Unexpectedly, not long after the Spring Festival stalls ended, a dark horse was killed.
The word-of-mouth of the screening exploded, and the score soared all the way.
stepped on all the ** of the Spring Festival stalls.
Immediately before the official release, it was rumored that the scale was too large and the copy had to be replaced.
However, everyone's expectations for it have not decreased, but have increased.
What the hell is going on, I'm going to talk about it today
"Removing the Three Evils Everywhere".
At present, 230,000 people on Douban have a score of 83, becoming the highest score in director Huang Jingfu's works.
*Formerly known as Crime and Punishment.
Later, after the preparation began, it was renamed "Removing the Three Evils Around the World".
"Removing the Three Evils Around the World" is from "The World Says New Words".
It is about the young man Zhou, although he is strong in force, but he runs rampant in the township and is disgusted by the villagers.
He, the tiger and the dragon were collectively called the "three evils" by the villagers.
This saying spread to Zhou Chuna, and he suddenly woke up, went into the mountain alone to shoot the tiger, went down the mountain to fight Jiao, and changed his evil and returned to the right.
So far, the "three evils" have been eliminated.
Chen Guilin, played by Ruan Jingtian, is the modern version of "Zhou".
On the road, he is a terrifying "Guilinzai".
Four years ago, after brazenly shooting a gang boss at a funeral, he escaped from the police and fled.
His only relative, his grandmother, died, and he did not dare to show his face.
I was told by the doctor that I had lung cancer, and my days were numbered.
Chen Guilin began to think: instead of living like a mouse, it is better to surrender with dignity.
After going to the police station, I learned that he was not even qualified to turn himself in.
On the list of wanted full names, he is only number three.
The eldest brother on the first and second lists is "bull head" Lin Luhe (played by Chen Yiwen) and Aberdeen (played by Yuan Fuhua).
Chen Guilin believes that only by killing them can he prove his worth.
He's not afraid of death, he's afraid that no one will remember him after he dies.
A murderer who is "about to die", but he wants to do the right thing for heaven and eliminate violence and peace, which is a very interesting story in itself.
Scale has always been a point that the filmmaker focuses on publicity.
At that time, as soon as the news of the replacement of the copy came out, someone said with a rhythm that ** would be deleted and mosaic twice.
As someone who has seen the on-demand and public versions, as well as the original version, I can say responsibly:
The so-called mosaic is completely out of nothing, some are screened, and the public version is still available, but some of the shots are extracted and replaced. There are no cuts to the plot.
The duration of the three versions is the same.
Even the scale of the current public release version can be regarded as touching the ceiling of film censorship in mainland theaters.
Last year, Huang Bo and Zhou Xun's "Wading through the Sea of Anger", the poster was directly marked with the words "It is recommended that audiences under the age of 18 choose carefully**".
It is already seen as a kind of progress in the eyes of many people.
"Removing the Three Evils Everywhere" is proper in terms of scale and plot
Therefore, we can see it in mainland theaters, which can be called a "miracle of passing the trial".
The most intuitive scale embodiment of the movie is violence and blood.
Shortly after the opening, it was a 4-minute arrest scene.
Chen Guilin and the police, one fled, the other chased.
The scene switches from the road, the alley, to the rooftop, and finally to the interior, all in one go.
This scene shows the obvious style of Hong Kong directors.
The fight between the two doesn't have much action design.
Played clumsy, but won in truth.
Chen Guilin recruited and wanted to kill the other party.
Stick the other person's eye directly into a spiked object, and you can feel the pain through the screen.
The three action scenes are more exciting than the other.
The second matchup against Aberdeen reminded me of Edison Chen's "Dog Eats Dog".
In the scene in the hair salon, Aberdeen had already noticed that the visitor was not good, ostensibly chatting with Chen Guilin, but in fact, the razor had been aimed at Chen Guilin's vital point.
Chen Guilin's gun is also ready.
A sense of atmosphere where a big war is about to break out is instantly filled.
Later, the mutual assault in the greenhouse was like a trapped beast fight.
Two people, only the living can go out.
Although Aberdeen's front wave is also a ruthless person, he still underestimates the back wave in front of him.
Aberdeen needs to know who the enemy is.
So before he died, he asked Chen Guilin why he wanted to kill himself.
But we all know that Chen Guilin's killing of Aberdeen has nothing to do with revenge, just because he is the second on the list, so Aberdeen must die, that's all.
In his eyes, moral bondage, emotional shackles, and world order do not exist.
For a long time, in Chen Guilin's body, I only saw animal nature.
Although the filmmaker has been promoting this ** with "large-scale action film", what impresses me is something outside the scale.
The biggest credit for this ** is the actor Chen Guilin played by Ruan Jingtian.
It's hard for you to put a template of the actor we are familiar with on him.
Such a male protagonist is impossible for you to see in mainland film and television works.
Chen Guilin's character motivation, you can't understand it with modern thinking, he is closer to the kind of martial arts idiot role in martial arts film and television works.
A typical example is Gu Mozhi in "Dragon Babu".
In the third bloody pagan scene, Chen Guilin's body was endowed with a layer of divinity.
Many film critics talk about the third action scene, but they only mention how big the scale is, and they don't analyze why Chen Guilin did it.
The moment he crawled out of the coffin, he was like a ghost rider returning from hell.
A judgment on the ignorant human race.
He killed Lin Luhe, we can understand, because Lin Luhe is the number one on the list and one of the "three evils".
His later indifference to the pagans in the Templars had nothing to do with anger or to act for heaven.
At that moment, he compared himself to a god and launched a judgment on the earth.
It's like in the Bible God is going to punish mankind for causing a flood.
In the end, the key to changing the character of Chen Guilin from a god back to a human is Cheng Xiaomei played by Wang Jing.
Some people think that Xiaomei's line is dispensable, and it is better to delete it.
Not really. Xiaomei's line, and the line of Venerable Behind, both point to the same thing:
Faith. Xiaomei's mother married Aberdeen because Aberdeen saved her from another man's hands, and finally willingly went to prison for Aberdeen.
After her mother was imprisoned, Xiaomei lived with Aberdeen, and she showed Aberdeen as her only relative.
But Aberdeen did things to her that were impossible for relatives to do.
The sexually suggestive scene does not serve the curiosity of male audiences, but to show that Xiaomei has a Stockholm-style deformed belief in Aberdeen.
It cannot be deleted.
Because Aberdeen saved her mother, she had to serve Aberdeen unconditionally, including selling her own body.
Obviously, he and his mother were used by Aberdeen, but from Xiaomei's mouth, she said, "I can't pay back this debt." ”
Chen Guilin killed Aberdeen and let Xiaomei go. On the surface, it seems to be a traditional cliché "hero saves beauty" drama.
In fact, it's a metaphor for breaking beliefs.
He put on clothes for Xiaomei, left the car to Xiaomei, and gave Xiaomei freedom, reminding Xiaomei not to repeat her mother's mistakes. For Xiaomei, he broke her faith in Aberdeen.
Chen Guilin rescued Xiaomei and made Xiaomei realize that her life was not all manipulated by Aberdeen.
At the end of the movie, she opens a coffee shop, which is proof that she has a new life and is beginning to master her life.
Aberdeen is ** for Xiaomei alone.
Venerable, is the ** to a group of confused people, including Chen Guilin.
The directivity of the spiritual scene is simply not too obvious, and everyone who understands it understands.
As an aside, the song "The New Man" sung in it is so **** that I always hum it unconsciously after watching the movie.
His Holiness established a new spiritual retreat in Penghu, comparing himself to compassion for Guanyin, and to overcome all suffering.
His followers bowed down to him and handed over all their possessions to cleanse their souls and remove their karma.
As everyone knows, the Venerable who is full of chicken soup in his mouth and is worshiped as a god is a wine bag and rice bag that indulges in lust and shamelessness in private.
The holiest place in the public eye has become a place of lies and violence.
Chen Guilin's series of killings from being deceived to awakening to the truth is not another move to break faith.
As mentioned earlier, it was Xiaomei who finally changed Chen Guilin from a god back to a human.
Here I really want to praise Ruan Jingtian's acting skills.
The gloom and loneliness when the dearest relatives left, and the madness and madness in the violence, are all very well interpreted.
He proved that he won the actor back then, and he was not in vain.
The more crazy Chen Guilin kills in the movie, the closer Ruan Jingtian is to the second actor.
To be honest, I prefer the rivalry between him and Xiaomei.
After meeting Xiaomei. Chen Guilin's eyes changed.
Less violent, more soft.
Ruan Jingtian handled this change in his eyes very delicately.
I loved the last tear he left in prison, as if to say, "If there is an afterlife."
If I am not a murderer in the next life, can the story between us continue?
Xiaomei changed Chen Guilin from an animal back to a human, and Chen Guilin rescued her from the abyss, and the two redeemed each other.
The director filmed the emotions between them very restrainedly.
The eyes are moving, and everything is in plain sight.
Although I have seen a lot of ** taken by Wang Jing, here I got her beauty for the first time.
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"Eliminate the Three Evils Around" was a big word-of-mouth, giving 8 billion Spring Festival stalls and a resounding slap in the face.
The current Chinese film market is forming a strange atmosphere:
There is no unpopular schedule, and the popular schedule is piled up.
The Spring Festival stall is the most likely to break out of miracles in the popular schedule, and everyone wants to get a piece of the pie here.
However, the cruel facts turned out
The Spring Festival file can only accommodate three heads** + one "Bear Infested".
Others** are on, and ten of them are cannon fodder.
"Removing the Three Evils Around the Week" was released on a relatively unpopular schedule after the Spring Festival, and still achieved good box office results.
This just shows that the quality of the best is the last word.
It also reflects the audience's demand for the diversification of film genres.
Compared with those sketch movies, remakes, and family movies, spicy and satirical movies with stamina should also become frequent visitors in mainland cinemas.
"Eliminate the Three Evils Everywhere", a good start for the mainland film market in 2024.