Fluent / native French speaker please! (not homework related :))

[questionzzz]

We just finished watching the film "Dans la maison" , with English subtitles and several times the phrase "normal" is spoken by the characters, in describing the main family and their house, however the subtitles translate it to "perfect", as in "perfect family", "perfect house".

My french is barely intermediate, but the family/house are a key theme and the translation is bothering me... Can "normal" spoken in French, be translated to "perfect" in this context? Shouldn't the subtitles just have read "normal family... normal house" as the characters said it?

Give it a go, there's plenty of free subtitling software out there. Nothing stopping you trying your hand on a Youtube video or two. Just bear these guidelines in mind: partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/219375728-English-Template-Timed-Text-Style-Guide

@cherry — it’s not French! But close!

@fascinated isn't it?

I meant my language, that I am thinking in...ie reason I typed

Theatre piece

Instead of:

Play

...is not French ;—)

Seems to be a theme in Euro languages though as apparently in Spanish it is „obra teatral“...

Anyway. I digress. Sorry.