The film "The Gift of Room 7" tells the story of a mentally handicapped father who was unfortunately regarded as a murderer due to a misunderstanding in order to buy a "Sailor Moon" schoolbag for his daughter. The film mainly focuses on the plot of the father who is in prison, by letting other criminals in the prison smuggle his daughter into the prison, and try their best to reverse the case for him, showing a touching father-daughter relationship.
Koreans have mastered the creative routines of genre films very well, such as the viciousness of gangster films, the purity of romance films, the touchingness of family films, and the laughter of comedy films... They can always capture the most common emotions in people's hearts, and Use clever means to set the plot in line with the audience's expectations. Therefore, even if you know that the story is cliché and unreasonable, we will still be moved.
"The Gift of Room 7" is different from several other Korean high-scoring movies. "Sowon" and "The Furnace" are both based on changes in social reality, while "The Gift of Room 7" is a fairy tale, a A fairy tale that borrows part of the real environment. The real theme it tells is how to "salvage"
a little angel to change a group of demons in hell so that they can be redeemed?
Why do you say it is a "fairy tale that borrows part of the real environment"?
The mentally handicapped father and daughter are dependent on each other, they are regarded as murderers because of misunderstandings, various criminals in the prison, the psychopathic police chief, and the adult daughter becomes a lawyer to overturn the case for the father... These are all elements in real life.
A little girl was smuggled into the cell, the criminals lived in peace with the little girl, the warm arrangement in the cell, the prison guards and the prisoners coexisted harmoniously, when the father and daughter left the prison in a hot air balloon, the two also greeted the guards on guard, Watching the sun go down from a hot air balloon...that's impossible in real life.
The prison cell is a cold place, and no one living here is an easy-going character. But looking at the layout of Room 7: the main color of warm yellow, wallpaper, posters, soft mattresses, small dining table, and even a partition bathroom, all the furnishings are more like a small cozy dormitory than a prison cell.
So, you have to accept this setting when you watch the movie, if you think all this is ridiculous (and it is), then there is no way for you to resonate with the subsequent plot. Only if you accept this premise, the later story makes sense.
After his mentally handicapped father was imprisoned, of course he would be bullied by other prisoners in the same room, but it was precisely because he was mentally handicapped that he saved the underworld boss in the same room regardless of his own safety at a critical moment. He said his daughter's name, but the boss heard it as a homophonic "Jesus".
After the daughter appeared in Room 7, of course there would be contradictions among the prisoners, because once they were discovered, everyone would be sentenced to additional sentences. But at a critical juncture, the little girl's innocence and kindness allowed these bad guys to overcome their inner selfishness, and everyone helped her together.
The matter was quickly revealed. The prison guard found a little girl in the cell and was very shocked. The section chief who hated evil forcibly took the little girl away. But in a prison riot accident, the mentally handicapped father saved the section chief. His behavior made the section chief re-examine the mentally handicapped man's case and found out that he was wronged.
Therefore, the prison guards and the prisoners worked together to let the little girl and the mentally retarded father meet. These special humanized arrangements are all "anti-reality", but movies are the art of dream-making. When these realities are impossible, but people The scene that I look forward to in my heart appears on the screen, and the resonance in my heart will be completely stimulated.
The arrival of the little girl allowed a group of prisoners to let go of their hostility and become warmer. Even the gangster boss who never read books picked up books to learn to read (he became a priest in the church after being released from prison) . She is like a kind and lovely little angel who brings love and courage to this violent place and changes the lives of these rough people.
In the end, the mentally handicapped father failed to escape the oppression of the dark forces (the police chief) and was forced to plead guilty in order to save his daughter. Even though the section chief and the prisoners knew that this was a wrongful case, they could only watch him go to the end of his life.
The little girl became an excellent lawyer when she grew up, and invited other uncles from the seventh room to testify in court, clearing her father's many years of wrongful convictions.
In the creation, if you want to push any emotion to a climax, you need to lay down the lines in advance and set up a lot of extreme contrasts. When the effect is finally presented, it can arouse the audience's strong resonance.
The most sensational point in this film is the "ugly act" between the father and daughter.
This action occurred three times in total. The first time was when the father went out to work, and the two said goodbye to each other. He turned around, and after his daughter silently counted three times, he suddenly turned to look ugly to her daughter.
The second time was when the daughter begged the head teacher to take her to visit her relatives in prison. After the two chatted through the glass, the daughter looked at the figure of her father being taken away by the prison guards, and counted three times silently, and the father turned to look ugly at her as scheduled.
The third time was when the father bid farewell to his daughter before he died. The daughter looked at the corridor where the father left and counted three times. This time, the father did not appear, and the daughter cried. The mentally handicapped father lost his reason and ran to his daughter. But everyone was powerless.
Please cherish the angel who appeared in your life. The meaning of her existence is to let you understand that this world is not too bad, and it is worthy of your love; and you are still loved by this world.
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