Human again!

Rating: 9/10 (2 May 2015)

Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is tall, lean, and a very successful Vice President for a bank in Portland, Maine. Andy's wife (Renee Blaine) is a beautiful and slim brunette who finally breaks her silence about her love affair with Glenn Quentin (Scott Mann) a golf pro. She informs Andy that she wants a divorce in Reno which he denied her. Now Andy finds himself facing a judge and jury as he flashes back to a dark and drunken night sitting in a wooden area at the end of a driveway in his car with a trusty bottle of Rosewood liquor in one hand, a musical tone "If I didn't care" (Jack Lawrence) playing in the background as a reaches for his six shooter from the glove compartment. Andy's blank face tells his version of his innocence; however, the neighbors plus two dead bodies tell the other side of the story. The dead body of Andy's wife and the golf pro give him two life sentences in the big houseShawshank Prison!
Andy arrives at Shawshank with the same blank facial expression that granted him the bus ride to the prison. As the welcoming committee provided a grand opening to the bus load of "Fresh Fish" inmates. This single file march of leg irons clanking, feet shuffling across the dusty prison yard, as fresh fish pass by the thunderous claps, and yelling voices which intimated some of the new fish. Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman) placed a bet of 10 cigarettes on the new fish named Andy Dufresne. Andy has a naive way of thinking, along with his new normal routine of strolling the prison yard in search of smooth rocks while keeping to himself. Andy finally breaks his silence after a month and engages in a conversation with Red.
Andy's life sentence was almost cut short while eavesdropping on a conversation of the brutal Captain Hadley (Clancy Brown). Since Andy befriends Red and his crew of intimates Brooks Hatlen (James Whitmore), Heywood (William Sadler), Jigger (Neil Giuntoli), Floyd (Brian Libby), and Skeet (Larry Brandenburg), he placed a request for a bottle of suds after the rigged roof job is completed by this team of inmates. Andy was able to do his "Real Job" again by performing banking services for every prison guard in Shawshank. Although he longed for this new freedom Andy still has to fight off his predator Boggs Diamond (Mark Rolston).
Andy is on the verge of losing his freedom due to his overzealous attitude toward Warden Norton (Bob Gunton). The Warden provides Andy with a few options while he spends two months in solitary confinement to reset his mind and his mouth. This melodramatic crime film will have your emotions racing as you cook up a new avenue for Andy to travel down.
The actors in "The Shawshank Redemption" have a more boisterous tone compared to the relaxed spoken actors in "The Green Mile" John Coffey (Michael Clark Duncan), Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), Brutus "Brutal" Howell (David Morse), "Wild Bill" Wharton (Sam Rockwell), Eduard Delacroix (Michael Jeter), and Dean Stanton (Barry Pepper). The lighting for these two melodramatic crime films are different. Both John Coffey and Andy Dufresne are in prison for murder. Andy has more of a dark shadow over his face at times probably due to depression and when harm is coming his way. The lighting changes for him when he is able to accomplish a "normal / human" side of his past. John Coffey has a brighter atmosphere when is able to arouse those around him to think outside the box and have a more positive attitude in their heart toward life. John and Andy have to figure out which way to go in order to have freedom while in prison.