Top 10 greatest movie of all time ?

Rating: 10/10 (29 July 2017)

The experience of a hot-shot banker named Andrew Dufresne played by Tim Robbins. After being sentenced to 2 life terms for the killing of his wife and her lover, Andy then finds himself to be an inmate at the Shawshank prison. For a crime, he swears he didn't commit. The movie is centered around Andy's journey as an inmate in the prison, the brutal beatings and harassments, and changes he experiences. Where Andy meets another lifer, Ellis "Red" Redding played by Morgan Freeman, mistakenly picks him as the new prisoner that will most likely crack under the pressures of prison. After the beating and killing of one of the new inmates (fishes) Andy still does not break. Reds ability to obtain wanted objects helps establish a friendship between him and Red. This friendship leads to many prison adventures and later events help him and he gains respect from his friends, staff, and the warden.
Motifs displayed in the film are Corruption and crime. The idea of the prison should be the rehabilitation of men. However, instead the prison is focuses and praises corruption, greed, and money laundering. Andy's quick willingness to launder money for the Warden Norton played by Bob Gunton showed his survival skills and need to protect himself. The editors use of voice-overs and flash backs sets the scenes for viewers allowing them to be able to see the events of the prison.
My thematic ideas of the film are Isolation and imprisonment, which seems to be a large focus of the film. The bars, strict schedules, horrible guards are just some of the reason for isolation. The film shows a lot of people taking advantage of the system for their own gain, from Red, who smuggles anything into the prison. All the way to the Warden, who benefits from forced prison labor and money laundering. However, the power of hope is Andy's main driver throughout his experience in prison. Andy attempts to maintain his self-worth and idea of getting out one day. Tunneling his way through the concrete cell wall. Hope is all that Andy has left.