An easy "10"...

Rating: 10/10 (4 December 2016)

It must have been at least 15 years since the last time I watched "The Shawshank Redemption".. I was a young teenager, I couldn't understand more than what was shown in front of my eyes.. Just the surface.. It was a good movie, but "I had" to watch it because everybody said it's a "must watch" movie..
Years gone by and I could never understand why this movie was and still is the highest rated movie of all time.. Until recently..
After watching "The Shawshank Redemption" again, my 30-year old self wants to turn back time and explain it to the young teenager.. It's not just the story, the plot, the twist, the acting, the music, the narration.. All of these surely make a good movie when presented right, but not necessarily the best of all time.. It's the fact that everybody who has experienced or is longing to experience a "redemption" can immediately relate to it.. Something a teenager surely can't understand, as the best years, the twisting years, the wish for redemption years just haven't come for him yet..
When you have lived some more than studying and setting pranks at school, you are hooked to this masterpiece.. It's the fact that it is the highest rated movie of all time that makes you watch it, but it's the fact that you watch it that makes it the highest rated movie of all time.. You can't help, but relate to it.. And I'm happy to see that many people out there managed to relate to it with or without understanding why.. As I did and I have now rated it with an easy "10".. Now that big changes are coming in my life, it's time for a shot at redemption..
"I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head.. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.. I hope I can make it.. I hope to see my future as I imagine it.. I hope to find the redemption.. I hope..."