On October 22, the domestic suspense black humor theme film "Uninvited Guest" will be released soon, and the on-demand screening field opened in advance in the past few days has received a wave of praise.
"Uninvited Guest" is produced by Tian Zhuangzhuang, directed by Liu Xiang, starring Fan Wei, Dou Xiao and Zhang Songwen, the story takes place in an almost abandoned cylindrical old building, played by Fan Wei when the thief Lao Li enters a dilapidated residential building to steal, encounters a murder, and then seemingly unrelated people and horses follow, all appear, burglar murder, murderer death, mysterious visitors and other bizarre clues intertwined, staged a scene of reversal suspense plot.
Fan Wei, who starred in the film, is still the atmosphere and rhythm of the film, and his superb acting skills have allowed some seemingly absurd coincidences to be established, and the tone of the entire black humor has also been established. Dou Xiao contributed his comedy debut, and with the blessing of the modeling and role, he did not fall too far behind in the opponent scene with Fan Wei. Although Zhang Songwen does not play much, the role has changed from the previous gentle and elegant, and there is a breakthrough compared with the past.
The film adopts a "retrospective" narrative method, by constantly switching to the "perspective" of different characters in the film to tell the story, with the progression of the timeline layer by layer, the events are gradually presented in its entirety, as if it is an immersive "script killing" game with a strong sense of experience, so that the truth slowly surfaces, the "Rashomon" reversal, until the last moment of the film, do not know the origin of the matter.
To be fair, "Uninvited Guest" is a good quality black humor comedy after the "Crazy Stone" series, which is much better than the comedy that only throws stalks, gags, and pretends to be stupid to please the audience. The entire film is filmed in a room, through the constant appearance of characters to advance the plot, although the scene is monotonous, but the setting of the characters and plot is quite ingenious, but also allows the relatively thin plot to stand on its feet, an hour and a half will not be too boring. The point is that the film does not forget its social responsibility in laughter, and the seemingly absurd plot also brings out profound social concerns, which is thought-provoking, and as a newcomer director, Liu Xiang also handed over a qualified work.