An Icelandic version will be released this month and a Danish iteration is expected to follow later in 2023. Why is “Perfect Strangers” ripe for adaptation?
seven old friends—three couples and a divorcee—meet for a dinner party. The psychiatrist in the group proposes a game: each person will put his or her phone on the table and when they receive a call, text, Whatsapp message or email, they must answer or read the message aloud. All agree, for they have nothing to hide. Or so they claim.
Why is “Perfect Strangers” ripe for adaptation? It helps that the story has a straightforward plot structure that allows the screenwriter to tease out cultural nuances, says Annette Insdorf of Columbia University. The Italians dine on gnocchi and the Icelandic on reindeer. The French guests bring wine; their South Korean counterparts offer paper towels, symbolic of good luck.
Yet the broader theme of “Perfect Strangers”, of individuals’ reliance on technology and expectations of privacy, is one that cuts across cultural divides, at least in the rich world. In the Italian, South Korean and Arabic-language films, the characters gossip about a mutual friend whose wife caught him cheating by snooping through his phone. His failed marriage—in part caused by his failure to secure his mobile—prompts the characters to share their calls and texts at the dinner table.
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