The Shawshank Redemption

一(3)班 陈宇哲

Today, I want to introduce a film to, whose name is Shawshank Redemption《澳门梦想之城赌场》.

The story took place in 1940. A man, who is a banker called Andy Dufreshe, was sent into the Shawshank prison, for he murdered his wife and her lover in bed. However, he was innocent as he said. The new days in the prison were hard to live. It was heartless and cruel. Nevertheless, a month later, Andy began to make friends with other prisoners. And one of them called Red, who could get anything that he wanted. Andy bought a mallet from him and started his plan to escape. During this time, he did many things, such as expanding the library, helping the corrupt warden to get money or bribes and so on. Then a young prisoner was coming back his quiet life in jail. But the warden killed the young prisoner, the only man that knew Andy was innocent . Then he knew the prison he could not stay and had to move. It took him 20 years to tunnel secretly and he successfully escaped from the prison. When he got free, Andy sent the evidence which could prove the warden corruption and briber. Before that, Andy had told his best friend Red that his dream--Zihuatanejo, a warm place without memory. After escaping, Andy lived a free life in another identity and made the prison governor arrested. Several years later, Red was approved to leave, for the promise to Andy. Finally, they met in Zihatanejo.

   The story may sound simple, but the truth behind the words is remarkable. when some people heard the name of the film first time, most of them considered the Shawshank to be a man’s name, but in fact it’s a jail’s---a hell in the world. Not only for the inhumanity of the jailors, but also for the jail gnawed at people’s heart by keeping them waiting and waiting as life passed. That’s where the story happened.

   So in the prison, we must have hope, I still remember a sentence: Hope is a good thing , maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” Yes, hope is important and it’s the only thing in the wild world not carved out of gray stone. That’s what I’ve learnt from an excellent movie---The Shawshank Redemption

Sometis, we feel many things have let us down and don’t hope for the good anymore. But I have to say, suffering is not always a bad thing. Suffering produces perseverance, character and hope. If we can see hope through all the hardship, nothing’s gonna stop us marching toward victory!

It’s a movie about freedom, friendship and hope, but the aspect that shakes me a lot is “freedom”. What’s freedom? It’s that blue sky above the prisoners in the wall, it’s Andy’s pure blue eyes where hope revealed, it’s the ocean, the heaven or the cockleboat?

Freedom isn’t always a good thing especially when it comes to Brooks who was discharged from prison and committed suicide in his home. Because he had been in the jail for so many years, when he was released, he found that the world became completely different from the world he imagined and hardly adapt to the new developed world .So when freedom comes so suddenly, it may lose its glare and even become a murderer, because if there is no support from life, no meanings of survive, then freedom will become an even bigger prison for you.

From this movie, we can also know that everyone is the same. The only difference is whether you get a busy living or get busy dying. Remember we aren’t the birds that meant to be caged, when we spread our wings and fry away, we’ll appreciate the trembling of the heart ,the singing of the wind, the flying of the soul and the hope to be free, Finally, I hope all of you can get busy living rather than get busy dying.

Thank you very much!