The heat of the Spring Festival film market gradually faded, and four films, including "Hot and Hot", "Article 20", "Flying Life 2" and the animated film "Bear Infested", stood out from many films. Although everyone's reputation for these movies is mixed, it is undeniable that these four movies are really making a lot of money during this year's Spring Festival.
I thought that the Spring Festival had just passed, and these four movies had also made many people tired of watching movies, and the mainland film market would stop for a while. Unexpectedly, a "Everywhere Eliminates Three Evils" was killed, and it ignited the audience's enthusiasm for chasing movies.
At first, when I saw the title of this movie, I was a little confused, but after checking it, I realized that the elimination of the three evils around is a historical allusion of "The World Speaks New Language". It is said that during the Jin Dynasty, there were three evils in a certain place, one was the dragon, the second was the tiger, and the third was the surrounding place. Later, the two evils were eliminated everywhere, and he changed his mind and face, and he was dedicated to goodness, and since then there have been no three evils.
"Everywhere Eliminate the Three Evils" is a crime-themed movie written and directed by Taiwanese director Huang Jingfu, the core of the story has this meaning, but the three evils have become Aberdeen, Venerable, Chen Guilin in modern society. The story mainly tells the story of the wanted criminal Chen Guilin (played by Ruan Jingtian) who thinks his life is coming to an end, so he is determined to get rid of the two criminals who are on the wanted list and make a name for himself.
Chen Guilin, the protagonist of the movie, originally wanted to turn himself in when he was about to die, but the police thought he was the third evil and did not pay attention to him. At the beginning, Chen Guilin decided to get rid of the other two wanted criminals and turn himself in in order to show off his might, so as to gain social attention. But in the end, in the process of eliminating the two evils, my mentality has changed, and I have become good.
The film was released on March 1, and the box office in the mainland has exceeded 100 million. Unlike several big productions with hundreds of millions of dollars and star-studded stars during the Spring Festival, the production cost of this movie is not high, and in addition to Ruan Jingtian, only Yuan Fuhua and Chen Yiwen are somewhat well-known among the actors. But it is precisely such a movie, which was simply crazy after its release, and the Douban score was as high as 83, it can be said to be the best movie in recent times.
Audiences who have seen the film are impressed by the plot and the director's shooting techniques, the scale of the film is rare in the mainland market, and a large number of violent and bloody scenes are flooded in the film. In fact, movies of this type "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" are not large-scale in the sequence of works of many Hong Kong and Taiwan directors. But in the category of domestic cinema films, it can be said that it has almost touched the upper limit of the scale.
The vigour of the film lies not only in the visual violence, not only in the successive physical injuries, and the repeated emphasis on pain, but also in the negative energy erupted throughout the film - the confrontation between the unsparing evil and the "unrighteous righteousness" that kills everything, almost runs through the beginning and end, presenting a struggle between black and gray.
The protagonist of this film, Chen Guilin, may feel that his actions lack logic at first, but as the story progresses, the deep motives behind his actions gradually become clear. Yes, he made some unexpected choices in his pursuit of the wanted criminal, but those choices eventually led him down the path to self-redemption. Through his encounter with Xiaomei and his help to the suffering crowd who are controlled by the cult, the film shows that there is light in the depths of even the darkest hearts.
If this movie was only about crime, it would not have been possible to have such a high rating. The black humor of this movie is the essence, there are two places with the strongest black humor in this film, one is that after Chen Guilin killed the cult leader, he turned around and left, and he didn't go far, and the sound of the cult singing came out of the auditorium behind him, at this time, the cult leader was killed by Chen Guilin in front of him, and the body was still at the scene.
The second place of black humor is that Chen Guilin himself has no terminal illness at all, and was deceived by his grandmother's doctor. It was the doctor who had advanced lung cancer, and he deceived Chen Guilin on his own thoughts that day, hoping that he would turn himself in to make up for the sins he had helped the bad people for many years.
However, this is what Chen Guilin did not reveal until the doctor revealed the truth after eliminating the two evils. When I saw this, I thought that Chen Guilin would be angry with the doctor, but he smiled. At this time, the movie story of eliminating the three evils around is truly complete. The depth of the film's moral is heightened.
The artistry of the film is impressive in many ways, such as the tight plot, smooth transitions, and delicate portrayal of emotions.
Although there are places where the logic may be questionable, such as how the injured protagonist can escape from a box full of nails. When the male protagonist killed Aberdeen, he was injured in the waist, but when it came to joining the cult, the wounds seemed to be almost healed. What is also a little unreasonable is that Chen Guilin was stabbed near the heart by the cult leader, but the next day it was as if nothing happened. But none of this prevents the film as a whole from having a profound impact on the audience.
After the release of "Removing the Three Evils in the Week", it can be said that it received rave reviews, and even the six princesses of CCTV reported on it last night. Today, I posted another article to comment on this movie, with sharp and sincere words, and highly praised it. The sixth princess called this movie the best in March, the film is very explosive in terms of visual scale, and it also expresses the complexity, opposition, and contradiction in the depths of human nature.
The six princesses gave a very high evaluation of this movie, from the director's performance techniques to the actors' acting skills, they were highly recognized. The words of the sixth princess also spoke to the hearts of the audience, after all, scenes of this scale are very rare in mainland movies, and the deeper meaning of the movie lies in the complexity of human nature, which the director presents very well.
Most commendablely, the movie doesn't simply divide the characters into good guys and bad guys. It allows us to see that even those who seem hopeless have a chance to find a path to salvation. The end of the film, especially the plot of the protagonist before the execution, is not only a summary of his personal fate, but also a sublimation of the whole theme of the story - redemption exists, and change is possible.
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