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The Shawshank Redemption --A Film Full of Faith and Warmth The Shawshank Redemption is based on a story, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, which is written by Stephen King. The movie is directed by Frank Darabont. He paints the prison in drab grays and shadows, so that when key events do occur, they seem to have a life of their own. The Shawshank Redemption is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It includes profanity and occasional violence. However, the horror here is not of the supernatural kind, but of the sort that flows from the realization of a man when staying in the same unchanging daily prison for several years.

“Without a single riot scene or horrific effect, it tells a slow, gentle story of camaraderie and growth, with an ending that abruptly finds poetic justice in what has come before. The writer and director, Frank Darabont, tells this tale with a surprising degree of loving care.”(Janet Maslin) The partnership between the characters played by Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman is crucial to the way the story unfolds. In prison, Andy and Red develop their deep friendship. They care for each other and finally meet freely outside the prison. “There is a lot of life and humor in it and warmth in the friendship that builds up between Andy and Red.”(Roger Ebert)

“But mostly the film is an allegory about holding onto a sense of personal worth, despite everything. If the film is perhaps a little slow in its middle passages, maybe that is part of the idea, too, to give us a sense of the leaden passage of time, before the glory of the final redemption.”(Roger Ebert) The Shawshank is a jail—actually a hell in the world. Not only for the inhumanity of the jailors——they behaved brutally; but also for the jail gnawed at people’ heart by keeping them waiting and waiting as life passed. It seemed that only those utterly worthless people who gave up everything could survive. Although the conditions are so nasty, Andy doesn’t give up hope. Conversely, he takes advantage of his ability to prove himself. “The Shawshank Redemption might change a few minds about the usefulness of incarceration in terms of rehabilitation. Mostly, though, it reminds us of that we all hold the keys to our own prisons.” (Rita Kempley) Andy understands what he needs, and he was longing for freedom. So with his wisdom, he finds his own keys leading to new life.

"The Shawshank Redemption is a movie about time, patience and loyalty -- not sexy qualities, perhaps, but they grow on you during the subterranean progress of this story, which is about how two men serving life sentences in prison become friends and find a way to fight off despair.”(Roger Ebert) The movie opens in 1947 as Andy, as played by Tim Robbins, a prominent New England banker, is on trial for murdering his wife and her lover. He insists that he is innocent, but the jury finds him guilty. Sentenced to life twice over, Andy is shipped to the maximum-security state prison at Shawshank, Maine. An introverted loner with an interest in reading, chess and rock carving, Andy keeping thought to himself doesn't make himself many friends until Red, a 30-year-veteran of the system, played by Freeman, decides to take him under his wing. The story is narrated by Red. “Red's narration of the story allows him to speak for all of the prisoners, who sense a fortitude and integrity in Andy that survives

the years.”(Roger Ebert) Therefore he is a crucial element in the story. He has been inside the walls of Shawshank Prison for a very long time. He can get you whatever you need: cigarettes, candy, even a little rock pick like an amateur geologist might use. He befriends Andy, and keeps close observation to Andy. So the story goes on. Things begin to change when Andy promises to help the officers in the prison with their tax problems to get some cold beers for his friends who are working on the roof. Later he depends on himself to try to build a formal library in the prison, and he succeeds. Then his fame spreads. Before long, he’s been assigned to the warden's office, where he keeps tabs on the warden's ill-gotten gains. Eventually he's doing the taxes and pension plans for most of the officials of the local prison system

The fact doesn’t be revealed until the end of the story. Andy got a hammer from Red, and he spends nineteen years digging a tunnel in order to get out. Finally he