What is the story of "Removing the Three Evils Around the World"?
It is said that in the Jin Dynasty (the middle of the third century AD), in Yixing Yangxian, there was a stubborn boy named Zhou, he lost his father since he was a child, neglected discipline, and his mother doted, "not weak crown, brawn strength, good gallop field hunting, not practiced, indulge in wanton desires", famous for his fierce and willful township.
The villagers called this violent boy and the white-fronted tiger of Nanshan and the dragon of Xijiu Changqiao "three evils of Yixing". Some people persuaded Jiaohu to assassinate Jiaohu everywhere, but in fact, they hoped that the three evils would fight, and only one of them remained.
After killing the tigers everywhere, and the dragon in the river for three days and three nights, when he returned from the downstream, he heard that the villagers thought that he was buried at the bottom of the river and clapped his hands, only to realize how disgusted he was. Zhou Chu repented, and after being inspirational and studious, he became a virtuous and loyal minister, and died on the battlefield.
What is the movie about? If you want to summarize it simply, it is: the story of an outlaw who mixed with the underworld and gave his short life because of a lie.
At the beginning of the story, at the funeral of an underworld boss, the cause and effect of the boss's death was told from the mouth of a younger brother.
As an audience, it is not difficult for us to guess that Chen Guilin, who is gobbling up the box lunch, must be the madman "Guilinzai" mentioned by the younger brother.
Four years later, when his grandmother died of illness, Chen Guilin had no worries, and he told his grandmother's doctor that he had decided to do a big job. But the doctor told him another bad news - he had lung cancer, which was stage 4 and only had 6 months left at most.
The doctor persuaded him to turn himself in, and he struggled again and again, and finally decided to hand it over to Emperor Guan to deal with - throwing a basket.
Then Emperor Guan gave him nine holy grails, in the words of the Taiwanese: to worship God is to believe in God. So the next day, he showed up at the door of the police station.
The scene he thought or imagined did not appear - there was a huge crowd at the entrance of the police station, and no one knew who Chen Guilin was.
As an audience, you may also be surprised, what is the situation, and there is a long queue to surrender? But when you think of the previous TV news report about the collision of cash trucks, you will sigh "Ah, I see".
And there are too many emotions like this.
Only then did Chen Guilin know that he was only ranked third on the wanted list. It's just unbearable.
He made a decision without much difficulty, he decided to eliminate the three evils in the study week - he did both the first and second big brothers, and before he died, he did a big ticket and became famous by the way.
This motive sounded a bit of a serious illness, of course, at this time, he really thought that he was seriously ill and his life was short.
Then with this strange reason, he began to hunt the two eldest brothers. After making the first brother and the second brother on the list, he turned himself in one by one and made himself the third brother on the list together to achieve "eliminating the three evils".
As a crime-themed film, "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" has a lot of gangs, police and violent scenes, which has a strong visual impact when watched on the big screen. In the middle, there is also a devotional class with a sudden change in painting style like a paradise, and the texture and rhythm of the picture form a strong contrast.
There are different theories about the metaphors and similes of the movie, but there are not too many. Frankly, I don't understand, and I don't want to understand it - it's purely from a viewing point of view, the story is simple, but you can't stop the director from telling the story. (Storytelling is an ability, and I hope every director has it.) ）
So, it's a movie that's well worth getting into the theater. At the same time, I also hope that more similar good movies will be released in the mainland.