only perfect film i have seen

Rating: 10/10 (11 December 2007)

i first heard of the shawshank redemption whilst watching the Oscars in 1994 and i was filled with the usual negative pre conceptions-old fashioned film,prison film,and a long film.therefore it was another 12 months before i watched it due to every man and his dog raving about it.i was then taken back by what is probably the only perfect film i have ever seen.from the damning of andy in the opening scene,the horrific suicide and rape scenes,the central relationship between red and andy,reds parole knockbacks,the enthralling escape right up to the uplifting ending,this is cinematic perfection and i doubt that as the years pass by Hollywood will ever be capable of making a film of this calibre again