 It is an allegorical work which uses metaphor and symbolism from the title alone throughout the whole film.The "house" serves as a nation usurped by dictators but eventually returned to its original owners, who promise to construct a new future.The two-storey house epitomises and literalises the social hierarchy of the crows and the sparrow, Hou and his mistress lord it over the tenants and live upstairs, where Kong used to live as the original owner.