A movie about hope

Rating: 10/10 (14 October 2010)

When I was seen the movie at the first time, I didn't really get the message of the movie. It's was so slow, but it didn't put me to sleep. I didn't know how the whole story would go to an end. I still able to enjoy it. I made myself to see it again, and finally I understood why it had so hight rate on IMDb.
The movie started with Andy. A bank director, whom was sued for killed his wife and a man. Police fought exhibit to charge him for committed a murder. Andy was sent to jail for lifetime. In prison Andy met Red and they learned each other and became friendly. Red was a black man. He had been in prison almost 20 years at the time Andy came.
Inside Andy always wanted to free himself out of the prison. It wasn't him, whom committed that horrible murder. I fell sorry for Andy. He paid his life for someone else, but nobody believed, he was innocently. What I was so surprised, Andy on the first time at the prison had planned to get out. Hope always inside him. That gave him strong to keep his plan to 20 years. And finally he was out of the prison.
Red was different. He admitted, he was a murder when he was young. He apologised for what he did and wished to be a free man just like a bird. But every time he had a conversation with the whole manager, he always got denied. It's made him to feel hopeless. At the last time Red almost gave up all the hope. He didn't want to waste his time anymore. His speech was so amazing, fully emotion. Red just wished to go back at the time when he committed a horrible crime. He wanted to tell the kid, that what he did was so wrong. But he coundn't, he didn't have a miracle to do so. This time he got approved.
What I learned about this movie was Hope and Friendship. Like Andy said "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of thing, and no good thing ever died". He right, if we gave up hope, would we have a future?