The Spring Festival has just ended, and this year's most unexpected hit movie has appeared-
Eliminate the Three Evils Around the World", a Taiwanese gangster crime film directed by a Hong Kong director.
It's quite unexpected, after all, the era of Hong Kong and Taiwan police and crime films has long passed, and the box office has been miserable in recent years, and even the overturned car is not qualified, most of them went to the ground in obscurity, and went underground in obscurity.
Like last year's "Breaking Point", "Assassination Storm" and "When the Wind Rises Again", even if it is the configuration of a famous director and actor, it cannot escape the mediocre response and no splash.
And at the 60th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards last year, "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" won seven nominations, and finally won the best action design award that had little attention.
So I didn't understand it very well at first, why this ** can arouse such a heated discussion on the whole network and win Douban 81 high score?
Is it because Ruan Jingtian seems to be a strong alpha man, but in fact, he is doing M behind his back?
Is it because it is a very qualified commercial blockbuster, and the action scenes have reached new heights?
Or is it because it's a long-lost "** movie", extreme enough and crazy enough that it has to be cut and coded?
After I finished reading it, my first feeling was: "Removing the Three Evils Around the Week", which is beautiful and ugly, it is really weird.
The first is fragmentation. The first half is a very genre police film, and the second half goes to a cult, and it is impossible to classify it according to the convention.
The second is the large scale, the yellow storm and black elements are complete, SM, ** cult, countering violence with violence, and the whole process is high-energy, just like the opening warning: the most evil movie in Taiwan's film history.
Then there are the sutures. To put it nicely, it's a tribute to the classics, and it's hard to say it's a strange stitching. The action scenes of the police and bandits chasing on the street make people hallucinate "Spy Shadow", the evil door of "New Mind House" ** is reminiscent of "A Midsummer Night's Terror", the male protagonist is buried alive and can still possess his body, and the bridge of kicking open the coffin board is no different from "Kill Bill 2".
But the strangest thing is an inexplicable sense of intimacy. It's weird to say, why do I empathize with an extreme villain who is ranked third on Taiwan's most wanted list?
The reason is very simple, whether it is the plot, the motivation of the characters, or the violence**, there is a familiar atmosphere - a sense of calm madness.
On the movie promotional poster, Ruan Jingtian, who was holding a gun and laughing, reminded me of a series of emojis that I usually use when chatting with colleagues and friends:
This state can be summed up as - a smile on his face, his emotions are as stable as if he is dead, but his heart is a ** killing machine that destroys the world. Digging deeper into my heart, it was indeed as calm as death.
The beautiful collective mental state of contemporary people is performed in an extremely specific and large-scale way in "Eliminating the Three Evils Around the World".
This alone is enough to make the mainland audience tremble and score high.
In fact, the story line of "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" is indeed in line with the logic of the genre of commercial films, which is particularly straightforward and simple.
Chen Guilin, played by Ruan Jingtian, was originally a well-known gangster Ma Zai on the rivers and lakes.
can single-handedly break into the territory of the enemy gang and kill the opponent's boss with one shot; You can also 1v1 with the criminal police to escape from the outflanked police car.
But Chen Guilin's life was not very good, first he lost his grandmother, his only relative, and was told by a doctor acquaintance that he had advanced lung cancer and would not live long.
Thinking of turning himself in before dying, he was treated as an ordinary person by the police, beckoning to line up, and his heart was already dying.
As a result, when I looked up and saw the most wanted list of **, I was not only ranked third, but half of my face was also cut off.
Miserable or not? A good man who was born and died, and returned with a terminal illness and no one remembers.
This mental journey is quite similar to us ordinary people, when I was young, I felt that I had a bright future, and when I grew up, I found that I was a migrant worker who could be replaced, optimized, and in poor health at any time.
Chen Guilin, who was unwilling to die in oblivion, came up with a strange idea to make himself famous: put the list in front.
First, if the two big brothers on the list are killed, won't they be able to sit firmly on the first list, become a legend, and be remembered?
This story uses historical allusions from "The Biography of Jin Shu Zhou" and "Shishuo Xinyu".
During the Three Kingdoms period, there was a young man named Zhou in Yixing, Dongwu. In his hometown, there are the notorious "three evils" in the township: the dragon in the water, the tiger in the south mountain, and himself. After killing the tiger Jiaojiao everywhere, he changed his evil and returned to the right, so far the three evils have been eliminated.
But compared with the two, Chen Guilin is obviously much more crazy than Zhou.
At least the story of Zhou also carries the edifying concept of punishing evil and promoting good, and confronting evil and good, while Chen Guilin's main focus is to go his own way and go crazy to the end.
Therefore, his behavior and motivation have no normal logic at all, and he is very off-line and hits the cool point.
Coupled with various large-scale violent close-ups and ** scenes, "Eliminating the Three Evils Around the World" tells all the communication points engraved in human nature - money, sex, and life in a naked and straightforward way.
The three evils in "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" are pigs, snakes and pigeons, which correspond to the three poisons in Buddhism: greed, hatred, and ignorance.
Chen Guilin, who wears a piggy watch, is a representative of idiocy and is obsessed with fame.
Aberdeen, the second brother with a snake tattoo on his body, is irritable and lustful, and he is angry.
The younger brother peeked at his woman and smashed a beer bottle on his head.
And Xiaomei, the shampoo girl who was forcibly occupied by Aberdeen, is actually Aberdeen's stepdaughter. Aberdeen also loves to play SM, handcuffs and coercion, which makes Xiaomei miserable.
Chen Guilin and Aberdeen's official meeting was at Xiaomei's barbershop. Aberdeen thought he was going to pick up his sister, and used a blade to carve a scar on Chan's eyebrows as a warning.
When they met again, it was when Chen Guilin took Aberdeen's life.
People want to die to understand, Aberdeen doesn't understand, the two have no grievances and no enemies, why is it so? Chen Guilin, a madman, gave the only answer to point to the wound on his eyebrows.
Lin Luhe, the eldest brother on the list, is a high-ranking player who demagogues people and uses cults to make money, and is a symbol of greed.
His mask is the Venerable of the New Mind She, the master who can be terminally ill with his mouth, and the conspirator who plays with fools.
In the beautiful Penghu, Chen Guilin was played like a dog by Lin Luhe.
I was baptized, beaten, joined the club, let go of my stupidity, and even my lung cancer got better. It turned out to be unexpectedly that everything was **.
What to do? It's impossible, Chen Guilin chose to carry out his madness to the end, and baptized the church with blood in the song.
The hypocritical cult leaders deserve to die, and the believers who would rather die than wake up and make people suffer from misanthropic stupidity should also be damned.
One shot and one head, I am the master, and those who oppose me die, isn't this cooler than watching skits and watching cool articles?
Some people say that this passage captures the voice of contemporary migrant workers.
In the face of leaders who love to draw cakes, colleagues who volunteer to work overtime, and partners who are stupid and unaware, Chen Guilin in your brain should go online on time.
And Chen Guilin's only bottom line is the same as that of contemporary people, that is, metaphysics.
Before going crazy, worship Guan Gong and throw coins, the bullet is an empty shell, and he spares people's lives.
Whether "Removing the Three Evils Around" is good or not, there is no need for rational discussion at all.
Even if it is a stitching monster, even if it still has the shadow of a male frequency film, there is a narcissistic beauty saving complex, and there is a straight man's pure love that a girl follows the ends of the earth.
But it fills a gap well - different from the Spring Festival stalls that promote goodness and quiet years, there is only the extreme and madness that is carried out to the end.
It's like when you are at home every day, you are eaten by *** to eat the porridge side dishes she made, swallow it expressionlessly, and your heart is so weak that you go crazy, and secretly order a takeaway hot pot, and the moment you enter it is extremely amazing. This hot pot doesn't need to be delicious, it's even hard work, but it's different, and that's enough.
In the past few years, everyone has been under a lot of pressure, and they are all shouting to go crazy, but they are actually bowing to reality.
What is real madness? It is to smash the mask of all civilizations, tear up the so-called social laws, abandon flattery, politeness, and decency, and no longer pretend to be a normal person.
And we don't dare to be really crazy, only a calm sense of madness - commonly known as madness at the smallest cost. I have read it back on WeChat, brushed the short ** of my relatives, changed my avatar or nickname on the Internet, and set the smart watch desktop to the same pig as Chen Guilin.
Talk hi, or watch a film and television drama like "Removing the Three Evils" that is "extremely evil" enough and suitable for all dark adults, which is already our biggest rebellion.