The Shawshank Redemption, 1994
Directed by: Frank Darabont
Screenwriter: Frank Darabont (from a Stephen King’s novel)
Music by: Thomas Newman
Photography by: Roger Deakins
Genre: Drama
Main actors:
Tim Robins (Andrew Dufresne)
Morgan Freeman (Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding)
Bob Gunton (Warden Norton)
William Sadler (Heywood)
Andrew Dufresne is accused of killing his wife and is send to prison for the rest of his life. In the Shawshank prison is seen as a lonely person, but gradually develops a friendship with Red, the man who controls the contraband in the jail. Andy says to red that he wants a tiny rock hammer because one of his hobbies is to analyze rocks. Andy is brutally beaten up by The Sisters, two homosexual prisoners, who putted an eye on him since the first day. Andy’s intelligence will reward him with the freedom that he deserves.
The Shawshank Redemption is not only an exceptional prison drama but also a monument to the importance of friendship. It’s an allegory of the value of constancy in human life. Stephen King terror is represented in the fact that the most of the prisoners have spent half of their life in a prison routine. The relationship between Andy and Red is pure emotion, it gives us hope, it’s an example of how magical can be the connection of different stereotypes of people.
One of the greatest sequences is when Andy and his mates are cleaning the roof of the prison and they drink the first bottle of beer since they had been in prison. Freedom, that’s the word that describes perfectly the feeling that the faces of the actors are transmitting. What strikes you most is the amazing interpretation of Tim Robins and Morgan Freeman.
However, the movie is a little bit long (it lasts 142 minutes) and some people could think that the pace is quite slow. In my opinion the script attracts the viewer little by little in a very delicate way, the crescendo lead us to an amazing end. The dialogs are incredibly written, the characters psychology perfectly explained and the director’s staging is masterly.
To sum up, The Shawshank Redemption is an excellent movie, only for the extraordinary performances of Tim Robins and Morgan Freeman under the great director of Frank Darabont, the film is well worth seeing. Like the good wines, the film has been improving its reputation as the years go by. Nowadays it’s catalogued as a first-rating film by critics and it’s one of the greatest movies of the 90’s.
Directed by: Frank Darabont
Screenwriter: Frank Darabont (from a Stephen King’s novel)
Music by: Thomas Newman
Photography by: Roger Deakins
Genre: Drama
Main actors:
Tim Robins (Andrew Dufresne)
Morgan Freeman (Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding)
Bob Gunton (Warden Norton)
William Sadler (Heywood)
Andrew Dufresne is accused of killing his wife and is send to prison for the rest of his life. In the Shawshank prison is seen as a lonely person, but gradually develops a friendship with Red, the man who controls the contraband in the jail. Andy says to red that he wants a tiny rock hammer because one of his hobbies is to analyze rocks. Andy is brutally beaten up by The Sisters, two homosexual prisoners, who putted an eye on him since the first day. Andy’s intelligence will reward him with the freedom that he deserves.
The Shawshank Redemption is not only an exceptional prison drama but also a monument to the importance of friendship. It’s an allegory of the value of constancy in human life. Stephen King terror is represented in the fact that the most of the prisoners have spent half of their life in a prison routine. The relationship between Andy and Red is pure emotion, it gives us hope, it’s an example of how magical can be the connection of different stereotypes of people.
One of the greatest sequences is when Andy and his mates are cleaning the roof of the prison and they drink the first bottle of beer since they had been in prison. Freedom, that’s the word that describes perfectly the feeling that the faces of the actors are transmitting. What strikes you most is the amazing interpretation of Tim Robins and Morgan Freeman.
However, the movie is a little bit long (it lasts 142 minutes) and some people could think that the pace is quite slow. In my opinion the script attracts the viewer little by little in a very delicate way, the crescendo lead us to an amazing end. The dialogs are incredibly written, the characters psychology perfectly explained and the director’s staging is masterly.
To sum up, The Shawshank Redemption is an excellent movie, only for the extraordinary performances of Tim Robins and Morgan Freeman under the great director of Frank Darabont, the film is well worth seeing. Like the good wines, the film has been improving its reputation as the years go by. Nowadays it’s catalogued as a first-rating film by critics and it’s one of the greatest movies of the 90’s.
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