The word-of-mouth "Removing the Three Evils Everywhere" only invested 10 million, and this film is like a fig leaf for a big mainland director, and it attracts attention with its wonders.
The movie boom of the Spring Festival file gradually dissipated, coupled with the impact of the "withdrawal" incident of "Mr. Red Carpet", a Taiwanese movie "Removing the Three Evils Around the Week" has recently attracted unexpected attention in the mainland. Whether it was in the screening stage or after its official release, the film has successfully won high praise from the audience.
The title of the film is "Removing the Three Evils in the Week", and the story is inspired by the allusions of "The Book of Jin: The Biography of Zhou" and "The World Speaks New Words". The director has carried out ingenious creation and processing on this basis. By borrowing the fable of "eliminating the three evils everywhere", the movie tells the ultimate process of a killer's pursuit of the value of life, revealing the truth of life through killing, and finally discovering that everything is just a ridiculous lie.
In the film, the "three evils" are Chan Guilin, Aberdeen and Venerable, corresponding to the English title of the film "pig, snake, pigeon". These three animals represent the three wanted criminals in the film, and also symbolize the theme of "greed and hatred" that is frequently mentioned in the film.
In just four days after its release, it received an 8 from a rating of 320,000 viewersWith an excellent score of 2 points, it is the first among many Chinese New Year films. As of the time of writing, the film has accumulated 1400 million, which is already an impressive achievement for a non-big-budget movie.
The film's crime genre is filled with a lot of violence, gore and sexually suggestive shots, and its scale has touched the upper limit of mainland theatrical films. Therefore, a lot of deletions have been made when it was released in the mainland, and from the screening to the official broadcast, there have been different degrees of modification at almost every stage. Now what we see is 3version 0, but fortunately, these cuts did not affect the viewing experience.
There are many reasons why this movie has been well received, both in terms of the design of the rhythm and the control of the soundtrack. With a combination of details, echoes, and dark humor, the movie-going experience is outstanding. Many of the plots are absurd but reasonable and full of drama. Each character in the film shows the best acting skills, and the image is very three-dimensional, which makes the audience have endless aftertastes after watching it.
The vividness of this film lies not only in the strong visual impact, not only in the successive fights and physical injuries, and the repeated emphasis on the sense of pain, but also in the negative energy exuded by the whole film - the confrontation with the unsparing ** and the "unrighteous righteousness", almost throughout, showing the intertwined confrontation of black and gray.
The director did not take a realistic approach to the film, but instead blended romance, legend, and symbolism. Therefore, there are many miracles such as the manifestation of Guan Sheng, the metaphor of "greed and hatred", ** resurrection, and the doomsday judgment in the protagonist Chen Guilin, making it a hodgepodge of Eastern and Western religious and cultural symbols.
The opening half-hour of the film focuses on shaping Chen Guilin's psychological state, showing the emotion of a Confucian creed: "A gentleman is sick and unworthy of his name". This way makes the audience think deeply about the value and dignity of a murderous bandit. As his heart is sincere and serious, the audience also realizes that his actions become more and more ridiculous.
Ruan Jingtian's performance in the film is amazing, and he plays Chen Guilin as a key figure in driving the development of the plot. As the plot develops, the audience gradually understands his motives, which also gives more legitimacy to his actions. Even in the part where the plot develops slowly, Ruan Jingtian's interpretation of the character's inner world is still impressive.
However, it wasn't until Chen Guilin entered the spiritual sanatorium that I was truly impressed by Ruan Jingtian's acting skills. From the anger and helplessness at the beginning, to the process of gradually accepting and trying to get rid of himself, and being enraged again after seeing the little boy's mother being deceived, this series of emotional transformations are vividly interpreted.
Black humor and action scenes are the film's biggest highlights. From the fierce chase at the beginning, to the image of an outlaw who shows arrogance and fearlessness, to the bloody picture of the *** organization, Chen Guilin has become a righteous man in the film, bringing great satisfaction to the audience.
The biggest anti-** in the film is that after Chen Guilin got rid of the two evils, he found out that he was not a terminally ill patient, but was deceived by his grandmother's doctor. This twist is unbelievable, and it also makes the audience marvel at the director's creativity.
Facing Chen Guilin in prison, the doctor who knew his fate was not long finally told the truth without hesitation. When I saw this scene, I thought that Chen Guilin would angrily scold the doctor loudly to vent his inner anger. But the truth was unexpected, and he chose to face it with a smile. As a result, the story of the movie "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" can be truly complete, and the depth of the film's meaning has also been enhanced. The role of Chen Guilin has completed its transformation and sublimation at this moment.
I have to admit that the director does have a soft spot for the role of Chen Guilin. He endowed the character with the ruthlessness of an underworld tyrant and the determination of a killer, and gave him a pure, innocent and good side. It's hard to say what side of his nature is. The audience feels that this character carries too many attributes imposed on him by the creators, and is a bit too idealistic. He seems to be the ideal chivalrous image in the creator's heart: chivalrous and righteous under his own rules, and has become a legend.
The whole film is full of metaphors, and the plot has ups and downs. The male protagonist swings a knife, but it is full of sincerity and obsession. He was obsessed with a "hero's worth", but in the end he became a captive of "unrighteous righteousness". The slaughter scene in the church is like a cult work, and the shaving in the prison is like a new life. It is a delicate picture woven by fanaticism and ingenuity, sharp, deep and crazy. The confession and execution scenes in the ending are like still water. On the surface, it seems to weaken Chen Guilin's image as a hero, but it is actually the inevitable result of self-destruction after his soul awakening.
Many people like "Everywhere to Eliminate the Three Evils", not only because it is a large-scale and fascinating crime action movie, but also because the black humor and metaphorical connotations contained in it are worth pondering.
The production cost of "Removing the Three Evils Everywhere" is only 10 million, but it presents such a high-level movie, which really embarrassing mainland filmmakers!In contrast, Zhang Yimou invested 400 million yuan in the filming of "Article 20", and the production cost of "Man Jianghong" is still a mystery to this day, not to mention Jia Ling's "Hot and Hot". Therefore, it is necessary for us to bring in more films like "Eliminate the Three Evils Around the World", because without competition, there will be no progress.
The introduction of "Eliminating the Three Evils Everywhere" has been a resounding slap in the face to the mainland film industry in recent years, and has lifted the fig leaf of mainland filmmakers. Big directors should now reflect on how to remove the three evils of "traffic, publicity, and plagiarism", isn't it more important to improve the quality of movies than to simply publicize them?