Film Review — The Shawshank Redemption

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The Shawshank Redemption

What’s the Film Trying to Say?

The Shawshank Redemption is one of the most interesting movies of the time of its release. The movie is based on a novella which is written by Stephen King. The characters in the film are quite interesting. Robbins has played Andy where he was a banker and was sentenced to prison on account of murdering his wife and her lover. The plot involves a judge who sentenced Andy and considered him a particularly remorseless and icy man. When it comes to the prison in Maine, it can easily be observed that Andy’s aloofness along with his cool reserve was not seen being accepted by other inmates.

One of the most highlighted parts of the entire film is when Andy gets raped by a group of angry men. Andy is given a number of long stretches by those angry men, because of the bad attitude of him. However, Andy seems to be quite lucky as he was befriended by Morgan Freeman who played the role of Red. In The Shawshank Redemption, Red was a prison fixer. Andy being a banker had great accounting skills, and starts doing the taxes for the guards. The outcomes of this result in providing Andy with a cushy job of librarian. With the passage of time, Andy wrangles money out of state official for building a fine library anywhere.

Frank Darabont who is the director and the writer as well of The Shawshank Redemption has tried to draw out intense and strong performances from Tims Robbins and Morgan Freeman as soulmate who tend to support each other. It must be taken into consideration that red sees hope as a dangerous thing that tends to drive someone insane. However, the belief of Andy is that it is nothing but fuel that keeps one going against odds.

Was it Worth to Make it?

The film The Shawshank Redemption is undoubtedly worth to make due to a number of reasons. First of all, the entire story is quite great which tends to engage the viewer to watch the entire movie without getting bored. The Shawshank Redemption is an amazing film as it has been able to increase the fanbase of the entire cast of the film. The movie undoubtedly encompasses dreams, hopes, and hardships. So, basically the movie gives hope to the audience, and it is something great about The Shawshank Redemption that it moves you.

There is no doubt that the circumstances between the viewers and the characters of the film are quite different. However, the viewer does not feel that far removed from what a character is going through. It can simply be said that The Shawshank Redemption is a simple film, but still, it has an everlasting message for the viewers. Frank Darabont did not require to put any sort of outlandish special effects in order to get viewers to love his film. It is nothing, but the acting along with narration that does for him.

The question to be a debate on is why The Shawshank Redemption is such a nice movie still have not been able to win all seven Oscars. However, the matter of fact is that the film ranks on IMDb’s top 250 list. Apart from the message that a viewer may get from this movie, the acting in The Shawshank Redemption is simply phenomenal. There is no doubt that the performance given by Tim Robbins is one of the greatest. Throughout the film, Tim Robbins was intelligent and inspiring, and the most important part is that he was positive from all angles. In a nutshell, the movie was worth to make it.

Work Cited

"The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Imdb." IMDb. N. p., 2019. Web. 4 Mar. 2019.