Sunday, 10 May 2020

Miracle In Cell Number 7

The Turkish drama Yedinci Kogustaki Mucize (Miracle In Cell Number 7) is based on a south korean  movie with the same name . This movie tells the story of love , kindness, hope and friendship.  It mainly talks about love between a father and his daughter.   It is highly emotional and heart warming.
         The story is about a mentally challenged man Memo (Aras Bulut Iynemli) and his daughter Ova (Nisa Sofiya Aksongur). Memo's  mental  illness is unnamed but he is said to be the same age as his 7 year old daughter mentally. Memo and Ova live with Memo's grandmother because she is the only surviving family member they have as Ova's mother died when Ova was still a baby.
Memo,Ova and Memo's grandmother. 
             The little family lives a happy and fairly normal life. Memo takes care of his grandmother's sheep and does petty trading once in a while to make money for the family. One day Memo goes to pick Ova from school and she sees "Heidi backpack" in a shop. She likes the backpack and asks her father to get it for her but the money with him is not enough to buy it. Memo assures Ova that he is going to sell candy apples at the children's day parade which was the following day and then buy the backpack for her.
         On getting back to the shop the next day, the bag was being purchased. An high ranking military officer was getting it for his daughter Seda. Memo tries to plead with the man to sell the bag back to him but the man refuses and instead slaps Memo. A few days later while tending to his flock of sheep, Memo runs into Seda and a group of children playing. Seda lures Memo with the backpack and leads him to a cliff. Memo warns her against playing on the cliff because she might fall but Seda refuses and eventually she slips,  hits her head hard and dies. Seda's parents who came looking for he finds her lifeless in Memo's arms. Memo tries to explain what happened but they wouldn't listen to him. He was taken to a room where he was tortured and forced to sign a confession. 
Memo and Ova before he was arrested. 

            While been driven to prison the following day, Ova and her great grandmother tries to see Memo but were not allowed and Memo shouts to Ova that "the one eyed giant saw it" i.e a giant rock near the cliff that Seda fell from. On getting to the rock, Ova found a young man and he told her that he saw everything that happened and her father was innocent.  Ova was excited and asks the man to wait there while she goes to call her great grandmother but when she gets back the man is not there. Ova determined to find the man goes back there everday having hope that the man will return but he did not return and she never saw him again.
           Memo's cell mates at first did not like him because they taught he was guilty of killing a child but eventually they got to know him better. They believe his verdict is unfair because he is mentally challenged and he dies not act like someone that can kill a child. They decide to help him sneak in Ova into the cell to meet him because he was refused visitors. Ova reunites with her father and is introduced to his cell mates who were charmed by her. Eventually,  the warden found out about Ova's illegal visit and takes her home. Ova inform him about the eye witness in the rock and he agrees to investigate.
Memo's cell mate surprise Memo by sneaking in Ova.
       Meanwhile when Ova's great grandmother found out she has gone to see Memo she has a heart attack and dies. Ova's teacher takes care if Ova and with the help of the warden the witness is found  but when they bring him to Seda's father he shoots the witness.  So without a witness the death sentence on Memo still stands. Does Memo gets executed or is there indeed a Miracle in Cell Number 7??

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