This film is an amazing, living psychoanalysis of the self-destructive human character. It follows one man's ambitious pursuit of perfection while battling the most difficult obstacle he could ever face: his own impossible expectations. At the beginning of the film it appears as if the man has been worn weary by his severity, and in order to battle a fit of depression a friend chose to impose a litany of obstructions on a previously seminal work of his. Though this appears counter-intuitive, the placed obstructions actually served as a distraction to the man's own obstructive behavior. By forcing the man to go places he had never willingly gone before out of the intention of not satisfying himself, but another man's criteria, the man was able to learn how to preserve his sense of identity throughout his work instead of sacrificing it for the sake of the work. At the final moment of letting go of his self-destructive behavior, the man learns that he was living up to not only the once-in-a-lifetime success of his most seminal film, but the message of it: to become the perfect human.
"This is how the perfect man falls."
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