Breathtaking

Rating: 10/10 (1 December 2007)

There is something about this movie that always hits me. Probably cause it's a wonderful metaphor of most of man's existence. I've seen it many times during the years and the last one was even more beautiful than I remembered. So astonishing it didn't win any Academy Award, but very often this is the price really good movies have to pay, and certainly Shawshank has not much of appealing when glamorous, star system slaves decide what is worth and what is not. Probably if this movie was released nowadays it would have received more attention from the public (see the contents of recent nominees for best film in the last two Academy Award Night editions). However... A movie is great when you it keeps on flashing in your mind for the following days while you are working or doing something else. The best quote from it, according to me, is "Get busy living.. or get busy dying". Revealing.