"The Shawshank Redemption" can be said to have undoubtedly hit the film critics and media people in the United States, a country that advertises freedom.
Of course, the movie itself can become a classic because it has its own unique features.
Therefore, even though the first screening has just ended, "The Shawshank Redemption" has been given a staggering score by film critics and media people on the film review website.
9.9 points!
It can be said that this score is simply an exaggeration!
All kinds of movie reviews came out very quickly.
The famous film critic Larison posted a review of "The Shawshank Redemption" on his personal social platform account at 4 a.m.
"Initially, many of my colleagues and I thought that the miracle director from China was no longer a miracle.
We all thought this was a hastily launched "news" movie, but I was deeply shocked by the result.
When I got home from the theater, I was thinking about all kinds of things about this movie, so I stayed up all night. I lay down but got up again to write this review.
In my eyes, Shawshank Redemption is about faith, freedom and friendship.
Regarding faith: Rhett said that hope is a dangerous thing and the source of mental depression. He is indeed qualified to say this after having been in a prison under heavy pressure for thirty years. Because from the day he entered, the warden
He said: "Give your soul to God and your life to me."
Except for the cigarettes and playing cards with fruit printed on them that he could get, any other movement seemed unable to grow within this dark wall.
However, Andy told him: "Remember, hope is a beautiful thing - maybe even the best thing in the world. And good things never disappear."
So Andy was able to spend twenty years digging the tunnel that Red thought could not be dug in six hundred years. When he finally climbed out of the stinking sewage pipe of 500 yards and stood in the pouring rain unable to help himself, we seemed to see the stab of faith.
Wearing through the layers of darkness, we struck a dazzling thunderbolt in the dark night. Under the bright light, our weak souls appeared one after another under Andy's open arms and trembled.
The imprint of the entire film is Shawshank's belief. After staying in prison for twenty years, his belief has not been erased by the life in prison day after day. This belief is the belief of freedom. He does not want to believe that he killed his wife.
I want to find out the truth. It will show up at first, but then it will slowly be hidden in the ordinary, repetitive, and mechanical prison life, and then it will become a belief in living a good life and enjoying prison life.
His temperament is different from others. Others have the temperament of a desperado, exuding decadence, decay, and loss of humanity, but he is clean, sunny, relaxed and leisurely. Now that I think about it, he is very different. This kind of
Is your temperament the so-called "personality" and "cool"? I always only do what I want to do, always affirm my own ideas, and never doubt myself.
I do think he is cool. I didn’t feel it when I watched it at the time. But now that I think about it, it’s because he has beliefs and goals in his heart. He has his own dreams and goals in life. He wants to be released from prison.
Later, he went to his own "Utopia" and became a man who fished and went to sea. People who have such a dream are bright and clean themselves. How can they be like other people in prison who are living their lives without any purpose?
In ordinary life, we seem to have become accustomed to taking things step by step, accustomed to saying "that's impossible" first, accustomed to the absence of miracles, accustomed to it, accustomed to it.
But the miracle director from China brought us miracles with Andy.
Try to retain some beliefs before they are lost. They may not be realized in the end, and they may not allow us to live a more meaningful life - even for us, they will only bring us more and more sense of emptiness.
However, I know how much I need such hypocrisy and self-deception, because you can say that I am dreaming, but I will not be the only one.
We have already seen that when the warden opened the Bible that contained Andy's hammer, the page he turned to was the Book of Exodus. This chapter details the escape of the Jews from Egypt.
About freedom:
Remember the music played in prison?
Perhaps many people were not able to understand what the two Italian women were singing when they first listened to it. In fact, there is no need to understand. Some things are better left unsaid. It is a beautiful scene that cannot be described in words.
, yet it makes you so sad.
The sound soared high into the clouds, beyond the dreams of any prisoners in confinement. It was like a beautiful bird flying into the gray birdcage, making those walls disappear and making all the prisoners behind bars feel a moment of peace.
free.
When Andy desperately played "The Marriage of Figaro" on the prison loudspeaker, the camera slowly panned across the prisoners and prison guards who were having fun in the square. They stood there in touching silence, abandoning all resentment.
Viciousness and resentment, bathed in sunshine that has never felt so free. Mozart's music spread over these people, and the beautiful notes from the world seemed to wash them all into pure purity.
The strong save themselves, the saints save others! Only then did I understand Andy's intention, and also why the movie was called "The Shawshank Redemption".
When he was repairing the roof, he fought for beer for everyone. In fact, he fought for everyone to feel as comfortable as if they were repairing their own roof, so he did not drink, but smiled with great happiness;
The wedding is also to awaken their lost sense of freedom.
However, the strong are in the minority after all. In the face of freedom, more people choose to be imprisoned.
Brooks, who had been in the prison library for fifty years, wanted to stay in prison by hurting fellow inmates in order not to be paroled.
At first, his behavior seemed strange, but is it really strange?
Freedom should be something that people yearn for and pursue. However, the Brooks have already been regulated by the rules of prison. They need rules and order. Without them, they cannot even survive.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Just as Rhett said: "The high walls in prison are really interesting. When you first go to prison, you hate the high walls around you; slowly,
You get used to living in it; eventually you find yourself having to rely on it to survive. That's institutionalization."
Brooks gained physical freedom, but his soul has been irreversibly institutionalized. He was finally unable to get rid of the dilemma of being unable to adapt to freedom, and committed suicide by hanging himself. And a wise man like Rhett also sadly discovered after being released from prison that he
He had to report to the manager even when he peeed, otherwise he wouldn't be able to squeeze out a drop of urine. He also considered how to break the rules in order to go back to jail, and even considered leaving like Brooks.
Either you are busy living, or you are busy waiting to die. People who are walking in a hurry may stop occasionally and jump out to see what they look like. We will eventually know that people who are accustomed to obeying the rules will pay a huge price to get used to the fact that they belong to each individual
freedom of.
hope:
Andy always hoped for the best, this was true when the jury declared him guilty, this was true when he was unable to obtain parole for a long time, this was true when he was tortured and entangled by the "three sisters", and this was true even when Tommy was shot by the warden.
Andy was not crushed by the cruel environment and the nights where time was as slow as a knife. "Hope" made him so different among the prisoners, and it slowly infected Red and others.
There is something deep inside us that they cannot reach or touch, and that is hope.
Freedom is predicated on hope. Without hope and the courage to pursue hope, there is no freedom in the true sense.
Hope is the most beautiful thing in the world. The road to perseverance is never too long in hope. Even if we are on a different floor and I am living alone in a boat, it is still a different kind of hope.
The persistent Andy spent twenty years using stone hammers to dig through a tunnel. This move caused a sensation. The police found Andy's old clothes in the river. People had to wonder what power made him so persistent?
It's hope! He always holds hope and has been working hard for the best hope in his mind.
Redemption:
In fact, while watching the movie, I have been discussing a question with my colleagues: why is the movie called "The Shawshank Redemption"?
In the prison of Shawshank, Andy is a bank vice president, an Andy who has suffered unjust injustice for nineteen years, and an Andy who eventually becomes a ship owner on a small island in the Pacific. This life journey is his salvation.
So, what exactly did he redeem?
For the inmates of Shawshank Prison, and for Andy's friend Red, including Tommy who was shot, all of Andy's actions allowed them to experience a trace of freedom outside the thick stone walls. They can be on the roof.
While working while drinking beer, you can listen to Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" in the square, listen to Hank Williams' classic records in the library, and take literacy tests under the guidance of "teachers".
It allows them to relive their free identity as a social being at all times.
For Shawshank Prison, because of Andy, the "three sisters" were able to fight evil with evil. There was music and a library in the prison. The ugly faces of the warden and others were removed, and the prison became clean.
Some.
I initially thought that this was the Shawshank redemption. In prison, Andy completed the redemption of other people and the prison.
But then I thought about it, this kind of redemption is too superficial. The living environment has changed, but what about people’s hearts? Has it really changed? In addition, for Andy himself, redemption lies in
Where is it?
Suddenly I remembered the conversation Andy had with Red after Tommy was killed and he was released from confinement.
I think many people probably have the same first impression as me. They all think that this is some kind of ritual before Andy decides to escape from prison. He confesses a lot of things and says goodbye to his old friends. He feels that 19 years of atonement is enough and decides to change himself.
destiny.
This question kept me awake. I kept thinking about it over and over again, and finally I thought that that conversation might itself represent Andy's own salvation. His salvation was not a change in his life form, nor a change in his living environment, but a change in his life form or living environment.
It is a true self-recognition at the soul level.
During the 19 years in Shawshank Prison, Andy had two obsessions. One was that he was innocent, and the other was that life must be hopeful. If Tommy was not shot and killed, but helped Andy reverse the case, there would be no hope.
After Andy is released from prison and returns to society, will he regain his past identity?
However, Tommy was killed, and Andy's long confession in front of Rhett was his re-understanding of his past life. He overturned his past image, faced the problems between himself and his wife, and accepted the relationship between himself and his wife.
What part of the responsibility did he bear in this murder case?
Under the premise that he suffered tremendous hardships, he saw his own responsibility and did not shirk it to anyone. What an amazing reflection. From this moment on, Andy redeemed his soul and found himself.
At this time, I want to say that Andy should not just be an inspirational hero, nor should he just be the redeemer of many inmates. He is a person in Shawshank Prison who truly redeemed his soul, a person who made so many strong feelings in his heart.
The conflict is finally reconciled and life returns to peace.
This is where he is completely different from others, and where "salvation" is truly reflected.
People do not have to accept the arrangements of fate, nor do they have to resist the arrangements of fate, but at the moment when fate happens, they should see their true nature clearly and understand why they are at this critical point of fate. Only by seeing oneself clearly,
Only then can you make the most appropriate choice for yourself in the face of "fate".
In fact, there is no right or wrong in the ending of life. Being a boatman or a banker are just different modes of destiny. What really matters should be that becoming a boatman or a banker is a choice you make willingly.
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There is no such thing as unattainable beauty in life. Everyone has their own unique definition of beauty deep in their hearts. If you really follow your heart and make a choice, you will eventually reach that end point.
It is a pity that most of us use other people's definitions of beauty to set our own lives. Those inner conflicts that accompany us all the time remind us that "the current choice is problematic", and we resist to
Faced with this conflict, I tried to rationalize the "inner conflict" in various ways, and on the other hand, I used willpower to force myself to move forward with the conflict.
Dear friend, is this true of you?
friendship:
This film is not about love, inside prison, the friendship between Andy and Red, the friendship between Andy and Brooks, and the friendship with other inmates.
The friendship inside the high wall may sometimes be more pure than in the outside world. The friendship between them is mutual achievement.
Andy is like a life mentor, always guiding and encouraging Red, making him full of hope in life. Red comes to the distant Gulf of Mexico, and the two best friends finally meet again.
Hope is so important. It is precisely because of meeting Andy that after being released from prison, Rhett still chooses to face life head-on when facing discomfort. It is precisely because of meeting Rhett that Andy has the opportunity to escape from prison.
