After a very long time if i have had the satisfaction of watching a movie it would be 'The Shawshank redemption', a beautiful movie that talks about the life of a rich banker in jail after he was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his wife and her secret lover a golf pro. The movie starts with the court scene where the prosecutor asks him questions regarding the murder he was convicted for. He tries to tell the judge and the jury that he wanted to kill her but he did not. But all the evidences supported the cause and hence he was sent to 'the shawshank' a prison in newengland run by a very strict warden. The prisoners in shawshank welcomes the new prisoners calling them new fish and they have the habit of betting on the new ones as to who will break down on the first day and Red (Morgan Freeman) bets on Andy (Tim Robbins) but was surprised to see that he is a very quiet and composed man who was in his own world and never spoke to the people there. The first person he speaks to is Red (red is a very popular guy in the prison who gets things done for the other prisoners. he has a good influence with the outside world and hence gets cigarets,beer,biscuits etc for the prisoners form time to time), now andy asks for a hammer which he says he wants to use for carving stones which he follows as a hobby. The story goes on with how his life takes a turn inside the prison when he starts doing the tax palnning for the jailors and the warden. Warden then transfers him to the prison library where he works with Brooks, an old man who has served 50 years inside the jail. Andy writes to the state asking for funds to expand the library and one fine day the state agrees and sends funds with which andy modernises the library adding more books. Once in a while Andy would try stunts for which he would be sent to the hole (something like a dungon, which is dark and desolated).
The movie takes a turn after the entry of a young guy named Tommy into the prison. He very enthusiastic guy who is immedisatly like by red,andy and their group. Through this guy Andy learns the valuable truth about the real killer of his wife and her golf pro lover. When Andy tries to tell this to Warden he doesn believe it and Andy threatens to tell the government about the tax scams that the warden had been into (with andy's help ofcourse). Shaken by this the warden murders Tommy. Finally andy decides to flee from the prison. How he escapes and how he gets the money to settle in the pacific region of mexico is the climax of the movie.
What i loved about the movie is the narration that Red gives about Andy during the course of the movie. The friendship that develops between Red and Andy is potrayed beautifully. The scene where Red tells to his fellow prisoners 'these walls are funny, when you come here for the first time you hate them and then you get used to them' is very beautifully said when he learns that Brooks,the old librarian leaves the prison to live a life outside and later on commits suicide. There is'nt much humor in the movie except where red tells Andy 'When you go outside Andy you dont need a powerful person like me,all you need is yellow pages'.
The movie ends with red coming to the pacific side of mexico to join andy to start a new life, with Hope something andy always strongly beleived in and Red never did and finally convinced by andy that there is something called hope that keeps the life going.
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