As the most popular movie so far, it's still a little different to relive it.
The plot is not complicated. Before going to prison, a banker who was unjustly imprisoned, like all of us, was a good citizen who abided by the law, had a happy family, a beautiful wife, was respected for his high professional salary, lived in a legal society, paid taxes consciously and thought he was protected by law. Although he did some stupid things on impulse, such as getting drunk with revenge intention and leaving so-called evidence, he was forced to pay a heavy price for what he didn't do.
In the face of Andy's situation, ordinary people can imagine that they can't accept the reality that they have been wronged and imprisoned for life (if they really do it, they can get inner peace), suffer a double blow of spirit and material, can't live a peaceful life in Shawshank prison, and the final outcome is neither dead nor crazy.
But Andy never felt any despair under the camera except when he closed his eyes when he heard the verdict, including when he was killed or when he was so close to freedom and so far away.
From the first day he entered Shawshank, Andy was silent, expressionless, calm, quietly observing, thinking and exploring … except madness and despair.
Then he started the promotion road in Shawshank.
On the first night of the primary election, the little fat man collapsed, not him. As a result, the little fat man died. He lived by keeping quiet.
After a month of observation, he found Rhett.
Everyone here is innocent. Everyone here is innocent. )
This is a conversation between Andy and Rhett. What does this mean? Of course, it is impossible to stop at the literal meaning. What I understand is that a place like Shawshank should not exist in the first place, and its existence violates its reason for existence.
After a month in prison, he asked Rhett to get a stone hammer. In Andy's mind, freedom is never far away. He just lost it by accident, but he will get it back in the end.
Andy is different from everyone here.
He has a quiet way. Walking and talking are not normal here. He walked in the park like a man, carefree. It's like he wears an invisible coat to protect him from this place. He is taciturn, and his pace and speech are simply different. He is like walking in the park, carefree. As if wearing an invisibility cloak. )
Because his soul is free, he knows he doesn't belong here, and he has never been imprisoned by Shawshank.
The second test I experienced was sisterhood, which was easy to escape. There seems to be no way out, because my opponent is not a person, but an animal.
Shawshank is not an amusement park, and this heavy test is blood and fire.
But prison is not a fairy tale world. He never said who did it. Prison life is full of routine. Andy often appears with new scars. Sometimes he can repel them. Sometimes not. That's his routine. I also believe that if things go that way, this place will beat him. (However, prison is not a fairy tale world, and he never mentions who it is. Going to prison is routine. Andy has new injuries at any time. Sometimes he wins, sometimes he loses. This is his routine. If this goes on, Shawshank will destroy him.
This is Andy's bottom line, even if he has to pay the price of his life, of course, he is not going to do so.
So in that spring, on May Day, when the roof was renovated, he found the opportunity to turn over and showed the value that the other party could not ignore at the critical moment, so his sisters died and he lived, because he was the most useful and the most powerful weapon he had was himself.
I think I can arrange it for you. That will save you some money. Almost free. I will only ask for three beers for each of my colleagues. A person who works outdoors will feel more like a man if he can have a bottle of soapy water. I'll make it for you and save you money. It's completely free. Just ask my colleagues to have three bottles of beer each. It's very dignified to have wine to drink. )
That's why on the penultimate day of work, the criminals who tarred the factory roof in the spring of 1949 were in forning at 10:00, drinking cold beer and thanking Shawshank State Prison for the hardest screw ever. (So the day before the completion, the prisoners on duty in the spring of' 49 sat in a pile in the morning 10, drinking cold beer, and were invited by the most ruthless prison guard in history. )
We sat in the sun and felt like free men. We drink wine in the sun, as if we really have freedom, as if we are the masters of creation. )
They once again felt the long-lost freedom and hope. Andy lit up Shawshank and the people around him. From this moment on, something began to change slowly.
As for Andy, he was hungry in the shade, with a strange smile on his face, watching us drink his beer. Andy is lying in the shade with a strange smile on his face, watching us drink his wine. )
No, thanks. I gave up being a housewife. )
If you know where you fell, you should climb up.
I think he's only doing this to feel normal again, even if it's only for a short time. I think he just wants to relive his freedom, even for a moment. )
I take it as a prelude. Everyone in Andy and Shawshank is different. He knows what he wants and what he insists on. He knows everyone here. He is smarter, stronger, braver and freer than everyone else, so he can finally regain his freedom as if he had never lost it.
After knocking out the big Boss of his sisters, Andy began to pave the way for himself in an orderly way, making all-round preparations, taking his time and doing things step by step.
The ultimate boss is the warden.
For the first time, Andy was completely at a disadvantage, and the warden was radiant, but he was just a poor guy who stumbled forward and his life was completely controlled by others. All his capital is himself.
Then he began to show his value gradually, from the prison guards' children applying for schools, to filing taxes for all prison guards in the district, and finally becoming the money launderer behind the warden. He succeeded in making himself irreplaceable, which is his success and his tragedy.
During the 20 years of prison break preparation, because of him, the baseball game between prisons was changed to coincide with the tax season in order to play a greater role. Almost by myself, I successfully rebuilt the library, which almost made people forget that they were actually in a cage.
At this time, the old man was released on parole after serving 50 years, but he was crazy enough to stay in Shawshank prison by murdering his cellmate.
These walls are interesting. First, you hate them. Then you get used to it. As time goes by, you will become dependent on them. That is "institutionalization". Prison is a strange place. You hate it at first, then you get used to it. After a long time, you find yourself dependent on it. This is "institutionalization".
In the past 50 years, Shawshank has gradually internalized into the source of his life, and continuously delivered blood and nutrition to him, which has almost become the source of the meaning of life. However, when Shawshank came out, it seemed that he was suddenly uprooted, with no relatives, friends and social relations. This society doesn't need him at all, so it broke up with him. For example, the elderly who have lived alone for many years are completely unnecessary, leaving only a gradual death. And mark brought this process to an abrupt end.
The teacher once said that the criterion to judge whether a person is happy is how much real and close contact he has with the world. The more real and intimate the contact, the happier he will be.
Each of us must start thinking about this problem at a very young age. When I retire and the children grow up and leave, how many real and intimate relationships will I have with the world? Will I face the ultimate despair that this world has nothing to do with me?
Don't let yourself become such a person. From now on, find the thing that can establish the closest relationship with the world and stick to it. When you are young, no happiness can fill the emptiness of life.
If it doesn't matter, then if a person dies, the last choice of Lao Bu will be natural.
What, until you've been here as long as Brooks? You will know after 50 years. )
They sent you here for life, and that's what they want. Anyway, the county was separated. Sentenced to life imprisonment is equivalent to handing over your life, at least part of it. )
The same tragedy will happen to anyone who has the same experience as Lao Bu, such as Rhett and other prisoners, without exception. Maybe you don't believe it, but it's true, but Rhett is lucky because he has Andy.
I still don't know what those two Italian women are singing. The truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I like to think that this is a kind of beauty that can't be expressed in words, and it will make your heart ache. I tell you, those voices are soaring, higher and farther than anyone in the gray area can dream. It's like a beautiful bird flapping its wings and flying into our monotonous cage. I never understand what they are singing. In fact, I don't want to. Some things have gone beyond language, and there are some unspeakable beauty in their songs that break your heart. The song soared into the sky, surpassing the dreams of frustrated prisoners, like a bird flying into a cell, making the stone wall disappear without a trace. )
In that brief moment, everyone in Shawshank prison felt free (at this moment, the prisoners in Shark Castle seem to be free again.
Andy's conversation with the prisoner after he was detained for playing music on the radio without authorization;
Mozart came to accompany me. It's in my mind, in my heart. Mozart is with me. It is in my brain and in my heart. )
This is the beauty of music. They can't get it from you.
I played a terrible harmonica when I was young. Lost interest in it, passed. There's no point here. I played the harmonica when I was young, so I lost interest and it was meaningless in prison. )
This is the most meaningful place. You need it so that you won't forget that some parts of the world are not made of stones. There are some inner things that they can't touch. That's yours. (It is here that it makes sense. Only with music can you forget that some places in this world can't be closed by stone walls. In people's hearts, there are some things that they can't control, which belong to you completely. )
What are you talking about? What do you mean? )
Hope.
Hope is a dangerous thing. I hope I can drive a Manning Sang. It's useless in there. You'd better get used to that idea. Hope is dangerous. Hope can drive people crazy. Hope is useless here. You'd better understand this. )
Like brooks? (like Lao bu? )
I hope it works? In The Shawshank Redemption, hope drives you crazy, so hope is useless, but that kind of person is dead in another sense, isn't it? Like Bruce, he just kept breathing for 50 years.
Sometimes, we all need people like Andy to tell us that in one's life, hope and freedom are things that can't be given up under any circumstances. If you accidentally lose it, be sure to bring it back.
Harmonica is cheap, but hope and freedom are expensive things, and not everyone deserves it. Rhett is lucky, he got his harmonica back, but what I want to do more is Andy, always taking care of his harmonica carefully.
Tommy's death is the most unworthy. As a businessman with high IQ, Andy was wronged and went to prison. Everyone only judges that he will never live his own life according to some circumstantial evidence and various speculations about human nature. After he went to prison, he suffered mental and physical hardships, looked on coldly with the cold-blooded, cruel, ignorant and poor jailer, got along with the warden and knew his selfish, greedy and crazy nature.
Andy at this time, because of his great value, has been tightly tied to Shawshank. Whatever the facts, he can only belong to Shawshank. He is as clever as Andy. Really don't know?
What reason does he have to choose to unconditionally believe in these species that are completely unworthy of being called "people" when he knows that he may escape from Ascension Island, thus ruining Tommy's life?
The only explanation can only be "the plot needs". Repeated blows can set off the light of life, the yearning for freedom, the precious hope for people, and the touching soul that escapes from the world. ...
How can you be so slow? You are really a A Dai. )
The warden is a fool, and so is Andy. Who isn't? The so-called blindness, everyone has created their own world, but also limited by this world, become a doomed fool.
The warden, a fool, naturally made the best choice in line with his own values. Although the bad guys in this world are chilling, he has always been so frank, so thorough, never hiding, full of ambition ... and even a little cute.
Tommy's death proves once again that only by being the most useful person can you not be erased at will.
If a man has a fatal weakness, and unfortunately this weakness can't be ignored, then a sword of Darius will always hang high above his head. The warden's extreme greed almost doomed his fate, not only in movies, but also in real life.
I think it comes down to a simple choice. Get busy living or get busy dying. (Anyway, people just have to choose between life and death. )
Everyone in Shawshank prison is busy dying, greedy warden, fierce jailer, numb prisoner.
Besides, we ...
I have to remind myself that some birds can't be caged Their feathers are too bright. However, the place where you live is still more monotonous and empty, and that day has passed. Some birds can't be caged. Their wings are too bright. Unfortunately, you have to continue living in this boring place.
After 40 years in prison, Rhett's conversation with the parole officer in the hut:
Do you think you have turned over a new leaf? Do you think you have reformed? )
Turn over a new leaf (turn over a new leaf? )
Am I sorry for what I did? Do I regret my crime? )
Not a day goes by that I don't regret it. Not because I'm here, nor because you think I should. I don't regret it every day, but it's not because I'm here or because you think. )
I think back to when I was a silly child who committed terrible crimes. I want to talk to him. I tried to reason with him and tell him the truth, but I couldn't. In the corridor of time, I looked at the little fool who had committed a felony. I wanted to tell him and try to reason with him to make him understand what all this meant, but I couldn't. )
The child has long gone, leaving only the old man. I have to accept this fact. The child has long since disappeared, leaving only an old man, and I have to accept the reality. )
This passage is tear gas for me. I cry every time I watch it. Today, one word at a time, I cried even harder. The sense of substitution is too strong, which pokes the softest point in my heart. I used to be so stupid and naive and made countless mistakes. Looking back, there is nothing you can do.
Impossible, we can only be like Rhett. If you have gone so far, maybe you will go further. We have come so far, keep walking. )
Some movie plots still can't stand scrutiny. For 20 years, the big cave that can accommodate a tall adult just put up a thin poster, but I haven't found it. Anyway, it doesn't make sense. Not a day or two, a month or two, but more than seven thousand days and nights. It's like a time bomb, and the occasional cold wind in the cave can make Andy come to a bad end. This gives the film a lucky color and a precarious aesthetic feeling.
Maybe we shouldn't be too serious. It doesn't really want to teach us how to escape from prison.
After reading it carefully, I have a feeling that The Shawshank Redemption is like an adult fairy tale, an adult fairy tale about freedom and hope. For this film, the ending is not important. Every emotion, sadness and thought in the process of watching movies has gone beyond the comfort given by the ending itself.
Everything a person has can be deprived, except the last freedom of human nature, that is, the freedom to choose one's attitude and lifestyle under any circumstances. Victor Frank
Freedom is in everyone's heart. As long as you remember this sentence, you will always be a free man.