Anyone who has seen this movie must be impressed by Ed's mantra - Cut! It's perfect! - This is also a line that Tim Burton has been deliberately emphasizing. Perfect, perfect, in the impression of ordinary people, should be associated with exquisiteness, meticulousness, beauty, and no flaws. So let's go back to a few clips and see what kind of situations Edd sighs perfection in. On the set of "Bride of the Monster", the Swedish professional wrestler and non-professional actor Johansson walked through the cubicle with a contrived expression and clumsily, and half of his body hit the wall set board when he went out, under the impact of his mountain-like body , the entire set board swayed greatly back and forth, then Ed shouted: Cut! It's perfect! "Plan 9 from Outer Space" The two extras who played the police fell, and the black cloth on the ground was strapped by the actors' boots From then on, Ed called Cut! It was perfect! Such examples are few and far between. Obviously, if Ed were to compile a dictionary, the definition of perfect in the dictionary would be different from ours. Some people will say that Ed has tainted the word perfection, but unfortunately, perfection does not exist in reality, so whether perfection is tainted by Ed is a false proposition. Perfection doesn't exist, perfectionists exist, and Ed really is a perfectionist, an atypical perfectionist. We define the average perfectionist like this: in an imperfect real world, striving to strive for and create perfection. Such a person will have requirements for everything, and the requirements are often higher and more than the average person. Such perfectionists will be extremely miserable once they go to extremes. The ever-present and inescapable gap between the imperfections of the real world and the perfection they seek for themselves will continue to torment them. There is another kind of perfectionist who thinks the world is already quite perfect and everything is so perfect. Ed is in the latter category. For general perfectionists, flaws are a matter of acceptance and non-acceptance; for atypical perfectionists, it is a matter of existence and non-existence. In the eyes of the latter, the defect does not seem to exist, or that the defect is also a part of perfection. What the two have in common is that they both live in a different world of their own making, but the latter seems to live a lot more freely. Ed is at ease, and even with the few coins left on the bar, all we see is a little anger, no despair. You must know that an atypical perfectionist must also be an optimist, because since the world is perfect, everything should develop towards a better future. Even if you fail temporarily, the world will not close all doors for you.
Now the question arises, if you had to choose one of two perfectionists, which one would you choose to be? If it were me, I would choose the latter. I believe many people will make the same choice as me. Is the atypical perfectionist really better than the average? Let's take a look at the closing credits: Ed has been struggling in Hollywood without much success. Later indulged in alcohol and monsters, erotic movies. When atypical perfectionism encounters countless surging shocks from reality, can it still be calm? The answer is clearly no. Fortunately, life is not a multiple choice question, not either. So I'd rather see the two as ways of dissolving each other, rather than opposing.
There are so many emotions about this movie because Ed is at one extreme of the atypical, and I myself am at the other at times. So without being able to dissolve each other, Ed and I may not be able to last long in this perfect (imperfect) world.
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