Review of The Shawshank Redemption (1994) by Jesse C — 20 Jan 2018

Have you ever seen a film so beautiful that this could be your only reason to live? This is that film. It deals with hard topics like rape and suicide but hope is always what drives Andy forward. As the poster said "fear can hold you prisoner but hope can set you free.

" When things look terrible for Andy he holds hope for finally getting to live on the pacific ocean own a beach front motel and just take care of a broken boat. Red's outlook on life in the beginning seems trivial, he goes through the prisons schedule and when he gets to the yard hangs with gang and gets people what they want or need.

Andy however changed everything Red finally felt a speck of freedom that culminates in the Opera scene. Red puts it best in the narration "amd for all of us.........it felt like we were free for the first time.

" Characters like Johnny held hope for the future with his Highschool equivalent carrying a C+ average were crushed. Everyone besides the prison staff felt human, they wanted to achieve goals and have lives but their only way to keep it alive was by being one of many innocent men in Shawshank.

Eventhough Andy is behind bars, the only way for him to feel part of the outside world is by helping people. Helps a guard with his brother's inheritance and how to hide it from the IRS just to get his friends some beers.

Sends 2 letters everyweek to congress to expand the prison library just to give the people educations and freedom. This film expresses freedom in the most human way not by being a basic right but being a basic human emotion.

Watching this film made me glad to be alive because nothing has ever made me more happy. These are the reasons The Shawshank Redemption is my favourite film of all time.