Perfect Strangers Review: A Representation of the Analogy of Human Life and Mobile
Comes with a high-class socialite feel, ‘Perfect Strangers’ is able to present an interesting drama for humans with all their dark secrets.
Mobile is one of the side needs that currently seems to be a primary need for everyone. Not only that, HP seems to be able to be used as a marker of modern human life, especially for high-class socialite people in Indonesia. This will be raised in ‘Perfect Strangers’ which airs exclusively on the Amazon Prime Video platform.
‘Perfect Strangers is a drama film produced by Falcon Pictures and directed by Rako Prijanto. Carrying a row of famous Indonesian actors, this film focuses on seven friends who gather at an open house, one of them with their respective partners. However, a game involving HP makes every dark secret slowly revealed and has an impact.
The narrative itself tends to be simple, where a group of friends gathers and are positioned in a game that threatens themselves. In a way, the term every man or woman for themselves applies to ‘Perfect Strangers.
The pacing feels normal and information related to each character can be conveyed well and ends in a somewhat mindblowing way even though it seems to ignore all build-ups as the main plot is presented for 125 minutes in duration as if wanting to imitate the pattern presented in the ‘Forbidden Door’ several times. last year.
This interesting narrative is dominated by a variety of dialogues full of weight in the storytelling. The story that is carried also includes various urban legends, such as how the total moon eclipse affects human behavior to the story of Batara Kala who targets humans at the eclipse because the plot revolves around these times. Small inserts like that seem to be present as a foreshadowing of the conflicts that come along with ‘Perfect Strangers.
Comes with seven main characters, and none of the characters are really highlighted. Everything feels given the right portion, making each character easy to care about their existence. In a way, every character presented in ‘Perfect Strangers’ becomes a real representation of various kinds of people in society, making it feel relatable to most audiences.
‘Perfect Strangers’ comes with a myriad of popular actors in Indonesia, such as Vino G. Bastian, Denny Sumargo, Adipati Dolken to Darius Sinatra. The various actors appear captivating with a wide range of emotions, making the cinematic experience more real and giving the audience the sensation of being absorbed in the conflict between these characters.
Not only that, but the technical aspects presented by Falcon Pictures in ‘Perfect Strangers’ also look classy. The scoring is full of thrills, the camera game is full of aesthetics, to the cool color tone makes the tense sensation that is presented feel more alive as it climaxes.
Finally, ‘Perfect Strangers’ is a drama thriller that feels wholesome even though it seems to follow ‘The Forbidden Door’ from its storytelling pattern. Even so, the representation presented by Rako Prijanto and the entire crew in this film can be included as a watchlist on Amazon Prime Video.
