Hard to describe the emotions

Rating: Null/10 (1 January 2003)

*** SPOILERS *** I just finished watching Shawshank for the third time. Even though I know exactly what's going to happen in every part of the movie, some scenes are so beautiful and powerful that they still make me cry. The first 30 minutes of the film feels like a normal prison film, nothing special, but a good build up for things to come. The film really starts taking off with the scene where they work on the roof. After that it just gets better and better. In the end you are overwhelmed with the beauty of this movie.
My favourite parts are when they are working in the roof, when Brooks is released, when Tommy gets shot in the yard, the part where Red describes how Andy escaped and the part where Red find the note under the rock. Every scene in the movie is great and most of them are relevant to the main story. The narration by Freeman is great, I can't think of any other film that contains so many wonderful quotes. The music is also beautiful and fits perfectly into the movie.
It's very hard to tell with words how good this movie is. Just go watch the movie and hopefully you will feel the same things I feel.