Finally, he plunged into the river under the pipe. He stood in the water and raised his arms to the sky, as if to shout: I finally escaped! At this moment, the audience is also nervous and excited!
He is Andy, the protagonist in the classic movie "The Shawshank Redemption", a glamorous and well-off banker. He was jailed because of the court's misjudgment, but he was able to escape from Shawshank prison for more than ten years with unyielding faith and get free.
Andy was once a banker. Accompanied by his wife, he has a good life and a successful career. However, his wife couldn't help being lonely and having an affair with a country coach. When Andy got the news, he tried to scare them with a gun, but he finally gave up and threw the gun into the river.
But strangely, her wife and lover were shot, and Andy was arrested as a suspect. Even if Andy tries to explain, it won't help. Coupled with the ignorance of the judge, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
If what happened to Andy happened to anyone, it would be a bolt from the blue and unacceptable, and we would feel that life was meaningless. It is better to die, or to prove innocence by death.
However, Andy is not ordinary. Old prisoners in prison like to bet which new prisoner will have a nervous breakdown and cry on the first day of prison. Andy made Rhett lose two packs of cigarettes, and the last fat man collapsed and was killed by the captain of the prison guard. This is Shawshank prison. This shows Andy's composure and makes Rhett sit up and take notice of him.
Andy was often harassed for the next two years. However, he never gave in, winning and losing.
One day, the prison recruited volunteers to repair the roof, and Andy and Rhett were selected together. On his way to work, he heard Harry complain that although his brother left him a large legacy, he had to pay a lot of taxes. Andy used his professionalism as a banker to help Haley avoid taxes before going to prison. The requirement is to invite him and his friends who work together to have three bottles of beer each.
In the harsh and dark prison, Rhett and others are happily drinking beer, as if repairing their own roof, while Andy is sitting on one side, smiling, blowing a cool breeze, watching the sunset and feeling the short-lived happiness and freedom.
At that moment, Andy felt that the high wall of the prison seemed to disappear in this relaxed and comfortable atmosphere, disappearing in the boundless sunset.
Since then, countless people have come to Andy to avoid taxes, even reaching the ears of the warden. Andy is also in a high position in prison, and no one dares to mess with him. Andy was assigned to work in the prison library by the warden, and got rid of the pain of laundry.
He applied to the warden and wrote to the state government every week asking for funds to build the library. But after years of perseverance, the state government got bored and donated some books, periodicals, videos and audiobooks to him. He looked through it and found a good record. Lock the prison guard in the toilet and lock the door. As soon as the record player rang, Andy sublimated, and his "invisible coat" in the eyes of others became more obvious, just so different.
He also connected the radio of the whole prison, so that the prisoners in the square could hear the soul-washing sound of nature. A prisoner said: I can't understand what these two Italian women are singing, but the song flew into my heart like a bird. Perhaps this is the most vivid and appropriate interpretation of Andy's music!
However, the price of Andy's indulgence is being grounded. Nevertheless, he went in with a smile. After coming out, he said that people should have hope for life, music can give people strength, and he has Mozart in his heart. Rhett seems to have some understanding at that moment. Andy's library is getting better and better, and it can almost be called the best prison library in the state. It also teaches prisoners to read and write, get a degree, enrich their spirit and improve their ability, so that they can make a living with a certain knowledge reserve after they are released from prison.
At this moment, a young man came to the prison-Tommy. I have been a thief since I was a child, and I often go to prison for stealing. This time, he was arrested in Shawshank prison. Andy thinks this young man is smart and lively, so he can use his teacher to teach him to read letters.
One day, Tommy said something by accident. One of his former cellmates boasted that he had killed a country coach and his mistress. Finally, the woman's husband, a banker, was arrested. For Andy, this is undoubtedly a long drought, and he immediately went to the warden to state the facts, hoping that the warden could help him find the real prisoner out of prison.
But out of his own selfishness, the warden wanted Andy to launder money in prison and collude with Haley to shoot Tommy, and the matter went away.
Andy also completely cut off the idea of getting out of prison by evidence. Andy and Rhett say that if he can go out, he wants to go to a Pacific island in Mexico, where life has no memories and is as blue and pure as the Pacific Ocean. I hope Rhett can go out and look for him in the future. This also laid the groundwork for the future. Andy returned to the warden to launder money after he was confined by the warden.
Day after day, I know that one day, Andy dug a hole under the portrait. He took all the money from the warden and reported the crime. After returning to the cell and turning off the lights, he climbed from the passage behind the wall to the drain pipe and hit it with a stone before he escaped. Free at last.
After that, he took out all the money deposited in various banks, sent out the report materials, and successfully brought down the warden and his gang. He also drove all the way to that place in the Pacific Ocean with no memory in his convertible.
This film is unforgettable, and there are two themes that can't be ignored. First of all, the pursuit of freedom and hope, no matter what adversity, can not give up, because only persistence will have hope.
Andy experienced a rough life, fought bravely in prison, and with the firm belief of pursuing freedom, it took more than ten years to finally dig through the wall and escape. It can be said that this is such an inspirational movie!
Another theme is anti-institutionalization, which is reflected in the film that Lao Bu has been in prison for half a century and has completely relied on and got used to that environment. After he got out of prison, he didn't know what to do, and even wanted to commit another crime and return to that evil environment. The film strongly criticizes the alienation of people in the institutional environment, and embodies the filmmakers' humanistic concern and concern for human nature.
In fact, in real life, each of us is in the process of being institutionalized. In the final analysis, it is the domestication of life individuals and self by the outside world.
From small to large, you will get used to that kind of life when you work in any work unit. For example, people who have worked in toll stations for decades will be afraid of being at a loss once the artificial toll stations are cancelled. This is institutionalized. Generally speaking, what kind of country they live in, once they move to another country, it will be difficult to adapt.
The combination of these two themes is an accurate summary and abstract sublimation and summary of life and life. In fact, people are born as human beings, and there are no people who don't live in the system, because the whole society, the whole country and the whole human civilization are composed of systems, but they are different in size.
Everyone will be domesticated by the system, but to different degrees. The decisive factor affecting the degree of domestication is my free pursuit of the meaning of my life. I think this is the root of this film's enduring!