.
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* AmputationStopsSpread: Lizzie is made to believe this after seeing imaginary bugs crawling out from her hand.
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* AdultFear: Lizzie's situation in China is this both before and after TheReveal. Before, being violently ill with a (potentially deadly) disease in a foreign country with no medical help in sight. After, being drugged and gaslit into a paranoid state by a trusted friend/lover.
* BattleCouple: Charlotte and Lizzie's fight against Anton cements them as a (particularly dysfunctional) version of this.
* BittersweetEnding: Charlotte and Lizzie are both crippled for life, but they succeed in making Anton (and every other member of the academy who was complicit in their abuse) pay.
* BittersweetEnding: Charlotte and Lizzie are both crippled for life, but they succeed in making Anton (and every other member of the academy who was complicit in their abuse) pay.
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* DuetBonding: Occurs between Charlotte and Lizzie early on.
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* DuetBonding: Occurs between Charlotte and Lizzie early on. In a darker turn, one could consider their final duet one as well.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: Each act is followed by a rewind to earlier events, revealing more of the characters's motivations and showing how certain twists were set up.
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* LipstickLesbian: Both Charlotte and Lizzie.
* OfficialCouple: For better or for worse, Charlotte and Lizzie seem to be this by the end of the film.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Each act is followed by a rewind to earlier events, revealing more of thecharacters's characters' motivations and showing how certain twists were set up.up.
* PsychoLesbian: PlayedWith- initially, Charlotte seems to be a straightforward example with her previous time in a psychiatric ward and violent manipulation of Lizzie, but the reveal of her [[WellIntentionedExtremist true motivations]] puts this into question.
* RedHerring: The airborne sickness that gets repeatedly mentioned in China; it has no actual effect on the plot beyond Lizzie's paranoia that she has contracted it.
* TheReveal: Several. Notably, that Charlotte purposefully caused Lizzie's sickness, that Anton sexually abused both women during their time as his students, and that Charlotte and Lizzie have been working together to seek revenge against him.
* OfficialCouple: For better or for worse, Charlotte and Lizzie seem to be this by the end of the film.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Each act is followed by a rewind to earlier events, revealing more of the
* PsychoLesbian: PlayedWith- initially, Charlotte seems to be a straightforward example with her previous time in a psychiatric ward and violent manipulation of Lizzie, but the reveal of her [[WellIntentionedExtremist true motivations]] puts this into question.
* RedHerring: The airborne sickness that gets repeatedly mentioned in China; it has no actual effect on the plot beyond Lizzie's paranoia that she has contracted it.
* TheReveal: Several. Notably, that Charlotte purposefully caused Lizzie's sickness, that Anton sexually abused both women during their time as his students, and that Charlotte and Lizzie have been working together to seek revenge against him.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: Upon being cornered Anton says he's sick and needs help.
* AnArmAndALeg: Charlotte and Lizzie both lose a limb by the end of the film; Anton loses all of his.
* AnArmAndALeg: Charlotte and Lizzie both lose a limb by the end of the film; Anton loses all of his.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: Upon being cornered cornered, Anton says he's sick and needs help.
help. It doesn't help him.
* AnArmAndALeg: Charlotte and Lizzie both lose a limb by the end of thefilm; film, Lizzie from amputating her hand and Charlotte thanks to getting a knife through her forearm; Anton loses all of his.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Charlotte drugs Lizzie and makes her hallucinate that she is infested with bugs, causing her to cut off her arm. Initially believed to be because of jealousy, Charlotte did it to save Lizzie from Anton's control.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Charlotte drugs Lizzie and makes her hallucinate that she is infested with bugs, causing her to cut off her arm. Initially believed to be because of jealousy, Charlotte did it to save Lizzie from Anton's control.
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* EyeScream: Anton's eyes are stitched up at the end.
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* DuetBonding: Occurs between Charlotte and Lizzie early on.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: Upon being cornered Anton says he's sick and needs help.
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* SadistTeacher: Anton is Fletcher from Film/{{Whiplash}} with added rape for punishment.
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'''''The Perfection''''' is a HorrorFilm directed by Richard Shepard.
When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte (Allison Williams) seeks out Elizabeth (Logan Browning), the new star pupil of her former school, the encounter sends both musicians down a sinister path with shocking consequences.
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'''''The Perfection''''' is a HorrorFilm horror film directed by Richard Shepard.
When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte(Allison Williams) (Creator/AllisonWilliams) seeks out Elizabeth (Logan Browning), the new star pupil of her former school, the encounter sends both musicians down a sinister path with shocking consequences.
When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte
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'''''The Perfection''''' is a HorrorFilm directed by Richard Shepard.
When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte (Allison Williams) seeks out Elizabeth (Logan Browning), the new star pupil of her former school, the encounter sends both musicians down a sinister path with shocking consequences.
''Given the twisty nature of the film, all spoilers are unmarked.''
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!!Contains the following tropes:
* AnArmAndALeg: Charlotte and Lizzie both lose a limb by the end of the film; Anton loses all of his.
* AndIMustScream: Anton is reduced to a limbless torso with his eyes and mouth sewn shut as he is made to listen to a final duet between Charlotte and Lizzie.
* BodyHorror: A drugged Lizzie hallucinates that she is vomiting maggots and has bugs crawling under her skin.
* GenreShift: The film is divided into different 'acts' with the tone and genre shifting throughout.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Charlotte drugs Lizzie and makes her hallucinate that she is infested with bugs, causing her to cut off her arm. Initially believed to be because of jealousy, Charlotte did it to save Lizzie from Anton's control.
When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte (Allison Williams) seeks out Elizabeth (Logan Browning), the new star pupil of her former school, the encounter sends both musicians down a sinister path with shocking consequences.
''Given the twisty nature of the film, all spoilers are unmarked.''
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!!Contains the following tropes:
* AnArmAndALeg: Charlotte and Lizzie both lose a limb by the end of the film; Anton loses all of his.
* AndIMustScream: Anton is reduced to a limbless torso with his eyes and mouth sewn shut as he is made to listen to a final duet between Charlotte and Lizzie.
* BodyHorror: A drugged Lizzie hallucinates that she is vomiting maggots and has bugs crawling under her skin.
* GenreShift: The film is divided into different 'acts' with the tone and genre shifting throughout.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Charlotte drugs Lizzie and makes her hallucinate that she is infested with bugs, causing her to cut off her arm. Initially believed to be because of jealousy, Charlotte did it to save Lizzie from Anton's control.
