Another 48-hour film festival submission, A Perfect Love is another Waititi short film that is funny, and surprisingly relevant. One thing that I love about this short is a thing that I find amazing about all of Waititi’s movies, and that’s finding comedy in the mundane moments of life. The beginning of the film shows Taika’s character, frustrated, breaking rules that don’t actually matter. For the first minute, he more or less goes to war with leaves. But, then we learn why, he’s lonely. He’s looking for love, and finds it when he looks in his mirror at himself. The next four minutes have Taika go on a date with himself, and this allows some great comedic moments. Obviously, being in quarantine, I think many of us aren’t far off from having conversations with ourselves in a mirror, but, that just adds to the humor of this short. I do, however, feel that there were a few missed opportunities to make the script just a bit better. For example, I would have liked some foreshadowing of the mirror before it’s reveal, almost halfway through. I also wish that the film didn’t use a handheld camera. While there is value in the shakiness of the camera, A Perfect Love doesn’t use it in context, which is where it makes sense. So, overall, I did enjoy A Perfect Love, but, I feel there wasn’t quite enough there. 6.8/10
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