As the movie poster says, "Do a big vote", "Eliminate the Three Evils Around the Week" did do a big vote. Its distinctive crime narrative, fist-to-fist violence, extreme rendering of physical pain, demonic portrayal of mind control, and the indifference, disappointment and even disgust of human nature that pervade the whole film, all brew surging dark energy, and countering violence with violence almost throughout. You can say that it is a cool movie, because people like lynching and revenge, and they like "chivalrous travel", "kill one person in ten steps, and don't stay for a thousand miles". People also like the prodigal son to turn back, and like the wicked people in "The World Speaks New Words" and finally changed their ways, just like Chen Guilin in the movie killed the wicked people who were worse than him, and his life seemed to have value.
But it's more than just a cool movie. At the end of the movie, a rare execution of the death penalty is presented. He said to the doctor who had lied to him, "Fortunately, I fell for you." His eyelashes were shaking as he shaved, and tears flowed silently. When he looked in the mirror, it was a face with infinite attachment to life. Before the shot, he smiled sincerely at the camera, that is, at the audience who had broken the fourth wall, and closed his eyes.
Maybe that's the "big vote". The most helpless and glorious part of human nature is that there is always possibility, and under good deeds, there may be corruption; After the evil thoughts, there may be awakening. Even if they have committed capital crimes, such as **, they may still have qualities such as bravery, generosity, and helpfulness. How can they be redeemed before judgment comes? How to examine oneself in the confrontation between good and evil, and truly understand one's own behavior? Crime and punishment are the mystery of this story and the eternal theme of mankind. 
The two sides of the death penalty storyChen Guilin's death sentence may be like this: The defendant Chen Guilin, ID number A125783729, participated in a *** organization, robbed with a grenade ** and caused the death of one person, and then held a gun to cause the death of another person, and his actions constituted the crime of intentional homicide. kidnapping a young child while absconding from the case, and his conduct constitutes the crime of kidnapping; Later, he carried a gun**, causing the death of "Aberdeen" and four other people, and his actions constituted the crime of intentional homicide. After that, he went to the Penghu Spiritual Center** and carried a gun to kill more than 20 people and innocent believers, and his actions constituted the crime of intentional homicide. Where the defendant's crime is extremely serious, the criminal methods are cruel, the consequences of the crime are serious, and the subjective malice is extremely great, they shall be sentenced to death in accordance with law and immediately enforced on the basis of the principle of proportionality of criminal responsibility and punishment.
After reading such a verdict, Chen Guilin can be said to have a lot of blood debts, and such a death row prisoner will die if he dies, and it will not be of any value. But there's another side to the story – a murderer's path to redemption. He is an underworld boy who wants to make a name for himself and runs away because of a vendetta. Absconded for four years, and his grandmother died. At this time, he learned that he was suffering from a "terminal illness", and saw that he was only ranked third on the wanted list, so he decided to "do a big job" before he died, so that everyone would remember him. It was a naïve decision, but he took it so seriously that he even kidnapped the son of the life-saving doctor in exchange for news of the whereabouts of the two evildoers. As a result, on the road to eliminating evil, his mentality slowly changed. 
He killed Aberdeen, saved Xiaomei, and gave Xiaomei freedom. At the spiritual center in Penghu, he killed the cult venerable and let those who were willing to leave leave. The rest, who he considered wholly unworthy of salvation, raised their hands and shot almost with contempt for it, and the faithful died like animals. In the end, he chose to surrender and receive the death penalty. From the beginning of the murder to the final decision to atone, his eyes have been changing, from the ignorance at the beginning to the pain, panic, fear, cruelty and even indifference during the absconding pursuit of the murderer, and then to the warmth, clarity, and nostalgia at the end of the film, he sincerely atoned for his sins, and sincerely said that sentence before the execution: "I'm sorry for everyone." "You can't see this in the verdict, only in the movie story, we can see the awakening of human nature and the importance of self-judgment. Good and evil, right and wrong, and even the identities of the victim and ** are not static, and they can often coexist. Is Chen Guilin a wicked person? Yes, he kills without blinking. But why should he punish evil and promote good? Why rescue a little flower that is about to wither - Cheng Xiaomei? And why stand up at the spiritual center to expose the truth and tell the desperate mother, "You go quickly, you go with the child"? If the answer is only "people are dying, but their deeds are good", then we will not be able to understand the complexity and turbulence of human nature itself. Always at times like these, make you believe in the saying: human nature is good. In the depths of all human beings, the seeds of goodness are buried; Even in every wicked person, there is a good person who wants to struggle out. This is a story of redemption and a story of a condemned prisoner. In the view of the idea of retribution, the death sentence is appropriate. However, in terms of crime prevention, it is more important for the defendant to develop a sense of atonement and promise to persevere. "Punishment" is not imposed but internalized, so that it can truly have a preventive effect on "crime". In other words, the evil of human nature is not enough to rely on criminal punishment, but also needs the salvation of the soul. If the criminal only verbally confesses his guilt in exchange for leniency, and does not repent in his heart, he either feels that he is just unlucky, or he feels that he can still "do a big job", then the potential social risk has not been eliminated. Therefore, in addition to punishment in the legal sense, we should pursue spiritual salvation. This kind of redemption stems from the fact that the murderer must first recognize that he is guilty, and then he can repent and promise to spend the rest of his life to atone for his sins. This is precisely the reason why utilitarians who advocate crime prevention do not support the death penalty, because the death penalty deprives others of the right to atone for their sins. We'll get to that later. 
How should lynching and death be viewed? The film ** lynching and death penalty. The language of the camera almost gives this conclusion: lynching is barbaric, and the death penalty is civilized. Most of the violent scenes in the film show execution-style execution scenes that counter violence with violence, especially some violence is also named "eliminating evil". The only civilized method of execution appears at the end of the film, where the death penalty is executed: "Please check your identity. "Do you have any last words?" "Do I need anesthesia?" "If we talk about the impact, the impact of the execution of the death penalty is no less than the ruthlessness and courage between people in the process of eliminating evil. When the law executed Chen Guilin and deprived him of his life, it treated him as a human being; And the most important thing is that at this moment he has also been redeemed and returned to human nature. However, those lynching scenes, the cool feeling may come from our savage side, people are no longer people, but insignificant symbols that can be gently erased. 
No one wants to be treated like meat, or just add numbers to "kill another one" - as shown in the movie Devotional**, bloody and fluttering. Lynching brings pleasure, but the pleasure is like taking poison, and it is the soul of the executioner that erodes in the end. In other words, do you have the right to do with the lives of others, even in the name of justice, even if you think these people are not worth saving? Dostoevsky's answer was "you don't", no one has the right to dispose of other people's lives without permission. Therefore, this is sin, no matter what name it may be to deprive others of their lives. In a civilized society, only the death penalty can be justified. Therefore, the film achieves a reversal at the end of the film, and the execution is carried out in a civilized manner. The first justification of the death penalty lies in the idea of retribution, and people are responsible for their actions. Take Chen Guilin as an example, why should he receive the death penalty? Because of retribution. Since we were children, we have heard the persuasion and education of "good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be rewarded with evil", but in our daily life, we often fall short, and we have to comfort ourselves with "not to report, the time has not come". Where is the best practice place for retribution thinking? In criminal law, especially in death sentences. This kind of thinking can be traced back at least to homomorphic revenge: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a life for a life. Therefore, the death penalty itself can indeed reflect the pleasure of revenge, and it has also been likened by criminologists to the embodiment of modern people's collective desire to kill. The second justification of the death penalty is utilitarianism. Under this thinking, the death penalty as a last resort evil cannot be considered justified unless it can be shown that the result of inflicting such an evil may be better than the result of not imposing it. Therefore, when we say that "there is a price to be paid for doing something wrong", utilitarian reckoning is settling accounts for the future. Specific to a certain person, such as Chen Guilin, in the view of retribution, his death penalty is appropriate, because he needs to be responsible for what he has done in the past; From the point of view of the theory of prevention, perhaps a suspended death sentence and a restriction on commutation of sentence are also sufficient to prevent crime, because he loses the possibility of continuing to commit crimes while he is alive, and at the same time, his sentence itself and his sincere repentance are also a deterrent to potential crimes. In other words, punishment should not deprive people of the opportunity to rehabilitate themselves, but only to change the offender's future behavior patterns. So, is the execution justified? In real life, when faced with different death penalty cases, we often choose the theory of retribution or the theory of prevention according to our own preferences. In fact, there is no theory that perfectly justifies the death penalty, and each explanation has regrets and shortcomings. Especially after the rise of behaviorism, on the one hand, we emphasize that people have freedom of will - "you choose how to go", and on the other hand, we find that individual choices may not be completely free, at least some are determined by family and social influences, and we cannot take full responsibility for our own actions. This contradiction undermines the legitimacy of the death penalty and prevents the court from maintaining its usual coldness. I'm not saying here that violent crimes or people like Chen Guilin should be forgiven, but that the death penalty needs to be handed down within a humane framework. Otherwise, what difference does it make if we kill him as if he killed those weak chickens? Returning to the movie "Eliminate the Three Evils Everywhere", we discuss crime and punishment, and talk about redemption, in fact, to answer the question of how society should treat those who are guilty? This is the core content of the manager. When a society uses violence against its own citizens, what kind of moral considerations are behind it, and whether these moral considerations are sufficient and reasonable, reflects the degree of civilization. 
The Road to Salvation: To Love, To BelieveWhen I watched "Removing the Three Evils in the Week", I thought of several death row prisoners who were recently executed. Some people say they are relieved, some people say they are happy, and some people say they have mixed tastes. Therefore, the film's portrayal of crime and the death penalty is timely, giving us a clearer direction on the topic of "crime and punishment". In the movie, we feel that we should expect the goodness of human nature. But when he returns to the ** case file in his hand, such as Wu Xie Yu or Lao Rongzhi, he will sneer in the air: The farmer sympathizes with the snake, who will sympathize with the farmer? Can't forgive any of them?! Or are we not qualified to forgive? So how can the wrongdoers, or those sinners with blood on their hands, be saved? Who shall they ask forgiveness like? Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment begins with murder together and ends with redemption and resurrection. There is an abyss in everyone's heart, everyone is making difficult choices, and they are tormented between good and evil. In the darkness, only love is the salvation of all. 
"Removing the Three Evils Everywhere" also has the same setting, the weak Cheng Xiaomei is Chen Guilin's last redemption, after he killed Aberdeen, he ventured back to save Xiaomei. When he heard that Xiaomei's mother's life was from a man's slave to another man's slave, he left the car to Xiaomei, "You are free now". And they met with a shave, and said goodbye with a shave; There are still people in this world who love him, and the human part of him is resurrected. It is only because of this change in mentality that he can sincerely repent and face punishment honestly. This kind of beauty and transformation may be ridiculed for being too thin, just as everyone also laughed at the end of the fifth season of the American drama "Ice Storm". Dorothy said to the sin eaters, "They made us swallow these sins as if it were our fault." But do you want to know how? "You have to eat something full of joy and love," she said, holding up a cookie, "and then be forgiven." Again, the theme is that only love can atone for all sin. And in our cynical discourse, this sublimation is seen as the Virgin Heart, where love is weak and powerless, what can it save? Human nature is weak and can't withstand **, but even if there are thousands of miracles of the law of darkness, as long as there is a transcendence of human nature, as long as there is a brilliance of human nature, it is enough to shine a dazzling light, and people are worthy of being saved. Therefore, Mr. Luo Xin commented that human nature has a transcendent side, so it has enough potential. So, we should still believe it. Although "Removing the Three Evils" is a film full of violence, injuries and death, it is the other side of the story that sublimates them into civilization and value, and gives them meaning. When you watch a movie, you may find that you are indifferent to death, you are naturally close to violence, and you enjoy the thrill of killing in the story, which is true, because everything is destined to increase the entropy of chaos. However, the meaning of life lies in the ability to resist the increase of its own entropy. To love, to believe, this is what makes this film hopeful.