Ethan Ruan 's "Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils" comes from the allusion "Jin Shu Biography of Zhou Chu". It combines gangster revenge, criminal action, and violent aesthetics. It can be called the large-scale movie of the year in 2024!
In fact, I have all learned the allusion of "every week eliminates three evils" in primary school textbooks.
When he was young, Zhou Chu was ferocious and powerful, and was considered a scourge by his fellow villagers. The other two scourges were the dragons in the river and the tigers in the mountains.
It is generally believed that Zhou Chu is the most powerful among the three evils, but Zhou Chu has no idea that he is one of the three evils.
So someone advised Zhou Chu to kill the dragon and the tiger. In fact, they hoped that only one of the three scourges would be left after fighting each other.
Then Zhou Chu went to the mountains to kill the tiger, and then went down to the river to kill the dragon. During the fight with the dragon, Zhou Chu and the dragon drifted together for dozens of miles.
Three days and three nights passed, and Zhou Chu still did not come back. Everyone thought that Zhou Chu was dead and gathered together to celebrate. At this time, Zhou Chu just came back. Only then did they realize that everyone regarded themselves as a big scourge, so they began to correct their evil ways. Xin eventually became a famous loyal minister and filial son in history.
In the current movie "", Chen Guilin, played by Ethan Ruan, is a frightening presence in the world.
Chen Guilin once broke into the enemy's casino alone, holding a grenade, and ended the life of the enemy's boss with one bomb. From then on, Chen Guilin's reputation was resounding in both black and white.
The massacre at the Holy Spirit Church was absolutely stunning, perfectly embodying the aesthetics of violence.
Just like Zhou Chu in the allusion, Chen Guilin did not know that he was a disaster at first. The turning point occurred when he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, so under the guidance of a female doctor, he decided to do something in the last stage of his life. Make yourself famous in history.
After checking the wanted list of the underworld, Chen Guilin found out that he was ranked third, but his reputation was far less than the top two Aberdeen and Niu Tou, so he decided to eliminate these two evils in his lifetime to prove his strength.
The English title of "The Three Pests" is "the pig, the snake, and the pigeon", which means pig, snake, and pigeon.
The characters Chen Guilin, Hong Kong Aberdeen and Niu Tou in the movie actually correspond to the three poisons of greed, anger and ignorance in Buddhism.
The three troubles of greed, anger and ignorance are considered to be the source of human suffering, causing people to fall into the cycle of life and death. Therefore, it is advocated to purify the mind through practice and get rid of greed, anger and ignorance to achieve the purpose of peace of mind.
Chen Guilin first targeted Aberdeen.
Chen Guilin discovered that Aberdeen was so arrogant that he opened a hair salon in Taichung, so he went to get rid of Aberdeen single-handedly, and at the same time rescued the salon girl who was persecuted by Aberdeen.
After that, Chen Guilin began to look for another victim.
At first, Chen Guilin thought that Niu Tou had passed away, and felt empty in his heart until he discovered that the venerable leader of a special organization in Penghu was actually Niu Tou in disguise, so he went on a killing spree here.
Zhou Chu in the allusion changed his life after killing two evildoers, but Chen Guilin in the movie had a completely different ending.
Chen Guilin, who got rid of the two evils, became a hero in everyone's eyes, and eventually he surrendered.
In the allusion of Zhou Chu getting rid of the three evils, Zhou Chu reformed under the guidance of Lu Ji and Lu Yun.
In the movie, the female doctor is the one who made Chen Guilin change his life.
It was not until he was in prison that Chen Guilin learned from the female doctor who came to visit him that the terminally ill person was not actually Chen Guilin, but the female doctor herself.
It was the female doctor who designed all this, and eradicated Aberdeen and Niu Tou through Chen Guilin's hands!
Actually, it might be better if the movie ends with Chen Guilin showing a complicated expression after knowing the truth.
However, in the end, "Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils" gave Chen Guilin a final and clear ending, so I won't spoil it here.
It is worth mentioning that there are almost no cuts in this theatrical version, which is comparable in scale to "Walking through the Angry Sea" starring Huang Bo and Zhou Xun directed by Cao Baoping in 2023. Nothing less.
Ethan Ruan’s annual large-scale movie "Zhou Chu Abates Three Evils" is recommended to everyone!
