The Shawshank Redemption - Best Movie Ever!

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 2015)

'The Shawshank Redemption' (R) By Julie Kemi April 30, 2015
The "Shawshank Redemption" takes place in 1947 and focuses on Andy Dufresne, a banker in New England is sitting in a car drinking and loading a gun. Later, we find out his wife and lover have been murdered and he is on trial for the crime. Andy is insistent that he is innocent, but his demeanor at the trial is recognized as that of a cold, and calculated killer. The jury finds him guilty. Andy is sentenced to two life terms in prison and sent to the maximum-security state prison at Shawshank, Maine. Andy is an introvert and very quiet, his interests are geology, chess and reading. Due to his quiet nature, Andy doesn't have a lot of friends until he meets Red. Red has been in the system for 30 years for murder. He befriends Andy and takes him under his wing. Andy's time in the inside the first few years were a rough struggle. He was violently attacked a number of times by the sexual predators in the inside. That all began to change when he overheard the guard captain talk about paying taxes on his inheritance. Andy decided to use his experience in banking by approaching Hadley, the guard captain, and making a suggestion about how he could save on his inheritance tax. Andy offers to make a trade off with he offers to help him with the paperwork if Hadley will give each of his fellow inmates that were working with him to tar a roof, three beers a piece. Hadley complies with Andy's request, and that starts a new era in the type of time Andy would serve at Shawshank prison. Hadley tells the Warden about Andy's financial advisement. Andy is then moved from his position in the laundry to the prison library and then he is doing the taxes for all the guards. The warden brings Andy into a number of outside scams to build his own personal bank account using the prisoners as a labor force. Andy remains committed to his position at the library and spends years turning into an educational facility within the prison. "The Shawshank Redemption" has a predominant theme of hope and its power. This theme is also true to form in the movie "The Green Mile. In the Shawshank Redemption Andy maintains his hope throughout his time. He focuses his energy on what it takes to get him through by building on positives that he can control in the inside. He uses music, like the scene in which he locks the guard in the bathroom to allow the prisoners to hear the singing from the record. He keeps the music inside him to remind him of hope and life on the outside. The Motifs in this movie refer to Crime and Corruption. The movie challenges the notion that prisons are ideal for reforming criminals. Andy, a law abiding citizen had to come to prison to be a crook. The prison is feeding grounds for corruption and crime. The warden is laundering money, the guards are killing prisoners because they can, and the prisoner's rape, gamble, and smuggle in order to get by. Everybody on the inside of this prison is breaking the law.