One in the Top-10 List of Mine

Rating: 10/10 (2 May 2015)

As far as I am concerned, I think it is a movie well worth watching. I am a senior high school student in China, and I really do not have lot of time to lead a free life as most of students abroad (stated in many books and stories in China). As is known to many people, there exists a strict examination (The National College Entrance Exam) in China, and each student only have one chance to attend it during his/her lifetime, so nobody will give it up and everyone is fighting for it.
Just like Andy, Red and many other people in the Shawshank. Maybe most of us living creatures do not have a real freedom.
It is a jailbreak story in many people's eyes, but it isn't just like that in my aspect. I regard it as a kind of redemption as the title of the movie. As is stated in Oxford Dictionary, "REDEMPTION" is "the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil" or "a thing that saves someone from error or evil". In my opinion, both of its meaning was highlighted.
I do not want to talk about this movie from performance, even if it is the soul of a movie. But I think there must be a more important thing.
Red is a man lost his heart, even if he is always speaking ill of the guard, his eyes is like a silent street, he can bear anything, and he will not have a quarrel, he sentenced himself to death. Though he said he had been totally changed in the jail, nobody would like to APPROVE him of get out of it. But when he tell them his true words inside his heart, he was soon set free. It is just like a kind of joking, but I think it is of high applause. I don't know how to express it in an exact word in English, it means "血性" in Chinese.
As for Andy, the other main character in this movie. He is an energetic bird looking forward to freedom, which is wise enough as well. Carving the wall, behind which is freedom. It takes him nineteen years. But it is fair. In his past life, though he was freer than that in Shawshank, he was also trapped. Trapped by his daily routines, by his wife's abandon or by those business and title he earned. For many of us, one should work until his sixties or older, and when he could enjoy his life, there is not very much left exactly. Andy used nineteen years to gain a freedom, and he got it faster than we.
Maybe the western cannot get my idea, but in fact, a people in China even need to work in his seventies. There are thousands of rooms left empty, but most of people cannot have their own house in his whole life. That is the reason why I am longing for freedom.
Owing to the blessing of the god, I have my own house with my family, we have cars. What's more, we do not have trouble in earning a living. Maybe I could say I am a born First-Class, but too many of us cannot be like that.
WE NEED REDEMPTION.
I have to say it is the Top-10 Movie I have ever watched. And it even can be the best TWO out of all, the other one is Leon.