Forgot how incredibly good this movie is

Rating: 10/10 (18 August 2019)

I had the privilege of going to the 25th anniversary celebration of the release of the Shawshank Redemption at the Ohio Stare Refromatory in Mansfield, Ohio where a lot of the movie was filmed. After that, my wife and I decided to pull out our copy of the movie. I totally forgot how good this movie is. The movie is kind of a throwback to movies of the 40's. The music was nostalgic from that period. The screenplay was just incredible. The lines from the movie are almost poetic with almost every scene giving you dialogue you think about and contemplate. Then, we have the acting. The cast choices seem almost perfect. Morgan Freedman and Tim Robbins made the most of their parts and inhabited their respective roles. Tim Robbins as Andy makes the transformation from being a free man to con without any cliche. He loses his innocence, but not his hope. Morgan as Red in essence makes the opposite transformation from hardens con to someone who has hope in his future. Gil Bellows and William Sadler put in good performances as part of Andy and Red's "crew". The cinematography was wonderful showing prison in mostly greys and darkened shadows. The scenes where both Andy and Red are out of prison show the free world with all of it's wonderful light and color. I think the strange thing about this movie is that you need to seen it several times to find all of the subtlety that lies within it.