Dreams and freedom are so precious. After nearly 30 years of careful planning and the realization of my dream, I have been deeply shocked by my regained freedom.
Andy Dufresne, even though his body is facing life imprisonment, can't stop the pursuit of freedom. He is always full of hope, which is beyond anyone's reach
Firm in heart, calm-headed, thoughtful, brave and fearless, almost all bright adjectives can be used to modify his radiant quality. In my pursuit of dreams and freedom, he is an endless source of my strength and spirit.
You know, some birds are not meant to be caged, and every feather of them shines with freedom. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best in the world, and good things never die? .
These two words seem to have been deeply hidden in my heart for twenty years, and will always illuminate my way forward like a lighthouse.
The first part: The important life experience of film communication.
One: if you can't change it temporarily, you must first learn to adapt and get used to it;
Andy was framed for killing his wife and his wife's lover and was accused of going to court. He is completely innocent, but he has to face life imprisonment. Such grievances are unacceptable to people anyway.
The high fence and gloomy atmosphere are in sharp contrast with his weak temperament.
On the other hand, Andy seems unusually calm. He began to try to adapt to life inside the high wall. On the one hand, he is trying to adapt to his present life. On the other hand, he always plans the most important things silently in his mind.
This reminds me of Wu Meiniang, who was a talented person in Li Shimin in 14. After Li Shimin's death, he was sent to Ganye Temple. Wu Zetian did not give up because of disappointment. She regards this experience as the incubation period of life. She chose to bear the burden of humiliation, save her strength and wait for the opportunity in this uncontested world.
Flexibility, when life is low, you should learn to show weakness, bow your head and bend over.
Two: How to never be institutionalized? Keep an independent and free heart.
I haven't thought about institutionalization before. Watching this movie again this year has left me in deep thought.
These walls are interesting. When you first went to prison, you hated the high walls around you; Slowly, you get used to living in it; In the end, you will find that you have to rely on it to survive. This is called institutionalization. ?
However, in reality, invisible high walls are everywhere.
Institutionalization is embodied in the transformation of human behavior and psychology by the environment. Never adapt, slowly adapt, and then gradually become a psychological dependence. The environment we live in has actually assimilated and influenced us.
I suddenly thought of the famous pendulum vibration experiment. The 48 metronome pendulums originally vibrated in disorder, but in a short time, the 48 pendulums formed exactly the same swing rhythm.
I have to say, how powerful the environment is to assimilate people!
And what kind of existence is Andy?
Not only has he not been institutionalized, but he has always had the power to break through this powerful vortex and always insisted on his own internal frequency. He has always been like a firm and heterogeneous pendulum, which has not been assimilated and has influenced other pendulums.
Behind the institutionalization is the loss of mob and personal wisdom. Leaders who stand out from the mob need extremely tenacious willpower, not only not to be influenced, but also to have more ability to influence others.
Regional and cultural differences are not difficult to explain.
Among poor fathers and rich fathers, poor fathers encourage their children to study hard and find a good job, while rich fathers devote themselves to improving their earning ability and financial thinking since childhood.
It must be said that our cognition is bound to be influenced by some kind of thinking, and all the choices are in our own hands.
However, the most important thing is:
Your time is limited, don't live for others. Don't be limited by dogma, don't live in other people's thoughts, don't let other people's opinions affect your inner voice, and most importantly, bravely follow your heart and intuition. Only they can know your inner thoughts, and everything else is secondary. ?
Three: How to deal with the wicked
This movie taught me how to deal with the wicked people I met in my life. I have to say that life is not always windy and rainy, and sometimes there are storms.
When we are faced with irrelevant and suddenly meaningless rotten people, we can choose not to entangle.
When facing the real enemies who are attacking head-on, and they have deeply touched our principled interests, we must have strong counterattack ability.
Not pestering never means weakness, but if you have to fight back, you must have the ability to fight back.
Always remember to be a good person, but in any case, you must have the ability and means to deal with villains and villains.
Friendship is a line of defense in life.
This is also a movie about friendship. Friendship is rare within high walls, but the friendship between Andy and Rhett is so pure. It's hard for Rhett to consider himself a heinous murderer. He exudes sincerity and friendliness.
Normally, Andy and Rhett can't be friends in the real world, but in this high wall, this friendship is so precious.
Andy is like a closed well in his marriage, but in his decades-long association with Rhett, he has established a rare trust, and his heart is largely open to Rhett.
Nobody asked for it. Andy and Rhett naturally passed on the most precious trust, new understanding of life and even some real secrets to each other.
This friendship is really a pure and beautiful state. And true and sincere friendship is always a line of defense in life.
Five: About redemption
The Shawshank Redemption, who saved who and what?
There is such a clip in the movie: on the edge of the stone wall, in the conversation with Rhett, he mentioned his love and regret for his wife. He said: My wife said it was difficult for her to understand me. I am like a closed book, and she complains all day. She's so beautiful, damn it, how much I love her. I'm just not good at expressing myself Yes, I killed her. I didn't shoot her, but I told her to leave me alone. My temper killed her. ?
Rhett comfort way? You're not a murderer. Maybe you're not a good husband? Andy went on to say, yes, someone else did it, but I was punished. I guess my life is poor. Everyone has bad luck, but it's my turn. I was caught in a tornado, but I didn't expect it to last so long. ?
Andy showed a dignified look in this passage, like Andy's farewell before he decided to escape from prison.
During the 19 years in Shawshank prison, Andy has two important beliefs, one is that he is innocent, and the other is that he wants to be beautiful.
If Tommy hadn't been shot, but helped Andy to be acquitted and return to his original social identity. However, Tommy's murder completely sealed his hope of acquittal.
Under the premise of enduring great suffering, he finally came back to take on his responsibility and didn't pass it on to anyone. What an important reflection. From this moment on, Andy redeemed his soul and found himself.
That conversation represented Andy's redemption for himself. His salvation is not a change of identity, nor a change of living environment, but a true self-identity at the soul level.
Therefore, he is a man who truly redeemed his soul in Shawshank prison. In the storm of fate, he finally reconciled so many strong conflicts in his heart and calmed down his life.
Part II: About how to realize your most important dream.
One: Always stick to your deep choice.
I have to say that it is not easy to stick to your own values.
But Andy's desire for freedom has always been deeply imprinted in his heart. So he is willing to make every effort for this most important value, even for decades.
Jobs said this in his speech at Stanford University:
The only way to achieve great things is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't stop. ?
We should always have the ability to listen to our hearts and make ourselves really quiet. We will always have the most wise, powerful and magical divine guidance in our hearts.
Our hearts will always know what is most important to us, what is our greatest talent and love, and what we are willing to do hard even if we don't take a penny.
Follow our inner values and talents, and our life will explode with great potential.
Two: Long-term-let people move from success to Excellence
We often overestimate the changes in one year and underestimate the achievements in ten years.
The excellent premise is to have a very focused goal, and then study and work hard from all angles around this goal.
No matter how high the peak of our dreams is, as long as we have long-term vision and enough patience, in fact, all our dreams can be realized step by step. Longevity is to embrace forever in life? Gong Yu moved mountains? And then what? Iron pestle ground into a needle? The spirit of.
Embracing patience and staying away from quick success have actually surpassed 99% of people.
A pickaxe, like a day for ten years, leads to freedom. ?
No one expected that a small pickaxe could dig through the prison wall, let alone be free and persistent for ten years. Although Andy is in a high wall, he has been holding his own beacon of freedom, trying to break through all barriers.
As a librarian, Andy began to write letters to the state legislature to enrich the library. It took six years to get a check from 200 yuan. In the eighth year, I received 400 yuan. By 17, the subsidy will be increased to 1000 yuan. This makes Shawshank prison library can find almost any book it wants to read.
He dug a hole with a pickaxe. Red smiled when he saw this pickaxe, because it took at least 200 years to dig a hole with this pickaxe, while Andy only used 19 years.
Andy once said that if a person knows how to use time, even if he has only a little time at a time, he can do a lot by accumulating little by little. ?
I have to say, what a long-term person this is! Rather than having amazing willpower, he knows the final result and naturally knows how to take firm action from the beginning.
What hinders our unremitting efforts?
A very important reason is that we can't see the result of positive feedback, so we have doubts and vacillations.
However, long-term doctrine is just the opposite. The most fundamental thing is that once the goal is determined, it will continue to act and will never stop until it is achieved.
I have to say that these are two completely different ways of thinking.
Three: Macro perspective, mode and strategy
With a long-term vision and long-term mentality, Andy also needs to grasp the whole macro perspective and strategic pattern.
From a macro point of view, this is a very grand planning system, which can be said to have many links, such as what to use as a cover to dig holes, what to use to spread the soil out, how to stay in a cell all the time, and how to get along with prison guards and warders.
Not only the distance, but also the width and height of the viewing angle.
Four: careful planning
Not only long-term and macro, but also careful planning, that is, a plan for a rainy day.
Andy knows the architectural drawings of the prison like the back of his hand, and he also knows the sewage pipes in the prison. Imagine that if any detail of his whole plan goes wrong, his life will be terminated and all his efforts will be in vain.
So, I have to say, this action is like dancing on the tip of a knife. But in order to achieve his goal, he considered every detail and overcame all the obstacles he could think of.
Not only looking far, not only the width and height of perspective, but also the microscopic perspective (carefully planned).
Five: Strong spiritual strength
When Andy has a heart (dream, courage and perseverance) and a brain (careful planning and complete knowledge), he has a good time and lives in harmony with others.
These factors combine to produce a person's powerful mental ability, just like a supercomputer with a super CPU.
The strength of spiritual power comes from lifelong learning (accumulation of knowledge and ability) and practice (promotion of wisdom and emotion).
When some setbacks and difficulties no longer affect our emotions, when the evaluation around us no longer affects our hearts, when we know how to persist and stop going with the flow, and when we can gradually live more calmly, elegantly, quietly and happily, our spiritual strength will gradually improve and our life will gradually sublimate.
Six: comprehensive three-dimensional knowledge and ability
Andy used his professional advantages to help wardens and prison guards make accounts and avoid taxes, and became their very important right-hand man. Andy knows how to use his advantages to get the core resources he needs.
He is not only proficient in finance, but also has a very deep knowledge reserve in architecture, geography, art, psychology and other angles, and finally these knowledge have been transformed into his own ability.
In today's society, entrepreneurship is often only encouraged to break out at a subdivision point, which is called small and beautiful. However, small and beautiful, it is more like a screw in society.
And if you want to be a handsome talent, you must have very extensive knowledge. Profound but not scattered, so that all the dabbling can serve a comprehensive goal.
Seven: rationality
From beginning to end, Andy has shown a strong rational trait, and he can hardly see the influence of emotions on him. Except once, he went to the warden and told Tommy that he knew his grievance.
I think Andy is a typical INTJ type, a perfectionist. They strongly demand personal freedom and ability, and in their initial thoughts, unshakable beliefs urge them to achieve their goals. INTJ type people are rigorous, logical and resourceful. They can see the achievements of new plans and the theoretical system of turning life into reality. They will not feel uneasy because of indifference and criticism. As the most independent of all personality types, INTJ people prefer to act in their own way. In the face of contrary opinions, they are usually skeptical, very firm and resolute.
Andy has a trait that most prisoners lack, which is a kind of inner peace, even an unshakable belief. He always has a confident look, and his carefree look in the yard is more like walking on the playground. Most prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment will have a gloomy and desperate expression on their faces after a period of time, but Andy's face has never appeared.
Eight: Shut up.
It can be said that his whole plan has been hidden in his heart for decades, and every link is ingenious, but it is like a claustrophobic well.
We often say that secrets can't be revealed, and knowing how to shut up is worth a thousand dollars.
Part III: Hope and dream, freedom and value.
One: the power of hope
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best in the world, and good things never die? .
In our hearts, there is one place that cannot be locked, and that is hope. Hope is like a seed in my heart. Although small, it is extremely powerful.
I have always believed that hope is the core of our soul. What is our deepest desire? What kind of people do we want to be? What kind of life experience have you created?
Hope always leads us to do things, work hard and climb new heights in life. Hope in our hearts makes our hearts sprout, blossom and bear fruit.
Two: the value of freedom
Figaro's wedding from the high wall,
These songs can't be described in words. The beauty is heartbreaking, and the singing goes straight into the sky, which is higher than anyone's dream in this place. Like beautiful birds, they fly into our gray cage and make these walls disappear. At this moment, everyone in Shawshank feels free? .
Although Andy lost his freedom of body, his freedom of thought and spirit is always hidden in his heart.
You know, some birds are not meant to be caged, and every feather of them shines with freedom. ?
Summary:
The Shawshank Redemption has been ranked first in IMDB and Douban film reviews for a long time, and we all saw some shadows of ourselves and the value we really longed for in the film.
Shawshank prison has become more of a symbol, but it is everywhere in reality. People are gradually assimilated psychologically, from fear to resistance to dependence.
Andy not only has strong characteristics, but also has many bright adjectives to describe him, but he also needs to face his inner fears. He hesitated and hesitated, but finally he chose to face his fate.
In fact, conflict and confrontation in movies are not necessarily conspiracy, violence and killing. In this film, it is not only the sinister and despicable warden who opposes Andy, but also those who strongly assimilate him and give up hope in their hearts.
Although Rhett is Andy's best friend in prison for 20 years, he confronts Andy all the time. The conflict between them is not manifested by violence and conspiracy, but by a strong attitude towards life, a conflict and opposition between hope and despair.
Conspiracy, violence, killing and injustice can imprison life, but they can't kill the real hope in the heart.
Hope never dies.