Mercredi 17 décembre 2025:
At night, in the Japanese-style room (Washitsu), I watched the following short film.
Recorded on the built-in HDD of a DIGA (manufactured in 2017). Broadcast on BS12 from 9:15 PM on December 13, 2025.
SATURDAY SHORT THEATER "PERFECT" (Canada. 2022. 25-minute feature. Original language: English, with Japanese subtitles).
A satirical film that humorously depicts extreme content.
Raising the "perfect human seed" is all the rage.
"The perfect soulmate," "the perfect family," "the perfect boyfriend," and "the perfect asshole."
If someone decides they don't like the "perfect human" they've raised from the seed they purchased, they immediately eliminate him and raise the next "seed." While presented as a fun comedy, it also poses profound philosophical questions.
To give an example from old Japanese anime, the androids created by Dr. Gero in "Dragon Ball" (who modified flesh-and-blood humans to resemble his ideal) are similar. After absorbing androids 16 and 17, "Cell" gained absolute strength and became a "perfect being" who ruled the Earth. The Saiyans (and Mr. Satan) stood up against him (Cell Game).
The brutality of "Sōkatsu", a left-wing group (such as the Japanese Red Army and the Revolutionary Marxist League (Kakumaruha sect) that upholds ideals (perfection), is well known (see the Asama-Sanso Incident).
Everyone knows that purges in communist countries are extremely brutal. The perpetrators have no sense of guilt.
For humans, "perfection" means conforming to an "ideal," and "ideal" means the "right way of being." The "right way of being" means conforming to established norms. Beings that are "imperfect" are "wrong" and "do not conform to the norm," and therefore must be denied their existence. Killing living things that should not exist (imperfect living things) is the right thing to do as a human being, and is also a natural right to live a better life.
The exercise of this "right" leads to incredibly brutal acts.
Since a "perfect self" cannot exist, ultimately, one must eliminate oneself. Or, one must destroy all of humanity.
The final words of the film (in the TV announcement) are likely what they mean.
We may be living in this way, unconsciously.
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