Originally a banker, Andy was unjustly imprisoned for murdering his wife and lover and imprisoned for life in Shawshank Prison.
Although Andy looks weak and bookish, he is calm and calm, and his thinking is clear, which makes red, the "big brother" in the prison, look at him differently. Red helped Andy get a stone hammer and a poster of a female star, and the two slowly became acquainted and became friends.
By chance, Andy, who is well versed in financial knowledge, helps a prison guard to reasonably avoid a large amount of tax, and his reputation is not lost, and more and more prison guards come to him to deal with tax problems, and even the children's schooling problems also come to him for advice, which attracts the attention of the prison director, who recruits Andy to help launder the money.
Soon, a young inmate arrives in the prison who had heard about Andy's case while serving his sentence at another prison and knew who was the real culprit. A glimmer of hope, Andy approached the warden, hoping he would help him turn the case around. The sinister and hypocritical warden pretends to promise Andy, but behind the scenes, he designs to kill the young prisoner who knows it, and cut off Andy's hopes of possible release from prison.
Faced with the harsh reality, Andy decides to redeem himself. On a stormy night of lightning and thunder, he successfully escaped from prison and regained his freedom.
It turned out that for twenty years, Andy had secretly dug a hole in the cell every day, and then covered the hole with a poster. After Andy is released from prison, he takes some of the prison director's black money and denounces the prison director for embezzlement and bribery.
Years later, Red is finally released on parole, and he finds an iron box under the oak tree he agreed with Andy with some cash and a letter That Andy left him, and finally the two old friends are reunited by the azure sea.
The film "The Shawshank Redemption" received 10 nominations for the 1995 Oscars, as well as many nominations for the Golden Globe Awards and Saturn Awards. When it was released that year, the response was mediocre, and even the cost was not recovered, but then it gradually gained a reputation in the videotape market and TV movie channel screenings, and it was firmly at the top of the most popular movies in the IMDB rating vote.
When we are in a situation like Andy, whether we are discouraged and sink, or break through the cage and fly to freedom, I believe that everyone will have different answers.