The Shawshank Redemption

Some movies can change the way of life but this movie can change the mood of your life as soon as you remember the Hope around this movie.

It’s start as a prison story where Warden Samuel Norton had declared,”I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you’ll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.”

And what Red(Morgan Freeman) describe about that first night in Shawshank,”The first night’s the toughest, no doubt about it. They march you in naked as the day you were born, skin burning and half blind from that delousing shit they throw on you, and when they put you in that cell… and those bars slam home… that’s when you know it’s for real. A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it.”

Than came the man called Andy(Tim Robbins),who filled Red with his hope of redemption.Check out conversation b/w Andy and Red about music.

Andy Dufresne: That’s the beauty of music. They can’t get that from you… Haven’t you ever felt that way about music?
Red: I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn’t make much sense in here.
Andy Dufresne: Here’s where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don’t forget.
Red: Forget?
Andy Dufresne: Forget that… there are places in this world that aren’t made out of stone. That there’s something inside… that they can’t get to, that they can’t touch. That’s yours.
Red: What’re you talking about?
Andy Dufresne: Hope.

In other scene what Andy declared and that is the real thing about this movie.

Andy Dufresne: “Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

The most courageous thing controlled by that hope of Andy was this.

Red: In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. I remember thinking it would take a man six hundred years to tunnel through the wall with it. Old Andy did it in less than twenty.Oh, Andy loved geology. I imagine it appealed to his meticulous nature. An ice age here, million years of mountain building there. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes really, pressure, and time.Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit smelling foulness I can’t even imagine, or maybe I just don’t want to. Five hundred yards… that’s the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile.

What this movie told me,“ Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

Enjoy this movie if you like to believe in Hope.

The movie was nominated for seven Academy Awards in 1994 (Best Picture, Best Actor– Morgan Freeman, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Sound Mixing).