'Shawshank', masterpieces, are about people

Rating: 10/10 (23 January 2005)

'The Shawshank Redemption' may be hard to convince somebody to watch, but it's important to make sure everyone does. A prison movie is not the way it should be classified because 'The Shawshank Redemption' is a story about people. It is told through a prison and the idea that would be a cliché in any other film, hope. So, hope no longer becomes a cliché because it is realistic in Shawshank. Thus, people and their motives and environments make films interesting, realistic, influential, and memorable. And because Frank Darabont found a way to get all of these elements into the greatest film ever made, people who see 'The Shawshank Redemption' look at life at a whole new perspective. That being to "Get busy living, or get busy dying", and to always have hope.