Review of The Shawshank Redemption (1994) by Shreekara B — 21 Oct 2014

''Hope is the good thing, maybe the best thing, and no good things ever dies'', ''I was the honest man out there, I turned crook after coming to prison'', these are some of the best lines that you come across while watching 1994's ''Shawshank Redemption''.

This English Drama revolves around the character of Andy Dufresne an innocent banker convicted for murdering his wife and her boyfriend, he is sent to the Shawshank Jail to spend his rest of life, and there he finds a friend, Red, who provides him a rock hammer for some indefinite and unknown reason, the speciality of Andy was that he always kept him busy with some work, that he often says, ''Get busy living or get busy dying'', he begin as the financial adviser for the prison guards and continue to be the shape changer of the prison library, but when he realizes that some dark things happening in that penitentiary he try to bring them to light but before he does that he is sent to the solitary confinement, after his release from that confinement he speaks with Red about having the hope and tells about his dreams, that where he want to spend last days of his life and takes the promise from him that if Red get released from the imprisonment he asked him to meet him again, after the day of their conversation Andy find missed from his jail and had escaped through the sewage pipe, but Andy disguise himself in other name and set free from the clutches of cops along with submitting the records about the corruption and the inhuman activities that are seen in Shawshank jail, Red get released after his 40 years of imprisonment and succeeds in keeping his promise to Andy.

This movie is neatly crafted by its maker; each character in the play gets its own introduction and style of presenting, the portrayal of the roles like Andy, Red and Brooks are finely shown, Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman are brilliant in their act, that artistic way of presenting the plot and the dialogues adds extra weightage to the movie, it's the best made movie.