I wish I could erase the memory of this film, and watch it again for the first time

Rating: 10/10 (3 April 2020)

This movie is not your ordinary Hollywood flick. It has a great and deep message. This movie has a foundation and just kept on being built on from there and that foundation is hope.This movie is a Christian movie and in the making is the christian act of redemption. Andy comes to Shawshank as a innocent outsider and he refuses to give up hope. He discovers the proof of his innocence but when warden erases evidence of his innocence Andy appears to come to the same institutional pessimism as his fellow prisoners. He returns to the cell and there appears to hang himself; that's when the unexpected occurs. Instead of finding Andy dead the cell is empty. It symbolizes new birth and his empty cell is an allusion of the empty tomb. Andy's escape is an echo of Jesus resurrection Well, one thing's for sure, this film inspired me to try life again. There was this film and many other films which I would watch over and over again, just to get a glimpse of what could happen if I just tried again. I clung to the idea that happiness is inside each of us, we just have to work for it to get it. We also just have to bide our time to get there, it doesn't happen over night. And it doesn't always last, there will be bad days when the darkness returns, but they will pass as well. I relate to Brooks when he got into the outside world, feeling like he didn't belong and feeling empty. I'm still like that at times, not all the time. I'm still wanting to end up on the beach, sanding down the wood on a boat, metaphorically of course. I'll get there, perhaps one day.