"Perfect Stranger" presents a group of friends gathering, joking and playing a big story, and the "object" that plays an important role in it is the mobile phone. It is not uncommon to use mobile phones as a metaphor for the changes in people's relationships in modern society. Indeed, among the many modern scientific and technological achievements of mankind, mobile phones can be described as the technology that has the greatest change in interpersonal relationships. First of all, it is widespread, and in many countries it has reached the point where almost everyone has one. In this case, it is naturally enough to change some operating modes of human society. Secondly, it is light and its functions are continuously enhanced, and it has become a personal information center. It has almost been "organized" by human beings. If you forget your mobile phone when you go out, you should have experienced the kind of panic. Third, on the basis of the previous two points, the mobile phone has indeed become a "grenade" for interpersonal relationships, because it is private and information-based. Chat for a day, secretly see a photo, secretly watch a film, secretly take a photo, can you imagine that many "stealing chickens and dogs" things can be closely related to an electronic widget? And "secret" is often a kind of information, and the so-called "secret" is essentially the product of social relations. If you are a person without social relations, there is no "secret", because no one goes back to care about and Know, so, as the primary tool of human information and communication, whether you like it or not, the mobile phone is the center of it.
In "Perfect Stranger", several friends, some married, some single, with different personalities, watch the lunar eclipse together. This film is a movie with Italian characteristics. A group of people keep talking and booing from time to time, giving people a "noisy" feeling. A group of people are also very relaxed. The whole atmosphere is very lifelike, but the various bridges in the middle The segments are also particularly dramatic, even absurd, a classic Italian film style. It is said that in the United States, some people have such a rule at gatherings, that is, more and more people are dissatisfied with the party eating, everyone is a "head down", so before the party, they must hand over their mobile phones and put them on top of each other. Mobile phones, whoever pays. In this film, I played a more daring game. Whoever received a text message on his mobile phone had to read it out loud, without hiding it. This is an interesting setting, because in the information age, mobile phones are the center of our various types of information. There are work information, life information, junk information, and of course "secrets" passing through here every day, so this game is like " Russian Roulette", you don't know if the following information is irrelevant or really secret. Of course, there are also people who expect the secret to be revealed, do everything possible, or find someone to conspire to cover it up, but it often leads to a series of more dramatic consequences. The script of this film is still very good. In my words, this is a kind of "theatricalized" movie script. The characters are concentrated in space, the story is compact, and the conflict is dense, giving people a fast-paced, surreal in reality. The absurdity of doctrine has a greater impact on the audience.
We know that "secrets" are also divided into three, six and nine grades, and society often defines them, and in "Perfect Stranger", this is also fully reflected. We have seen all kinds of secrets that are not unfamiliar, but Shown by the director in a more bizarre way. For example, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, guilt cover-up, sexual orientation, extramarital affairs, etc., are not unfamiliar in nature, but in the film they all make their performance more chaotic. The chaos can be described as the biggest impression on me of this film, not that the director made a mess, but After some secrets were gradually revealed, the chaos of the scene was like a life-threatening situation. In this process, a kind of "relativity theory of lies" is fully reflected, a kind of entanglement in life, the secret is solved, will everything be fine? Is it better to open one eye and close the other? This seems to be a utilitarian, result-oriented value, obviously, it cannot make more people calm, because while each of us keeps our own secrets privately, we also desire to be respected in our personal consciousness and gain Self-interest, and the so-called "right to know" is one of them.
Among the many "secrets", the secrets between husband and wife are obviously the most interesting. Extramarital affairs, the secrets and lies surrounding them, can be described as the most common in interpersonal relationships. As far as the public space is concerned, the impact and harm are the smallest secrets, but when it involves individuals, it is also the most painful secret. Why are such elements the eternal theme of film and television dramas, because it is easy to empathize and be excited. Empathy or anger. To put it bluntly, marital loyalty is still a value with little change in the changes of social values, and it is also an element of the formation of human society. Therefore, the secrets that challenge it are naturally the most likely to cause moral disputes. In contrast, some of the biggest secrets in the past have become less earth-shattering with changes in social cognition, such as the issue of sexual orientation. When the secret is revealed, in an increasingly tolerant society, it will also be "wow." ”, some people may feel awkward, but as a result, it is rare to be as shameless or even attacked as it has been in the past few decades. Secrets are a personal matter, but your perception of secrets and the pressure you bear are still determined by social perceptions.
"Perfect stranger", this Chinese translation is very good, when the other party's lies are exposed and the secret is revealed, it always gives others a feeling: "He turned out to be such a person", but the truth makes us feel unfamiliar with a person. Therefore, the ending of this film is very ingenious, allowing us to see another possibility, let the secret still be a secret, everyone's happy gathering, farewell with a smile, this seems to be a compromise of the director's "cynicism", but the question is but the audience. As the camera accompanied by the director, I saw two possible us from the "God's perspective". If we are in them, how should we choose?
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