"Does it look good?"
Faced with this question that is most often mentioned when talking about movies, but is often difficult to answer simply, "The Invisible Guest" will not put any pressure on both sides of the question and answer. If the other party is not a particularly picky movie fan, you don't have to hesitate because of the fun of watching movies, you can answer categorically: "It looks good!"
As a suspense film, it is compact, with a small reversal in a few minutes and a big reversal in ten minutes, constantly secreting narrative pleasure. Its plot fully respects the audience's IQ, but does not constitute a provocation; it is keen to tease the audience, but at the same time invites you to participate, successfully turning the teasing into an interactive game; Win without offending anyone.
At the beginning, the male protagonist meets the female lawyer, and the case is a murder in a secret room. In the room, the male protagonist fainted, the mistress hung up, and was strewn with banknotes. The male protagonist told the lawyer that he did not know who killed his mistress. They had received extortionate text messages and exposed their extramarital affairs without giving money.
Questions quickly unfolded: Who was the murderer? How to get out of the room (the secret room)? What's with the money? What about text messages? Can the male lead get rid of suspicion?
At this point, we have no reason to question the male protagonist. Under the pressure of the lawyer, the flashback begins, and we are led by the lawyer's rhythm into the event. Of course, whether it is a lawyer or a male protagonist, the rhythm of controlling the scene has always been in the hands of the director.
The secret room turned into the outfield, the space suddenly became larger, and the story swelled and became complicated. A car accident, another death, a cover-up, a lie on top of a lie, a double and even triple puzzle piled up. However, this did not create a sense of oppression for the audience. The director is very skilled. Before throwing out a new puzzle, he often removes the previous part without removing it completely, but also throws out new clues. After the reversal, let us adjust our thinking according to the plot and switch the empathy object by the way. .
Mystery films are games of control and anti-control. The whole movie is the director's crime scene. What to give first, what to mislead first, how to end later, how to make the ending unexpected and reasonable, are all under complete control. If you screw it up, the control is like rape. After watching it, you will feel that the director is a bastard and an idiot; and "Invisible Guest", director Oriol Paul's control technology is very skilled. He manipulates the reversal and the truth. The revelation makes the audience want to enter the story and become a detective or even an avenger. The control is thus invisible, we are completely led by him, and in the end, obediently, 100%, enjoy the pleasure of the "hand blade" murderer with the director.
Austrian guru Michael Haneke is also a control freak, and he uses movies to "rape" the audience in order to wake people up. The young suspense artist in Spain is not so ambitious, nor is he like Roman Polanski, who is extremely suspenseful, but the ending makes the audience escape into the abyss of evil human nature. Oriol is much simpler, the plot turns around, and the abyss of human nature seems to have been explored a few times, but his good and evil can be clearly distinguished after all, and there is nothing invisible.
No matter how complicated the male protagonist's lie is, no matter how bad he is, his motives have never been shaken. Elderly couples lost their children, reported the case, and after they had no way to appeal, they took action on their own, which satisfied the audience's public imagination of justice. The human nature in the film is not complicated, what is complicated is the story, a crime story that has been carefully laid out.
Someone once asked suspense master Hitchcock: What is the deep logic of your film? He said: Satisfy the audience! "The Invisible Guest" and its director undoubtedly practice Xi Fat's words. Satisfy suspense, satisfy morality, satisfy pleasure, in short, satisfy everything. He tried to weaken those things that might pose a threat to satisfaction, such as atmosphere shaping and style management. Regardless of the original intention, or how big the aesthetic pursuit, in the end, he behaved as if he didn't care about it.
Just for the story, just for the satisfaction, fortunately, the director has indeed done it, and achieved the "good-looking" that the most people want to see when they open a movie.
There are dense details and clues, such as lighters, pens, mobile phones, masks, etc. In the sense of seeing the plot clearly, this movie is worth watching twice, and it is worth reading twice; but it is beautiful, and the greatest pleasure it can contribute is only. belongs to the first time.
So remember, don't give spoilers when recommending it to a friend.
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