Is Netflix’s The Strangers based on a true story?

One of the movies netflix the most successful in recent months is The foreigners, a very promising horror-thriller whose premise wears out much faster than I would have liked. However, his argument makes me wonder if the story he tells is based on real events. Given the critical nature of its plot, I investigated and came across this.

The Strangers is based on a true story, but…

The feature film starring Ashley Madekwe and centering on a racial woman who seems to lead a very quiet life takes a 180 degree turn when Neve begins to see a somewhat strange man and woman no one else sees. In this way, a game begins in which it will be impossible to distinguish what is real and what is the product of your imagination.

In other words, the premise can be inspired by real events, but Nathaniel Martello-Whiteits writer and director, was the one who confirmed it: he heard a similar story some time ago and took the license to fictionalize by filling in the gaps:

• “She was a woman who denied the fact that she had two black children (…). She also had two children, who had very light and almost white skin, and this woman was mixed race. And I was really surprised by the kind of complexities of this, like, that would make someone feel like they have to erase their past and deny it.”

His mother told him this story.but with much less detail than what we see in The foreigners. So the filmmaker opted for social criticism as the main driver of plot progression.

…But the best part is that such intense social criticism

In fact, race and gender are two of the topics he discusses. Nathaniel Martello-White when constructing the plot and social criticism of The foreigners. Being his biracial mother and having lived through some problematic situations in the first person, the filmmaker thought it necessary to delve into this societal debate: “she told me about her experiences as a mixed-race woman and crossing different cultures and classes“. He also used the success of To go out of Jordan Pele continue to exploit the idea that cinema serves to denounce injustice.

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