Introduction: At the end of 2018, I inadvertently flipped through the Douban high-scoring movie to the Italian movie "Perfect Stranger", which has been released in 2016, and the plot summary is like this: One night of a lunar eclipse, the male protagonist Locke and the hostess Eva invited their long-time friends - the newlywed Casimo and Bianca couple, the seemingly mysterious Lyle and Carlotta couple and the "girlfriend" absent Pepp to dinner and watch the lunar eclipse. It was supposed to be an ordinary middle-class family gathering, but due to a sharp and immoral idea by the hostess Eva, the party suddenly became dangerous and bloody. She asked everyone present to pull out their mobile phones and put them on the table in full view of everyone, and then every time they received a text message and WeChat, they would be made public and explained.
I had never seen the domestic film "Callers", and I thought it was a weird blockbuster on the night of the lunar eclipse. Therefore, although the title of the film is a bit entangled, I still patiently watched it. Why do I say he's weird? Because in the first five minutes of the whole play, the full moon was filmed in a metaphorical way. And in the play of about 1 and a half hours, that is, in the middle of the dinner, the shooting of the one-month eclipse scene was inserted, so the lunar eclipse we all know is a special astronomical phenomenon, which means that when the moon runs to the shadow part of the earth, the area between the moon and the earth will be blocked by the earth because the sunlight is blocked, and the moon is missing. In the last five minutes, that is, the end of the dinner, the crowd left the table with joy, and the film ended with a full moon, suggesting that in fact, the things behind the lunar eclipse were not really happening, and finally a happy ending.
So I say this, you can imagine that before the meal, they are a perfect scene of a full moon, because in China, the full moon symbolizes happiness and happiness, so what the director wants to express is that the four friends have presented a happy and harmonious, peaceful and happy appearance. So why did the scene of the one-month eclipse filmed in the play insert? Let me take you to see the story behind the lunar eclipse.
Eva, who had an affair with her husband's friend Cassimo, was the initiator of the game, and she said provocatively: "We are all gentlemen, there is nothing to play." And her husband, the rational and intelligent Locke, is the one who is most anti-game. Here we will speculate whether Locke will appear to be moral, but in fact there is some misdeed. Because of the opening scene, Cassimo received a text message: "I miss you", and he was both surprised and nervous.
But as we look all the way down, we can only get a sense of boredom about Locke's true gentleman, peeping into his privacy failures, but if you read the whole article, you will never let you down with his personality. Yes, Locke is such a normal man, a good husband, and a good father who understands human nature and is honest and tolerant. The shining point in him is not only reflected in the wise handling of his wife's infidelity, but also in particular in his warm dismantling of his daughter's growth.
But Eva, who shouted to catch the thief, the starting point was from the point of view of Fei Fei, but she was the most unplayable suspicious person. Why is she playing this game? Ostensibly because she herself is a psychiatrist, and her husband goes to other doctors to consult on psychological problems, which makes her very unhappy. This opening point clearly points out that husband and wife are often the most familiar strangers. But in fact, this is very realistic, because her husband is obviously a surgical expert, and Eva herself went to another doctor to perform breast augmentation surgery. This is the detail revealed in a phone call from a plastic surgeon that Eva received when the mobile phone message first appeared. Because their wolf-tooth killing was to put the mobile phone on the table and disclose everyone's phone text messages, so the call of the first call exposed Eva's innocuous secret.
And another reason why she can't afford to play but prefer to play, in fact, is that she is the object of her secret love, Cassimo and the simple and beautiful Bianca are newly married, which makes Eva may be a little jealous, distrust and temptation of Cassimo's feelings, and the two people in the same game, so that she dares to play this game boldly.
In Cassimo's view, the most popular thing about this matter is not his own abuse, but the problem that his wife and ex-boyfriend still maintain a close relationship. From the perspective of the audience, we always feel that Cosimo's wife and ex-boyfriend probably have something wrong with them, and even hope to find out something wrong, but in the end, this conclusion is set on the view that dirty people also think of others in dirty ways, and it turns out that there is no. Cosimo's wife and ex-boyfriend, apart from maintaining a close relationship, did not eat what the melon masses wanted to see. Here I feel comforted that the director did not let everyone fall, and negative after all.
But when Cassimo's phone rang, and it was the owner of a jewelry store who called him and told him that the custom-made pierced earrings were ready to be removed, Bianca became sensitive and vomited, because Bianca had no ear piercings at all, and it was obvious that this was not for her. And after a while, another text message from another scumbag came again, that is, the pregnancy of the lover outside. This explosive event not only made Bianca difficult to accept, but also took off her wedding ring. Angering Eva, Eva pulled Cassimo to the storage room, threw him a mouthful, and took off her earrings and threw them at him.
So from this first round we see two men and women with ghosts inside, and two other halves who are naturally responsible. Because of their own ulterior motives, the legitimate other half in Eva and Cassimo's eyes should also be a little flawed, so that they can continue to steal with peace of mind. I think that's what Eva meant. But Eva's shrewdness miscalculated, a game that turned her extramarital affair into a mess, and the extramarital true love that she thought was broken through the shackles and disregarded ethics was nothing more than a filth behind the light of the night. At this time, Ava, a thousand arrows through the heart, there is nowhere to talk, no right to accuse, can only silently swallow this bitter fruit. In fact, Eva's husband is a relatively decent and normal man, and his secret is only limited to sexual fantasies about the opposite sex. This is also called obscenity. Because his worst thought was the voice of Pep's ex-wife, which made him sexually aroused. For a normal man, I think it's perfectly normal. I won't delve into it here. Every normal man probably has his own sexual fantasies, which is a normal thing for a healthy man.
Let's take a look at another big adventure between a couple with a story, and that is the secret between Lare and Carlotta. Laile is a man who has text messages with small netizens, what I am talking about here really means that Laile may have moved his true feelings in his extramarital affair, because he has to receive sweet text messages from small netizens every night to interact, he does not want to expose his lover's text messages, and he cannot let his wife and friends find out. Therefore, he changed his mobile phone with Pep, who came to the banquet alone, and Pep, out of righteousness and helplessness in the emergency situation at that time, had to temporarily help him to withstand this thunder. As a result, it was not Pep who did not expect to be in trouble, but Laile.
It turned out that Pep's personality was like this, first there was a history of divorce, and then he belonged to a small and stupid marginal figure among a group of friends, and friends rarely informed him when they went to play football. Therefore, in order to cater to everyone's preferences, Pep hides his true self, which is a bit obscene. In fact, it is because of his unsophisticated figure and sexual orientation that is difficult to say about the inferiority complex. Yes, Pep's new object is a little boy, and when the little boy sends him a naked love call, he comes to the top of the cylinder, based on the fact that he took the initiative to change the mobile phone with Pep, so he silently bears this fact.
But at this time, Pep, who stood in the middle of a group of moral accusations, still chose to cater to everyone and said to Laile how much he hated the. The fact that Lele's sexual orientation is male is confirmed. Laile, who thought that Pep had no privacy, was surprised by everyone after exposing the voice of Pep's mobile phone, and Laile was out of the closet and not just derailed. This comes down to Le a head two big. Become inside and out not human. In the face of the doubts of the crowd, he chose silence. But with his wife's questioning, Laile, who did not want to make things bigger, began to be a little anxious, but later, after the ruthless accusations and anger of his friends, Laile suddenly calmed down, and he began to ask everyone, why can't homosexuals be respected? If they are truly in love, their love is also beautiful and pure.
At this time, Laile's wife began to leave the table in anger and expressed disgust for him. But just as Carlotta was leaving, Laile found a flirtation message between his wife and netizens, which was a text message asking whether he was wearing underwear before going out. This made Carlotta burst out in anger, and in the face of Laile's questioning, Carlotta said that she had hidden the disharmonious marriage relationship between them for many years, and it turned out that she and Laile had not lived as a couple for almost a month, which made a normal adult woman feel lonely and painful, so there was the above text message flirtation. But Carlotta is based on moral bottom lines and doesn't really put it into action. Now, after knowing that Laile was still a, Carlotta said that after so many years of gratitude for Laile for her drunk driving, he did not choose to divorce and endured in silence. But now that everyone has broken this layer of window paper, it is better to end this marriage in name only as soon as possible and exchange each other's freedom.
Seeing here, have you ever thought of Zhang Ailing's sentence: "Life is a gorgeous robe, which is crawling with fleas." Truely, in such a "Truth or Dare" wolf's tooth killing, we see that love, friendship, and in fact, more fragile than the pressures of life, cannot withstand the torture of the soul. Things evolved to this point, Pep first woke up, and bravely stood up, telling the truth about changing mobile phones. At the same time, it is equivalent to telling everyone that the homosexual who disgusts everyone is actually him. Not Laile. After saying that, Pep seemed to have shed the heavy shackles of the past, but became more calm and confident.
This wave of commitment by Laile touched the innocent Pep. Laile is asking questions for Pep, and Pep no longer wants to dodge, he began to want to be brave to be himself, to love the people he wanted to love. At the end, Pep said a very classic line: "If you love someone deeply, you will block the bullets of the whole world for him." "As a declaration of love for oneself.
Pep ends the game by saying, "Because I know that as soon as we meet, he will be hurt by your strange eyes." I don't want him to get hurt, I want to protect him. Because if you love someone deeply, you will be a bullet in the world for him. ”
As in Eva's dialogue with her husband, Locke's answer to Eva also has this meaning: Wife: "Why do you refuse to play this game?" Husband: "Because our relationship is fragile, everyone is." Some people are more vulnerable, you are right, this has become our black box, containing all the secrets. Probably too much. We shouldn't play this game with our phones. Don't escalate an argument into a quarrel because it's strong, I don't think the side that gives in is weak, in fact, concessions are wise, all the couples I've ever met who can last, one side will try to take a small step back, but that's a big step forward.
And Locke's conversations to his daughter about whether to stay at your boyfriend's house for the first night: This is an important moment in your life, something you'll remember for the rest of your life, not just a conversation you'll talk to your friends tomorrow. If you think about it later, whenever you think about it, it will make you smile, then do it! But if you don't think so or aren't quite sure, forget about it! Because you still have a lot of time. How do you know if you're in love with her? ”; If you're going to talk to her for thirty minutes a day, you're in love with her. "What if it's sixty minutes?" "That's loving her to death." "Then you don't talk, that's marriage."
So at the end of this 90-minute movie, everyone opened the door, and when they went home, there was a full moon dangling outside the door. And the people outside the door, as if nothing had just happened, each holding their own good people, blessing each other, and then going home to pick up their boyfriends. And Locke's daughter, after listening to Locke's words, obediently returned early. It turned out that at the time of the lunar eclipse, nothing really happened. It was nothing more than a hypothesis behind a feast.
There is a dialogue on the Internet: "This (mobile phone) has everything we have, this is the black box of our lives." If you can look at each other's mobile phones, how many couples will break up. I wondered why lunar eclipses were so fascinating. Because our relationships are fragile, everyone is. "I'm not going to introduce him to you, not because I'm afraid of the witty things you say, and I've heard enough, but because I know that the first weird look you give him will hurt him." I don't want him to get hurt, I want to protect him. I don't want us to end up with Barbie and Ken: you're covered in silicone, I'm a twin.
In the final scene, Locke and his wife return to the bedroom after sending off their guests, and Eva takes off the pair of earrings against the mirror table, and Locke asks, "Newly purchased earrings?" "As a reminder of the decency of the wife.
And the editor finally understood where the strangeness of this drama was, it turned out that this was a cross-over drama. Do you see that? This drama can be traced back to the legend of the werewolf, a kind of orc in Western folklore, which is said to transform on the night of the full moon. Werewolves rely on moonlight for energy, so they transform into humans at that time. And in Bordeaux there is a delusional patient, he claims to be a werewolf with bloodthirsty desires, when he looks in the mirror, he feels that the hairs and teeth on his whole body are getting longer, and when he has a bloodthirsty desire, he will go to the horse farm to drink horse blood.
Then I think maybe the screenwriter had this idea when he wrote about the night of the full moon, so that these seven people, using metaphorical writing, appeared in real bodies during the lunar eclipse. Through truth or dare, they fight each other like bloodlust. Nakedly tearing apart human nature, dissecting corpses generally analyzes the most vulnerable places in the depths of everyone's heart, making people unable to sustain themselves, having nowhere to hide, and finally having to surrender to the most unbearable self and admit defeat. Imagine if, in such a situation, if it really happened, wouldn't each one be, as Carlotta said, "Then what should this family do?" What should children and the elderly do? ”
Yes, we are not only lying for ourselves, but actually for the family, for this whole that is composed of each other, and we are giving in and accommodating. Even if there may be deviations in the middle, as long as he is willing to change back when the moon is full, then everything is still the original appearance.