The Perfect Man
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Everybody wants a perfect, life, man, woman, date, day at the fair…etc. Nobody ever gets one, though. In the movie The Perfect Man we find before our eyes the illusive fantasy being played out as effectively and enjoyably as anyone could imagine. Especially if you are a daughter of a single mom who needs to see her life resemble normality. However, what we finally see in this movie, as in life, is that you only know what you’ve got. You have to imagine something different than you have. So you imagine only partial truths and “happy thoughts.� Your life doesn’t really change. Your fantasies impact those around you much more than they change you.
Let’s use the fleeting improbability of a “perfect life� as our basis. We imagine our perfect life being anything but what we experience. Whether we’re poverty-stricken or part of a wealthy family with virtually everything we could imagine, we all have the expectation that our lives should be different than they are. Why do we do this? Perhaps it’s something ingrained into each of us driving us to improvement. Perhaps there is a genetic soul-searching biology that makes us dissatisfied with the status quo. I’m not sure of any of this. What I am sure of is that most people I’ve met are not happy with who they are, where they’ve come from or where they are going, regardless of their current state of affairs.
Tony Robbins makes a fortune by selling people the idea that they have a destiny that they can achieve only through their own discipline or tenacity. Naturally the main course on the promised plate of life is a larger income. Do we really need more money to be happy? Ask yourself: what are your happiest memories?
In The Perfect Man, Holly Hamilton (Hilary Duff) tries to make life “perfect� for herself by finding the perfect man, as she sees it, for her mom (Heather Locklear). A perfect-looking girl, with a perfect-looking mom, searching for a perfect-looking man with perfect qualities to augment her apparently less-than-perfect life. She invents the guy of her dreams with the help of a couple of friends, a computer and a perfect man (Uncle Ben, played by Chris Noth). Her inventive plot to woo her mom through her invented momma’s guy has some funny side effects. She is understandably over the top in her plot.
Wouldn’t you go ape if your life was so messed up by your mom’s bad luck with men? (I won’t discuss the implausibility of Heather Locklear getting dumped in the real world here). Through this romp of a coming-of-age and coming-to-reason story we find the ever-charming Hilary Duff coming to terms with her own reality. Not to mention the realization that her pursuit of a different reality has had a negative effect on those around her.
She learns some valuable lessons about herself, her mom and staying in the game, so to speak. It’s a fun frolic of a movie. No pressure to discover a sinister or complicated plot. Just a couple of knockout beautiful women figuring life out through self- and other-inflicted hard knocks.
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