My review

Rating: 10/10 (20 September 2013)

Shawshank Redemption Review The Shawshank Redemption is a brilliant dramatic film directed and written by Frank Darabont. This film which includes main characters Andy (Tim Robbins) and Red (Morgan Freeman) make this movie and instant classic. Andy finds himself in prison with Red who each comes from two complete different backgrounds. Andy and Red end up end the same position but both have one mind in goal and that is "to get busy living or get busy dying". This incredible story of friendship and loyalty shows that even in the worst of times, you can still make the best of the situation. Andy dreams of living outside of prison and Red gives Andy a reality check many times over, while serving their long prison sentences, to remind Andy that they are going to die in the prison. Andy is a sly and smart and Red knows and likes this about Andy. Andy feels like he can only trust Red in prison and shows that if they ever get out of prison they will meet up and be together on the outside. Andy learns that the chief guard played by Clancy Brown needs tax help which before prison was Andy's specialty. This propels Andy to take charge of all financial duties for the prison assigned by the Warden. Little secret be known, that this eventually helps Andy escape from the prison. This American classic shows how Andy demises his escape from the prison while using the prison as a bank account for himself. Meanwhile, Andy's best friend Red finds himself up for parole many times over the years and gets rejected every time. Red goes up for parole after being in prison for 40 years, and finds himself on the "outside" finding it a whole new world than when he had come into prison. Life being hard to deal with, Red goes to the place that Andy wanted to meet. Here he finds a large amount of money and makes a trip to a place called Zihuatanejo Mexico that Andy talked about while in Prison. Finally these two meet up and live the life that Andy had dreamed about. Shawshank is a heartwarming movie classic, which shows that you can be happy in bad times and dreams do come true. This American movie classic reminds you of films such as the Green Mile. Each part of this movie moves you and the editing of this film makes this movie seem flawless with incredible music to enhance each character's role.