Reflections and remarks after watching the movie "The Shawshank Redemption"

Reflections and remarks after watching the movie "The Shawshank Redemption"

"The Shawshank Redemption" is an old movie from 1995. It is still so touching and important now. After warming it up, I was deeply touched again.

Shawshank is the name of the notorious prison in the movie. Here, all kinds of darkness, ugliness and violence are performed every day. From the film, we can see more freedom and hope, they are like Like the sun, it shines on the hearts of movie viewers again and again, giving people light, warmth and strength.

The beginning of the movie is straightforward, and a heart-wrenching murder scene unfolds quickly. Next, the court announced that Andy Dufren, a young and talented banker, was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his wife. Andy could imagine that what awaited him would be dark torture, indescribable humiliation, and even more terrifying, the despair of a dead soul.

Keyword 1: Freedom

Red, a low-level character played by Morgan Freeman, likes gambling and can do business from prison. In a sense, for Old Rhett, life in prison made him feel more at home. He did not need to work too much and could smoke, eat, and sleep freely. This small amount of freedom was enough to satisfy Rhett. But the real realization of the freedom of being an ordinary person was when he went out to work with his brothers in prison. Andy used his hard work and talent to win a few bottles of beer for each of his brothers. The sun shines on the earth, and the brothers drink happily. They drank like free men in the sun. It seems that he is not doing outside work for the prison, but repairing the roof of his own house. The enjoyment of freedom for a few hours, although short-lived, is engraved in everyone's heart.

When Andy desperately played "The Marriage of Figaro" on the prison loudspeaker, the prisoners and prison guards who were having fun in the square couldn't help but stand in silence, abandoning all their anger, viciousness and resentment. , bathed in the sunshine that has never felt so free. Mozart's music spread over these people, and the beautiful notes from the world seemed to wash them all into pure purity, awakening their sense of freedom that they had almost lost. When the warden shouted to Andy to "Turnitoff", Andy not only did not listen to him, but turned up the volume. Although he was finally sentenced to one month of solitary confinement, he felt extremely happy.

However, in the face of freedom, more people choose to be imprisoned. Lao Bu, who had been in the prison library for fifty years, wanted to stay in prison by hurting fellow inmates in order not to be paroled. Isn’t it strange? Freedom, equality, and fraternity should be the ideals that people yearn for and pursue. But the old people have already been institutionalized. They need rules and order. Without them, they cannot even survive. After being released from prison, Lao Bu could not overcome the psychological alienation left over from decades of prison life. Therefore, although he achieved freedom in terms of personal rights, his mind was still trapped in invisible shackles. Such a long and cruel imprisonment did not torture him to death. But the split between the free body and the free mind forced him to commit suicide.

Keyword 2: Faith

When Andy finally got a reply ($200) to his six-year weekly letter to start a prison library, his face showed A beautiful smile like a child: "I have only been writing for six years. Starting from today, I will write two letters a week." I was touched again. It is hard to imagine that a person in prison still maintains his passion for knowledge and truth. ardent desire and persistence in striving for it. This kind of perseverance is not just what Rhett said, "Prison life is boring and boring, and you have to find something to do if you have nothing to do."

The warden killed the only person who knew that Andy had been wrongly convicted and could have been released from prison. Jim, Andy's hope of a retrial was completely shattered, and he decided to escape from prison. Because of his faith, Andy was able to use only a small coneflower in twenty years to dig a tunnel that Red thought could not be drilled in six hundred years. When he finally climbed out of the stinky sewage pipe of 500 yards and stood unable to help himself in the pouring rain, we seemed to see faith piercing through the darkness and hitting a dazzling thunderbolt in the dark night.

Keyword 3: Hope

Rhett said that hope is a dangerous thing and the source of mental depression.

He is indeed qualified to say this after having been in prison under heavy pressure for thirty years. Because from the day he came in, the warden had said, “Give your soul to God and give your body to me.” However, Andy told him, “Remember, hope is a good thing—maybe even the best thing in the world. And good things never disappear."

After Red was released from prison, he encountered the same problem as Old Boo. He could not adapt to the outside society. He had already been institutionalized and did not even report before going to the toilet. Can't squeeze it out. The only thing that gave him hope was the letter Andy gave him under the old oak tree. Red was invited to go to the place they had talked about in prison to help him fulfill his dream. While reading the letter, the lovely Red was frightened by the chirping of birds twice and looked around. Even the free chirping of birds frightened him, as if he was being watched all the time. However, things are different now. He is free, and his friend Andy is waiting for him on the beautiful shore of the Pacific Ocean to spend the rest of his beautiful life with him.