This is a good film without a heroine, no love, no stunts, douban score of 9.7 in the history of the super high score movie, perennially ranked first in the Douban and IMDB rankings, has become a well-deserved uncrowned king, can be called a classic in the classic, circulated in the world,
Even people who have not seen this movie have more or less heard of it.
The owner of the film, Gong Andi, is a banker, young and promising, but he was unjustly imprisoned and accused
If talent and luck are inversely proportional to the murder of his wife and her lover, then the male protagonist Andy is an outstanding representative. Police officers who informed the location but could not find "incriminating evidence", lawyers who relied on reasoning, and judges who listened to the case, these American elites sent the banker Andy to prison like a word puzzle. And will be imprisoned for life.
So Andy was imprisoned in this prison called Shawshank, which is a cage made of reinforced concrete, no one can escape, and Andy who has just entered the prison is like a rookie, the old bird always teases the rookie, not to mention in prison, he begins to suffer all kinds of malicious eyes, being provoked by people's words, and even being violated by the same sex. Here, the rest of Andy's life seems doomed to a gloomy despair, and a glance to the end, but it is not long before Andy tries to accept everything here, intending to start over.
On this day, the warden Norton wants to find 12 free hard laborers to repair the roof, and Red thinks it is a good job, so he buys the prison guard and a group of old classmates to go to work happily, including Andy.
Captain Hadley, who was in charge of supervising The work of Red and his party, became more irritable under the influence of the sun, and from time to time raised the annoyance of inheriting a huge inheritance to his peers. Andy used his talents to help Hadley successfully save a sum of money, he had no waves in his heart and ordered three dozen beers from Hadley to his fellow prisoners, Andy proved with excellent professionalism that his title as a banker was not a waste, Red and his party drank beer in the sunset, like free men decorating the roof of their own house ↓ After that, Red and the other prisoners slowly accepted Andy, with Red's help, he asked Red to help him get a small hammer and a poster of a female star, in this steel cage prison What does a small hammer do?
Andy used his talents to help the captain of the guard here solve the tax problem, after which Andy got a hammer from the other prisoners, but he only carved a few words on the wall.
On this day, the prisoners who had previously violated Andy blocked Andy in a room, ready to make friends with Andy again, but this time, Andy bravely fought back, using his courage and wisdom to defeat this group of demons, and after Andy used his talents to help Captain Hadley last time, the prison administrators discovered the value of Andy, and they taught the prisoners who violated Andy a harsh lesson, and since then, no one in the prison has dared to bully Andy. Soon, Andy showed his talents in the prison, acting as a prison librarian, and using his financial knowledge to help prison officials avoid taxes, which eventually attracted the attention of the warden, so he was recruited to help the warden launder money. Once in a while, he learned that a newly imprisoned thief could testify to help him exonerate him of murder. This gave Andy, who had already accepted prison life, a glimmer of hope, so Andy approached the warden and hoped that he would help him overturn the case. But how could the sinister and hypocritical warden easily let go of this free financial adviser, who pretended to promise Andy, but behind his back sent someone to kill the thief, so that Andy's only hope of legally getting out of prison was extinguished, so that he could continue to launder money for himself in prison. At the same time, the old prisoner Lao Bu in the prison was finally released, and he spent most of his life managing the library of the prison, which is equivalent to a job with a "establishment", but after he was released from prison, he was not accepted by this society, he had no relatives, no friends, and the contrast between society and prison life made him go to the extreme, ending his life, and the "institutionalized" Lao Bu ended his most humble life in the most extreme way. Once upon a time, we could also find our own shadow in Lao Bu. Maybe we won't be as impulsive as Lao Bu, but we will always linger like Lao Bu at times.
After all this, Andy has not only endured physical torture, but also suffered mental torture, fate is always joking with him, he seems to be imprisoned forever in this dark cage, together with a group of demons who have not seen the light for a long time, here to die. However, Andy was not actually destroyed, and the blows made him stronger and more excited, and he also passed on hope to Red and others
A month later, Andy suddenly confided in Red about his crimes, telling Red that if he could get out, he would go to Zihuatanejo, Mexico, where he would open a hotel and buy a fishing boat. He left something for Red and went to the designated place to find it when Red went out, which rekindled some hope in Red's heart.
On a night of lightning and thunder, wind and rain, a decades-hidden escape plan began, and Andy used the hammer that Red had helped him to get every day, little by little, chiseling through Shawshank Prison. He chiseled a passage for himself to freedom, to new life, he ran freely in prison, allowing the baptism of wind and rain, he opened his hands and embraced the world again. Yes, he, free.
After Andy goes out, he uses his knowledge as a banker to take the warden's money and hand over the warden's evidence of the crime to the police, and the sinister and cunning Norton is finally brought to justice.
At the same time, Red approves the application for release from prison, and Andy's hope and freedom ideas also deeply affect Red, and at the end of the film, Red gives up the job he doesn't like and embarks on a journey to find Andy, and finally they hug each other on the beach under the blue sky and white clouds.
In this film, Andy is not only an inspirational hero, but also the redeemer of many prisonmates, he is a person in Shawshank Prison who really redeemed his soul, a person who finally reconciled so many strong conflicts in his heart and let his life return to peace.
Finally, to quote a sentence from the play: life can be boiled down to a simple choice: either busy living or busy dying. Life is inherently dead, or lighter than Hong Mao, or heavier than Taishan. Life is not full of ups and downs, but as long as we firmly believe and go down along our own beliefs, there will always be a blue sea and blue sky waiting for us.