Sheer Brilliance!!

Rating: 9/10 (8 December 2011)

Shawshank Redemption ! probably the most watched, the most liked movie of its time and rightly so. The plot flows like a poetry, making the experience of watching surreal.
A young banker(Tim Robbins)is being framed for the alleged murder for his wife. The man pleads innocent but the court thinks otherwise and is given a long sentence in the jail and the name of the jail is Shawshank. The man is completely unassuming and brilliant. Taking sometime to get adjusted to the jail environment, he befriends many in the jail. The main one is Reed (Morgan Freeman)who smuggles cigars and other necessary things to the jail inmates.
The jail warden is Norton (Bob Gunton) who is a bible loving, strict person who hoards and involved in money laundering. Noticing the talent of the banker, he uses the banker's knowledge to launder the money. Meanwhile,a young guy is jailed for a petty crime and he confides to Tim Robbins something that could help him to prove his innocence. But the warden doesn't approve of it and he gets the young man killed.
On one fine day, Tim Robbins suddenly escapes from the citadel of Shawshank. How he planned it and the execution of it forms the next part of the movie.
The movie is perhaps the best prison break movie ever done. Stephen King deserves credit for this wonderful, intelligent story and equally wonderful characterization,the director of the movie for his surreal creation of the jail environment and actors for their brilliant performances. The movie could have been edited by a few minutes and could have been made well within 2 hours. That fact could be overlooked given the thrill,entertainment the movie provides.