Fathers are an indispensable role in our growing up.
He brings us warmth and shelter and accompanies us growing up.
The theme of "fatherly love" has also spawned many classic movies, many of which are impressive father figures.
Like the optimistic Guido in "A Beautiful Life", the tenacious Gardner in "When Happiness Knocks", the stern Amir in "Wrestle, Daddy", the stoic old Zhu in "Eating Men and Women"...
They almost all appear as protectors, and the film to be introduced today is a little different.
The father in this movie has an IQ of only 6 years old, and not only does it have a hard time protecting his daughter, but he also sends himself to prison by mistake.
Gift from Room Seven
Gift of room 7
Director: Li Huanqing
Writers: Li Huanqing / Liu Yingya
Starring: Yoo Seung-yong / Park Shin-hye / Jung Jin-young / Kim Jong-tae / Oh Dae-so
Genre: Drama/Comedy/Family
Premiere: 2013-01-23 (South Korea)
Runtime: 127 minutes
This film ranked third at the box office in the history of Korean cinema.
Directed by Lee Hwan Kyung and starring Yoo Seung-yong, Ge So-won, Jung Jin-young and Park Shin-hye.
It is said that there is no one who has seen it without tears, and it is a comedy that makes people laugh and cry.
It has also been nominated for the Best Film Award at the 49th Korea Baeksang Arts Awards, the Best Planning Award at the 50th Korea Film Grand Bell Awards, the Jury Award at the 50th Korea Film Grand Bell Awards, and the Highest-Grossing Korean Film Award at the 34th Korea Film Blue Dragon Awards.
Douban also got a high score of 8.9.
The combination of a mentally handicapped father and a sensible daughter, many people will think of "I Am Sam".
Not only are the settings similar in the two films, but they are also the ultimate tear gas canisters.
But the background of "The Gift of Room Seven" is mainly in prison, which is more dramatic and has a lot of jokes.
"The Gift of Room 7" is based on a true event.
The protagonist, Zheng Yuanxie, was framed in 1972 for raping and killing the 9-year-old daughter of the police station chief, and has since begun a 15-year unjust prison life.
He was only released on parole in 1987 after being selected as a model prisoner.
Before his release from prison, his family was under tremendous social pressure and had to live in hiding. His father died because the blow was too great, his family abandoned him, and his wife was also in a car accident.
On March 28 this year, the protagonist prototype Zheng Yuanxie also left this world at the age of 87, and this real-life tragedy can be regarded as the end.
The movie "The Gift of Room 7" also made this unjust case more widely known.
In 1997, Li Longjiu, an intellectually handicapped man with only a 6-year-old child's IQ, and his lovely daughter Yisheng were dependent on each other.
Although life is simple and poor, it is full of happiness.
Yisheng is very fond of the cartoon "Sailor Moon", she is very eager to get a beautiful girl school bag, and every day she and her father go to the window to see it.
There was only one school bag left, and Long Jiu promised his daughter that she could buy it tomorrow after paying her salary.
Coincidentally, the daughter of the police chief, Cui Zhiying, also took a fancy to the bag and bought it in front of Long Jiu's father and daughter.
Watching my daughter's most desired school bag be bought by others. Long Jiu hurried forward, but was slapped several times by the police chief on the side.
After returning home, Long Jiu promised Yisheng that he must buy a beautiful girl's school bag.
The police chief's daughter is a kind girl, and she secretly comes to Long Jiu to take him to buy a beautiful girl's school bag.
Unfortunately, on the way to buy a school bag, Cui Zhiying died unexpectedly.
Long Jiu took clumsy first aid measures, but in the eyes of passers-by, it was Long Jiu who kissed the girl while taking off her pants, much like he was molesting children.
Soon, Long Jiu was arrested by the police.
The rape and murder of the police chief's daughter became sensational news.
A large number of reporters flocked to the crowd, Long Jiu was trapped in the crowd and overwhelmed, but his heart was worried about his daughter Yisheng still waiting for him at home...
In this way, Long Jiuyin was mistakenly imprisoned in Cell Seven.
Child rapists are the most reviled category in prisons.
Sure enough, after learning of Long Jiu's crime, the criminals in the cell beat him violently.
The first prisoner to beat Long Jiu was named Yang Hao, the eldest brother in Cell Seven, and the leader of the prison responsible for smuggling supplies.
He is the key to the reunion of Yisheng and Long Jiu father and daughter.
Although he is a criminal, Yang Hao has his own principles, so he deeply resents such unjust acts as raping and killing children.
In Cell Seven, there were four other criminals.
Feng Zhi, who was imprisoned for the couple's robbery gang, is very kind at heart.
Fraudster Cui Chunhao, the "lowest" person in room seven, obeys his eldest brother Yang Hao and is also the person who brings the most joy to people in room seven.
Adulterous criminal Jiang Wanfan, who looks feminine, shows admirable courage in the second half of the film.
Old Xu is the oldest in Room Seven, but there is no boundary between respect and inferiority between old and young in Room Seven, and everyone gets along like friends.
Long Jiu, who was burdened with the crime of raping and killing children, became the object of everyone's contempt.
Once, the kind Long Jiu blocked a knife from the enemy family for the eldest brother Yang Hao, and saved Yang Hao's life.
Long Jiu's righteous act won everyone's respect, and Yang Hao expressed his willingness to help Long Jiu do a favor to thank him for blocking the knife for himself.
And Long Jiu's wish is to see his daughter Yisheng, even if it is only for 2 hours.
So a happy bridge between the inside and the outside, concealing the sky and crossing the sea, began.
Yisheng mixed in the religious choir and successfully came to the prison to perform.
Then it was hidden in a cardboard box containing bread and transported by the adulterer Jiang Wanfan to Cell Seven.
In this way, with the prisoners' superb experience in smuggling materials, Long Jiu and his daughter Yisheng were finally reunited in Cell Seven.
The timid Bong-chi felt that it was too risky to do so, and if it was discovered, it would not only be pardoned but also sentenced.
But the good nature still made this group of criminals choose to help Long Jiu's father and daughter.
However, the choir abruptly left because the priest was injured.
Yisheng, who had planned to stay only for 2 hours, was stranded in Room 7.
Only The Father and Daughter of Long Jiu were very happy, and the few remaining people knew that this was a big deal.
The arrival of Yisheng warmed everyone in Room Seven like an angel.
She taught the illiterate underworld boss literacy...
Borrowed a mobile phone to help the robber Bong-sik contact his wife and newborn son...
After all, the paper wrapped can't hold the fire, and Yisheng is still found by the prison guards.
Everyone in Cell Seven was punished, and Dragon Nine was held in solitary confinement.
The incident of Yisheng also caused a deranged prisoner to set fire, and the whole prison became a fire scene in an instant.
In the chaos, the warden was trapped by the fire and died.
The kind Dragon Nine once again stepped forward and saved him regardless of his own safety.
This incident changed the warden's impression of Long Jiu,
Even made him wonder if such a kind and somewhat stupid person was really the one who committed the crime of child rape and murder?
Yi Sheng, who is once again separated from her father, begins a hunger strike, and she asks the warden to take her to jail so that she can be reunited with her father.
Impressed by the father and daughter, the warden made a crazy decision,
At the risk of being fired, he hides Yisheng in a pastry box and sends him to Cell Seven to reunite with Long Jiu.
At the same time, the warden began to investigate Long Jiu's case.
He really didn't believe that such a kind and kind person could commit such a crime.
Not only the warden, but also the prisoners in Cell Seven also became suspicious of Long Jiu's charges.
In the face of questioning, Long Jiu just kept saying that the girl had fainted.
The film uses interludes to finally let the audience see the truth of the girl's death.
It turned out that the daughter of the police chief who led Long Jiu to buy a school bag that day,
It was accidentally killed when he slipped on the icy road and broke his head during the run.
As for the pants off and obscene behavior seen by passers-by, it is actually a wrong first aid method for Longjiu.
Under tremendous pressure, the warden asked the police chief to retry Long Jiu's case.
But the director who has lost his beloved daughter has decided to hold Long Jiu responsible for his daughter's death.
He now needed an object to vent his pain and sorrow, and that person was Dragon Nine.
He asked his lawyer to warn Long Jiu that if he did not confess guilt, his daughter Yisheng would be in danger of life.
"When you die, your daughter Yisheng can live."
Long Jiu's case finally went to trial, and the police chief once again threatened Long Jiu to confess guilt.
Otherwise Yisheng would have suffered the same fate as his daughter.
For the sake of his daughter Yisheng, Long Jiu finally took on this trumped-up crime and was sentenced to death.
Faced with such an unfair verdict, several inmates in Room Seven decided to help Long Jiu escape from prison.
They want to make a hot air balloon to send Ryu-joo out of the wall, and yisheng follows the choir to prison for the last time to reunite with his father.
What follows is probably the most fairytale and romantic scene in the movie.
YiSheng and Ryujiu are sent hot air balloons in the confusion deliberately created by the prisoners.
It was the closest they had come to freedom.
YiSheng asked, "Are we going home, so happy?" ”
The reality, however, is harsh, with the rope of the hot air balloon being hooked by the prison's iron net.
They still couldn't fly out of the high wall.
During the last days when the father and daughter were together, Room Seven became a cozy island.
But underneath the surface of its happy harmony, they are close at hand.
Long Jiu celebrated his daughter's birthday for the last time before he was executed.
Finally, he gave her the beautiful girl's school bag that Yisheng had in mind.
YiSheng also performed a "big gift" (a ceremony performed by Koreans to celebrate the festival to the elders) to his father, saying, "Thank you Dad, so that I can become Dad's daughter." ”
And Long Jiu also saluted his daughter: "Thank you, you can be born in this world as a father's daughter." ”
On the day of the execution, the father and daughter pretended to say goodbye normally.
Everyone tried not to think about it as a trick, as if it were just a pick-up to school.
However, Long Jiu, who turned around and walked towards the execution ground, thought of saying goodbye to his daughter's life and death forever.
Feeling remorseful, he rushed back to cry with Yisheng.
This scene can be described as the tear point of the whole film.
A few years later, the grown-up Yisheng became a lawyer.
She personally overturned the case for her father and stood in the position of defense lawyer.
Under the struggle of Yisheng, Long Jiu's grievances were finally washed away and he was acquitted.
However, the lost life can never be returned.
Although this film is full of comedy that Korean movies are good at, the whole event, whether in terms of personal emotions or social significance, is a real tragedy.
The statement of the lawyer Yisheng arguing for her father in court is actually an angry complaint from the creator against personal interference in the judiciary and the injustice of the judicial process.
Under the reflection of all these dark realities, the warm bond between The Father and Daughter of Long Jiu is even more moving.
And Long Jiu, who is bullied everywhere, always shows the best side of human nature, which is also the reason why this movie has touched countless people.
This movie doesn't have a plot of ups and downs, all it has is a lot of tiny touches and tenderness.
Angelic little yisheng, self-sacrificing Dragon Nine, good-natured prisoners of Room Seven...
This will all come to mind for a long time after the end of the movie.
In addition to regrets, warmth lasts forever.
*This article is written by RAMA