Today's Lantern Festival, I recommend 5 movies on the theme of prison escape to watch slowly at home.
1. "Death Row Escape"
The film is based on real events and was released in 1956.
It mainly tells the story of the male protagonist Francis successfully escaping from prison a few hours before the death penalty.
The story takes place during World War II, when the male protagonist is a French officer while imprisoning his officially notorious Nazis.
Francis was beaten and scolded in prison, and he couldn't eat enough, and a fortuitous discovery breeds the idea of escaping from prison.
In order to successfully escape from prison, Francis made a seamless plan.
There are three points where this program is most bullish:
First of all, the male protagonist used a small iron spoon to pry open the cell door, just enough for someone to climb out;
Secondly, the male protagonist wrapped the cloth strips and wires together to make long ropes, and the prison wall was not afraid;
Finally, the male protagonist made a bent hook from the light frame in the prison and connected it with a long rope, a special tool for escape.
With these homemade jailbreak tools, he successfully escaped with his fellow inmates.
The film's director, Robert Bresson, was also imprisoned in a concentration camp during World War II, so he used the fewest scenes to make this classic prison escape movie.
Calling this film the originator of the prison break movie is not an exaggeration at all.
2. "The Hole"
It has been hailed as the most powerful, intense and powerful film in the history of cinema.
The story takes place in a rehabilitated prison in France, where four inmates are plotting an escape.
At this time, the prison guards arranged for a new member to move into their cell, and over time, they became part of their plan.
Speaking of action, the five people did their part and quickly dug up the passage outside the escape from the prison.
Seeing that people would be able to escape immediately, I did not expect that one person would be told that he would be released from prison in a few days.
Does he dare to take another risk to escape from prison?
What is the final result of the five people, it is not convenient to say more here, leave some suspense, and everyone will reveal it themselves.
The film is arguably the greatest film in the history of cinema about the subject of prison escape, and is the last work of french crime master Jacques Baker.
The film's tight pace and smooth plot, the suspense of the last ten minutes and the scene of flipping the small mirror, become a classic scene that cannot be missed.
The reason why the title of the film is "Hole" is not only a hole dug by five people in prison, but also a loophole in human nature.
The tool for the success of a multi-person jailbreak program is secondary, and the most important thing is honesty and trust between each other.
Can take people to escape from prison successfully, after going out, they are closer than relatives!
3. "Great Escape"
A prison escape of 250 people.
The film tells the story of the German prisoner of war camp during World War II, the American Hill and the British officer Roger plan to secretly dig a tunnel and lead 250 people to escape from prison.
In order to cooperate with this escape, the prisoners all cooperated fully and did their best to give their share.
Some are responsible for stockpiling food, some are responsible for making false documents, and some are responsible for civilian clothing to be worn after escaping.
However, the tunnel was discovered by the Germans.
They did not give up and immediately seized the time to re-dig another tunnel.
But when Hill climbed out of the cave entrance, he found that the hole was not dug in the expected place.
Instead, it was dug into the grass outside the gates of the camp.
Before the person could finish running, the action was detected. The Germans launched a carpet search, and most were arrested again.
In the end, 50 people were killed, 21 were repatriated, and only 3 people managed to escape.
The film is based on real events from World War II Allied pilots such as Bertram James and others.
Such a heavy background environment, the director still gave the audience a lot of laughter, comedy factors are quite a lot.
As a group portrait film, the characters are distinct, flesh and blood, and they have special skills and show their magic in order to escape from prison.
Although the ending of the story is not very optimistic, the prisoners have the courage to escape, protecting their last dignity as human beings.
4. "Babylon"
Based on the best-selling book of the same name published by French prisoner Henri Charlele in 1969, Papillon.
It's a true story.
"Babylon" means butterfly in French, symbolizes freedom, and is also a true portrayal of the male protagonist Charlemagne.
Charle is imprisoned for offending the gang boss, framed for murder, and exiled to a hard labor camp called "Alcatraz Island" to serve a life sentence.
Unwillingly, he escaped from prison again and again, and was caught again and again.
Once the prison escape operation began, Charle did not die, even if he was caught and locked up for 5 years, his first thought after coming out was to escape from prison.
Some netizens commented on Charlele: He is a free paranoid, a natural escapee, a heart that wants to fly, and never dies.
At the end of the story, Charlele finally escaped on a raft, and the dancing youth when he entered came out with white hair.
For decades under inhuman treatment, Charlele did not give up the idea of pursuing freedom, repeatedly defeated and fought, and broke free from the cage of bondage.
This is perhaps the biggest meaning that the film brings to us: repeated defeats have become a laughing stock, and repeated defeats are the battle songs of life.
5. "Escape from Akala"
If you can only recommend a jailbreak movie, it must be none other than it.
Based on true events, the critically acclaimed "The Shawshank Redemption" borrows many of the film's settings.
The story takes place in The Yakala Prison, known as "Hell Island" in the United States, which is said to be the most difficult prison in the world to escape.
The male protagonist, Frank Morris, was held in this prison.
As soon as he was in prison, Morris began to observe the situation in the prison.
After figuring out the geographical location, the schedule of the guards and the activities of the prisoners, he finally came to the conclusion that the prison was indeed heavily defended.
It is not strict, and it cannot highlight the amazing intelligence of the male protagonist!
The twist of the story begins with a cockroach.
Through this cockroach, Morris discovers a hole in the prison's defenses. In this old prison, the walls were corroded by moist air and the metal was rusted.
This gives the male protagonist hope, at this time do not dig a hole to stay when!
So, the male protagonist opened a long way to dig a hole, and finally escaped from prison successfully, but who would have thought that his initial hole-digging tool was just a pair of nail clippers?
This film is not perfect, and the means of jailbreaking are very crude, but this does not affect the perception.
It's not as famous as The Shawshank Redemption, but when it comes to jailbreak movies, you can't fail to see it.
In fact, in addition to these 5 movies that are known as the originators of prison escape, there are also the critically acclaimed "Shawshank Redemption" and "Golden Cicada Shell", which are all masterpieces in prison escape.
Since these two works are widely known, they will not be introduced here.
Finally, I wish you all a Happy Lantern Festival!