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1、Film Review of TheShawshankRedemptionName: Li Jinle Major: Automation No.: 311208002518 Class: Automation 12-8 Date: Apr. 24th, 2015 Film Review of TheShawshankRedemptionThisstoryhappenedin1947. A successful young banker Andy found his wife fornicating with a baseball coach. He flew into a fury and
2、planned to shoot them dead at one night. But at last he gave up. His reason won his emotion. Surprisingly, his wife and her lover died at that night. Andy was framed for murder. And the sentence was two life imprisonments. He was sent into Shawshank prison.That was a dark and gloomy hell with mad pr
3、isoners, cruel warders and viperous and greedy wardenry. The first night Andy spent in it a new comer like Andy couldnt bear the fear and kept crying and shouting. The result was he was taken out and beaten dead by the warders. At that moment, Andy understood that if he wants to live he must be sile
4、nt in Shawshank.In Shawshank Andy knew an old prisoner Red. They gradually became friends. Red was able to get some small goods for the prisoners. So Andy asked for a little hammer because of his interest in geology.The life in Shawshank was full of danger. Andy, as a new prisoner, was often threate
5、ned and maltreated by some scoundrels because he always refused their unbearable and disgusting demand. In such a dark prison, no one could help him even if someone may want to. After two years, one day, Andy, Red and some other prisoners got the chance to rebuild the roof. They heard the head of th
6、e warders complaining that he had to pay high tax to government if he wanted to receive his brothers inheritance. Andy grabbed the opportunity and taught him a way to be exempt from taxation. The condition was to give each prisoner 3 bottles of ice beer. All the prisoners enjoyed the rare and short
7、freedom leisurely. Red said, Its just like rebuilding the roof of our own house. We are free like God. Another consequence was that from then on Andy got the protection from the head of the warders. And all the warders even the wardenry began to consult Andy for financial affairs. Consequently some
8、of his special behaviors were permitted, such as pasting posters of some famous actresses on the wall or carving chessmen with his little hammer at night.Prisoner as he was, Andy did more than a civilian. He kept writing one letter to the government every week to ask for bankroll to develop the libr
9、ary in Shawshank. After nearly ten years, a new library finally appeared. When checking the books from the government Andy found a piece of disc of The Wedding of Figaro. Then he played the disc in the radio room, letting the dulcet music spread above Shawshank. Although he was imprisoned alone for
10、two weeks as penalty, he wasnt regretful at all, because of the greatest thing in the worldmusic, which represents another best thing for humanhope. In Andys words, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. Later on, Andy met a new prisoner Tommy, from whom Andy kn
11、ew who was the real murderer that killed his wife. He immediately told the wardenry about this and naively thought the wardenry would help him leave there. But the wardenry didnt do that. He killed Tommy. Andy had been laundering money for the wardenry for a long time. So its impossible for the ward
12、enry to set Andy, as a tool and an attester for his crime, free. At this moment, everything seemed to be over. Both Andy and the audience should despair.But the climax of the movie appears. At a night with thunderstorm Andy escaped from Shawshank. Everyone including the wardenry and Red couldnt beli
13、eve it. The stone wall which Red asserted wouldnt be dug through even with six hundred years was dug through by Andy in two decades. He kept digging with that little hammer at night, the sound of which was mistaken for the sound of carving chessmen. And the hole on the wall was covered by a huge pos
14、ter of a famous actress. At that night, Andy crawled through the narrow tunnel to a drain-pipe and then smashed it with a stone under the cover of thunderclap. He was crawling while vomiting in the pipe which was as long as five football grounds by Reds estimate. At length, Andy got out of the pipe
15、into a little river outside the prison. He walked to the middle of the river and ripped his shirt, letting the rain wash all the filth away. Under the lightning and thunder, Andy spread out his arms, regaining freedom. When reading the postcard from Andy, Red sighed, Some birds arent meant to be caged, thats all. Their feathers are just too bright.When I had finished watching the movie, I was excited and wanted to watch it again. Wheather the figures and details or the spirit that the music conveyed to. Hope is dangerous Red had ever said, But Andy has always sticked to it. He didnt cry when
