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Chapter 1490 The Taste of Freedom

"The Shawshank Redemption" can be said to have undoubtedly hit the film critics and media people in the United States, a country that advertises freedom.

Of course, the film itself can become a classic because of its uniqueness.

Therefore, even though the first screening has just ended, "The Shawshank Redemption" has been given a staggering score by film critics and media people on the film review website.

9.9 points!

It can be said that this score is simply an exaggeration!

Soon all kinds of movie reviews came out.

The famous film critic Larison posted a review of "The Shawshank Redemption" on his personal social platform account at 4 a.m.

“Initially, many of my colleagues and I thought that the miracle director from China was no longer a miracle.

We all thought this was a hastily launched "news" movie, but I was deeply shocked by the result.

When I got home from the theater, I was thinking about all kinds of things about this movie, so I stayed up all night. I lay down but got up again to write this review.

In my eyes, The Shawshank Redemption is about faith, freedom, and friendship.

About faith: Reid said that hope is a dangerous thing and the source of spiritual distress. He is indeed qualified to say this after having been in prison under heavy pressure for thirty years. Because from the day he entered, the warden said: "Give your soul to God and your life to me."

Except for the cigarettes and playing cards with fruit printed on them that he could get, any other changes seemed to be unable to grow within this dark wall.

However, Andy told him: "Remember, hope is a good thing - maybe even the greatest good in the world. And good things never disappear."

So Andy was able to use twenty years to dig a tunnel that Red thought could not be dug through in six hundred years. When he finally climbed out of the stinky sewage pipe of 500 yards and stood in the pouring rain unable to help himself, we seemed to see faith piercing through the darkness and hitting a dazzling thunderbolt in the dark night. Under the bright light, our weak souls appeared and trembled under Andy's open arms.

The imprint of the entire film is the belief in Shawshank, a belief that has not been erased by life in prison day after day after staying there for twenty years. This belief is a free belief. He does not want to believe that he killed his wife, and he wants to find out the truth. It will show up at first, but then it will gradually be hidden in the ordinary, repetitive, and mechanical prison life, and then it will become a belief in living well and enjoying prison life.

His temperament is different from others. Others have the temperament of an outlaw, exuding decadence, decay, and loss of humanity, but he is clean, sunny, relaxed and leisurely. Now that I think about it, he is very different. Is this temperament the so-called "personality" and "coolness"? I always only do what I want to do, always affirm my own ideas, and never doubt myself.

I do think he is cool. I didn’t feel it when I watched it at the time. But now that I think about it, it’s because he has beliefs and goals in his heart. He has his own dreams and goals in life. He wants to be released from prison. Later, he went to his own "paradise" and became a fisherman and went to sea. A person with such a dream is bright and clean himself. How can he be like other people in prison who are living their lives without any purpose?

In ordinary life, we seem to have become accustomed to taking things step by step, accustomed to saying "that's impossible" first, accustomed to the absence of miracles, accustomed to it, accustomed to it.

But the miracle director from China brought us miracles with Andy.

Try to keep some faith before they are lost. They may not be realized in the end, and they may not allow us to live a more meaningful life - even for us, they will only bring us more and more sense of nothingness. However, I know how much I need such hypocrisy and self-deception, because you can say that I am dreaming, but I will not be the only one.

We have seen that when the warden opened the Bible that contained Andy's hammer, the page he turned to was Exodus. This chapter details the Jewish exodus from Egypt.

About freedom:

Remember the music played in prison?

Perhaps many people didn't understand what the two Italian women were singing when they first listened to it. In fact, there is no need to understand it. Some things are better left unsaid. It is a beautiful scene that cannot be described with words, but it makes you so sad.

The sound soared high into the clouds, beyond the dreams of any prisoner in prison. It was like a beautiful bird flying into the gray birdcage, making those walls disappear and making all the prisoners behind bars feel a moment of peace. free.

When Andy desperately played "The Marriage of Figaro" on the prison speakers, the camera slowly panned across the prisoners and prison guards who were having fun in the square. It was touching that they stood there in silence, abandoning all anger, malice and resentment, and basking in the sunshine that they had never felt so free. Mozart's music fell on these people, and the beautiful notes from the world seemed to wash them all into pure purity.

The strong save themselves, the saint saves others! Only then did I understand Andy's intention, and also why the movie was called "The Shawshank Redemption."

When he was repairing the roof, he fought for beer for everyone. In fact, he fought for everyone to feel as comfortable as if they were repairing their own roof. Therefore, he did not drink, but smiled with great happiness; The wedding is also to awaken their lost sense of freedom.

However, the strong ones are in the minority after all. In the face of freedom, more people choose confinement.

Brooks, who had been in the prison library for fifty years, wanted to stay in prison by hurting fellow inmates in order not to be paroled.

At first, his behavior felt strange, but is it really strange?

Freedom should originally be something that people yearn for and pursue. But the Brooks have already been regulated by the rules of prison. They need rules and order. Without them, they cannot even survive.

As Rhett said: "The high walls in prison are really interesting. When you first go to prison, you hate the high walls around you; slowly, you get used to living in them; eventually you will find that you have no choice but to live in them." To survive without it. That’s what institutionalization is.”

Brooks gained physical freedom, but his soul has been irreparably institutionalized. He finally failed to get rid of the dilemma of being unable to adapt to freedom and committed suicide by hanging himself. And as wise as Rhett, after he was released from prison, he also sadly discovered that he even had to report to the manager to urinate, otherwise he would not be able to squeeze out a drop of urine. He also considered infractions in order to return to prison and even considered leaving, like Brooks.    Either busy living, or busy waiting to die. People who are walking in a hurry should probably stop occasionally and jump out to see what they look like. We will eventually learn that people who are accustomed to obeying rules will pay a huge price to get used to the freedom that originally belongs to every individual.

hope:

Andy always hoped for the best, when the jury found him guilty, when he was unable to get parole for a long time, when he was tortured and haunted by the "three sisters", and even when Tommy was shot by the warden.

Andy was not crushed by the cruel environment and the nights where time was as slow as a knife. "Hope" made him so different among the prisoners, and it slowly infected Red and others.

There is something deep within us that they cannot reach and cannot touch, and that is hope.

Freedom is based on hope. Without hope and the courage to pursue hope, there is no freedom in the true sense.

Hope is the most beautiful thing in the world. The road to perseverance is never too long in hope. Even if we are on a different floor and I am living alone in a boat, it is still a different kind of hope.

The persistent Andy spent twenty years using stone hammers to dig through a tunnel. This move caused a sensation. The police found Andy's old clothes in the river. People had to wonder what power made him so persistent?

It's hope! He always holds hope and works hard for the best hope in his mind.

Redemption:

In fact, while watching the movie, I have been discussing a question with my colleagues: why is the movie called "The Shawshank Redemption"?

In the prison of Shawshank, Andy is a bank vice president, an Andy who has suffered injustice for nineteen years, and an Andy who eventually becomes a ship owner on a small island in the Pacific. This life journey is his redemption. So, what exactly did he redeem?

For the inmates of Shawshank Prison, and for Andy's friend Red, including Tommy who was shot and killed, all of Andy's actions allowed them to experience a trace of freedom outside the thick stone walls. You can drink beer and work on the roof, you can listen to Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" in the square, you can listen to Hank Williams' classic records in the library, and you can work under the guidance of "teachers" Literacy tests, these moments allow them to relive their free identity as a social person.

For Shawshank Prison, because of Andy, the "three sisters" were able to fight evil with evil. There was music and a library in the prison. The ugly faces of the warden and others were removed, and the prison became clean. Some.

I initially thought that this was the Shawshank redemption. In prison, Andy completed the redemption of other people and the prison.

But on second thought, this kind of redemption is too superficial. The living environment has changed, but what about the depths of people's hearts? Has it really changed? Beyond that, where is the redemption for Andy himself?

Suddenly I remembered the conversation Andy had with Red after Tommy was killed and he was released from confinement.

I think many people probably have the same first impression as me. They all think that this is some kind of ritual before Andy decides to escape from prison. He confesses a lot of things and says goodbye to his old friends. He feels that 19 years of atonement is enough and decides to change himself. destiny.

This question kept me awake. I kept thinking about it over and over again, and finally it occurred to me that that conversation itself might represent Andy's redemption for himself. His salvation is not a change in his life form, nor a change in his living environment, but a true self-recognition at the soul level.

During the 19 years in Shawshank Prison, Andy had two obsessions. One was that he was innocent, and the other was that life must be hopeful. If Tommy was not shot, but helped Andy overturn the case, and Andy, who was acquitted, returned to society, would he regain his past identity?

However, Tommy was killed, and Andy's long confession in front of Rhett was his re-understanding of his past life. He overturned his past image, faced the problems between himself and his wife, and accepted the relationship between himself and his wife. His part of the responsibility in this murder case.

Under the premise that he suffered tremendous hardships, he saw that it was his own responsibility and did not shirk it on anyone. This is an amazing reflection. From this moment on, Andy redeemed his soul and found himself.

At this time, I want to say that Andy should not just be an inspirational hero, and should not just be the redeemer of many inmates. He is a person in Shawshank Prison who truly redeemed his soul, a person who made so many strong feelings in his heart. The conflict is finally reconciled and life returns to peace.

This is where he is completely different from others, and where "redemption" truly manifests.

People do not have to accept the arrangements of fate, nor do they have to resist the arrangements of fate, but at the moment when fate happens, they should see their true nature clearly and understand why they are at the threshold of fate. Only when you understand yourself clearly can you make the most appropriate choice for yourself in the face of "fate".

In fact, there is no right or wrong outcome in life. Being a boatman or a banker are just different modes of fate. What really matters is that becoming a boatman or a banker is a choice you make willingly.

There is no such thing as unattainable beauty in life. Everyone has their own unique definition of beauty deep in their hearts. If you really follow your heart and make a choice, you will eventually reach that end.

Unfortunately, most of us use other people's definitions of beauty to set our lives. Those inner conflicts that accompany us all the time always remind us that "the current choice is problematic." On the one hand, we resist facing this conflict and use various methods to rationalize the "feeling of inner conflict". On the other hand, we use our willpower to method to force yourself to move forward with conflict.

Dear friend, is this true of you?

friendship:

This film is not about love, inside the prison, the friendship between Andy and Red, the friendship between Andy and Brooks, and the friendship with other inmates.

The friendship inside the high wall may sometimes be more pure than in the outside world. The friendship between them is mutual achievement.

Andy is like a life mentor, always guiding and encouraging Red, making him full of hope in life. Red comes to the distant Gulf of Mexico, and the two best friends finally meet again.

Hope is so important. It is precisely because of meeting Andy that after being released from prison, Rhett still chooses to face life head-on when facing discomfort; it is precisely because of meeting Rhett that Andy has the opportunity to escape from prison. "

(End of this chapter)