To me, some of the best parts of this movie were the duality of each character and the general message about how much we let phones control our lives. I really liked the irony within each character because of both their willingness to attack other characters for their questionable moral decision and their staunch defense of themselves when their own decisions were questioned. Every character was more than happy to dog on everyone else for making a mistake, but as soon as the attention came back to themselves, they would go into an immediate defense or try and shift any attention off of them. One of the most ironic moments that I saw within this movie was Eva getting upset at Lele for being unfaithful to Bianca when she was cheating on Rocco with Lele. Obviously, this was not just because she was also with Lele, but she also saw the moral implications of it from the outside perspective and knew it was wrong. Another good example comes from Lele getting mad at Bianca for still being in contact with her ex-boyfriend, despite this contact being very apparently harmless. I found it extremely ironic that he had all this anger over that situation when he was cheating on Bianca with at least two other women, one of whom was among the group of friends. Switching gears, the other part of the movie I really liked was the message about how much control in our lives we give our phones. Not only is this seen in multiple exams like when Pepe gets up and does his jumping jacks because his phone tells him to, but also in every scene where someone chooses to send a message to someone else or tries to keep their phone private. People rely so heavily on their phones for privacy that it is extremely problematic. Because each character was storing all of their personal information, and some information they would never want their spouses to find out about, inside their phones, they were very apprehensive to surrender their phones for the game. I saw this as an extremely powerful message that we are way too engrossed in our phones.
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