I think I need to punch the Great Wall and break my arm to feel manly again.
It's been around social media for months now my friends have watched it, my mom's friends have watched it and all of them have the same reaction - 'waah', 'sniffle', and 'sob'.
Miracle in Cell No. 7 is the heartrending story of Lee Yong-gu, a mentally challenged man who was wrongfully accused of the death of a child, and his daughter, Ye-Sung. The film plays well with emotions, one scene you find yourself laughing and then on the next you're drowning in your own tears, at least that was the case for me. By the numbers, humorous scenes were greater than the dramatic scenes that open the floodgates, it's actually not until halfway through the film where the heavy emotions started to settle in, but once they did my eyes were wet until the end.
The story plays along the lines of courtroom drama to prison break to heist to family to tragedy, but it doesn't really come as a surprise that all of those fit awkwardly well together in the story of Miracle in Cell No. 7. In the surface, it's the story of a misunderstood father and his daughter fighting all odds to be together but dwelling in deeper is the injustice among the people with power. Even with some more-fantasy-than-reality subplots that prolonged the story, and characters with uneven developments the buildup of emotions was tremendous going into the climax which is painfully hard to take.
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| Hopeful but not entirely joyous |
For an anime fan like me to go 'Clannad~AS~ 18' on a live-action movie speaks volumes about its power to resonate emotions to its audience.
Now please excuse me, I need to find a lesser wall to punch.
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