It would be right and wrong to classify "The Gift of Room 7" as a comedy. The tones of this film almost from the beginning to the end of the whole picture are very comfortable, mainly warm yellow tones, and some cool-toned pictures such as the vast snow are also processed into a quite soft effect and presented, as well as some The darker scenes also use warm lighting, creating a very obvious warm atmosphere on the screen. The director just uses this kind of warm picture to filter the cruel reality that the film wants to convey to the audience, so that the audience can slowly see the tragic truth behind this hazy comedy gauze. .
After watching this film, my heart is still warm, because the sincere feelings between the characters in the film are still warming my heart, but the faint but heavy hurt in my heart can't be swept away. The more successful a literary work is, the more like the tip of the iceberg, showing only one-sidedness, allowing the viewer to make up their minds to the fullest. There is no right or wrong, just activate the imagination. Similarly, for this film, it only selected some key dramatic conflicts to focus on its theme, and the details that were not clearly explained or the so-called plot loopholes were left to differing opinions and were defined according to personal cognition. The meaning of their existence gives them all kinds of connotations.
The film uses flashbacks to reproduce the entire storyline, which is not very novel, but due to the ingenious connection of time and space, the emotional expression of the whole film is very effective. After the heroine Yisheng grew up, she recalled this poignant memory in a moot court as the defendant's lawyer and a witness to the case, with the intention of overturning the case for her unjustly dead father. The disabled father in the story, Li Longgu, is a man who is about the same age as his young daughter, Yesheng, in terms of IQ. Because of various coincidences, he was mistaken for the murderer who raped and murdered the young daughter of the police chief, and was finally sentenced to death in a ridiculous way, and died innocently. The film does not explain why the daughter's mother was not there in the first place. In short, the father and daughter are just two people who depend on each other to live such a setting. From this, we can understand why Yisheng was young and wise, independent, and even a little "virtuous", until he became a lawyer tenaciously, trying to clear his father's injustice. In the memories, there are several scenes that vividly reflect the dislocation of the roles of the father and daughter. Before Dad went out, Yisheng repeatedly told him to drink water to eat, and helped him pull up his trousers, then waved goodbye and watched Dad go to work. Also, his father was arrested and imprisoned for being wronged, and he didn't come home overnight, Yisheng looked at the clock anxiously. Every month, Yisheng also pays electricity bills and medical insurance premiums, more like taking on the role of a sister who takes care of others.
And father Li Longjiu is not a mentally retarded who has completely lost the ability to learn and judge. He can memorize some very simple data and events, such as the self-introduction he made after he entered Room 7, which showed an amazing memory, and when he reunited with his daughter for the first time, he told his daughter's specific birthday and birth weight. Class, as well as later recall the specific time of the incident and the first aid measures of the system, etc., all reflect his extraordinary ability to remember simple events. He can also judge good and evil, he knows what is good and what is bad. He knew that the little girl, Cui Zhiying, fainted and needed to be rescued. He knew that the black boss was going to be stabbed, so he would block him. If he is mentally handicapped, then his physical disability just realizes his personality. Because of Li Longjiu's pure heart like a child, this film looks too idealistic. This fairy-tale idealism is maximized in the episode where everyone in the labor camp helps the father and daughter board a hot air balloon to escape freely. In fact, this seemingly cool conspiracy to escape from prison is not cool at all, because it is very absurd and ironic in itself. Ignoring the life safety issues of escaping in this way, the days to come will definitely be full of anxiety. Therefore, this script does not dare to think about other possibilities at all, and this escape is destined to end in failure. Almost everyone present was infected by the purity of the father and daughter, so they irrationally held hope, vaguely thinking that this would also lead to freedom. The unanimous confrontation of the labor prisoners and the efforts of the labor management to stop them all seem so serious and serious, so serious that they believe that fairy tales may come true. In the end, the iron fence of reality still stumbles the pace of the fairy tale's continued development.
So, this is a blatant tragedy, just put on a comedy coat so that people don't feel dazzling. Mr. Lu Xun explained it best: "Tragedy is to destroy beautiful things for others to see." The whole emotion was expressed relatively implicitly in the development of the film until the escape from prison. Before that, most of them were exaggerating with relaxed and pleasant daily reality. The warmth in the No. 1 room and even the entire labor camp was a small climax in the court of second instance. The dramatic tension was great, and the audience's emotions were fully aroused.
Then, on the day of 12.23, the birthday of the daughter Yisheng was also the death of the father Long Jiu, and the whole film reached a climax. On this day, the big guys in Room 7 celebrated Yisheng's birthday together, and gave them birthday gifts one by one, and my father gave the embarrassing Sailor Moon schoolbag. Yisheng's petite body bowed to his father devoutly and said, "Dad, thank you for letting me be born well and become my father's daughter, thank you." The silly Long Jiu was stunned for a while, and at the tip of Hei Boss Only then did I realize it, and gave my daughter a kneeling bow in return. The whole picture gives people a very tranquil, warm, solemn but not heavy feeling.
The atmosphere that followed slowly began to become heavy. The father and daughter and the partners in Room 7 thanked and said goodbye. Long Jiu hugged her daughter and walked down the corridor full of sunlight. This is the way to send her daughter out of prison, and it is also her own way to heaven. Seeing the immature font of the black boss on the back of Longjiu, the collective blessing is even more moving. When the father and daughter came to the end and said goodbye through the iron gate, Yisheng smiled and watched his father turn and leave without knowing it. He counted down three seconds several times but couldn't wait for his father to look back. After the corner was paralyzed to the ground, when he heard his daughter's call, Long Jiu flew to her daughter, and the two embraced each other and wept silently. This situation, coupled with the low and sad background music, is really disturbing. Long Jiu was overwhelmed, he turned and knelt down and begged the prison guard to forgive him, he apologized to the entire labor camp, he was as flustered as a child made a mistake, but he really didn't know what his mistake was, he was so anxious that he wanted to beg the whole world forgiveness. This picture, even if I watched it for the second time after calming down, I still burst into tears, shook my head silently, and thought to comfort him: "You are right, you owe no one." Just like the section chief roared in the court of second instance: "Who can kill someone like you, no one has said sorry to you, what exactly do you have to apologize to them?"
Such a rendition can easily resonate with the audience, and even if the film has little attention to the villain, it can make people angrily condemn and protest against this dark reality in their hearts. In the film, the well-dressed and powerful chief of the police station has a very low appearance rate, but he still successfully established a negative image of selfishness and hypocrisy, earning a lot of saliva. Even if the pain of losing his daughter is severe, he shouldn't use his power to distort the facts and kill innocent people indiscriminately when he knows the truth. This embodies a very morbid psychology. There are also the police who instigated Li Longjiu to take off his pants during the on-site identification at the beginning of the film, as well as the court-appointed defense lawyer who did not act in court. They are all villains in the film, but they have a profound and irreversible impact on Longjiu's fate. The warmth and happiness of meticulously sketched before have been destroyed.
Seeing good is not good, seeing evil is not evil, seeing sadness is not sadness, seeing joy is not joy. Similar tragicomedies like Zhou Xingchi's "Journey to the West", all give people a heavy blow in laughter, and then give birth to thinking about beautiful things.
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