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What kind of movie is The Shawshank Redemption?
The Shawshank Redemption is adapted from rita hayworth and Shawshank Prison Redemption in Different Seasons by Stephen King. The film "The Shawshank Redemption" broke through the limitation of prison films, and made a rare human touch and warmth of similar works, so it became a dark horse with the highest box office when it was released.

The story happened in 1947. Banker Andy tried to shoot his wife and her lover when he was drunk because his wife was having an affair, but he didn't. Coincidentally, someone shot his wife and her lover that night. He was charged with murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, which means that he will spend the rest of his life in Shawshank prison.

Rhett 1927 was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, and his parole failed several times. He has now become an "authority figure" in Shawshank prison. As long as you can afford it, he can get almost anything you want. Whenever a new prisoner comes, people will bet who will cry on the first night. Rhett thinks vulnerable Andy will cry. As a result, Andy's silence made him lose two packs of cigarettes.

For a long time, Andy hardly contacted anyone. A month later, the first thing Andy asked Rhett to do for him was a stone hammer. He wanted to kill time by carving small things, and said that he tried to escape the routine inspection by the prison authorities. Later, Andy made a huge poster of rita hayworth and put it on the wall of his cell.

The horizontal poster of the movie "The Shawshank Redemption"

Once, Andy and several other prisoners went out to work, and he overheard the prison guard talking about paying taxes. Andy said he had a way to get prison officials to legally exempt this large amount of tax. In exchange, each prisoner who works with him gets three bottles of beer. Drinking beer, Rhett guessed that Andy just used this leisure time to enjoy a short period of freedom.

During a ward round, the warden took Andy's Bible, but returned it to him without opening it and told him that "the way of redemption is in it", but the warden didn't expect that the so-called "way of redemption" was really in it. Later, he was sent to prison as a librarian. In order to update the books in the library, he writes a letter every week and works hard for the expansion of the library. Six years later, he realized his wish. After that, he began to help the honorable warden launder money. And other documents needed by prison guards to handle other affairs.

Help Andy's hammer

A thief went to prison for stealing. Coincidentally, he knew the truth about the death of Andy's wife and her lover. Excited Andy found the warden and hoped that the warden could help him reverse the case. The warden turned down Andy on the grounds that it was impossible to succeed. Andy had an argument with the warden about it. The warden told him not to forget his identity and kept Andy in a dark room for a month. During this month, the warden murdered Tommy (Andy's student in prison) who told him the truth. When Andy left the darkroom, he lied to Andy on the grounds that Tommy was killed by the prison guard because he escaped from prison. But Andy knew Tommy had been killed, so he hid his head in a dark room. Because on the one hand, he is worried about the exposure of gray income, on the other hand, he wants Andy to stay in prison and help him settle accounts.

After Andy knew the truth, he decided to be free through his own redemption! Before the action, he said a "strange" word to Rhett and told him to go to a place. If he got out of prison one day, he would leave something for Rhett. Andy succeeded in "jailbreaking" through hard work, and his jailbreaking tool was "redemption" in the Bible, a small stone hammer hidden in the book (a groove was carved in the book, just to put the stone hammer). He took the money to wash the warden (he went to 12 bank and took $370,000) and sent the evidence of the warden's corruption and murder to the newspaper. After the incident, the warden committed suicide in despair.

Andy escaped from prison by digging his own tunnel to reach the sewage pipe, and then climbed over the sewage pipe to the river outside (the film also gave a close-up of the escape route, and described the length of the sewage pipe in three ways: 500 yards; The length of five football fields; Half a mile, and according to visual inspection, it is at least 1Km. These special sentences mean that Andy finally got out of prison and did another legendary thing. For details, please refer to American personal heroism.

When Rhett was released from prison on parole, he found a gift left by Andy-a stack of 50 dollars and a letter. This letter is about "hope", which is also the theme of the film, because Rhett thinks that "hope" is a terrible thing in prison, but today Andy proves to him that "hope" should exist and tells Rhett to go to Mexico to find him in the letter. Rhett overcame his psychological crisis after parole. The two friends finally met.

In prison, Andy is a different person. He knows that the world is absurd, black and white is upside down, and he knows that he is innocent. However, he didn't have much resentment, but accepted the punishment of the prison. The life gap before and after imprisonment did not make him nervous and anxious, but he faced everything in front of him very calmly. Facing the harassment of "sister flowers" and the cruelty of the prison system, he is calm, tolerant and patient. As his good friend Rhett said, he walked leisurely in the yard, just like in the park. Faced with such a figure, we can't help but ask: what makes him so quiet and carefree in a place that is devoid of humanity? Furthermore, what makes him detached from such a space where human nature and evil meet and become a maverick? I think this is because he has been living in two worlds: one is the real secular world. Another ideal world full of hope. What is important is that in the two worlds, rationality is an important supporting point to balance reality and ideal. As a social person, Andy can advocate a reasonable and more responsible lifestyle by virtue of the concept of rationality and self-discipline. In prison, he can adapt to his daily life, complete his regular work, eat, rest and exercise regularly. At the same time, he can keep his hobby and carve stones with a small iron hoe given by Rhett; He was also able to keep quiet in the voice of nature in The Wedding of Figaro, although he was imprisoned for two weeks for violating prison regulations. The film makes full use of this extremely short musical time to render and contrast Andy's spiritual transcendence. We know that "the music in the film not only plays an artistic role, but also makes the picture give people a vivid and natural impression;" Music gives the picture an atmosphere and makes it look like a third sense of space. "Here, the aesthetic expression function of music deconstructs the cruel tyranny and moral deficiency in prison. When the prisoners are moved by this wonderful music and look back at the loudspeaker, the film shows us that under the repression of the prison power system, people have a desire to restore their life experience from the dying and conventional institutional form. On the other hand, Andy has been living in the desire for human freedom potential and hopes to live in another beautiful space outside reality. " Although we have no wings, we can't give up the dream of flying. "This is the motto of his survival. Therefore, the paradox of the film is that in front of the real world, Andy only regards reason as a tool to settle down, but the world that really belongs to him is a free world full of imagination. This world is the real world he really yearns for, and this is the true meaning of Andy's redemption and freedom. Scene Interpretation Do you remember the scene when Andy escaped from prison? First go through the hole you dug, then climb over the sewer, and then meet the "new life" in the wind and rain. This is also a process of life, even if you are innocent. First use your own hands to rush out of the original world. Then what is waiting for you is a stinking, but it is also a long way for you to "smash" yourself. You passed because you knew what was waiting for you later. Then you have a storm. At this time, instead of complaining, you enjoy life and hug yourself in the storm.

In order to take advantage of Andy, a financial talent who is sensitive to numbers, Warden Norton made an exception and allowed him to put up posters on the wall. Such a scene just paved the way for the ending of the film, indicating that Norton's greed and careful machine finally brewed his tragic fate.