Just the perfect movie

Rating: 10/10 (31 January 2014)

Absolutely the perfect movie, taking you through all your emotions, insisting on making you feel your hope, anger, disgust, compassion, love, hate and pride. Genuinely moving with a voice-over to die for. The narration takes you on a journey of epic storytelling, whilst still moving you to tears. Morgan Freeman delivers the most powerful performance, I think, of his career as the very likable Red, while the then unknown to me, Tim Robbins delivers a poignant performance of an ill justified innocent who gets caught up in a web of in-prison politics and corruption. The schemes of Tim's character, Andy Dufresne with his wizardry with the abacus and knowledge of the tax system befriends the prisoners and the officers and the smug look on his face is to die for when he get his inmates a bottle of beer each to drink in the sunshine. How this didn't win an Oscar, I do not understand.