Simply Perfect

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 2015)

Shawshank has everything you need from a movie.
Cinematography and direction, both combine to make the film something unique.
This is an engagingly simple, good-hearted film, with just enough darkness around the edges to give contrast and relief to its glowingly benign view of human nature.
Freeman, a wonderful actor, both narrates this tale and anchors it with his perfect playing.
I read elsewhere this "if you don't love Shawshank, chances are you're beyond redemption". Well I do agree completely.
I never, ever, ever heard from a friend of mine who I recommended it that he had not liked it.