Analysis of Uninvited Visitors

The story of the uninvited guest takes place in a cramped and unremarkable "broken house", but in this small space, a "jianghu" is staged.

A recurring shot in the movie is also very symbolic - overlooking the Tongzi Tower from a high place, one after another intruders are as humble as ants, trapped in one ring after another, with nowhere to go. Escape. This seems to confirm that the danger of this "jianghu" lies in the fact that you can't help yourself.

Who Ma Mingliang is is not only related to facts, but also a philosophical question. Throughout the film, the misrecognition of "identity" drives the creation of drama and the derivation of "laughter". Ma Mingliang started out as a delivery boy, and later became Lily's "lover". In order to cooperate with Lao Li, he also acted as a "thief", and even became the "brother-in-law" of the vicious Zhang Yaozhong, which was quite "far-fetched".

Just when I was "convinced" that Ma Mingliang had become Lao Li's "intimate person", Ma Mingliang told me with his cruelty that I didn't know who he was.

Under the overlapping layers of "identity", Ma Mingliang's tragedy is clearly revealed - his tragedy comes from his self-loss. In the whole story, the person who forms a mirror image of Ma Mingliang is Lao Li.

If you look at it from the surface, the reasons why Ma Mingliang and Lao Li went astray are generally the same. They are both for the people they care about. The former is for his lover and the latter is for his children. Coincidentally, the two went astray on the same path - they both entered this room. However, the ending is different.

Since the root of tragedy lies in self-loss, then, if you want to avoid falling into the abyss, the only way is to find yourself again. The reason why Ma Mingliang fell completely in the end was that he failed to answer "who am I" during the struggle, while Lao Li completed self-salvation and the determination of his own identity. Obviously, if you want Lao Li to realize this transformation, the movie must provide a "required scene" for Lao Li.

The confusion begins with saving family ties, and must end with saving family ties - a necessary scene in the movie is when the "deal" in which Zhang Yaozhong is engaged is exposed. In terms of plot setting, this is the biggest "mystery" in the whole story. Almost all the previous reversals are to pave the way for this; from the character point of view, it was this scene that touched Lao Li and awakened his innermost feelings. compassion and humanity.

Lao Li was not a hero from the beginning, but he was a father from the beginning. When he tried his best to protect the kidnapped children, he was a father. It is worth noting that there is another father in the movie, Yan Zheng, who also chose to take risks and go deep into the tiger's den because of "saving his child."

From this perspective, Yan Zheng and Lao Li also form a mirror image. Moreover, Yan Zheng also temporarily appeared in another "identity" during this process.

After all the answers came to light, only Ma Mingliang, who had completely lost himself, was left in the silent world, pushing the ice, doing his final futile effort like a trapped animal. He thought that the lies he weaved could "help" him to escape, but he didn't know that after he took the wrong first step, he was already at the end of his rope.

No one can predict whether an uninvited guest will appear in the next moment of his or her life, and everyone may unintentionally become an uninvited guest in the lives of others. But compared to interacting with "others", what is more important is how to "know yourself". Only by always remembering "who am I" can you ensure that you do not become an "uninvited guest" in your life.