The story of The Shawshank Redemption took place in 1947. As a banker, Andy wanted to shoot his wife and her lover when he was drunk because his wife had an affair, but he didn't. But coincidentally, someone shot and killed 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 that fragile Andy will cry, and Andy's silence makes him lose two 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.
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.
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.
Andy knows the truth and decides 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.