Miracle in Cell No. 7 - South Korean Film

Salazar, Mark Anthony M.

STEM 1-F

MIRACLE IN CELL NO. 7

Introduction

        Miracle in Cell No. 7 is a 2013 South Korean film that was released on January 23, 2013. Starring Ryu Seung-ryong as Lee Yong-gu, Kal So-won as a child Ye-sung, Park Shin-hye as an adult Ye-sung they are the main characters in the film. It was directed by Lee Hwan-kyung

Review

All characters play very important roles to construct the whole movie. This is an impressive comedy and family melodrama that you’ll need to prepare a bunch of tissues when you watch this movie. It was a powerful tearjerker film. The sound of the movie is fitted or equal to the emotions of the characters. When it comes to lighting it has too much lighting cause by the sunlight. All in all I must say it is a must watch movie.

Plot

Lee Yong-gu, a mildly handicapped, single father that raises her young daughter Ye-sung. Lee Yong-gu wants to get her a Sailor Moon backpack, which leads him to follow a child and it was the police commissioner’s daughter, bringing him down to a shop that has them in stock. Until the conflict happens where the young girl was seen dead and Lee Yong-gu is quickly judged as a kidnapper, rapist and murderer. Lee Yong-gu is accused as a child-killer and put in cell no. 7 where the prisons there are big criminals. As Lee Yong-gu is in the prison he was worried about her child Ye-sung, all the things that is on mind is on her daughter. Lee Yong-gu saved his cellmate Yang-ho from a stab that might kill him. As the cellmates saw that Yong-gu is afraid to lose her daughter they brought Ye-sung into the cell no.,  Jang Min-hwan, the warden at the time of Yong-gu’s detention noticed that Yong-gu was an innocent person, he reinvestigate his case and get the files of the detainee and noticed that Lee Yong-gu was just forced to commit the crime. The warden and his cellmates help him to fight for his case. But the fatherly love of Yong-gu has been in his heart that if he said that he was guilty, Ye-sung will still be alive. The cell no. 7 people wish a happy birthday to Ye-sung. But soon, the executor calls Yong-Gu. Yong-Gu and Ye-sung started to cry and hugged each other. Unfortunately, Yong-gu was falsely accused, all his hardships went into nothing and he was sentenced into death. When the time comes that he will be killed he realized that he was wrong in admitting a lie to the court and it was too late, in that time an innocent father dies. After several years, Ye-Sung became an adult. She won and cleared her father’s name in honor of his loving father.