The love in the drama "Uninvited Guest" is the most moving

Kolby 2022-01-06 08:02:20

From "Mind Station" to "Uninvited Guest", you can feel Thomas McCarthy's unique directing style in subtle ways. The feeling is that the serious face hides a bright smile. The story seems to be drifting in a pool where there is no ebb and flow of the tide, and it is steadfast and lifeless. However, under his strong control over the rhythm and emotion of the movie, he has a good sense of measure, dull but not boring, and his expression of "emotion" is implicit and introverted and extremely delicate, which is obviously different from groaning or laughing. The American style of scolding. I have watched the film, which makes me have a long aftertaste.

Of course, this kind of character and emotion-playing movie can easily push the audience to the extremes. If you can endure the "boring" and follow all the way, you will be able to witness another village. Then this film is a boring film in the cold palace. Fortunately, the overall quality of the film "Uninvited Guest" can withstand the test, and it is boring and elegant, and it has a unique perspective. Sensitive topics are tucked in the shoulder pads of family and love. It is not the main thing but it is very eye-catching. The audience will know it if they don't understand it. .

The United States is a melting pot. As a veritable country of immigrants, when it comes to immigrants, you open the door to explode your own strengths. From this point of view, there is no right or wrong, only the difference in opinions and differences. As the editor and director, McCarthy did a lot of effort in setting the characters. I guess that the old professor Walter who lives in Connecticut is an Anglo-American. Although his wife has passed away and his son lives in London, he has a successful career and life. Abundance should represent the backbone of modern American society. As for the illegal immigrants who accidentally broke into Walter's life, their stories are precisely the portrayal of the Americans who are now firmly established. There are immigrants in different periods of one generation and two generations, and they can leave behind as a new generation. And this involves the political culture of other countries. McCarthy also knows himself well. It is just a wise move to embellish the protagonist's self-report without blindly commenting or crusade from the standpoint of the world police.

Although the film uses immigration as the topic, it always takes care of the digestive system of the Americans, and discusses all the colorful issues very literary. With the protagonist Walter as the focus, the plot is advanced in multiple lines. The concepts of the United States and illegal immigrants coexist. There are irreconcilable points, and there are excuses for emotions, but because the focus falls on emotions, the whole story is out of ambiguity. The sensual color.

I am deeply impressed by the shocking appeal that each character in the movie conveys when expressing emotions. Tyreke from Syria is passionate and unrestrained. Laughter is the common language of all mankind. The young man took advantage of this instinct and laughed at everything around him. Although he failed to make good fortune, he won Walter’s friendship and was also invisible. Changed Walter's life.

Tyreke’s girlfriend Zanab is also a very personal character. Vigilance and anxiety are the emotional tone of her understanding of the United States until she finally learns that Tyreke’s despair revealed by his deportation is a gray chain of emotions. The image that entangles the United States also exaggerates the strong realistic color of the story.

Although the couple who immigrated to the United States illegally had various reasons not to be welcomed, for Old Walter, meeting them was a kind of fortune and a gift, and it was the critical point for turning himself from the humiliation to life, just like Put your curved fingers flat from the piano keys and move them on the African drums to feel the same novelty and comfort. Here, the acquaintances and acquaintances of the three people are all linked by music, and misunderstandings are used to interpret cultural conflicts, which paves the way for the emotional stories that will be created later.

When it comes to Tyreke's mother, take Walter. The image of a gentle and virtuous mother, a dignified and elegant female charm, meets Walter because of her son. One is the love of motherhood, and the other is the setting sun. The emotional story of warmth and hope can have both. Beauty, but when she has to leave regrets, she chooses to be on the opposite side of love.

The ending of the movie is like this. Watching Walter bid farewell to Tyrek's mother, walking into the subway alone with a drum on his back, gave me a trace of melancholy. Walter will never see their mother and son again!

For the young all-around filmmaker Thomas McCarthy, the role of the director is not inferior to his acting duties. He has watched "Uninvited Guest" and he has expectations for the series "Game of Thrones" directed by him.

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  • Zainab: Why did you invite him?

    Tarek Khalil: We're staying in his apartment. What could I do?

    Zainab: And I'll be stuck with him while you play your drum.

    Tarek Khalil: You know you're very sexy when you're mad at me.

    [leans in to kiss her]

    Prof. Walter Vale: [interrupts] Hello! If you don't mind, I think I will come.

    Tarek Khalil: Cool.

    Prof. Walter Vale: Let me get my coat.

    [Zainab frustrates]

  • Prof. Walter Vale: I've been teaching the same course for 20 years, and it doesn't mean anything to me. None of it does. I pretend. I pretend that I'm busy, that I'm working, that I'm writing. I'm not doing anything.