Of course "The Invisible Guest" is not perfect, or in suspense and reasoning films, there is never such a thing as perfect and impeccable.
But "The Invisible Guest" at least did it. There are no obvious loopholes in logic, which is already very good.
As netizens commented, at least the director did not treat the audience as fools.
Of course, not everyone likes it, and there will always be a small group of people who like to find fault.
So when "The Invisible Guest" expanded its screening scale, people naturally began to say "Everyone is drunk but I am alone"!
Are there any thorns in "The Invisible Guest"?
Of course there is! Such as the case itself.
"Isn't it time to let Laura go? How big is it to cause so many troubles? The fake defender was stuck in traffic on the real defender's road during the day and late into the night? The male protagonist didn't doubt it but became more and more convinced? What nonsense, using the defender's money to scold the mother . In reality, I won’t let her get out of here. I’m so powerful. It’s not a piece of cake to arrange something in the car. Why tell her? Can you tell her? "
"It's okay to find a barrister and go through your own personal lawyer, but if you haven't seen him even once, it's a bit fake, right?"
"To put it simply, the male protagonist was in a car accident. For the sake of the subsequent plot, the director had to let him kill someone, otherwise it would be over. There is no logic at all.
But this setting is very unreasonable. First of all, it’s a simple traffic accident. I don’t understand the laws of Hong Kong Island, but I don’t think the penalty will be too heavy, right? It is estimated that the solution can be solved by paying compensation or even going to jail. So the problem that can be solved by paying money is to kill people, and the male protagonist is not short of money.
Some people say that the male protagonist is afraid that the affair will be exposed, and there were no detectors there at the time. After calling the police, he asked the female protagonist to get out of the car and leave first. Isn’t this a very simple matter? How could it be discovered? Why do it still happen? To cover up such a simple traffic accident, if the wife asks why she went to that place (because in the plot, the male protagonist told his wife that he was on a business trip in another place), just find a reason to explain, being the boss of a company, this is The ability to deceive is still there.
There are also so many people. After the traffic accident breaks out, it will affect the development of individuals and companies. This is simply ridiculous. Why does this ordinary traffic accident cause so much trouble? Would you stop using the products of any company owner just because he had a car accident? Do you think that his company is not good? Obviously not. "
Do what these people say make sense?
It certainly makes sense, but this involves a more interesting issue, that is, the issue of routine and unconventional.
Because different people make strange decisions when facing different things.
Therefore, such criticism does not have a bad impact on the movie, because whether it is reasonable or not, although it is very important for suspense reasoning films, in fact, it is not very important.
Why do you say that?
Because you are talking about conventional reasonableness and conventional unreasonableness, but the problem is that the male protagonist of the movie is inherently unconventional.
People from the publicity department didn't even need to say anything, and netizens quickly refuted it spontaneously.
One netizen even left a message directly below: "Your life must be boring, right?"
Then another netizen said: "He is not boring, but very normal. If the male protagonist is as normal as him, there will be no complicated and tortured things later. A traffic accident caused by a wild animal is very harmful to a normal person." For the boss, are there any thorny problems that can’t be easily solved?
But he ignored one question, that is, is the male protagonist a normal person? The answer is no. Can a normal person create hundreds of millions, even billions, or tens of billions of assets from scratch? And it can be seen that the male protagonist is a cruel egoist, so there is a subsequent plot. There is no room for stain, so I want to hide the accident, because hiding the accident will kill a person who can survive. Because he was afraid of surrendering, he would kill the heroine who had an affair.
I don’t know if he is boring or not, but if you think this process is normal, then I have reason to think you are brainless! "
"The interesting thing is here. There are many TV dramas in which there are various domineering CEOs and white-collar elites, but in fact they are very different from reality. Why? Because the screenwriters of those TV dramas , or many of the authors actually don’t understand these people at all. The real situation of these professionals is just based on their own perceptions.
In the same way, rich people and entrepreneurs are actually very far away from us. Everyone thinks what they are like and what they should be like, but in reality? This is also just the imagination of ordinary people. In comparison, I think it is a bit ridiculous to question these. After all, director Li Yi obviously understands this kind of people better than us, and he even is this kind of person. One of them, isn't it? "
Controversy, there will be topics when there is controversy, which is really not a bad thing for movies.
This is also true. With the emergence of controversy, more people have become more and more curious about the movie.
And inevitably, as more and more people watch the movie, spoilers gradually begin to increase.
However, there was no situation where the spoilers affected the audience, or in other words, it had an impact, but it was not too big.
The main reason is that most of the time, even if some people spoil the movie, they will not write it for you from beginning to end. After all, if they really dare to do that, they will teach you how to behave in every minute.
Therefore, the spoilers are actually scattered, and some netizens are confusing the story, so those who read these comments become more and more confused.
Then it will naturally attract them to go into the theater and see it for themselves.
The focus of film critics and the general public are different. After all, they need to interpret something different from the general audience in order to attract attention.
As the editor-in-chief of "Film Weekly", Zhou Qingquan is also an old friend of Li Yi.
He has watched "The Invisible Guest" several times, and has written and deleted film reviews, deleted and written them again.
Because in his opinion, there are really many things that can be discussed and interpreted about this movie.
As the saying goes, different people will have different results when looking at the same thing, let alone a movie?
As a veteran film critic, Zhou Qingquan naturally disdains spoilers to attract readers.
Therefore, after thinking about it carefully, he took the title of the movie: "The Invisible Guest" as the starting point for interpretation.
"People have two sides. Some say that human nature is inherently good, while others say that human nature is inherently evil. However, this topic is not the key to our discussion, because whether human nature is inherently good or inherently evil is just a starting point.
Different people have experienced different lives, grown up in different environments, experienced different people and things, and there will be dividing points between good and evil.
The movie does not show all of a person's life, but only a part, so there is a clear definition of good and evil.
I think the title of the film "The Invisible Guest" is very interesting.
Judging from the plot of the movie, the movie "The Invisible Guest" is an interrogation of an evil "guest". The story presents the most evil side of human nature in life. As a negative teaching material on the beauty of human nature in real life, it is a The "ugliness" it shows is that a person violates the normal social order, including the protagonist's overflowing passion, irrational killing, conspiracy and other sinful behaviors that violate morality and are criticized.
Someone has said: Human nature's choices and self-determination do not come from the rationality of the will, but from accidental motivations and this motivation's dependence on the perceptual external world. When a person faces an emergency, he will inevitably panic and lose his original reason. However, the male protagonist Chen De'an did not stop at the cliff in time when he made a serious mistake. Instead, he tried every means to frame and cover up the incident, and weaved lies one after another. , and in the end more lies are needed to make up for it. It has become a truly human game.
When you see the controversial topics on the Internet, do you think the occurrence of the case is logical?
I think this is completely unnecessary, because in reality, the same and similar cases often have different processes and results.
Everyone has their own good and evil, and the film is just the result of choosing "evil".
In fact, what the film brings to the audience is discussion and controversy about human nature. Human beauty and human ugliness have always been in a symbiotic relationship. Under the obvious ugliness, there must be a beautiful side of human nature. If "beauty" is the harmonious unity of purpose and regularity, and is pure beauty, then "ugliness" is the denial and destruction of this pure beauty. This kind of aesthetics is a concrete reflection of things. It widens and expands the distance between beauty and ugliness, making the beautiful more beautiful and the ugly even uglier.
The ugliness of human nature described positively in the film is also mixed with the heart-stirring beauty of human nature, just as kind-hearted passers-by will enthusiastically lend a helping hand when they see the murderer encountering a car accident; Warmly receive the parents of the victim who help repair the car. Aren’t they all facing life with good intentions? In the end, the passerby was bribed and developed in the direction of "human nature is ugly", but we cannot deny the potential beauty of conscience in his heart before. When the victim's parents realized that their son had encountered something unexpected, they sought explanation and justice along the way. The road was full of twists and turns, and he had to carefully set up a trap and go through a lot of effort to finally force the murderer to confess the truth. Isn't this the greatest family affection among human emotions? Isn’t it a special kind of human beauty that family love presents?
In the ancient Greek period, people already loved and pursued beauty persistently, but they did not exclude ugliness from the scope of beauty. Although people's aesthetics has begun to distinguish between beauty and ugliness and oppose beauty and ugliness, the value of ugliness contrasting beauty and highlighting beauty has been valued. "The Invisible Guest" shows the ugliest and darkest side of human nature, that is, "human ugliness". What can stir people's hearts and make people think deeply is undoubtedly the long distance between the miserable and miserable current situation and the beautiful expectations. , when the "beauty of human nature" becomes more and more fascinating, a sensitive heart becomes more and more unable to bear the overflowing sadness, forcing the mind to explore the abyss full of thorns to explore the truth of life. As one painter said: "Dense leaves and dead branches occasionally add new growth; new stems may be eroded and become increasingly pale."
"The Invisible Guest" tells the audience many so-called "truths", and the film's clever shooting techniques make the audience nod to the "truth" again and again. The weak appearance of the male protagonist Chen De'an makes people involuntarily think that he is indeed innocent, and begin to guess who the murderer is and why he did it. Even under the pressure of the lawyer, when he finally told the apparent "truth", we wanted to believe that it was Laura, who had neat short hair and acted shrewdly, who led all this, and he was just He is an honest man who feels deeply guilty about this. Inertial thinking makes us subconsciously believe that the protagonist must be innocent. Moreover, the male protagonist has a depressed and pitiful face. Who would guess whether such an honest man has something to hide?
This is the interesting part of the movie, because as mentioned before, people have two sides, but what the film shows is not that the male protagonist has two sides. In fact, he has always only had one side, and the other side that is shown is always just a show. Come.
However, in the world of millions of things, "ugliness" is everywhere. Although it is ugly, it will eventually be abandoned by humans, but ugliness, as an abstract form, also has aesthetic value. Regarding the ugliness of human nature, on the one hand, it is not only a foil, foil and foil to the beauty of human nature, but also enriches, expands and liberates the latter, improves the value of human beauty, makes people feel the rich connotation of human nature, and makes people more aware of the rich connotation of human nature. It is so precious that it deserves to be cherished and treasured by people.
Through the wonderful story narration of the film, another layer of human nature is unveiled for us. We can't help but sigh that not everything in all things is humanly beautiful. In fact, ugliness is dormant around us all the time, and deformities are close to us. Beauty and vulgarity are hidden behind the sublime, good and evil coexist, darkness and light embrace each other. This contradictory relationship is not a declaration of romanticism, but a correct reflection of objective existence. It profoundly reflects a special aesthetic view of real life.
The irony is that although the male protagonist shows the ugly side of human nature, after seeing those comments, it seems that a life, under the influence of the male protagonist's money and power, will only be settled by losing money. This kind of Taken for granted, isn’t it a kind of abnormal human nature?
When life is equated with money in people's perception, it is a great sadness in itself! Because this proves that our aesthetics has unconsciously begun to become deformed.
The good and evil of human nature may not be clear to onlookers, and those in authority may not be confused! "
