'Perfect Stranger': A Sharp and Profound Dinner

Nikita 2022-03-27 09:01:13

Italy's talent in filmmaking is as remarkable as it is in other artistic fields such as sculpture. After watching this movie, I was moved by its sharpness and soundness. Talking about the movie, lunar eclipse, it is easy to think of the improvised "The Night When the Comet Came". The 2013 "Comet" is more parallel. The horror brought by the imaginary science fiction of time and space and the subtle changes in human psychology. The actors improvise and make the film more real. But this "Perfect Stranger" is a well-arranged script with many characters and complicated dialogues, but the chaos is orderly. Every dialogue is to pave the way for the final outbreak, and every line is hidden. Stagger forward.
One of the prominent problems of talkative films is the confusion of thinking and aesthetic fatigue caused by excessively dense and complicated dialogues. But the film handles that well. At the beginning of the film, three couples, one bachelor, a total of seven characters appear, the audience does not know the relationship of each couple and each person's character, even face blind. However, as long as the audience calms down and watches a little bit, they can distinguish each couple, a newly-married couple, a couple who are separated from each other, and an ordinary couple who are noisy. This distinction is not a few short clips on the way to the banquet at the beginning (I think that these fragmented short clips will disturb thinking), nor is it a joke when they first entered the door (although there is a bit of eye-catching about the difference between men and women , but basically it can be omitted), but in one after another seemingly innocuous but slow-paced small dialogues, these small dialogues expose some small family and personal problems, but they are enough for people to glimpse from these small problems. The status of each couple.
Like a pile of straw being lit, the fire slowly burns under the haystack, and the more it burns, the thicker it is, and the haystack covers it all. It wasn't until the flames finally burst into flames that it was known that it had been burning for a long time. The first half of the film is like a slow flame burning, while the second half of the relationship between the two couples takes a turn for the worse until it finally breaks down. With this gradual ups and downs in the plot, the viewing experience is much more enjoyable.
The final breakdown of a relationship is probably the accumulation of countless small problems.
And the unexpected reversal at the end, I understand, is an assumption, not related to the lunar eclipse, just an assumption. And this kind of idea, people suddenly realized and people have mixed feelings. If you don't play that game and don't show the truth to people, then people can still maintain a harmonious relationship with each other, which is a pity. But at the same time, after watching the whole process of revealing the truth for nearly an hour and a half, will the audience still feel the same about this "harmonious relationship" as before? Many people will feel that this "harmonious relationship" is false.
But, this is life, this is reality. I have to admire the reversal at the end. The diametrically opposite ending brings a strong emotional impact, which in turn arouses deep thinking. This is the final blow of the film, unexpected, accurate and ruthless.


I don't think the relationship between people is so fragile that there is still a relationship that has gone through thousands of mountains and rivers, fell apart, and is still cut off. But there is an interpersonal problem that the film shows is really shocking. Everyone needs privacy, and the more intimate they are, the more they may need it. "From the deepest to the shallow Qingxi, the closest relatives to the estranged couple" may be such a truth. Between two people who are close, not inquiring into each other's privacy, and even deliberately maintaining some distance and personal space, is beneficial to the healthy growth of individuals and relationships. However, this degree is difficult to grasp. If a person can master these degrees well, then he must be a person with strong self-control, and he will not place too many feelings on the other party, and he is a strong person.
Maybe we should think about whether, in addition to exploring privacy and not controlling distance, turning our helplessness and fear into stress or lodging emotions on the other side is also one of the reasons for the breakdown of the relationship? In fact, these causes often complement each other and it is difficult to separate them out individually.
The development of communication tools has raised this interpersonal problem to a social problem. Mobile phones have become the tool that carries our most secrets, and like a time bomb, it may explode at any time, affecting the surrounding people and the whole world. In the increasingly developed communication era, everyone is not an isolated individual, but a point in the world network. A collapse at any one point can cause a knock-on effect. Protecting privacy and controlling distance is more important than we think.

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Extended Reading
  • Chase 2022-03-22 09:02:15

    The coincidence is too deliberate, and the reversal of Liang at the end shows a world that does not expose lies and pierce the window paper. Although it fails, at least it is golden and jade, and it is harmonious. It is also an illusion that most people are willing to maintain. What love, marriage, family, friendship, those things that you think are sacred are dismantled into pieces and smashed. Should people learn to break up and break up? Or just bewildered? It's all up to you.

  • Alexis 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    One of the best of 2016! God script! The group play in an apartment is well-arranged and interesting, covering all family, friendship, and love. The last thirty minutes were full of high energy. When the turbulent undercurrent was brought to the surface, the suspicion, anger, and pain between husband and wife and friends were all revealed. The last lunar eclipse is over and everything seems to have never happened, or has everything changed?

Perfect Strangers quotes

  • Eva: If I were cheating, I wouldn't have suggested this game.

    Lele: Or you are and you want to be found out. There's this psychological mechanism according to which serial-killers do all they can to get found out.

  • Peppe: I want to be the meaning of my own life.