Perfect Strangers

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source: Perfect Strangers

It's talking about our real life . I really believe mobile phone is the reason behind every problem in relationship . Film discuss many things .i really like it and recommend it for each couple to watch and be clear with partner . Film teach us to Just make it clear with ur partner.

The film is really amazing and so real reflecting our society as it's without any imaginations The acting was massive specially mona zaki was epic and very mature.

Perfect Stranger is a film about a group of friends gather around to dinner, which they play a game of they should answer every call they'll receive on speaker, and the story takes you on its road... Alright it is a remake of the original Perfect Stranger, but it not really a remake it only took the key to start it's own story. The performances in this film are great, especially Georges Khabbaz and Nadine Labaki and Fouad Yamine and Adel Karam ... they are all great, they never go overboard they keep it simple and the greatest acting is not to act, because acting is reacting. Now as a directorial debut it is not a perfect film it is flawed but you can ignore them, and it can be better in camera wise, I am not saying that they should the camera work like Gaspar Noe, it doesn't fit the film, it is simple and it's good but the cinematography is to simple and that is a good and bad thing. The music score is incredible. Spoiler alert (watch the film before you read it because it is better experienced as a surprise) If you didn't watch the original perfect stranger you will enjoy this new version a lot, it play with your mind it begin as a chill out movie and jokes all around, and you think this is great I can watch 10 hours of this, and when the game began the film take step by step into a breaking point that can't and will not be repaired. The message: This film tells us that how our lives is getting worse and worse and we can't do a thing, because one hand alone can't clap. We are in a world of social media and technology, some people think that this is a good thing, of course it was some positives, like fun and information. But the negative are so high that we arrived at a point that we're seeing it anymore. The way we talk to each other, the lies hwe lie without even noticing that they're lies in the first place, the secrets that we keep from other and from ourself, we think to much about the others and what others think, even if it's the closest friends that want to listen, we don't confront ourselves, we lock our true self and pretend to that it becomes our nature. After all these years we are still a close mind universe. The film ends at a positive point that they didn't play the game and everyone keep living their own life with the secrets they have, but you don't know if it is real or not. To me the happy ending is when everything is revealed, that they're is not a wall anymore to hide behind. But they all are sad because they want to understand and accept the truth of each others but they can't, because the world is broken and can't be fixed, and they can't do a thing about it, they just have to expect and pretend on their lives even if it's wrong. Life should not have consequences because it has the biggest punishment that it will end, and we only want to live in what we have and have fun, and to not judge each other, but live through one another. And be all united in one hand even if it can't clap.

Some reviews claim that this movie failed to represent so-called Arab values. I say it 100% succeeded in depicting the most important Arab value of all: Hypocrisy! A thoroughly enjoyable movie with real dialogue and great acting. I wouldn't compare it to any other version, because this hits close at home. Oh one more thing, Lebanese are not 'Arabs'. Get over it!

After we saw it in different languages finally in Arabic same story but in different way of act all the actors and actress was amazing. I don't feel the time they take my attention tell end.

The movie is just an exact copy of the french movie nothing to hide. They even tried to find similar looking actors to the french version. The events are similar to a tee. The chemistry between the actors isn't great. Mona Zaki's perfornmance is horrble as she's too cringy to watch and tries too hard. Adel Karam and Nadine Labaki don't shine through as they usually do in their movies. Nadine Labaki's role is miniscule compared to Mona Zaki who was just dreadful to watch. I'd recommend watching the french or the Italian remake first then watching this one if you really want to watch it. I would of prefered it more if it was a middle eastern remake with it's own flare and plot rather than just copy and pasting it.

I wish there was more originality in the first Netflix Arab film. A copied version of a movie that's been already copied and pasted several times within the last few years isn't something original. A good dialogue could've made this better. However the dialogue is unrealistic, awkward and cringy. Yes many Arabs are heavy drinkers and gay and promiscuous and these topics need to be discussed, but just throwing them there in the script without any sophistication doesn't make this movie any better. Please- we need more original work that is realistic even if it's controversial. This film was silly and insulting to anyone's intelligence. The acting was excellent though. 4/10.

A very nice Egyptian-Lebanese production. Breaks a lot of taboos found in the Arab world. Great dialogue, very amusing music, good directing. Roles are played to perfection. The setting, décor and camera is adding up to the suspens and the build up of the stories. Set in just one location, great use of the different places in it.