The best prison movie

Rating: 10/10 (27 January 2019)

If there were any actor I would choose to narrate my life. It would be Morgan Freeman. Shawshank Redemption stars Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. Tim Robbins plays Andy Dufresne, a lawyer who gets framed for killing his ex wife and her lover. He is sent to Shawshank to where he meets Morgan Freeman and the two become friends. This is one of those movies where its good from start to finish that made me want to watch this movie again. This is the godfather of all prison movies. There are some prison movies that are great to watch, but nothing will ever come nowhere near as this. This is one of those prison movies where I felt bad for the prisoners and I also liked them as the movie progresses. Maybe not all of them, but the ones they focus on that's a different story. Shawshank Redemption is an adaptation of a Stephen King book and its fun to see a Stephen King book that doesn't involve a supernatural force being transformed into a movie. I'm not a big fan of prison movies because some of them try too hard to make us feel sympathetic towards the main character, but this one doesn't. It focuses on Andy who is shy at first, but as time passes he makes friends and he becomes more and more confident. And it shows that we as an audience actually and physically care about him that its not shoved in our faces where we can relate to him in some way. It's got heart and soul with fantastic acting, directing, music, and a script that's not rushed or a scene was thrown so it can add drama or intensity to it. The movie is two and a half hours long by the way, but it was so great and well written that I forgot I was watching a two and a half hour movie. What I liked about it was it wasn't trying to be the next big hit or be the next blockbuster. It told a beginning, middle, and an end that flowed perfectly that didn't feel pressured by Stephen King or Warner Bros. Everyone involved in Shawshank Redemption took Stephen King's book, sat down and all agreed that this is how we should make it, and that's all you need.