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The Invisible Guest directed by Oriol Paulo is in my opinion one of the finest thrillers of the 2010s. It's dense and spellbindingly interesting. There was not a second where I looked away from the screen, it's absolutely hooking. It's a film that's really smart and it's clearly a film made by someone who knows what he's doing. It unfold in a sort of Agatha Christie like fashion but you'll quickly find that the originality of this film knows no bounds.
It's absolutely wild and riveting. It's highly unpredictable but never bloated and I think its plot is storytelling at its best. An unexpected adventure that is cunning and exciting. And I want to get into what it does so well, but I will stray away from spoilers because I know a lot of you haven't seen it yet. There are gonna be a few mild spoilers, so if you want to know nothing about the film, this is your last warning. So yeah, The Invisible Guest is a TIGHT film. That is one of the things it does so right. The editing is on point, and so crisp. It's a 100 minutes long and never too fast but also manages to pack in enough story and character as well as depth which is very impressive.
You can clearly see the amount of effort put into the pacing of the film, the direction and cinematography is very smooth and very streamlined, and I felt that it was all to make the movie as efficient as possible. There's very little fluff, or drama, it's a concise film. That brings us to the main thing that made this movie so great, which is the SCREENPLAY. I could tell that there was very less in this film left to improvisation, all the actors were doing their best to follow the screenplay to the second. And what a screenplay it is, I won't even tell you anything that happens in the story, just know that it is full of mindblowing plot twists, expert subversions and two driving, believable characters in a smooth story that has its ups and downs. The story is told mostly in flashback sequences, and it all leads up to one hell of a third act.
The use of unreliable narrators is really well done, and I think to make a good mystery like this one, one that is so richly engrossing, we follow what this movie accomplishes, which is set up GREAT characters with motivations and depth, not too many of them, but enough to create a tension and a conflict, characters that are smart, characters whose next move you probably won't guess. Then have them drive the story forward and the plot twists and subsequent moments that the audience love will fall into place. And this movie is full of them, unique and satisfyingly devious scenes. And like the best mysteries, Oriol Paulo knows the importance of a Chekov's gun. Every small detail has importance and ties the narrative together amazingly.
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