Brian's+Shawshank+Redemption+review



The Shawshank Redemption was an excellent movie in my eyes. Director Frank Darabont whipped up a great cast call consisting of actors such as Morgen Freemen and Tom Robbins. The movie gave a stunning depiction of an inocent man given a life sentece for a crime that another man committed. I enjoyed this movie very much. I felt that the lighting in the movie played an important role in effecting the emotion and the way you view things about the movie. There was a very dull, colorless tint to the camera that suggested and implied the monotone, boring life behind bars.

The man's name was Andy, played by Tom Robbins, he spent a good portion of his life behind bars. The whole time in this prison andy had a close frendship to a man by the name of red. Andy was a clever accountant who ended up doing taxes for every police man in the prison, including the warden. He got so involved in the system that he began to manipulate it. Within all this paper work he manafested a character whom he had conjured a birth cirtificate, social security number, and drivers licence for. Wehn andy excaped shawshank, he posed as the man he created and took out money from his creations account, It was money that the warden had been personally saving and takeing from the comunity through duties that the inmates performed. Through out andys days in prison he was slowly carving his way out with a silver spoon whitch red claimed would take a man 100 years. He hid the entrence to his tunnle behind a poster of various women that where given to him through Red, He got a new one every year.

Red was a good man to have as a friend, he was a man who could get things, provided your in prison, he had his ways behind the bars. Red was an important man in prison but outside, in the real world, he had little to nothing. The hard life of a man sentenced to life is a sad cycle that consists of conditioning over time to have the cell's be your home, so much so that some dont want to leave. It gets to the point were life is easyer and your human worth is more while a prisoner then a free man. Brooks was a perfect example of this. In prison he was the runner of the shawshank library. He was a man that people respected in prison, but once he was released, no one knew him. He started a job at a market, his boss didnt respect him, he reolized that his life served more meaning when he was in prison. He took his own life in the appartment he was staying in, but before he did so, he carved on a wooden beam supporting the ceiling "Brooks was here".