The reason why "Removing the Three Evils Around" has attracted attention is that the key is to have a good story, the violent aesthetics on the screen are in obvious contrast with the comedy-style works of the Spring Festival file, which brings a fresh and exciting sense to the audience. And Ruan Jingtian is the only protagonist of the film, there are a lot of one-man shows, and the characters are also likable, so his image and acting skills have been more focused. Author |Dusty Edit |In the past half a month of the Lonely Pigeon Spring Festival, when several movies were still maintaining residual warmth, they were suddenly extinguished by the Taiwanese movie "Removing Three Evils Around the Week". This film was released in Taiwan as early as October last year, and the final box office was NT$47.95 million, ranking fifth in the box office list of Chinese films in Taiwan in 2023, which is not amazing. At the Golden Horse Awards, "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" won 7 nominations, including Best Director and Best Actor, and finally only won the Best Action Design Award. However, the film's crime themes, violent scenes and Ruan Jingtian's superb acting skills have long been widely spread in social **, causing great interest and expectations among mainland audiences. On January 29, when the film was announced that the mainland would be set for March 1, some fans shouted: "I can really get on, the spring that belongs to movie fans is coming." On February 24, "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" was screened in 10 cities across the country, and word of mouth continued to ferment, and some netizens commented: "Compared with this, the Spring Festival stalls are all like primary school students' homework." The Douban score once rose to 84 points. 
"Removing the Three Evils Around the Week" currently has a Douban score of 82 points.
On March 1, the film was officially released, and the single-day box office went all the way up, surpassing several popular films in the Spring Festival file one after another, and won the daily crown on March 3. In the 6 days since its release, the cumulative box office has reached 200 million yuan, and some experts may rush 1 billion yuan.
At the same time, various topics surrounding the starring Ruan Jingtian, such as Ruan Jingtian's 40-year-old state and Ruan Jingtian's acting skills, have also frequently appeared on Weibo hot searches. Some netizens made a fuss, recognized Taiwanese actor Ming Dao as Ruan Jingtian, and praised him for his good performance on Weibo. On March 4th, people will always fall in love with Ruan Jingtian repeatedly ranked first in the hot search of the entertainment list, expressing the voices of many audiences: His acting career has ups and downs, but he can always come up with a masterpiece in different periods to make you fall in love with him repeatedly. What is the magic of Ruan Jingtian and his "Removing the Three Evils Around the Corner"?
The first thing that makes people curious is that the title comes from a Chinese historical allusion, but the movie itself is not a historical film. "Book of Jin" and "Shishuo Xinyu" are recorded: Yixing (now Yixing, Jiangsu) people around, when they were young, their physical strength was outstanding, and their martial arts were strong, but their behavior was domineering, endangering the township, and the villagers called him and the tiger in the mountain and the dragon in the river "three evils". Zhou felt very guilty when he heard it, and went to kill the tiger and the dragon, and he also changed his evil and returned to the right, so the three evils were eliminated. The narrative of the film echoes this allusion, and it is all about expressing the theme of self-redemption. In the film, Chen Guilin, a young man played by Ruan Jingtian, was originally an underworld killer who fled after committing **. After his grandmother's death and learning that he had lung cancer, he wanted to turn himself in, but found himself in third place on the wanted list. The impulse to realize the value of life made him decide to kill the top two ......On the surface, this is a story of "black eats black", but it is different from the narrative of infighting in traditional gangster films, there is no competition for power and interests, but about the dignity of life, and it is innovative in concept. 
Chen Guilin reflects on life.
Chen Guilin is a ruthless and cold-blooded killer, after killing the gang boss, he dared to appear at the funeral, killed the second-in-command, and injured the pursuing police, this is the "reckless" place on him. But at the same time, he is also a filial son, sending money to his grandmother, crying bitterly after his grandmother's death, showing the soft side of human nature. From a few brief acts, the audience can get a glimpse of his upbringing, imagine his past with his grandmother, and sympathize with her.
At the same time, the film is extremely commercial in terms of action scenes, creating a tense and exciting atmosphere from the start. After Chen Guilin simply shot and killed the gang boss, he was pursued by the criminal police, and the two chased each other on the streets, alleys, and rooftops, and fought hand-to-hand combat scenes to the flesh, until the incense burner poked his eyes, which was full of blood. No wonder the audience exclaimed the scale of the film. Next, Chen Guilin encountered a strong opponent when he chased the second most wanted criminal, Aberdeen. When Aberdeen took a razor and shaved Chan Guilin while revealing his secret, the air in the room was almost suffocated. In the night fight, the two fought from the stairs in the house to the chase on the wasteland, pulling back and forth, evenly matched, and Chen Guilin reversed at a critical moment. 
A suffocating scene in the film.
If the film is just a continuation of this kind of violent fighting, it is just a hard-core action movie, the key is that in the third part, when Chen Guilin chases down the most wanted criminal Lin Luhe, he encounters a completely different situation.
At this time, Lin Luhe transformed into a "Venerable" in a spiritual place, with a group of loyal believers under his command. Chen Guilin was also lost in this peaceful and warm atmosphere, thinking that there was hope for his life and gave up the promise he had made before. Therefore, the ultimate evil of the wicked is not physical violence, but the harm to the soul of the person, which kills the human spirit. This plot greatly improves the realm of the film and also causes widespread discussion among the audience. And Chen Guilin, after encountering a death crisis and seeing through the illusion, returned to the spiritual hall to kill the scene, which pushed the film to a climax and created a cool point. 
Chen Guilin went on a killing spree.
Even when they are pointed at gunpoint, there are still believers who are willing to die, which shows that "the poison is deep". Recall that in the second part, Aberdeen asked his wife to take the blame for him, and the latter was willing to admit that the drugs were sold by himself, and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison, which was also emotional "poisoning". Thus, the film has a double definition of death: physical death and spiritual death.
It is precisely because of the narrative structure and value expression of "Eliminate the Three Evils Everywhere" that it is very different from the style of traditional crime films, which is refreshing. At the same time, the violent scenes of the film have been greatly upgraded, combining realism and freehand, and taking care of the audience's perception when broadening the scale, which is rare in Chinese films in recent years, driving word-of-mouth fermentation and box office benefits.
With the hot screening of "Removing the Three Evils Around the Week", Ruan Jingtian's acting skills have once again attracted attention, and the audience sighed: The Golden Horse actor is back. In the film, he appears in the scene of a capable young man with a round inch and a suit, entering the tiger's den alone, but calmly, killing people in a leisurely stroll, with a contemptuous smile on his face. After being discovered by the police, he can also deal with it calmly and escape by brute force. And when he reappeared, in order to avoid pursuit, he turned into a down-and-out homeless man, with dirty hair, spreading scum, and a sense of exhaustion. This kind of change is far from the Taiwanese idol Xiaosheng in our impression. Mainland audiences know Ruan Jingtian from 2008's "Fated I Love You". Ruan Jingtian plays the rich son Ji Cunxi, who is arrogant on the surface, but is actually amorous and single-minded, and staged a chance encounter with the post-it note girl Chen Xinyi, which brought the classic line to fire: "I only know that the first time is accidental, the second time is inevitable, and the third time is fate." ”
Stills from "Fate I Love You".
This drama broke the ratings record of idol dramas in Taiwan, China, and Ruan Jingtian became an instant hit and became the representative of the image of the screen boss. In those years, it was also the ** era of Taiwanese puppets, with continuous popular works and popular in Asia, and Ruan Jingtian's next starring "Queen of Lost Dogs" also received extremely high ratings, and it is still considered to be the "sister and brother love ceiling".
If he is just acting in idol dramas, Ruan Jingtian is at most an idol who eats with his face, and his acting skills are also solidified in the program, and when faced with the generational changes in the film and television industry, it is easy to disappear in the rising wave. Fortunately, he starred in the movie "Monga" directed by Niu Chengze in 2010, achieving a breakthrough in acting skills and establishing his status as a real actor. In this gangster film, Ruan Jingtian plays the role of a young "monk" who forms the "Prince Gang" with his brothers, but in the gang battle, he faces a painful choice between friendship and interests. At the end of the film, he is attacked by a friend, turns around, has a gun in his hand but does not shoot, and finally dies under his friend's knife, with confusion and complexity in his eyes, which is considered to be "unconventional and extremely deep expression". "Mong" ranked first at the box office of Chinese films in Taiwan that year and was shortlisted for many film festivals. In the end, Ruan Jingtian won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor, and the judges said that "without him, the focus of the whole film would be blurred". There are 3 mainland actors competing with him, Wang Xueqi, Ni Dahong and Qin Hao, all of whom are powerful, which shows that they are full of weight. 
Ruan Jingtian in Monga.
After winning the award, Ruan Jingtian continued to cooperate with Niu Chengze and starred in the romance film "Love", which won 1The box office of 3.7 billion yuan was a very good result in that year. At the same time, he also went to the mainland to develop, starring in the costume martial arts film "Blood Drops". During that time, it was the boom period of co-productions, most of which were funded by mainland capital, directed by Hong Kong directors, and participated by actors from across the Taiwan Strait, but because of the unadaptable water and soil, the style was messy, and there were not many good works. "Blood Drops" Douban 48 points, and the box office is only more than 70 million yuan.
Just when his career was in full swing, Nguyen Jing Tien's past history was dug up, and he was suspected of delaying graduation and evading military service, and he had to stop work for a year to serve in the military. After coming back, the two mainland movies he starred in, "Detective Runaway" and "**Like Water", were silent. And director Niu Chengze encountered illegal and ** incidents one after another after filming "Paradise in the Army", and was finally imprisoned, which also made Ruan Jingtian lose a collaborator who understood him. 
Ruan Jingtian in "Paradise in the Army".
After that, Ruan Jingtian also starred in the suspense film "City Lights of Psychological Crime" (2017), played the monk Yuance in Tsui Hark's "Di Renjie: The Four Heavenly Kings" (2018), and partnered with Jackie Chan in "Detective Pu Songling" (2019) ......In these commercial films with different styles, Ruan Jingtian mostly appears as the second male or supporting role, the role is not brilliant enough, and it is difficult to give full play to his acting skills. And when the epidemic came, for 3 years, Ruan Jingtian was almost invisible on the big and small screens in the mainland, and he seemed to have disappeared.
It wasn't until this "Removing the Three Evils Everywhere" that the rough and delicate, weird and innocent Ruan Jingtian came back. He is no longer Ji Cunxi in the era of idol dramas, nor is he the gangster boy in "Mong", he has new thinking about society, and also interprets the image of a new criminal and atonementer.
It can be said that after entering the mainland, Ruan Jingtian did not come up with a high-quality starring work. In recent years, he has returned to Taiwan to develop, rediscovered himself in a familiar environment, and stood up again. In the second half of 2023, he will have two starring movies released in the mainland one after another. The first is the suspense film "Pursuit", which tells the story of a female policeman who fell into an emotional puzzle in the process of investigating a serial murder case, reversed many times, and was shortlisted for 12 awards at the Taipei Film Festival. However, the word-of-mouth of the film is quite different, and when it was released in Taiwan, the Douban score once rushed to 82 points, but after the release in the mainland, all the way **, now there are only 61 point, and the box office only received more than 20 million yuan. 
Yuen Jingtian plays a labor agent in "Pursuit".
As a big heroine-themed work, the starring Zhang Junning is the core, and Ruan Jingtian is in a supporting role, but the labor agent Lin Yousheng he plays is still impressive, and some netizens commented: "Ruan Jingtian is really a crushing performance, with ease, and emotional explosiveness." It's a pity that the film was not shortlisted for the 59th Golden Horse Awards because of the difference in votes, and Ruan Jingtian is considered the best actor.
After that, Ruan Jingtian, Zhang Jiahui, and Wang Dalu co-starred in "Angry Tide", which is a rare hardcore action movie in theaters for many years2.9 billion yuan at the box office. In the case of the overall decline of Hong Kong films, this achievement can be regarded as a dark horse. In these two movies plus "Removing the Three Evils Everywhere", Ruan Jingtian's appearance is a little dirty and sloppy, decadent and gloomy, which is different from the tough and refreshing image he gave people in the early days. This kind of change is not a manifestation of an actor's maturity and professionalism. 
Ruan Jingtian's appearance in "Angry Tide".
The reason why "Removing the Three Evils" has more attention than the previous two works is that the key is that there is a good story, and the violent aesthetics on the screen are in obvious contrast with the comedy-style works of the Spring Festival file, which brings a fresh and exciting sense to the audience. And Ruan Jingtian is the only protagonist of the film, there are a lot of one-man shows, and the characters are also likable, so his image and acting skills have been more focused.
Ruan Jingtian was able to interpret the two basic emotions - laughing and crying - delicately and movingly. When he laughs, sometimes it makes people feel innocent, sometimes it is treacherous and contemptuous. In "Eliminating the Three Evils Around the World", Chen Guilin, who had just started to kill, got off the boat and surrendered, and when his hands were cuffed, a smile appeared on his face. The laughter here contains multiple meanings: there is the ease after liberation, the pride of doing great things, and the contempt of playing with **. And in prison, when Xiaomei gave Chen Guilin a haircut and shaved, he felt that life was good, and he left tears. It was the tears of redemption that washed away all his sins and sublimated his life. But for the audience, it is also regret and the like, tears of sympathy. 
Nguyen Jingtian laughed and cried.
An actor's career will go up and down for various reasons, and he is often not autonomous. Idol dramas can make people famous quickly, but acting skills are easy to be rigid; Joining the lineup of commercial blockbusters can bring benefits, but the role is limited; starred in a small-budget art film, and had the difficulty of breaking the circle ......In many cases, only after a variety of attempts can you gradually build your own unique image and temperament.
At this time, the emergence of an excellent script can make him leap in one fell swoop and consolidate his position. At the end of the day, the work and the actors are mutually beneficial. In the group of actors, Ruan Jingtian's image is distinctive, he is also very talented in acting, and he is also blessed by luck, and he was recognized by awards very early. Despite this, he has also gone through a lot of detours, and there are low times, but when he goes through this cycle and really finds a story that suits him, the light he exudes is still dazzling.