I found this film to be very relatable in today's society and indicative of the fact that even people who have known each other for many years may not know each other as closely as they believe or have thought to. Broadly, I think that it would be absurd to assume that you know everything about a person - aside from lying, many people deal with events, emotions, trauma, thoughts, etc. that may be hard to discuss openly, or things that they may not even want to share or feel comfortable doing so. Considering romantic relationships, infidelity, and the common use of cell phones today, many apps have and continue to be made where connections in some form to people can be made easily and very discreetly. With this in mind, I also feel that generally, most people have a mindset where more is always wanted - nothing is ever enough, and you can always get more, or find better. Personally, I do not like this mindset, but feel it does play a role in relationships in the sense that I believe some people would prefer to have multiple partners and lies if they can get away with it, but also a strong love and commitment from at least one partner. I find it to be very sad, but it's also something I see and hear about in today's society constantly.
Relating more back to the title, I find it to be very strong in how it says so much, but only in two words. My interpretation was that they aren't actually perfect at all, but it's the fabricated life and stories out of lies that are considered to be perfect. As for the stranger's component, I conceptualized it as the friends being strangers given the fact that they all have secrets, bad choices, and lies that they do not openly wish to discuss or disclose - despite being friends and how long they've known one another. I found it to be very powerful and enlightening on the fact that you may think you know someone, but in reality, you can't and won't know absolutely everything. I also found comfort in it because now, there is so much pressure to always be okay, to appear strong, happy, successful, etc., but not address real problems that people face. The infidelity aspect was not comforting, but the message that everyone has things they do not talk about, or things that they struggle with internally, and to me, that was comforting, and a concept displayed that was almost reassuring.
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