When the epidemic spread across the country and affected the normal life of each and every one of us, the voices of reflection finally increased.
In the beginning, everyone just aimed their guns at those eating game, but now, protecting the ecological environment and living in harmony with wild animals have become the original method and measures.
At the root of this, humanity's destruction and overexploitation of nature has caused disasters to come back at us. This theory of evolution of natural science is often endorsed in China by a social consciousness: good and evil retribution.
This is the case with the Hong Kong movie "Ebola Virus", which is viewed at the moment, and the empathetic fear is secondary, and the indifference derived from the bullying and retaliation caused by unfair status is even more frightening.
One
At the beginning of the film, it was the gangster Ma Zi Ji played by Huang Qiusheng, who was called to the house by the boss's woman to cheat. Unexpectedly, at this time, the boss played by Cheng Kuian just went home and caught the rape in bed. In the face of his younger brother Ah Ji's fornication with his sister-in-law, he was furious, and his wife bit back, claiming that Ah Ji forced her to comply, which made the boss not only punch and kick Ah Ji, but even took out scissors and forced Ah Ji to apologize from the palace.
This makes it difficult for us to sympathize with the suffering of Ah Ji, while being framed and slandered by the boss's woman, and on the other hand, being tortured and insulted by the boss who does not distinguish right from wrong.
Therefore, Ah Ji took advantage of the boss's negligence to kill three people in a row, brutally killing the boss, sister-in-law and another horse boy. If it is a normal person, even if he will resist in self-defense, he will run away in panic after manslaughter, but Ah Ji is different, after torturing the victim in an extreme way, he unhurriedly cuts his hair, intending to pour alcohol on the only survivor, the eldest daughter Ali, and burn her to death. Fortunately, outsiders broke in, and Ali escaped.
It is precisely because Ah Ji has endured the boss's unfair treatment for a long time, when this injustice is finally reversed, his grievances caused by weakness will use extremely perverted means to double his revenge on those who have hurt him.
So, when Ah Ji fled to South Africa and worked as hard work in a Chinese restaurant for ten years, the anger of sexual repression, labor injustice, and personality discrimination in his heart once again took revenge on his boss and his wife.
As a yellow man, he was often discriminated against in South Africa. When buying pork, he was looked down upon by the white boss of the butcher shop; When he was a prostitute, he was despised by white prostitutes. Only in the black tribe did he gain dignity, but he would use his pathetic dignity to collect the IQ tax that blacks did not know how to count. Whites discriminated against yellows, and yellows preded on blacks.
So, before leaving South Africa, Ah Ji made a dehumanizing revenge. He stirred the bodies of the boss, the hostess, and the hostess's cousin into meat foam and made "African char siu buns" to "entertain" the white customers. In addition to causing the tragedy of "cannibalism", without knowing it, he spread the Ebola virus he carried to all customers who came to the restaurant to eat.
When Ah Ji returned to Hong Kong, infected people and was arrested by the police, Ah Ji learned that he was carrying the Ebola virus. At this time, instead of being caught and quarantined, he spat everywhere, trying to get everyone infected with the deadly virus. Why would he do that? Can it be explained just by "perverted"? A sentence uttered by Ah Ji in the face of a police round-up may answer his behavior: The Ebola virus was not made by me, but made in the sky.
At this time, good and evil retribution and the cycle of cause and effect are integrated, and Ah Ji has never received real goodness from society, even after returning to Hong Kong, he thought that he would get the loyalty and warmth of his old lover, but in an instant, he was broken by the police and public opinion. Although Ah Ji is psychologically distorted and acts perverted, is he really heinous? From a detail in the film, we find that this is not the case.
When Ah Li and her boyfriend came to Ah Ji's restaurant in order to investigate the murderer of her parents, Ah Ji saw her dizzy and nauseated, not only poured water for her, but also planned to call her a car to take to the clinic. Only when he learned that Alilai had bad intentions did he prepare to kill people again.
Therefore, this shocking viral movie, unlike "Cassandra Bridge", "Extreme Panic" or "Flu", uses the virus to indict the political atmosphere of horror and satirize the black box operation of the crisis in the United States and South Korea. More like this year's Oscar hit movie "Parasite", the "natural disaster" of the virus and the indifferent "man-made disaster" are combined, allowing us to see the persistent diseases that are difficult to eliminate in human society.
Two
As Qiu Litao's "perverted trilogy", "Ebola Virus" is the third in the series. In fact, the three movies named by cult fans are not the same story, but because the director is Qiu Litao, the male protagonist is Huang Qiusheng, and the film contains a lot of pornography, bloody scenes, so it is a series.
But this series, each one is different. In the first "Eight Immortals Hotel's Human Head Char Siu Bun", the protagonist Chen Ziliang has a violent temperament and has no mercy for the outside world, whether it is gambling to kill or a hotel to kill, his killing is an evil impulse and has no good factor.
The second "The Judge of the Cadet" puts the protagonist A Jian at the trough of tragedy. He is like the clown in "Joker", bullied by a taxi driver, and his wife and children are killed. But then, he became the enforcer of private power, a knight who eliminated harm for the people. However, the one-size-fits-all standard for all drivers has made Ah Jian's so-called "justice" an excuse to vent personal vendetta.
In this "Ebola Virus", the humble and perverted Ah Ji is neither the embodiment of evil nor the pretender of justice, but a switchblade that has been trampled by various injustices in reality. For every squeeze, there will be double retaliation.
Therefore, the gore and pornography in this movie are no longer just the usual tricks in "exploitation movies", but derive a fuller and more consistent meaning. For example, the first scene of Ah Ji working in a South African restaurant is to use a kitchen knife to chop and peel the heads of four or five field chickens alive, while the camera focuses on Ah Ji's happy and satisfied smiling face.
When we combine this scene with the encounter of Ah Ji in the restaurant later, it is not difficult to guess that perhaps killing these more humble field chickens can make Ah Ji's long-suppressed heart find balance. In addition to the curiosity, when the wizard tears the chicken's head and the Ebola patient's tragic appearance occurs, it creates a clever and indescribable induction of the already distorted psychology of the chicken, which may imply that the chicken can be cured by slaughter.
Similarly, several erotic scenes in the film also correspond to the bloody scenes, which use crazy and alienated sexual actions to reveal Ah Ji's distrust of women. In the scene of fornication with the eldest woman, Ah Ji cut off her tongue with scissors before killing her, corresponding to the blame she had just planted and fanned the flames.
And in the sex scene of revenge on the boss lady, he sucks out his eyes alive with his mouth. This corresponds to the hostess's usually discriminatory eyes.
Although Ah Ji wants to be dissatisfied throughout the film, his sexual needs are not so much based on physiology as unfair sources. The two bloody cases caused by sex broke out in seduction or repression. The first time was the active seduction of the boss woman, and the second time was the long-term contempt of the boss woman.
As a man who is extremely lacking in existence, Ah Ji can only perceive life through the most primitive desire for dominance. Just like Qiu Litao's vivid use of sound and painting in the film, whenever a tragedy occurs, there is a woman's harsh shout as a soundtrack, and at the same time, it is a miserable blood and flesh torture.
"Ebola Virus", as a rare virus-themed film in Chinese films, was regarded as a pure exploitation film and a curious tertiary film in those years. And this kind of blood and cruelty, although it is difficult to see in the present, but it conjures up the exploitation of another life. The emergence of this epidemic, according to many experts, has a lot to do with human hunting and eating wild animals. These initiators of the virus due to curious appetite are far more evil and insatiable than chickens infected with Ebola because of repressed desires.