The ＂Anti-Violence＂ that has no ＂peace of mind＂ can only make you remember the bath towel.

Special feature of 1905 film network　Does it look nice?The tail of November, the most puzzling problem for the author is the above five words.Simply from the perspective of "watching", the film "Eliminating Violence", which makes many people exclaim that it has the flavor of old Hong Kong films, is undoubtedly good enough.

Spectacular and exciting gun battles, fine restoration of the urban features in the 1990s, and the bathroom melee and execution court drama that everyone talked about, have failed to meet the public’s expectations for this theme and the typology of the star lineup under the verification of the box office results of easily breaking through 200 million in the "off-season" of winter and moon.

However, such a criminal investigation theme work that revisits the past of "cracking down on evil" in the new era, the biggest topic aroused after the screening is only related to the towel that the two protagonists can’t fall off when they fight.

Ironically, similar to the "regret" implied in the topic of "Daniel Wu didn’t even drop his bath towel in a fight" which rushed to the top of the hot search list, Eliminating Violence, which gave a full-screen visual crit, did not give any narrative surprise.

Visual pleasure is just a fig leaf of the narrative of "two heroes"

For the fans of old Hong Kong films, the closest thing to "Eliminating Violence" is the nesting of "Double Heroes" mode in China and Hong Kong police films in the golden age.

In the film, Zhong Cheng (Wang Qianyuan), the newly arrived captain of Interpol, and Zhang Ying (Daniel Wu), who is based on Junwei Zhang, the "first gangster in China", are portrayed as the poles of good and evil with equal fighting power and ingenuity.

In order to show their abilities, the film set up multiple contrast shots, just like the montage of shooting practice, or the "same frame" of the video hall where they learned their unique skills from the police and bandits films.Interestingly, the clips that the two watched repeatedly were from the classic Hong Kong-style duo films..

Unfortunately, beyond force and bad taste, Eliminating Violence, which is too obsessed with external stimuli, neither rubs the chivalrous feeling given by John Woo to Bloody Heroes, nor provides the "wits-fighting" attribute of classic paradigms.

Director Ho Leung Lau once said in an interview that the original idea of the film was simply to focus on this policeman and gangster. Later, at the suggestion of producer Han Sanping, the current police and gangster group images were constructed by combining real reports.

Even if we have done enough time restoration in the aspect of service, the writing from policewoman to gangster is too facetious, and the film has failed to escape from the format framework that contemporary audiences have long been familiar with and bored with.

The young criminal police still have the strength to pull open the gangster’s car door after being shot in the heart at close range, just like the drama of Zhang Falcon, the bandit leader who has fled far away, turning back and killing his accomplices immediately after learning that they can’t escape the scene, they are just self-revelry with a lack of imagination.

The moments that best reflect the intelligence of both sides are the process of Zhong Cheng and his colleagues unlocking Zhang Ying’s message code, discovering his hiding place, and the criminal process of Zhang Ying’s ingenious use of knots to break the bank safe.

However, compared with the real hard work of the police and the criminal ingenuity of Zhang Jun, the prototype of the bandit, who repeatedly escaped from the police, these comic-book treatments are too light.

The gap between "towel" and "towel" reflects the dislocation of the director’s understanding of relatively unfamiliar subjects; As long as the protagonist is not embarrassed, the embarrassment is the audience.

"An Liang" is powerless, and the "lack" of the title is even more regrettable.

In the subtitles before the end of "Eliminating Violence", the title "Eliminating Violence" and the word "An Liang" which is used with it appear as the finishing touch.Can the title of the film be changed fromIn the adjusted "Eliminating Violence", it seems that there are still three words behind the "lost" half: not confident.

When we are shocked by Daniel Wu’s exaggerated and deformed makeup in the film, I’m afraid we will be disappointed if we look at the image data of the prototype gangster Zhang Jun again.

Even if there is a wild and unruly rage between gestures, I am afraid that no one will have the slightest feeling that "this person is not right".

Being able to mobilize gangs including many "brothers" and mistresses to commit crimes for many years is difficult to be arrested. Obviously, this "China’s No.1 gangster" relies not on muscle or intimidation, but on his brain.As a genre film that should give enough vigilance to criminals, "Eliminating Violence" needs to be really clarified, and it is precisely the process of how the police use their ingenuity and bravery to make criminals willingly surrender to the law.

According to the documentary data of that year, Zhang Jun’s attitude towards being captured by the police was "convinced orally". But "Eliminating Violence", which is still consuming physical charm until the climax, obviously has no such consciousness.

Taking visual simplicity and rudeness as the first priority, Eliminating Violence has no time to elaborate the fine Lohan Bureau of both good and evil outside the love drama for action and rhythm adjustment. It just "deifies" Zhong Cheng’s inspiration and Zhang Ying’s anti-reconnaissance deployment mechanically and without any reason, and there is no the most important intelligence-fighting pleasure in the "Double Heroes" drama.

Of course, it may also be out of the creator’s goodwill to not describe the details of the crime in too much detail. For example, the director’s bid for the Olympic Games once said that the process of "defrauding insurance" was simplified to avoid giving birth to imitation cases.

However, the bloody scenes wantonly displayed in "Eliminating Violence" and its difficulty in being copied in the current monitoring network environment obviously cannot be used as an excuse for the thoughtless narrative of the film.

As early as two years after the collapse of Zhang Jun’s criminal group, a drama series called "Heaven does not hide traitors" put Zhang Jun’s case on the screen. However, in addition to the sporadic praise for the action scenes, its over-"upright" casting and over-"magic change" plot (especially the arrest process of the principal offender) have been criticized.

However, nearly 20 years later, the all-round "upgrade" of "Eliminating Violence" has almost moved the "fallacy" that the main criminals in the series fled back to their hometown to find weapons, and it has taken a step further with the "strong man locking men" drama mentioned above.As everyone knows, this strange feeling is "advanced", which is really one of the major themes.