Introduction:
Shawshank Redemption was released in 1994 written and directed by Frank Darabont who also made The Green Mile and The Walking Dead.
Analysis:
It’s a story about a successful banker who is alleged for murdering his wife and her lover and is sentenced to life imprisonment in Shawshank Prison where he struggles to live.
Story Line:
This story is based on the prison culture where prisoners are always wrongly and negatively depicted. The main character Andy Dufresne, played by Tim Robbins who is a banker that is wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and is sentenced two life sentences back-to-back and while trying to survive the horrifying prison he meets a few characters in prison i.e. Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding (Morgan Freeman) and Brooks Hatlen (James Whitmore) a lifelong inmate. There he bonds with Ellis Boyd also called Red and they become good friends.Prison Culture: I think the writer in this movie is trying to put the limelight on prisoners who are always depicted as horrible persons on media and wardens of prison are always appreciated but the writer wants to prove that its not always necessary that prisoners are wrong. We can see many examples from our everyday life that wrongly alleged people get the punishment for crimes they never committed. And the prisoners there are treated like animals or maybe even worse.
Story of Hope:
The main story of this film revolves around the concept of hope. This movie has shown that one can achieve anything if it has hope in doing that. As in the story Brooks commits suicide even after he gets free from prison because the he has lost hope in his life no matter how happy you are in the view of world if you have lost hope in your life you can achieve nothing.Even when he hears the news that the Review Board has granted parole what appears to be a positive news seems negative to Brook who has spent over 30 years in prison and he tries to stab a fellow inmate The lesson we learn from this is that not every change we think is positive for our organization or our people will be beneficially perceived by the recipients of that change. But the question is why he takes it as a negative thing which can be described as follows:For Brooks, his apparently irrational behavior is due to the weight of the negative perceptions and fears of a new civilian life in the city where he is not sure about the security that he can manage to earn money to support himself or he cannot manage to face the society in the appearance of a prisoner he has to establish his new identity in the outside world things have changed so much for Brooks that he can’t manage to do this all on his own. After living 30+ years in prison he is unexperienced for the outside world that’s what brings him to his death.
