The Shawshank redemption was one the awe inspiring movie I have watched. It is this classical movie that has cognitive contents to bring out a meaningful message to give viewers much food for thought. This movie provides a whole new perspective towards what things may appear to be true.
The main character believes that all it takes you to be a crook is to be in a prison. Everyone have to agree with that. He said “The funny thing is, on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.” As an innocent man, Andy was sentenced for jail for murder. All proof is against him despite being a clean person. Basically, life in prison was gruesome and hard. Andy was bullied for the first 2 years and eventually being accepted by some of the gang and the prison’s warden. He bonded with another friend named Red. The warden was a devoted, pious Christian and well versed in Bible. He could remember every sentence in the Bible with exact precision of page and line which the verse was written. Well, of course a warden of a prison must be a justice man and a loyal servant of God. This is what everyone would see. However, we should never judge a person by his/her position, behind his smile, the warden was one of the foulest mouthed characters in the movie. He is also a greedy and fake person. With Andy’s experience in the bank, the warden exploited his skills to launder money under his scheme and use prison labor for public works to get illegal payoff. The guards in the prison are also indifferent from the warden too.
Andy’s final hope of proving himself innocent was dashed off when a prisoner who claimed that he knew the truth Andy’s case was killed by the warden. The despicable warden wanted to continue with his money laundering and kept Andy’s mouth shut by confining him in the prison. Nevertheless, as things might appear to the end for Andy, he was found missing in the cell one day. The plots thicken as a hole was suddenly found in his cell covered by a poster. It was revealed that Andy managed to use a rock hammer he obtained from Red to dig a hole to the exit tunnel during his last 2 decade in prison. He crawled 500 yard through shit to reach his long waited freedom. At the same time, he managed smuggled the evidence of the warden’s money laundering which was hidden in the bible by switching with his Bible. The warden committed suicide at the end to prevent capture from the police. Off you go pathetic idiot !!
Andy managed to nail himself to a live he wanted in an island in Pacific. With his wit, he outplayed and outsmart the warden and his guard. He never give up when the warden killed the only person who can prove him innocent, instead he formulated a plan of escape in his arduous prison life while pretending to help the warden. He waited a perfect chance to escape once he has everything he needed.
Red who spent 40 years in prison joined Andy after receiving parole. Here is the dialogue:
Board member: Do you feel you’ve been rehabilitated?
Red: Rehabilitated? Well now, let me see. You know, I don’t have any idea what that means.
Board member: Well, it means that you’re ready to rejoin society…
Red: I know what you think it means, sonny. To me it’s just a made up word. Politicians word, so young fellows like yourself can wear a suit and a tie and have a job. What do you really want to know. Am I sorry for what I did?
Board member: Well, are you?
Red: There’s not a day goes by that I don’t feel regret. Not because I’m in here and because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then, a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. Try and talk some sense into him. Tell him the way things are. But I can’t. That kid’s long gone, and this old man is all that is left. I gotta live with that. Rehabilitated? That’s just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. ‘Cause, to tell you the truth, I don’t give a shit.
With that said, we ought to judge everything based on all perspective although it is hard to do that. Things have many variations and by observing and analyzing meticulously, we can act in our own way to achieve a life that we wanted as long we do not betray our own conscience.
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| Andy and Red |
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| This rock hammer is the tool for freedom. It was switched with the warden's bible which contained many proof for his evil deeds. |
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