You will Remember this Movie!

Rating: 9/10 (6 October 2002)

There is something in each one of us, which nobody can touch, defile or pollute. That is our sacred place where resides our strength, hopes, dreams and character.
What this movie amazingly shows us is that it is possible to access our strength and keep alive our hopes when situations would otherwise defeat us.
I have seen Shawshank 3 times over a span of 8 years. I can't see it again and again as it hurts...it's so perfect. When I viewed the movie for the first time, all by myself, it was on a cold winter morning. Who would go and see a movie 9 am on a regular working/week day (college, actually)? But the international film festival was on in my city and it was the last screening of the movie in the festival. So I missed some lectures, rode through the morning fog, and sat long after the projector was switched off in the theater to an incredible movie experience. The press and public had given the Shawshank a standing ovation that day.
And I was aching to share it. So saw the movie again, once with my father and once recently with my husband.
Just now when I happened to see the Top movies listed on IMDb and that Shawshank is listed at no.2, I was hit by the memory of that cold winter morning.
And when I clicked away and read other viewers comments, I noticed how majority of them remember vividly the how, when and where they had seen this film for the first time. For most, like me, it was an unforgettable thing.
Just wanted to applaud the voters at IMDb to give Shawshank the right spot on all time top movies. I went and registered with the web site right now, just that I too could add a vote in its favor.
9 out of 10!