A beautiful movie

Rating: 10/10 (10 September 2007)

Back in high school, I had an English class where we read the short story by Stephen King and then watched the movie. The short story is wonderfully to read by itself. However, the movie manages to both perfectly capture the whole feel and atmosphere of the original story, and improve upon it. It is rare for a movie to be better than the book, yet everyone agreed it was so. In the movie, many of the characters are more developed, and the warden is made much more crooked. Much of the narration is directly from the short story, but the parts that are not blend perfectly. It is a long movie, with little action and no special effects, yet it is always mesmerizing and beautiful, a movie about hope, with an incredible surprise ending. I still feel cheated because I read the story first and knew the ending before I ever saw the movie.