"Escape from Yakara" is a very realistic film, just so plain to tell one thing, Eastwood played Frank has very little words, excellent INTELLIGENCE. Even why this protagonist is in prison, the film does not explain, he went to prison, it seems that there is only one purpose, that is, to escape from prison.
Let's start with the doctor who painted the painting, the prisoners were letting the wind in the square, and Eastwood came over and asked the doctor, what is the flower on the chest of the character on the painting? The doctor said that this was something hidden deep inside me, something they couldn't control. This is the best line in the film, in Yakala Prison, surrounded by cold sea water, no one can escape, only those who try to escape from prison and are more difficult to manage will be sent here, here to try to shut everything up.
So when the old doctor guards what he has in his heart every day and paints oil paintings, he should be free. It was just that the warden searched the dormitory, and saw the warden painted by the doctor, and he was probably not satisfied, so he ruthlessly deprived him of the right to paint oil paintings. The doctor, who has nothing to say, does not resist, and in the factory where he works, the doctor borrows an axe and without hesitation cuts off half of his own hand, such an accusation, thorough and decisive, but the film does not show the incident more deeply, but only shows Eastwood's anger. In the film's successor, The Shawshank Redemption, this event is amplified and is one of the most touching points in the film.
In prison, Eastwood encountered almost no opposition, and the only fat man who was interested in him had no fighting power to speak of. Moreover, Eastwood's friends were always helping him, helping him dodge the dark arrow, and this taciturn and highly intelligent man seemed to know from the first day he came in that he was definitely going to escape. Therefore, the black friends in the prison library always say "bye, boy", a simple sentence, which hides a certain feeling of pity.
In the second half of the film, the preparation to dig a hole to escape from prison is heart-wrenching, because the prison guards are always turning around to patrol, which exacerbates this tension. Eastwood is calm and dominant in the whole process, the two brothers are also more optimistic, they should like the prison escape type, as for the friend in the dormitory next door to Eastwood, at first we can't see his withdrawal and fear, but the film shows that his mother is about to die, his girlfriend said I love you when visiting the prison, and he initially showed a strong desire to escape from prison. And at the crucial moment, he flinched, frightened.
This also shows from the side that most people in prison want to escape, and when they really implement prison escape, it takes courage, which is why many people regard bravery as the most important quality in life.
The film is based on real events, and today Yakala is a tourist attraction, who thought that in the escape incident that year, the whereabouts of the three prison escapees are still unknown, which adds to the extended connotation of the film, when it was released in 1979, such a movie was no less than the feeling when It was released in Shawshank in the 90s. The true roughness of Escape from Akara laid the foundation for the great success of The Shawshank Redemption. Contrast it with shawshank's inheritance and adaptation of escaping from Yakala, as well as the artistic treatment, Shawshank is more profound, and the eternal proposition of hope it expresses has made many people stand up and continue to work hard. But anecdotally, "The Shawshank Redemption" did not win an Oscar because most of the plots were copies of the escape from Yakala, not pure originality, but this did not affect its long-term position as the number one on the list.
At the end of the escape from Yakala, the flower that was crushed by the prison warden reappears intact on the seashore, and when the warden sees the flower, the three people who escaped from the prison are missing, which is a great irony, and the Yakala Prison was closed the following year.
So, why do we all like prison break films, the happiness of escape, we call the realization of hope, in fact, the more profound thing behind this is that we all like the sense of conquest that life crosses a big obstacle, such as the drama "Langya List", everything in the play is under control, and the kind of life that rises without hindrance who does not like.
Therefore, no matter how rough "Escape from Yakala" is, "The Shawshank Redemption" plays a great role in it, we must guard what is hidden deep inside, no one can control it, no one can imprison it, and we must have full confidence to guard it, just like the prison escape trio jumped into the cold waters, how piercing and courageous to look forward to rebirth.