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

  • Red: [to Andy] Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

  • Red: [narrating] 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.