The film "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" borrows a classical story and projects it into modern society, and the story turns around and changes just right. The whole piece is crisp and neat, dripping with joy, from the bloody path of evil to the cloudy sky of tomorrow, wanton slaughter is just the self-destructive nature of the mad demon, breaking through one barrier after another but never escaping the new cage. Pain and excitement at the same frequency, romance blooms in the abyss, it is the self-judgment of good and evil, it is the self-judgment of crime and punishment, and the re-deconstruction of allusions also gives a suitable immediacy, while the excavation and reference of symbols and deep meanings are presented plainly and crudely.
The film quotes the ancient allusion of "eliminating the three evils everywhere", the wanted criminal Chen Guilin is about to die, but finds that he is only ranked third on the wanted list, and he is determined to find out the whereabouts of the first two wanted criminals and get rid of them one by one. Chen Guilin thought that he had become the contemporary world to eliminate the three evils, but he didn't expect that the greed and hatred that could never be understood were the crimes and punishments that he would face in life. "Eliminate the three evils everywhere" is an allusion in "The World Speaks New Words", which is very accurately used in the story of Chen Guilin. Knowing that his life was not long enough, he decided to kill people who were worse than himself and then surrendered, and in the end the world only remembered "Chen Guilin".
The first half of the film is a gangster film, a detective finds Aberdeen, ambushes, observes, chases, fights, blood is full of blood, nervous and worried, the action design is very good, and it's over. The second half is a cult film, which first allows the audience to buffer the bloody violence that has just ended, and comes to a mysterious and holy "palace", which was originally treacherous and uneasy, but gradually gets comfort; Until he was about to have a sense of security, he instantly tore away the filth under this white room, tore off the disguise of His Holiness, and then ended this absurd journey with a hearty and ironic sense of madness. In the end, when I return to my heart, all the truth is revealed, whether it is a white lie that saves the evil, or whether the goodness in the heart will not be extinguished, it is worth thinking about.
There are two objects throughout the film, Chen Ash opens the film to worship Guan Gong and worship a "righteous" eye, Guan Gong is the guide of Guilin, and it is also the true color of Chen Gray; The pink watch is lost and recovered, it is the confirmation of the self that I will not forget, and it is a sacrifice or gain, such as Guilin's ego, I will never put it down when I pick it up. said that it is gradually getting better, just because one evil is eliminated like old Hollywood, breaking into Longtan alone, heroes save beauty, and the back is at noon; The two evils are eliminated like "Blood Guanyin", the drama is exaggerated, the enemy and the enemy are clear, and it is difficult to hide the curiosity, so far it is just an ordinary killer redemption journey, for the name of righteousness, for nothingness, for existence, for oneself. And the auditorium Pudu everyone, but I was moved, not just talk and pull out the gun, so crazy, and so simple, is to kill not to kill, is not to kill, from this moment on, this movie is no longer just for redemption, but for new life. It's just life and death, in this land, you have no problem, but if you don't make a big fuss in this world, how can you know that I am me?
Deng of Hunan Qifa Culture Media wrote in his commentary that it was a surprise to see such a film of violent slaughter in mainland theaters: there was no deliberate elevation, no summary and induction, no reversal against logic, simply and neatly, one shot hit, blood in the move, and fists to the flesh; praising the spiritual monastery slaughter, I simply dreamed back to the climax of "Double Eyes", thinking that it was the end, and when I returned, the song was still far more terrible than the blood in the sky. The so-called pursuit of the meaning of life is absurd after all, and the world thinks that succumbing to the poison of desire and profit is more terrible than giving up the self and embracing sinking, which is the real horror.
Thematically, if the whole movie only retains the original meaning of the allusion to eliminating the three evils everywhere, that is, abandoning evil and promoting good, it will be very vulgar. The wonderful thing is that in the second half, the protagonist strays into "utopia", abandons greed and hatred, and turns to goodness but ends up in a deception. When the beautiful illusion is punctured, does it confirm that people should not abandon the true greed and hatred in their nature? The depth of the penetration of the "spiritual seminary" is reflected in the protagonist "Killing Ring", but if one person is completely detached from self-consciousness, does the other person have the right to deprive him of his life and freedom? Perhaps this is all implicit.
This is a unique crime film, which adopts the creative method that Hunan Qifa cultural copywriters always like - borrowing classical stories to compose contemporary legends. The whole film revolves around "greed and hatred". Chen Guilin seeks the value of living, and wants to gain a prestige for himself by eliminating harm for the people with great momentum, which is the same psychological motivation as when he was a gangster to kill the bigwig, which is "greed"; Chen Guilin's kung fu is not necessarily superb, but he is like a beast, killing gods when he encounters gods, and killing demons when he encounters demons, which is "anger"; And after falling into the "spiritual seminary", his original ideals were shattered, and he was even ** and became a walking corpse, which is "idiot". Greed and hatred, stupidity kills anger for the sake of the name, and then kills greed for the sake of goodness, the idiocy lets go, surrenders to prison and truly falls into enlightenment, and the elimination of the three evils is to break the self-grasping. His Holiness said, "Let go of greed and hatred, and the purpose is given by man himself."