It's been a long time since a Wan Chai movie has been so popular in the mainland.
The popular Wanwan movie "Removing the Three Evils Around the Week" has not only been on the hot search for several days, but also broke the market pattern at the end of the Spring Festival, which caught "Article 20", which had just turned over by word of mouth, a little unprepared.
Following the trend, the film was released in the Bay Department in October last year, the box office was average, and the splash was not too big. Compared with mainland movies, the biggest attraction of the film is that the scale is relatively large, not only the scale of the picture, but also the scale of the metaphor.
Why is it called "eliminating three evils everywhere"? Why do you have such an awkward name? At the time of the screening, this was the most questioned question on the Internet. But the answer was quickly explained, and it came from an old story ......
However, the story is not important, the important thing is that people feel that they have no culture and can't even understand the name of the movie; The important thing is that the metaphor of this movie is very interesting, pig, snake, pigeon, is the English name of the movie, metaphor greed, anger, and stupidity.
The Chinese name is very profound and very cultured, but the English name is very straightforward and very dish!
It's like the underworld female doctor inside.
When I saw this female doctor for the first time, I felt so familiar, this hairstyle, this glasses, this demeanor, I was alive and well-Aunt Cai. So make a bold guess what the director is expressing:This person is a two-faced person, on the surface, she is a doctor and sells medicine, but in private she serves the black boss, and it can even be said that she is the support behind the top three wanted criminals.
Three harms Chen Guilin, the only person he cares about is his grandmother, who has been hiding for four years, just afraid that his grandmother will be sad when she sees the news that she was arrested. He relied only on this female doctor for his contact with his grandmother.
Aberdeen, who has been relying on painkillers from female doctors for many years, often changes places in order to avoid being traced, but has never broken off contact with female doctors.
He harmed the bull's head, hid in the countryside of Penghu, established a cult, killed people, collected money, manipulated a group of people to serve himself, packaged himself as a spiritual mentor, and lived freely, but also relied on the tight-lipped female doctor.
So, the director wants to say:The biggest pest, in fact, is not these three wanted criminals, but a female doctor?!
Everyone knows that greed, hatred, and ignorance are the scourge of the spirit, but the greed and hatred of actual human beings are also manipulated!
Actually, it's right to think about it. Most of people's desires are hooked up by capital and hyped up under the manipulation of capital, just like "38 Women's Day" can be hyped up as "Goddess Day", except for the change of words, there is no practical significance.
But the movie dares to say that the lives of the people in the bay are all under the ** and control of the aunt. Chen Guilin thinks he is around, but in fact he is just a pawn of his aunt, and he is also an outcast. My aunt was suffering from cancer, and she didn't want to be found to be involved in the three evils after her death and ruin her reputation, so she had to try to get rid of the three evils before she died.
Is this the director borrowing the movie to pray for the aunt to wake up before she dies?
Historians say "Tang died in Huangchao, and the disaster was based on GuilinIt is believed that the Guilin garrison uprising that occurred in the late Tang Dynasty was the beginning of the demise of the Tang Dynasty, and this uprising originated from the awakening and resistance of the Guilin garrison.
Therefore, the protagonist is called Chen Guilin.
Guilin's soldiers, originally only 800 people, are small characters in the entire Tang Dynasty, and there is nothing to be afraid of.
Although Chen Guilin is ranked third on the wanted list, he has always been just a killer and a little brother, and he has not become a big man. Is this talking about the true state of the bay? Huge hidden dangers have been plastered on the wall for years, but no one has taken them seriously.
looks like Aunt Cai's role, the director arranged for her to get lung cancer in order to wake her up, and she still has half a year to live.
Is this a warning to Aunt Cai? If you don't look back, your life will not be long! Hahaha.
However, even if she awakens, she is still defending herself: I thought she was accumulating yin virtue! Aberdeen, who has been in contact with her all these years, has not stopped being ruthless and evil, she doesn't know it, and she can still get involved in accumulating yin virtue, purely to find excuses.
When she and Chen Guilin were eating, there was a couplet behind them:Vegetarian nursing students are diligent and benevolent, and they are willing to do good deeds。It is said that this is a Buddhist movement in the Bay Bay, which promotes vegetarianism and encourages everyone to give love and do good.
But in fact, everything is false, and eating a vegetarian diet cannot protect life, because plants also have life, and if you really want to protect life, you should not eat anything. Jigong "wine and meat through the intestines", did not delay becoming a Buddha.
Therefore, whether it is the "accumulation of yin virtue" or the "vegetarian nursing" of Buddhism in the opinion of female doctors, it is an excuse, or in other words, it is a spiritual means.
In the second half of the movie, a large amount of space is devoted to the process of cults controlling people's hearts, which actually echoes here, in different forms, but they are all spiritual pyramid schemes.
The female doctor asked Chen Guilin to turn himself in, but Chen Guilin wanted to kill the first and second lists.
Whether at the legal level, the practical level, or the religious level, killing people is a taboo and is not allowed.
But Chen Guilin, however, is".Raise the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the groundContrary to Buddhism. He used the elimination of harm to complete the redemption of his heart, and the surrender of himself to complete the atonement for the society.
Police Officer Chen Gray, Ren's wanted warrant was full of dust, and he didn't catch any of the three evils, not because he was incompetent, but because of the support of the female doctor and the slackness of most of the police officers.
There has been a noticeable change in his attitude towards Chen Guilin. The first time, I chased and killed with all my might, and I refused to give up when I was blinded in the eye; The second time, he broke his foot and saw Chen Guilin playing with his life against Aberdeen, so he hesitated; The third time, Chen Guilin turned himself in, he understood Chen Guilin's intentions, and there was a trace of respect in his eyes. In the end, it was with his assistance that Xiaomei was able to send Chen Guilin on his last journey.
Chen Guilin's elimination of evil can undoubtedly save many people, but what he rescued from the three people at the spiritual level is the soul of this film.
Chen Ash, the only person in the police force who has been seriously chasing the murderer, will never give up even if he is seriously injured and uses a prosthetic eye. The first time he failed to catch Chen Guilin, it was a thorn in his heart and his obsession.
A female doctor, who has always served the underworld, enjoys the pleasure of secretly doing bad things, and makes excuses for herself to "accumulate yin virtue", but in fact, she can't deceive herself.
Xiaomei, a patient with Stockholm syndrome, was controlled by Aberdeen when she was a teenager, was beaten, scolded, treated, and subjected, but she became dependent on the abuser and blurted out that Aberdeen was her only relative. After Chen Guilin**, Xiaomei went to help him shave his beard that was not shaved for the first time, as if completing a ritual, representing that he was really independent and no longer had to do things under the control of Aberdeen.
In this movie, many of the plots are not too good, but a lot of metaphors are used, and the key details are also well done, for example, the tattoos of the two big guys; For example, after Xiaomei was rescued, the name of the store was "Free Man"; Take, for example, the aforementioned couplet.
All in all, not perfect, but worth watching.
The scene of killing people in the auditorium at the end made many people feel very refreshed, satisfying our traditional and ancient chivalrous thinking: there are some evils, and it is difficult to rely on the law, so then use violence to counter violence and cut the grass to the roots!
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