Miracle
in cell no 7
Review
Film
· Director: Lee Hwan-Kyung
· Writer: Lee Hwan-Kyung, Kim
Hwang-Sung, Kim Young-Suk, Yoo Young-A
· Producer: Lim Min-Sub
· Cast:
Ryoo
Seung Ryoung as Father (Yong-Goo), Park Shin Hye as Ye Seung-Adult, Kal So Won
as Ye Seung-Child, Oh Dal Su as So Yang Ho, Park Won Sang as Choi Choon Ho,
Joeng Man Sik as Shin Bong Sik, Kim Jung Tae as Man Bum, Kim Ki Cheon as Old
Man Seo, Jung Jin Young as Jang Min Hwan
· Cinematographer: Kang Seung-Ki
· Release Date: January 24, 2013
· Runtime: 127 min
· Genre: Drama / Comedy / Tearjerker / Prison / Father
& Daughter / Law / Award Winning
· Distributor: Next Entertainment World
· Language: Korean
· Country: South Korea
The movie is very touching. I’ve
seen it several times but still crying. This movie is about A father (Ryoo
Seung-Ryong), who is mentally handicapped, but loves his daughter very much, is
falsely accused of a crime and sent to prison. Later, his daughter Ye-Seung (Park
Shin-Hye), who is a law school student, works to prove his innocence.
Back in 1997, Yong-Goo lives happily
with his daughter Ye-Seung (Kal So-Won), even though he has the intelligence of
a child. They stop by a shop everyday to look at a yellow Sailor Moon backpack
that he hopes to buy his daughter. One day, they notice that the last yellow
Sailor Moon backpack is being sold. Yong-Goo goes inside the store to plead his
case, but the father buying the backpack ends up slapping Yong-Goo.
The following day, the girl who
bought the yellow Sailor Moon backpack sees Yong-Goo working in the grocery
store parking lot. She tells him that she knows another store that sells the
same yellow backback. Yong-Goo follows the girl to a traditional outdoor
market. A short while later, the girl is laying on the ground unconscious and
Yong-Goo is trying to perform CPR. A woman walks by and calls the police.
Yong-Goo is accused of kidnap and
murder. The father of the dead girl is also the chief of the National Police
Agency. Yong-Goo is given the death penalty and incarcerated. In prison,
Yong-Goo shares a jail cell with five other inmates. One day, Yong-Goo saves
the life of his cellmate So Yang-Ho (Oh Dal-Su) from a rival prison gang
leader. So Yang-Ho then offers to help Yong-Goo in any way he can to return the
favor. Yong-Goo tells So Yang-Ho that he wants to see his daughter Ye-Seung.
The five inmates then plan to make a miracle happen. But in the end, Yong-Goo
in to drop the death penalty because Yong-Goo has been threatened by the victim’s
father not to explain what it really was.
Favorite Scene
1:
In
this scene, Yesung and Yong Goo met in jail. Yesung was crying out because she
has been looking for her father who did not come for a few days.
Favorite
Scene 2:
While
in this scene, where Yong Goo gonna be punished with death penalty and he heard
Yesung called him “father” a few times. Finally Yong Goo run to Yesung, Yong
Goo cried out and apologize to the police for not to punished him. Yesung cried
too because she doesn’t like her father says “Please save me”.
