Review of The Shawshank Redemption

Rating: Null/10 (13 December 2004)

The Shawshank Redemption is actually a very good movie what I had seen two pass. This good movie is about hope, which is a very importance thing in our life. In 1947; Andy who is a young New England banker is wrongfully accused of killing his wife and her lover. And he is sent to Shawshank prison. In fact Andy is innocent. But only Andy knows that he didn't commit the crimes. The prison is really black. Andy does not lose his heart about his life and he can quickly adapt to prison life. Andy makes many friends in the prison. His quiet strength slowly earns the respect of his fellow inmates--most notably, Red who is an older prisoner and has given up hope --and even much of the prison staff. Andy and Red develop a deep friendship during their prison life. Andy gets a job in the prison library and He uses his intelligence to befriend the guards. Then he starts helping the guards with their taxes and pension plans. He never gives up frightening realities of prison life. And he has spent nineteen years on digging a tunnel in his cell wall behind a picture. Finally he has escaped from the prison successfully, and he takes with him 1/2 million in unmarked dirty money from the crooked warden. Yeas later Red is set free from the Shawshank prison and he gains the money that Andy fell to him. And then Red goes for Andy. The Shawshank Redemption is a nice, funny, emotional, moving, inspiring and powerful films with a high quality of greatness that you cannot put your finger on, but The Shawshank Redemption is there to show the greatness, and it being one that reaffirms our faith in society and in the power of hope, whether that hope is found in God or ourselves. Hope is a very good thing, perhaps the best of things, and if a film can remind us of that fact, then it is a really valuable movie.