Today, I would like to introduce you to a 2009 French action crime movie "Cell 211", with a Douban score of 8.0 and 14th in the French action film list.
Cell 211, also known as Inside and Out of Prison, Beast in Prison, Celda 211. The 112-minute film is directed by Spanish director Daniel Monzon and starring Jorge Guliceva, Alberto Ammann, Luis Tosar and Antonio Resines.
At the 24th Spanish Goya Awards in 2010, the film won eight awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Newcomer Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Sound Effects, and seven nominations. In 2010 the 23rd Edition of European Cinema will receive Best Actor (Nominated) Luis Tossar, Best Screenplay (Nominated) Daniel Monzon/Jorge Grigaye Chevallia.
The film tells the story of Juan (Alberto Aman), a new prison guard, who goes to prison a day early to get acquainted with his work in order to make a good impression in front of his colleagues. As a result, he is knocked unconscious by a loose brick accidentally dropped by the prison, coinciding with the prison bully "Evil Mother" (Luis Tossar) strangling the prison guards, planning a prison riot, and before he can take Juan's colleagues, he leaves him in the empty cell 211. Juan wakes up looking at the riot-filled prison full of prisoners, and in order to protect himself, he has to take off everything suspicious and hide before anyone else finds out that he is a prison guard. When he was taken to the evil mother, he forcibly and calmly fabricated his own murder sentenced to 17 years, and won the trust of the prison people, and he also added a new nickname of "Panty Boy". In addition to the ordinary common criminals, the prison also temporarily holds three terrorists from the terrorist organization "ETA" with more than 100 years of imprisonment, and the evil mother wants to use the three terrorists as hostages to force the government to improve the prison environment. It turned out that in prisons, criminals were often abused and beaten by prison guards, whether they pulled prisoners to a small black room and confined, and there were also prisoners who died because they were sick, but because they were not accepted by prison guards, and the prisoners in front of the 211 cell had tumors in their heads, but no one cared about them and could not bear the pain of suicide.
Juan lurks next to the evil mother while secretly trying to contact the prison guards outside. But all this changed because of Juan's wife.
Juan's wife, who had been pregnant for several months, saw news of the prison riots on television and was worried about Juan, but could not contact Juan, so she drove to the prison where Juan worked to look for it. Outside the prison, all the relatives of the prisoners gathered to demand, and Juan's wife was knocked to the ground by the violent warden and panicked during the explosion-proof police dispersing the crowd, and was seriously injured and taken to the hospital, but neither the person nor the fetus was rescued and both died.
Juan in prison learned of this sad news, and on the other side, his identity as a prison guard was also found out...
"Cell 211" is a relatively open and bold film, the film's point of view is to attack the inaction and inadequacy of government officials' policies from the perspective of prisoners' human rights, this film will certainly not be released in China, it breaks through the general position, through the transformation of Juan's identity between prison guards and prisoners, cleverly highlighting the theme, looking at the two paragraphs on the wall of cell 211 "Molauin died of headache here", next to "Panties Boy died here", making people's agitated mood can not be calmed for a long time.