Shawshank Redemption Review
Shawshank Redemption Review
Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is accused and convicted of double murder of his wife and his lover, and ports on the Shawshank prison. As a respectable banker he goes out into the prison environment and creates itself soon as enemies in the form of a gang called “sisters”, as he is sexually molested and raped by. But he also creates friends, veteran Red, a respected older man, played by Morgan Freeman, who can fix everything you could possibly need in a prison.
Shawshank prison run by Director Norton (Bob Gunton), whose watchword is discipline and the Bible, but usually it is by the sadistic Captain Hadley (Clancy Brown) who created the discipline.
Because of Andys banking knowledge and intelligence, he soon becomes popular with the guards when it turns out that he can take care of their returns, and after some years he also manages the Directors banking business.
The Shawshank Redemption is a beautiful, quiet and gentle story of the prison environment, where violence and action are rare element. Instead, it is an observation of people in prison, and especially Andys life through the eyes of his friend Red, who also stands for storytelling through film. A story about hope never dies, and how small things make big impressions.
“Everyone does different things to pass the time,” said Red in one scene, and time is something they have in perpetuity. It appears especially in Andys stubborn struggle to get prison library to grow. “It took just one letter a week for six years.” But with time, also creates strong friendships.
Again and again it surprising that one sits and smiles to himself as the movie goes. Many scenes are so brilliantly constructed and so neatly executed that you cant do otherwise. Although the end is a brilliant variation that makes you smile until after the text starts scrolling, and even then sit quietly