Shawshank

I was quite happy to see Shawshank Redemption not just a movie on our list but as the first movie on our list. This is one of my mother’s favorite movies. I have seen it about a million times and she has seen a million times more. My mother and I are both really into prison movies…I do not really know why. I really like this movie my favorite character is Red, played by Morgan Freedman. Frank Darabont directed and wrote the screen play for the movie but it was based off of Stephen King’s short story “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.” The creative technique that attracted my attention was the whole innocent and ordinary “Joe” going to prison. The whole movie you are watching Andy Dufrense, played by Tim Robbins, is the main character and you know that this man couldn’t have possibly committed such a heinous crime, yet you wonder if he really did. I think this message is something we all really need to think about… Andy was doing time for a crime he did not commit. But throughout the entire movie his time spent at the prison helped better the lives of the prisoners and he impacted many of the fellow convicts. Same with Jesus Christ, He came to this earth and lived a life without fault yet paid the ultimate price for our sins. His presence here on earth bettered or lives and His life impacted the entire world.