The walls in prison are really interesting, when you first enter prison, you hate the walls around you, and slowly, you get used to living in it, and eventually you find that you have to rely on it to survive, which is institutionalization.
The story takes place in 1947, when banker Andy is accused of shooting his wife and her lover, and Andy is sentenced to life imprisonment, which means he will spend the rest of his life in Shawnke prison.
Red was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in 1927 and was released on parole several times without success. He became an "authority figure" in Shawnke's prison, and as long as you could afford it, he had a way to get almost anything you wanted: cigarettes, candy, alcohol, even marijuana. Whenever a new prisoner arrived, everyone bet on who would cry on the first night. Red thinks that Andy, who is weak and angry, will cry, and as a result, Andy's silence causes him to lose two packs of cigarettes. But it also made Red look at him differently.
For a long time, Andy did not contact anyone, and while everyone complained, he walked leisurely in the yard, just like in the park. A month later, the first thing Andy asked Red to help him with was a small pick, explaining that he wanted to sculpt something to kill the time, and saying that he managed to escape the routine checks of the prison authorities. Soon, Red was playing Andy Ker's chess. Later, Andy put a huge poster of movie star Rita Hayworth on the wall of the cell.
Andy's knowledge of the financial system soon freed him from the heavy manual labor of prison and the harassment of other perverted prisoners. Soon, the famous Andy began to deal with tax issues for more and more prison guards, and even asked him about the advancement of children. At the same time, Andy has gradually become an important tool for money laundering by Shawn Ke, Warden Norton. Because Andy kept writing letters to the governor, he finally obtained a small amount of money for the prison library to build. Prison life is very dull, and you always have to find something to do yourself. Andy heard that Red liked playing the harmonica and bought one for him. In the dead of night, the melodious and gentle sound of the harmonica can be heard echoing in the prison.
Andy's peaceful prison life is shattered by the arrival of a young prisoner: this prisoner has heard Andy's case before while serving his sentence in another prison, and he knows who the real murderer is! But when Andy petitioned the warden to reopen the case, he was refused and severely punished with two months of solitary confinement. In order to prevent Andy's release, the warden designed to kill the insider!
Faced with the harsh reality, Andy becomes depressed. One day, he said to Red, "If one day you can get parole, you must go somewhere to fulfill a wish for me." That's where I first dated my wife, digging up a box under a big oak tree there. Then you'll know what it is. That night, the wind and rain were thick, the thunder was loud, and Andy, who had been redeemed by his soul, successfully escaped from prison.
It turned out that for twenty years, Andy had been digging holes with that little crane hoe every day, and then covering the hole with posters. After Andy was released from prison, he took some of the black money saved by the warden and reported the truth about the warden's corruption and bribery. What the warden saw in the safe where he kept his small ledger was a Bible left by Andy, the first page of which said "the way to salvation is in it", and there was a hollowed-out part of the Bible to hide the burrowing crane's beak hoe.
After 40 years in prison, Red was finally released on parole, he found a box of cash and a handwritten letter from Andy under the oak tree he agreed with Andy, and the two old friends were finally reunited on the sunny waterfront of Mexico.
This movie has accompanied countless people through the most difficult days of their lives
Despite the hardships of life, as long as there is hope in our hearts, we throw away choices.
What makes you sad, one day, you will definitely say it with a smile
A diploma does not necessarily make a person, just as a prison life does not necessarily break everyone
I have to remind myself that some birds cannot be kept in a cage, every piece of their feathers shines with freedom, and when they fly away, you feel that it is a sin to lock them up, but you will feel lonely when they are gone, but I just miss my friends