Deeply moving

Rating: 10/10 (25 April 2001)

I have to confess that I cried at the end of "Shawshank redemption" - I cried for the first time since my grandmother died.
Why was this?
The movie is a flamboyant plea for hope in our lives. It shows us that it's never really over, and that you can redeem for you mistakes and find happiness in your days.
Of course the final passage might be a bit unrealistic. I just say: Poster. But I really can't blame anybody for doing the story as they did it - it works perfectly and this final passage somehow liberates the viewer after nearly two hours of living in prison. The cinematography is simply splendid, the feeling of being incarcerated is very subtly generated and you only realize it when you finally "get out" of it. The pictures vary from frightening to simply beautiful, and the dialogue and the comments of Morgan Freeman from the Off are really a joy to listen to.
But this is just a very rational analysis of a film that stirs very strong emotions. It is futile to try to explain this phenomenon in these few lines, and therefore I won't try to do so. I only can highly recommend this movie to everybody who is willing to get into a 2 1/2 hour prison movie which in the end proves to be much more.
10 of 10 even it is a bit long in the middle. 10 of 10 because I somehow felt a bit liberated after it.