No matter how you slice it, it's the best movie ever....

Rating: 10/10 (17 October 2004)

I am a movie buff, seen just about all the classics, new and old, but Shawshank is number 1. I think LOR attempts, in a much more complicated manner, to deliver a similar theme - hope even in the most bleak of times. Shawshank delivers this message even more effectively than LOR, and crystalizes the message of hope as the single most important thing in our lives, even more than love. Many of us do not have love in our lives - but hope makes us continue, search for a better life, a better day. I like to put it this way, nothing ever good in this world ever came from quitting, giving up. All that is good in this world, came through persistance, hard work, determination.....hope. No other piece of movie making has ever reflected this message better than The Shawshank Redemption.