IMPERFECT
Imperfect is a 2019 Indonesian romantic comedy drama film directed by Ernest Prakasa and based on a novel by Meira Anastasia, Ernest's wife. This film stars Jessica Mila and Reza Rahadian. The film was shown on December 19, 2019 and received a positive response from both audiences and critics.
This film tells about Rara (Jessica Mila) who was born fat and brown following her father's genes. Unlike her sister, Lulu (Yasmin Napper), who was born following her mother's genes, Debby (Karina Suwandi) with a body like a model. Everyday, Rara has thick ears at what people say to her. Plus, his lover, Dika (Reza Rahadian), who loves what she is. One day, Rara had the opportunity to move up a position in her office, a cosmetics company. However, Rara's boss, Kelvin (Dion Wiyoko), requires Rara to completely change her appearance. After feeling very depressed and always being ridiculed by her colleagues and the environment because of body shamming problems, she then started listening to her mother's advice to change his diet and take better care of himself, so that she could get the body shape she wanted.She started working hard to lose weight to have an ideal body by doing the gym and drinking fruit and vegetable juices regularly every day. Finally, her efforts to lose weight for a full month were not in vain because Rara managed to become a generally beautiful woman who has an attractive appearance and is in the lyrics of many people like her co-workers in the office. Since then, Rara's attitude towards her close friends in the office and towards her own lover is very different and has changed drastically, because according to her own lover, Dika, he feels that the current Rara is not what it was and is not like before, to the point that her life pattern is not. changed. Until finally Rara began to realize that she had lost the people who used to accept it as it was. Rara also apologized and made an exhibition project that contained the message that we must accept our shortcomings and also make our imperfections become our strengths. Since then Rara has not been on an extreme diet anymore and only runs a healthy lifestyle. In the end, she is happy and becomes herself again .
The acting of the actors in this film is very good and they live their roles. This film also has a very good message.
This film has a message that can make the public aware that bullying and body-shamming often occur around us or that we are perpetrators and can also be victims of body-shamming. Therefore, this film accidentally gives a message to bullies not to do this because it has a tremendous effect on the victim. And there is also one very good quote in this film, namely "Change Insekyur to Be Grateful".
