Shaw Shanks Redemption Review

Sara Martinez

January 9, 2010

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Shaw Shanks Redemption Review

Shaw Shanks Redemption was a very good movie all around. This movie used several genres, some of which were crime and drama. I was kept in suspense the entire movie. The ingenious writer of this movie was Stephen King who had also written Rita Hayworth. The Director and screenplay writer of this movie was Frank Darabout. This movie came out in September 1994 and it was such a hit that it received 7 Oscar nominations and had another 11 wins and 13 other nominations. I myself nominate this movie as a must watch!

At first glance I wondered why the movie was named Shaw Shanks Redemption. After thinking about it for some time this is what I came up with. I believe that this title was given because it had to do with how the prison and the prisoners seemed to be redeemed form the warden. Andy was liberated himself from the prison when he escaped and he redeemed himself. The tagline for this movie was: fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. I think that this very true and the word hope was a huge part of this movie. Andy was afraid, but once he gained hope that he would get out he got the courage and the gumption to dig the tunnel to escape. When Red was narrating he said that everyone in the jail had to find a special project to keep him busy. I think that Andy received hope from keeping busy digging the tunnel. Hope was the liberation and freedom that the men in that prison had, even when they might never again be really free. I think of God in or lives and the hope that we have in him. Even though we live in a sinful world we have and always will have the hope that he is coming for us and we will be set free. This movie has several good points and is a great movie to watch.