Introduction to the movie The Caller

"Ringing Calls" is adapted from the Italian film "Perfect Strangers". It mainly tells the story of seven friends who disclosed their mobile phone information and exposed their secrets during a dinner party.

"The Caller" is a comedy film directed by Yu Miao, produced by Zhang Yibai, starring Tong Dawei, Ma Li and others. It was released in mainland China on December 28, 2018. In the movie, seven friends are having a dinner together, and someone suggests that they all play a game of making their mobile phones public: share every text message, phone call, and pop-up window received that night with everyone present, which creates an uproar.

A text message broke up a loving couple; a phone call overturned years of love. When mobile phones become sharp blades, when dinner parties become "secret revelations," everyone is afraid of exposing their own secrets, but they also "enjoy" the process of revealing other people's secrets, with contradictory and complicated emotions.

As text messages on WeChat and phone calls are sent to mobile phones, while everyone's privacy is exposed, various problems faced by couples, lovers and personal lives are also gradually highlighted.

Movie Review

"Ringing Calls" retains the core of the original's cell phone hiding too many secrets and people's personal emotional dilemmas of being kidnapped by their cell phones, and also pays attention to some of the shortcomings of the original. Details particularly suited to Chinese popular culture have been omitted and the comedy added. At the same time, it also benefits from the core of its original story, which focuses on the fact that after mobile phones and the Internet have taken up a large part of people's lives, they have made the closest people more and more alienated and unable to trust each other.

This core theme is less about money and more about relationships and emotions. Moreover, this theme has universal value in any country, which is why this story can be remade in various versions such as the Spanish version, the Japanese version, and the French version.