Analysis the Profound Theme on The Shawshank Redemption
Abstract:
The Shawshank Redemption is a movie about time, patience and loyalty -- not sexy qualities, perhaps, but they grow on you during the subterranean progre of this story, which is about how two men serving life sentences in prison become friends and find a way to fight off despair.
Key words:patience, loyalty, friends,fight
In this film,Andy is a very clever person,and always full of hope,even though Red tell him:hope is a dangerous thing,hope can drive a man insane.When Andy have a chance to reverse a verdict,someone destroyed it.So the tunnel worked.Andy diged a tunnel during this 19 years.This is incredible,but this is a truth already,at least in this movie.Never give up,this is Andy.Hope, more than anything else, drives the inmates at Shawshank and gives them the will to live.Andy’s sheer determination to maintain his own sense of self-worth and
escape keeps him from dying of frustration and anger in solitary confinement.Hope is an abstract, paive emotion, akin to the paive, immobile, and inert lives of the prisoners.Andy sets
about making hope a reality in the form of the agonizing progre he makes each year tunneling his way through his concrete cell wall.Even Andy’s even-keeled and well-balanced temperament, however, eventually succumb to the bleakne of prison life.Red notes that Tommy Williams’s revelation that he could prove Andy’s innocence was like a key unlocking a cage in Andy’s mind, a cage that released a tiger called Hope.This hope reinvigorates Andy and spreads to many of the other
inmates in the prison.In his letter addreed to Red, Andy writes that “hope is a good thing,” which in the end is all that Red has left.Red’s decision to go to Mexico to find Andy is the ultimate proof of Red’s own redemption, not from his life as a criminal but from his compromised state, bereft of hope and with no reason to embrace life or the future.Red’s closing words, as he embarks tentatively onto a new path, show that hope is a difficult concept to sustain both inside the prison and out.
But there are more important things,that is freedom.It mentioned many times for free in this movie.In fact,no matter who are you,and where you are,the most thing you wanted is freedom.You will feel more dead than alive without freedom.So everyone in the prison want to go outside and nobody will ask what they are doing.This is also the reason of the escaping.
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