Hope is one of the most beautiful expectations in the world.
But at the same time, hope is also the most fragile existence.
Especially for those who are accustomed to walking alone between prisons, the existence of hope is undoubtedly more like a fantasy.
Despite this, there are still people who have paid for nearly twenty years of devotion, like a mirage of disillusionment, even if they know that it is a sacred place that is difficult to reach, they still do not give up their inner hope for hope.
What is to be redeemed in The Shawshank Redemption is such a vague hope.
This film is adapted from stephen King's novel of the same name in "Four Seasons of Wonder", and then directed by Frank Dalabant, starring Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman and other films, from the beginning of its release, it has received unprecedented response around the world, although it has received multiple Oscar nominations, but finally lost the Oscar awards, but the human charm shown by "Shawshank Redemption" has not been bleak in the history of world cinema because of the Oscar awards.
The more films that can reflect human nature, the more they can often be in the silhouette of time, lasting.
Such is the case with The Shawshank Redemption.
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Set in the Americans of the last century between the forties and fifties, Banker Andy (Tim Robbins) is a typical American figure of a successful man.
However, behind the appearance of his successful career, his marriage and family are like a tsunami of decadence, her wife has an extramarital affair with a golf coach, and after a fierce dispute with his wife, Andy escapes the failure of the marriage by drinking.
However, when he returns home the next day, he finds his wife and lover both lying in a pool of blood, while Andy is taken to Shawshank prison by the police for murder.
In Shawshank Prison, hope is an extremely slim existence.
The violence of the prison guards, the greed of the warden Norton (Bob Gunton), and the cruelty between the cellmates all make Andy, who has just been "guilty", feel a deep malice.
Shawshank's thick walls imprison not only people like Andy who long for freedom, but also souls who have returned to their good nature.
For example, Red (played by Morgan Freeman), such as Brooks (James Whitmore), the ordinary life they once longed for, when it was truly realized, the rhythm of life that had been used to being taken for granted in prison in the past had turned the various expectations in prison into bubbles in the tit-for-tat confrontation after encountering reality, Brooks chose to commit suicide, and Red had already had the intention of taking his own life in his heart.
I have to say that habit is really a terrible thing, and its horror lies in the fact that the beauty you think is just a kind of self-care and painting.
Like Brooks, who had lived in the prison library for nearly fifty years, finally got the chance to escape from Shawshank, but finally chose to commit suicide because he could not adapt to the outside society.
Fifty years is enough time for a person to gradually transition from a barbaric life that he was not used to into a comfortable habit.
After witnessing Shawshank's evil, Andy secretly drew up a plan to escape from prison after knowing that he could not achieve the freedom he wanted through the normal channels.
During the day he went out with his fellow inmates to work, and in the dead of night, he carved free passages in the walls through a small hammer bought from Red, and through his own expertise, helped the prison guards avoid taxes and launder money, thus gaining their favor and adding a winning percentage to the freedom.
At the same time, beginning in 1947, he petitioned one after another, finally winning a chance of redemption for the other prisoners who fell into distress, as he said:
The inner hope is free and will not be locked up by the stone walls of the prison.
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With such a vision of freedom, Andy spent nearly 20 years in Shawshank.
Originally, according to his plan, it would take him a lot of time to completely break through Shawshank's relationship with the outside world, but because Tommy (Jill Bellos) told him about the murder of his wife and lover, after some futile efforts, Andy finally chose to implement the plan in advance.
On a night of thunderstorms, Andy finally manages to escape from Shawshank, regain the light, and make public all the crimes against the warden, so that the greedy warden has to commit suicide in fear.
Soon, Shawshank soon ushered in a brief spring.
Red finally got the chance to get parole after being denied parole for more than three decades.
For Red, who had been isolated from the outside world for nearly thirty years, he was in a situation like Brooks, and he could not return to normal life at all, and when he germinated the idea of repeating Brooks's mistakes, he suddenly remembered a passage that Andy had told him:
If you have a chance to get parole, be sure to go and dig up something under the tree in Buxton, where there's the gift I've prepared for you.
So, following Andy's description, Red found a box in Buxton containing the travel expenses Andy had left him and the address where he currently lived.
Soon, according to the address left by Andy, Red was reunited with Andy again, and two old friends who had been working together in Shawshank for nearly 20 years finally felt the pleasure of freedom on the sunny coast.
Although the film is called "The Shawshank Redemption", if you look at the plot development of the film, the only people who really get redemption may be Andy and Rhett.
However, as a film that can enter the history of world cinema, is "The Shawshank Redemption" only as superficial as the picture shows?
Obviously, the "redemption" revealed in this film does not lie in Andy andRed.
For this film, the so-called "redemption" is nothing more than the "hope" itself, and how can "redemption" be achieved?
"Freedom" is the greatest redeemer of "hope."
In the film, before Andy enters Shawshank, everyone, including Red and Brooks, has accepted the rules of the system laid down by Shawshank, accustomed to living in the shadows, and understands hope, as Red said:
In Shawshankri, hope is useless and only drives people crazy.
So after all the struggles were in vain, Red and Brooks had to accept Shawshank's arrangement, pretending to be quiet and light in the presumed beauty.
With the arrival of Andy, these whitewashed beauties have finally been stripped of their hypocrisy layer by layer, revealing Shawshank's original sin and evil.
With Andy's efforts, he built the best prison library in the state of England for Shawshank, so that everyone in the dark, from the ocean of knowledge to get salvation, to achieve a short period of inner freedom, and through his nearly twenty years of tireless efforts, with the yearning for freedom, finally from Shawshank's savagery, a new life, along with the prison friend - Red.
The Shawshank Redemption is about redeeming not only the reborn Andy and Red, but more importantly, the redefinition of "hope" for those who are still suffering in Shawshank:
In the middle of the night when no one is there, even if there is no street lamp to accompany you, do not light up a light with hope in your heart.
As the film says:
Hope is beautiful, perhaps the best in the world, and good things never die.
For us in real life, life itself is a Shawshank-like existence, and Mr. Qian Zhongshu has already revealed the true meaning of life for us in "Siege".
However, even so, we can still break through the sieges of life and fulfill the breeze we want.
After all, some birds can never be shut down, because each of their wings is stained with the radiance of freedom!
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