[Movie] Perfect Strangers (2016)

Coco Wang
2 min readSep 25, 2016

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This is a movie about marriage and love. I think I am extremely fond of the such genre. However, it is defined as a comedy film. I couldn’t believe my eyes. For me, its a sad film with a “happying” ending.

Seven long-time friends (three married couples and a divorcee) are having a dinner. They decide, as a playful game, to put each one’s mobile phone on the table and reveal every text message or phone call they would receive that evening, to prove that nobody has anything to hide. Hilarity and drama ensue together as everyone’s secrets are unveiled and the seven friends find themselves perfect strangers to each other.

Indeed, this is dangerous game to play, especially in front of the wives and husbands. The movie did a fine job at establishing different characters, perhaps due to the help of the plot. The film begin as a bit tiresome — there are simply to much foreplays.

However, one thing that strike me the most is their conversation about gay. A cheating husband, asked the only single person in the roon to switch cellphone with him, because everyday at 10 p.m., he would get a underdressed photo from a girl. But what he does not know is that, the bacelor actually is homosexual and has a boyfriend. This is the scene

The ending of the film is also intriguing. The moon acted as a door between reality and “reality”. In the reality, no lie is detected and everyone goes home happily. In the “reality”, the truths are revealed and almost everyone’s life are ruin.

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