One two three, wooden man

This is a sad story: mother Laura moved to an abandoned orphanage with her husband and son after she married. She wanted to renovate the orphanage and adopt a few children to relive her childhood here. But since moving here, his son Simon often sees five other "friends" who are actually Laura's playmates at the orphanage. In the second half of the film, after Laura was adopted, the five children indirectly killed Tomas, a deformed child, in a trick game. Tomas's mother, a nurse at the orphanage, held a grudge by poisoning all five children, dismembering them, wrapping them in multiple sacks mixed with lime, and hiding them in the walls of the orphanage hall. Simon likes to play treasure hunting games with these friends. If he finds the treasure through the clues left by them, Simon can fulfill a wish. At the celebration of the completion of the orphanage, Simon wanted to take Laura to the hut of one of his "friends" Tomas. Laura sternly refused Simon's request on the grounds that he needed to entertain guests. Simon hid in Tomas' hut in a rage ( In fact, it is a hidden basement of the orphanage).
After 6 months of unsuccessful search for her children, Laura finally found the remains of her five playmates, learned the cause of their deaths, and realized that Simon's disappearance was related to them: the children killed Tomas by playing games, and now they are again After finding Simon, she must say goodbye to her childhood friend and rescue Simon. So Laura tidied up the room where they slept together before, set up 6 small beds for the bedroom, put on clean sheets, and prepared a hearty lunch in the restaurant to welcome the arrival of her friends. Finally, in the one-two-three wooden man game that I used to play as a child, my friends showed up. The little girl closest to Laura patted Laura's back, and the five children quickly turned around and ran away, and Laura followed them. The footsteps came to the hidden basement.
But what she saw was Simon's body: it turned out that Laura inadvertently blocked the basement door in the process of searching for the child. Simon was trapped in the basement. During the process of repeatedly knocking on the wall for help, unfortunately, suddenly fell into disrepair. He fell down the broken stairs and fell to his death. Distraught, she swallowed a large amount of drugs after realizing that she had killed Simon. When she was dying: Laura saw Simon open those bright and moving eyes, and saw the little friends of the orphanage again. They came up to touch Laura's face one by one, and shouted in surprise: Yes Laura! She's grown so big, just like Wendy in Peter Pan! Sadness and depression seem to be fully released at this moment, and this is the most tearful part of the film. In fact, the children are not malicious. They like Simon and become good friends with him. After finding Simon trapped in the basement, they also try their best to give Laura a clue to let her find Simon. With the innocent laughter of the children, Laura told them the story she used to tell Simon: a house, a beach, and a group of lost children living happily together.
In the last scene of the movie, the husband came to a tombstone and offered a flower, and the tombstone was inscribed: Affectionately remember Laura and Simon, and those orphans.
After watching the whole film, I am more moved than thriller. The film is more about friendship and family, but compared with the classic thriller "The Sixth Sense", which is also a warm card, there is still a big gap, and the overall three stars.

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