originally thought that March after the Spring Festival would be a scene for foreign blockbusters to carve up the market, after all, from the blockbuster re-screening at the beginning of the month to Godzilla at the end of the month, almost every schedule has blockbuster bombardment theaters, but I didn't expect that the first thing that caused the topic of heat was our treasure island Taiwan's "Three Evils in the Week" - when the largest scale of domestic theaters was only a shootout commercial film or a work that discussed crimes outside Southeast Asia, Ruan Jingtian's "Week" played a bigger ticket.
The title of the article, "Eliminating the Three Evils in the Week", comes from the "Book of Jin: The Biography of the Zhou" and "The New Language of the World".
Zhou was a famous minister from the end of the Three Kingdoms to the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty. Born in a family, he can be literate and martial. It's just that when I was young, I ran rampant in the countryside, picking quarrels and provoking troubles everywhere, fighting and brawling, thinking that I was doing the right thing for heaven and being heroic, but I didn't know that my behavior was fucked up in the eyes of others. But people are afraid of their family history and force, and they dare not speak out.
Later, an old man deliberately used the dragon and the tiger to provoke the surroundings, making him think that he could become a true hero who was worshiped by people by capturing the dragon and binding the tiger, so he really ran to the deep mountains and old forests to find the evil dragon and tiger to fight.
Unexpectedly, when he came back from completing the mission, he found that the villagers were celebrating his departure. The young man's previous value system collapsed, and since then he has reformed himself, returned to the right path, and become a generation of famous ministers.
Although the movie "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" uses a similar story framework to this allusion, Chen Guilin (played by Ruan Jingtian), as the protagonist, does not have a prominent family background, nor has he been forgiven by the society for his harmful behavior. Instead, his life descended into greater despair.
Chen Guilin has actually been trying to live in search of a sense of worth
**Killer Chen Guilin (played by Ruan Jingtian) - Four years ago, he helped *** gang collect debts, killed the boss of the other party, and killed the heir who wanted to take revenge on him at the funeral, and finally injured the right eye of the criminal policeman Chen Gray (played by Li Liren) in the pursuit of the police, and became a wanted criminal who absconded.
Four years after hiding, his grandmother died, and he was told by Zhang Guiqing (played by Xie Qiongxuan), the proprietress of the pharmacy, that he had terminal lung cancer. By mistake, he planned to use his last time to get rid of the two "seniors" in front of him on the ** wanted list, create his greatest "value" and then turn himself in.
The handling of this plot actually has a great sense of absurdity: the people queuing up at the police station to turn themselves in are the people who picked up the scattered banknotes after the cash truck accident some time ago, so they need to queue up to "turn themselves in", but Chen Guilin felt that he was "not valuable enough" because he saw too many people in line, so he decided to get rid of the first two wanted criminals.
The first criminal "Aberdeen" to get rid of, after the shootout with the police station, he hid to be an underground black boss, deceived a woman to go to prison for drug trafficking, and defiled her teenage daughter Cheng Xiaomei (played by Wang Jing).
In addition to his concise scenes, it is violent and bloody enough, although the plot of "Heroes Save Beauty" is old-fashioned, but it has the refreshing feeling of executing the wicked.
But when it comes to the task of getting rid of the "top of the list" Lin Luren, Chen Guilin does not have the cool ability to cut through the mess with a quick knife.
Following the clue to a small island, he was told that Lin Luren had died that year, and the new soul on the island helped to save Chen Guilin after he vomited black water in his stomach and fainted, and the island owner Venerable (played by Chen Yiwen) even cured him of terminal lung cancer.
Just as Chen Guilin began to waver in his goal of getting rid of Lin Luren, the strange operation of the "New Mind House" made Chen Guilin begin to doubt the essence of this organization, and tried to expose the hypocrisy of this organization with the belief of eliminating harm for the people.
The climax of the film is that after Chen Guilin woke up, he executed the venerable Lin Luren, who was actually a makeover, in the church of the "New Soul House", and saw that those cultists were still obsessed, and finally turned around and shot those cultists one by one.
But until then? Chen Guilin, who is proficient in counter-reconnaissance, was deceived into the religion and wanted to save the poisoned child and his single mother, but in the end he could only watch the child fall unconscious in the hospital, and the mother committed suicide in despair. Even at the end of the movie, Chen Guilin believed that it was some kind of "miracle" that cured him of lung cancer.
In the allusion, Zhou Zhi redeemed his soul through the act of eliminating harm, completely reformed himself, and completely reshaped his world cognition and sense of value.
But Chen Guilin in the movie has always lacked a sense of gain and value in life. Even if he single-handedly killed so many people who spread poisonous thoughts, his feelings about life were still empty.
Nietzsche said, "If you have been fighting with a dragon for too long, you will become a dragon yourself; Stare into the abyss for too long, and the abyss will stare back. ”
Chen Guilin's efforts to prove the value of his life are nothing more than fighting with the evil dragon. And the result of the struggle is to make his life even more meaningless, and he will fall deeper and deeper into the abyss. How ironic!
The film uses three animals to compare the three wanted criminals: Aberdeen has a whole poisonous snake tattooed on his arm, the white dove in the "New Soul House" brochure represents Lin Luren, and Chan Guilin wears a watch with a pig motif.
The three animals correspond to the greed and hatred in Buddhism.
Aberdeen's anger made him angrily ask Chan Guilin why he killed him before he died.
His Holiness's greed led him to cheat countless people out of their wealth and then compare it with his own sins by natural disasters.
And Chen Guilin's obsession, four years ago, for the sake of his reputation in the underworld, and his actions four years later are also for his own value and fame.
* The "three evils" on the wanted list are all blinded by fate and superstition without exception, and even the women around them, the proprietress of the pharmacy, Xiaomei, and the female believers of the cult, are all coerced by a life that is not under their control, and they are crawling forward with difficulty.
Even the criminal policeman Chen Chen, who has been chasing Chen Guilin, went to Xiaomei's barbershop and mistakenly believed that the barbershop was Chen Guilin's hiding place - without exception, everyone in the movie lives in lies imposed by others and society, whether intentional or unintentional, artificial or providential.
When those directors in the mainland are still relying on eye-catching topics to shoot "large-scale", the creators of Hong Kong and Taiwan have brought "large-scale" into a higher-dimensional thinking. Just like the design of the plot of "the evil ghost breaks through the ground and goes straight to the church to question the truth" in the movie, many times what the audience lacks the most is this kind of vicious offense and challenge.
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