My head wants to say, no, there cannot be a perfect film.
But my heart says that every one of the many, many times it has seen Once Upon A Time In The West it has seen perfection.
I cannot see or hear any flaw in OUATITW. So I have to conclude that it is perfect.
Now, if we want to set perfection as an empirical measuring point, we have a problem. OUATITW is flawless to me, but there are those for whom it is not even their favourite Leone film, never mind favourite film. So it cannot be perfect to them.
You cannot apply the term "perfect" to art. It is a scientific term with strict meaning. Art cannot be measured thus. So, no, there cannot be a Perfect Film. But in my many years of watching films, yes, I have seen a perfect film.
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