After watching the movie, I prefer the literal translation of the Spanish Contratiempo "disaster". It is understandable that the Chinese version of "Invisible Guest" and the English version have the same translation. First of all, the name matches the movie poster to better reflect the suspense movie. Trait, which is similar to "Gone Lover". Secondly, bringing the title into the plot can also echo the murder case in the secret room that the movie began to build.
At the beginning of the movie, the female lawyer looks in the mirror in the elevator, which is the preparation for the big reveal at the end of the film. The paintings of the three door openings on the wall and the two doors on both sides of the paintings foreshadow the next series of cases and Rashomon-style suspense.
There's going to be a lot of spoilers in the following............ .................................................
We start from It will be easier to get started at the end of the movie because compared to many suspense films with open endings, in the last call between the male protagonist and his assistant at the end, the male protagonist said that he believed in the lawyer's strength and that in order to exonerate himself, all things must be done. Don't tell the whole story. This shows that the final version of the story is the truth.
The entire movie involves two murders, the missing boy case and the death of a secret room mistress. There are also two words that the fake lawyer who came to the male protagonist with a purpose must say the male protagonist himself, namely, the place where the boy was sunk by the car and the male protagonist who killed the mistress himself. The thing to understand here is that the mistress has already told the truth to the parents of the victim boy because of her uneasy conscience, so the old couple knew the truth about the first missing boy case, but they didn't know the location of the sinking car. The second case is the entry point for the entire film, and the beginning of the Rashomon-esque self-report.
At the end of the movie, the male protagonist finds that the fake lawyer's notes on the notebook are actually a good tool for clarifying the plot. The five words given in the notebook from top to bottom can be regarded as the five turning points of the dialogue between the male protagonist and the fake lawyer. , which also echoes the five door images that appeared when the fake lawyer knocked on the door. The five words from top to bottom are "coward, murderer, justice, liar, conceit."
The whole film is actually the process of the fake lawyer leading the male protagonist to tell the truth by using secret witnesses to appear in court. Next, we will follow the key words given by the fake lawyer.
1.
The first version of the story given by the cowardly male protagonist and the fake lawyer when they met was that the adultery with his mistress for several months was discovered and extorted 100,000. The male protagonist was afraid that the affair would be revealed and ruined his family and The career and his mistress went to pay the money, and while waiting for the transaction at the hotel, they received a text message from the mistress's mobile phone, which said, "I want to tell the truth, Room 715 of the Regent Hotel." The two felt trapped and wanted to run away. The host was knocked unconscious, woke up to find that the heroine was dead, and the police came to the door. The initial version of the story given by the male protagonist should also be the version for the prosecutor, and of course it is also the version that the male protagonist hopes to stop here. The blackmailer's inexplicable routine, the simple card of the blackmailer killing his mistress.
The fake lawyer, who has already mastered the whole picture of the real version of the story, can only sneer in his heart and then put out a newspaper with a report on the missing boy and put it in front of the male protagonist. I have seen a lot of people like this, if you don't believe me, you will continue to make up for me and you will be imprisoned. This move also forced the male protagonist to get involved in the missing boy case he didn't want to bring in at first. So the fake lawyer successfully guided the male protagonist into the second story stage.
2. The male protagonist of the murderer
was forced to tell the second version of the story: three months ago, he lied to his family and company to go to Paris on business and was actually hanging out with his mistress in the suburbs. On the way back, he accidentally killed the boy. The boy sank to the bottom of the lake along with the boy's car. After going back, he handled the car under the plan of the femme fatale. Later, the vicious mistress also planned to frame the missing boy and absconded by stealing bank money. In short, the whole process is "嘤嘤嘤, I was forced, and my conscience hurts."
According to the clues given by the male protagonist, the fake lawyer threw out a point of view to scare the protagonist: the whole incident involved two murders, but because there was only one corpse, there was only one for the police, but the claim that the protagonist had been found in the middle The missing boy's father is two. The parents of the missing boy believed that the murderer who killed their son was the man and his mistress, and now that the mistress is dead, the murderer can only be the man.
The man is so hard to say that it is no never. This incident has a key person to see the passers by the road to see our car accident. It must be a passerby to extort.
The fake lawyer thinks that this person is the secret witness I set up for you, how can you just lead the rhythm. Therefore, three unexplainable phenomena are thrown out logically and clearly, saying that if you explain these three clearly, we will deceive the judge according to the version you said. A. How to interpret the text messages received by the mobile phone? B. Why didn't the murderer extort money? C. How the killer disappeared. The male protagonist was asked stupid.
So the fake lawyers started to take the rhythm, otherwise I'll help you make up a consummation. The phone was thrown by the murderer instructing his lover, so the murderer used the lover's phone to send a message. After receiving the message, the two found out that it was a trap and wanted to run away, but one was knocked out and the other was killed. The murderer was the father of the missing brother, so it was not for money at all. This lie can be said to be complete, because the father of the first missing brother has the most motive for murder. Killing one of the two and then blaming the other is a perfect ending for a father who has lost a child. As for how to escape, the fake lawyer took out the photos of the crime scene and led the younger brother to conclude that the only person who could create evidence of alibi was the father of the missing younger brother, because the missing younger brother's mother worked in this hotel, and the husband and wife teamed up to stage a window show. Hand tricks are easy to escape.
Taking out such fake photos to guide the little brother is mainly because the fake lawyer understands that the male protagonist knows that the old couple appeared at the scene of the crime. After giving such guidance, the fake lawyer pretended to receive a call and said that the secret witness was the passerby who witnessed the scene of the car accident, forcing the younger brother to set the murderer as the father of the missing younger brother according to the rhythm of the fake lawyer. As a result, the fake lawyer has completely mastered the rhythm of chatting, and has led the male protagonist into the third stage of achieving the goal.
3. Justice
In order to guide the male protagonist to tell the location of the sinking car, the fake lawyer began to give sweetness, saying, according to our current setting, I can make you the justice party of the whole case, not affected by the two cases, we can Say you were in Paris on the day of the accident, everything was done by a mistress, you went to the hotel because the mistress asked for help, and the missing boy's father thought you were with the mistress. In this way, the male protagonist can first become the victim of the missing boy case planned by the mistress, and then prove that the one who killed the mistress was the father of the missing boy. You have always been the embodiment of justice, innocent and perfect.
The fake lawyer continued to guide and said that there is still one step left to achieve this setting, which is the evidence to link the mistress and the missing boy. It would be perfect if the mistress had personal belongings that "accidentally" fell into the missing boy's car, so a male lead was needed. Get out of the sinking car, or you can't be convicted if you can't find the body.
The male protagonist is still rational after being subjected to such a routine by a fake lawyer. Are you kidding me? Wasn't the witness who saw me at the accident scene right now at the prosecutor's office to sue me? Originally, my assistant was going to bribe him, but you just told me that he had gone to the prosecutor, so how do I turn around when I say that.
The fake lawyer immediately changed his tune. I lied to you just now, and there were no secret witnesses at all. I said this just to make you tell me the truth.
The male protagonist also said that I am not familiar with you again. Of course, I will not tell you the truth. In fact, I thought from the beginning that the murderer was the father of the missing boy. I also saw the mother of the missing boy at the scene. My own reasoning helped me round up this lie, I believed you, so I marked the point of starvation and sinking with confidence.
After getting the coordinates he wanted most, the fake lawyer looked at the window, and there were people standing at the window on the opposite floor. Unexpectedly, the male protagonist suddenly said that the boy did not die when the car was sinking. Facing this unexpected information, the fake lawyer was a little excited, but he couldn't tear it up on the spot. He was so angry that he could only say that I can save you from prison but can't change the current affairs that you are a scum. And further start to set another piece of information that you need.
4. The liar
and the fake lawyer calmed down his emotions and said in a sonorous voice that I have never lost in my life, and I will not lose if I block the case of dignity. But if you want to win, you can't keep lying to me with this bullshit. And it is easy to infer that although there is no major difference in the overall plot, the characters' personalities are reversed. Evidence a. If all this is planned by the mistress, the male protagonist finds out that the boy is not dead before sinking the car, and should try his best to save people instead of continuing to sink the car. b. The prosecutor has a medical report stating that the mistress has suffered from severe depression since the male protagonist "returned from Paris". Also because the mistress could not stand the torture of her own conscience, she decided to tell all the truth to the parents of the missing boy. And hope to compensate the parents of the missing boy with a sum of money. So the mistress planned an extortion event and pretended to be blackmailed to ask the male protagonist to take money to the hotel, because she knew very well that the male protagonist edited the regular text messages on her mobile phone in advance. After the male protagonist came to the hotel, the mistress explained the truth and hoped to join the male protagonist in a showdown with the parents of the missing boy. As the mistress expected, the male protagonist was mad and was arguing that the male protagonist received regular text messages. The mistress said that she wanted to force him because she The room was set with the male protagonist's name, and now there is a text message record, and the male protagonist can't escape. As a result, the male protagonist killed his mistress in a rage because of the handle of this design and wanted to use this text message to create a blackmail murder case in a secret room.
So far, the fake lawyer has said everything about the original situation of the case, and at the same time, only the male protagonist can say the last sentence he needs.
5. The conceited
male protagonist didn't want to admit so nakedly at first, saying that if the mistress really had a showdown with the parents of the missing boy, why not call the police directly.
The fake lawyer said that because everyone knows that you are so conceited and so high in social status, someone who can cover the sky with one hand will definitely do anything to get rid of the crime. The fake lawyer told the male protagonist that the father of the missing boy lived across from him and monitored you every day, inferring that the murder had already happened when the parents of the missing boy arrived at the hotel, so he knew that relying on the confession of his mistress had no hope of convicting the male protagonist, so he had to stare at him every day, and the boy's father had no choice but to stare at him every day. I found a lawyer, so the lawyer knows so much.
The male protagonist said that the missing boy's mother in the newspaper couldn't be bothered to leave the country. The lawyer said that you should read it again. The male protagonist, fooled by the lawyer's impeccable deduction, had to admit that he had indeed killed his mistress.
The fake lawyer who got all the evidence used the excuse of going out for breath during the halftime break when the male protagonist and his assistant were on the phone.
The assistant's phone call shows that the male protagonist did all he could to find the only witness and sealed it with money. When he was on the phone, there was a sudden noise from the mobile phone, and the eavesdropping pen on the male protagonist's chest sprayed ink on his chest.
In fact, the whole plot goes to the director and can make an open ending for everyone to guess, which makes it seem more inscrutable. The director does not do this, but ironically tells everyone that what he just said is the truth. Guess what, the lawyers are fake, the good guys are going to win. It's like a ticking time bomb compared to an open ending, you know it's going to explode in the end. And if it's an open ending, it's like the audience walking in an unfamiliar minefield. You know the bottom of your feet is thunder but you don't know when it will explode. For suspense films, I like both types of endings. There is no surprise that there is no explosion.
ps. I don’t really agree with the old couple’s IQ explosion. First of all, the clue given in the movie is that the boy’s mother’s acting skills must be online. The old couple has been told, so they naturally know where there are flaws. Once again, the old couple has been investigating the male protagonist for a long time as their son has been missing for so long, and it is not impossible to be leak-proof.
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