On paper, the plot sounds like a melodramatic farce. In execution, it is a devastatingly effective fable about the failures of the justice system and the redemptive power of paternal love.
If there is a reason this film is universally dubbed a "tearjerker," it is the execution scene. Unlike Hollywood films where the protagonist often finds a last-minute miracle to escape death, Miracle in Cell No. 7 refuses to give the audience that easy out. miracle in cell korean movie
In 1972, a 9-year-old girl (the daughter of a police official) was found dead in Chuncheon. On paper, the plot sounds like a melodramatic farce