Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Perfection


"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?
Wow, double wow, I don't know to what extent Asian parents in general inculcate perfectionism in their children, but this moving short film portrays how calculated, patient and entrenched that inculcation may be.  I have a rough formulation for a perfect process, built off of the Six Sigma model, and infinity is part of that formulation.  So the answer to the foregoing question above is The game never ends.  But this film returns control back to the child: Before all the pieces of her life blow apart, she can pause, breathe, meditate, and do something different.  The child can stop the game.

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