The Shawshank Redemption

Summer 2022-04-20 09:01:02

The film begins to use cross-edited images to convey such a set of images: One night in 1947, banker Andy, whose eyes are full of puzzlement and anger, is sitting in a car, drunk and holding a revolver; His wife's affair with the golf coach is going on; then there's an intense cross-examination of Andy by lawyers in court. Through the integration of possibilities, this set of images conveys a causal relationship to the audience, and Andy was eventually sentenced to two life sentences for the brutal shooting of his wife and her lover. The place of detention is Shawshank Prison (also translated as Shawshank Prison), which just fits the audience's subjective thinking, that is, if there is a crime, there is a premise of redemption.

But the important thing is that the film does not re-enact this "fact" process, but enters the second stage: Andy's life in Shawshank Prison.

Expectation is the most perfect possession of human beings. As long as you don't let it go, expectations will always accompany you. Freedom comes with expectation.

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The Shawshank Redemption quotes

  • [last lines]

    Red: [narrating] I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

  • [Andy has asked Red to procure Rita Hayworth]

    Andy Dufresne: Can you get her?

    Red: Take a few weeks.

    Andy Dufresne: Weeks?

    Red: Well yeah, Andy. I don't have her stuffed down the front of my pants right now, I'm sorry to say, but I'll get her. Relax!