In Paris, France in 1931, the protagonist, Papillon, is a highly skilled habitual thief and a well-known "safe killer".
Although he was a habitual thief, Papillon still combed his oily hair and looked like a decent gentleman.
He then walked into a bar, and although it was where the thieves sold their booty, there was a rule that no one could steal anything from anyone else.
Otherwise, the end will be the same as this person:
In order to make his girlfriend who works at the bar happy, Papillon disregarded the rules and stole a necklace.
Just as the two of them were walking out, the person in the stolen office saw the necklace.
Unbeknownst to him, Papillon and his girlfriend spent a happy night, and the next morning, the police broke the silence, because someone reported that Babillon killed someone, and they broke up and took Papillon away.
It turned out that the person who sold the stolen goods last night accidentally killed the guy who stole his companion's belongings, and just happened to find that The Babillon had embezzled the property, so he put the murderous pot on the head of the Babylon.
In the end, Babylon was sentenced to life in prison on charges of premeditated murder and sent to Guyana Prison, a peninsula prison where murderers and other major criminals gather.
Accepting his fate, Babylon is bitterly separated from his girlfriend and is determined to plan a prison escape.
At this time, a new partner he met in prison, Xiao Zhu, told him that "I went to that island and had money to escape."
The next day, the prisoners who were preparing to be sent to Prison Island began a medical examination, and Xiao Zhu, who had known him yesterday, pointed to a pair of glasses and said to Barbiron: "He is a millionaire, but he has been sentenced heavily for financial crimes." ”
The glasses man's name is Louis, as the only millionaire in prison, Louis is the fat in the eyes of the prisoners, and everyone is eager to take all his money after unloading him for eight pieces.
Babilon, who wants to escape from prison but is short of money, has his brain, and it is certainly not possible to rely on robbery, so it is better to go directly to Louise's bodyguard and let him exchange money for safety.
Then Babylon found Luis to explain his ideas, but Louis, who did not see the coffin without shedding tears, directly said "No, thank you, no need!" ”
Because Louis's wife was already in a relationship to try to get him out of here before going to jail, Louis wasn't nervous at all.
Unexpectedly, on the night of the refusal of The Babylon, Louis witnessed the man in the next bed being known to other prisoners because he was hiding money in his stomach, and was murdered and took all his money with a broken stomach.
The next day, the terrified Louis took the initiative to find Barbiron, agreed to Barbiron's request to be his bodyguard, and would provide funds for his escape.
That night, when another big man in the undercurrent cell tried to kill Louis, Babylon rushed out and beat him up, protecting Louis's safety.
Soon, everyone who came to prison island couldn't help but want to escape in various ways, and the little Zhu that Papillon knew before jumped from a height and self-harmed in exchange for going to the infirmary to seek escape.
Others lined up in a long line and were escorted to the square to listen to the warden, where he was the "king" and the rules were all set by him.
The first time someone who wants to escape from prison is caught back, he is directly locked up in a single cell for two years, and the second time he dares to escape from prison, then he will be imprisoned for another five years, and the third time he will be directly sent to Alcatraz island and die on his own.
After the warden finished his harsh words, the crowd was dismissed back to the cell, and after learning that the next day, Papillon used Louis's money to buy a jailer, turning the original digging and brick-moving work into a nurse.
But the newly arrived Mei Cha was not yet warm, and the deputy prison director who had been framed by Louis recognized him and directly canceled the due Mei Cha and let them move the bricks.
At the construction site, Babylon and Louis also met a bearded brother who had been in the navy, and because of the connections left over from his time as a soldier, bearded brother proposed that as long as he had money, he could get a boat to escape from prison.
As a result, Babylon and Louis reached an accomplice with him. Luckily, they also came across a farmer who had passed through prison during a labor trip, and offered to get them on board for just five thousand dollars.
Knowing that in prison, money would solve everything, Babylon generously agreed to the terms and agreed to meet next time.
In order to protect Louis as a "money jar", Babylon also desperately protected him despite his injuries and fought a fight to protect him.
Not long after, Xiao Zhu, who entered the infirmary after self-harming, was indeed not a fuel-saving lamp, but he was caught on the way out of prison, killed two prison guards, and was directly beheaded after being arrested.
By chance, the task of collecting The body of Xiao Zhu also fell on the heads of Babillon and Louis.
The two carried the corpses toward the forest, but because Sven's Louis saw the decapitation for the first time, he was so frightened that his legs were weak, and he stopped halfway through.
The prison guard who followed behind him directly picked up the whip and began to teach him, and seeing that Louis was beaten so fast that he could not hold on, Babillon took the stone in a hurry and threw it at the prison guard.
But I didn't expect this smash, which directly made the prison guard fall to the ground, thinking that he had killed the prison guard, Babilon was completely panicked, and then left Louis and ran to the depths of the jungle in a hurry.
At this time, Louis was taken back by the prison soldiers who had arrived.
And Papillon rushed to find the farmer who promised to help him escape from prison, but he did not think that this farmer was a pit cargo, he pretended to promise to help him escape, but in fact, after he escaped, he would catch him and report him to the prison director, so that the farmer could get more money.
Taken back to prison, Babylon was put in a single cell for the first time, and in addition to this airtight depression and the clear soup and fresh water he drank every day, he was insulted and beaten by the prison chief.
But there is always hope in the face of adversity, and when he learns that Babylon is in a single cell and in a dismal situation, Louis bribes the delivery man and asks him to secretly bring a coconut to Babylon every day to eat.
This touched The Babylon and gradually regained the motivation of life, and began to exercise his body in the cell every day.
But the good times did not last long, and the delivery man's secret release of coconuts was seen by the patrol guards, who were beaten to death outside the cell door on the spot.
In order to find out who had paid the delivery man, the warden found Papillon, and if he said the man's name, he could not only double the rations, but also be sent to a cell in a better environment.
However, the strong-willed Babylon was determined not to betray his companions, which made the warden very angry, and immediately ordered that The Babyillon's daily meal be reduced by half, and a wooden plank was used to cover the top of the cell, leaving The Babylon in darkness all day long.
Relying on the protagonist's aura and amazing perseverance, Barbiron accompanied himself in this way, and even survived these two years.
The dying Babylon walks out of his cell and is taken to the hospital in prison for assistance and meets Luis, who has become the warden's assistant.
Seeing his Luis again after two years, thinking that Papillon had been tortured and crazy, so he was delirious, so he told himself that he thanked him for not giving himself a coconut, and that his wife, who was hoping to save him from prison, got along with the lawyer in charge of the lawsuit.
At this time, although Louis was still talking to himself, after seeing the head nurse next to him leave, Babylon stopped pretending to be crazy and stupid.
Louis, who learned the truth, looked at him happily, and before the brothers could say anything hot, they discussed again and planned to escape from prison.
However, due to the fact that there is a big fat jailer in the prison hospital, Babylon finds another small man who is dissatisfied with the jailer and becomes a member of the prison escape gang.
They planned that when the time came, the little man would distract the jailer, and Louis would pay the money, and find the former sailor Beard brother to arrange the ship.
On the night of the escape, it rained heavily, but the plan worked successfully, and a emaciated Louis broke his leg as the four of them ran over the fence and headed out.
Despite The Bearded Brother's desire to abandon his teammates, Babylon picked up Louis with the little man and continued on his journey.
After arriving at the destination, the crowd was taken by the recipients, raising the price again and again, and the helpless Louis paid all the money he had.
The four people also boarded the fleeing boat as they wished, and finally boarded the four people on the way home, accompanied by the waves, and traveled farther and farther.
But the weight of the four big masters was not a joke, and soon this small boat that had been drifting for a long time could not bear the weight of the four people and began to sink slowly.
At this time, the sailor bearded brother who revealed the dark side of human nature directly grabbed the knife and wanted to kill a person to reduce weight, but the kind little man couldn't see it anymore, and directly resisted, but was thrown into the sea by his backhand.
Babylon also rushed up and tore at the beard, and at this critical moment, Louis, who had no power to bind the chicken, picked up the knife that had fallen on the ship, and the knife fell on the sailor beard.
Then, along with the small man who swam back to the boat, the three men left the bearded corpse behind and continued on, the three men struggled to drift, and on one morning when the sun had just risen, the three finally came to shore and were received by the local natives.
The three people who have been away from the bustling city for a long time feel like they are in paradise even in the face of this underdeveloped tribe.
Louis and the little man wanted to stay, but Babylon couldn't hold back and wanted to return to his real hometown, Paris, France.
But the good times were not long, but Babillon, who was already preparing to go on the road, found that the prison guards had tracked him down here, so Papillon immediately rushed back to the village and informed Louis and the little man.
But just after helping the injured Louis out, the prison guards who had already surrounded the place shot the little man outside and escorted Babylon and Louis back to the prison.
With the end of a 5-year single prison sentence, the once spirited Babylon has also two sideburns, and the warden, in order to teach this "prison break star" again and again, has not waited for The Babylon to plan a third escape, and directly sent him to Alcatraz Island, surrounded by the sea.
After setting foot on Alcatraz, Babylon also saw his old friend Louis again after a gap of five years.
It turned out that the warden had promoted Louis and made him an assistant, but five years ago, Louis still chose to escape from prison with Babylon, which disappointed the warden and directly sent Louis to Alcatraz to fend for himself.
From the time he went to prison to the present, he was tortured for seven years because of his escape, and now Louis has no desire to return to the world.
But it is The Babylon who has spent seven years in pain, it is precisely because of the "freedom" on this Alcatraz Island that he wants to continue to pursue the taste of home.
Seeing Luis returning from The Babylon, the two continue to plan to escape from here as intensely as before, and eventually, by collecting coconut shells, they make a "coconut boat" that can float on the water.
But when he was about to leave at the end, Louis, who had lost all his desires, did not jump on the coconut boat with the Babylon, but watched the white-haired Babylon drift away...
Many years later, an old man walked into a book publisher in Paris and wrote the story of his seven years of prison road into a book, which spread all over the world.
Because the book caused a sensation among many readers, and the French Minister of Justice reopened the investigation of the case that year, proving that Babylon was falsely imprisoned, he signed a pardon order to allow Babylon to return to France again...
Henry (Barbilon)
In 1969, Henry Charlemagne returned to Guyana Prison.
In a room full of fingernail scratches, you can clearly see his engraved name on the ground, Papillon Papillon.
In 1970, Henry's murder charges were pardoned.
"Some birds are destined not to be kept in cages, and every feather of theirs shines with the radiance of freedom."
This is a line from The Shawshank Redemption, and it is best used to describe a Babylon.
Compared to the elaborate Shawshank Redemption, BabiLong is simpler and purer.
Years of loneliness and darkness did not wear down his will, and for the sake of freedom, holding a bag of coconut shells, he dared to jump off the cliff and live to death.
As a prisoner, Babylon's dedication to life, his desire for freedom, and his indomitable resistance to oppression have infected many free people outside of prison.
In the movie, the warden once asked Babylon, why?
What are you living for?
Babylon didn't get a chance to speak, but I think, if answered, Babylon would say:
To enjoy life, to enjoy freedom.