Title: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Writer: Stephen King
Director: Frank Barabont
Actors: Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman
Story:
The story is about a successful young banker who is convicted of killing his wife and her boyfriend in cold blood. He is sent to Shawshank prison where he meets fellow convict “Red” Redding who is sort of the prison businessman. Together they perceiver through all of the prison uncertainties while keeping the hope alive that someday they will return to the free world. In the end, one of them looks for hope on his own terms.
Plot:
The story starts off with Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) appearing in court being convicted of killing his wife and her boyfriend in cold blood. He is sentenced to life in prison and sent to Shawshank prison. During the early years of his sentence he becomes good friends with “Red” Redding who is the prison with the outside connections. Red helps Andy settle into prison life and quickly becomes Andy’s right hand man throughout the movie.
Andy was an educated man and used this talent over the next few years. He would help the prison guards with their taxes as well as help other prisoners obtain a high school degree or other levels of education. Finally, after many years of trying he was persistent enough to receive a grant from the state to have a prison library built. Once the library was built things started to progress around Andy. Andy knew loopholes in the financial system and became the warden’s personal bookkeeper. The warden took full advantage of Andy and soon had him laundering money for him. Over the years no one had noticed that Andy really became to center of all things financially for the prison legal and illegal. .
One day a fellow prisoner approached Andy with news that he once has a cellmate at a previous prison that told a story of killing a hotshot bankers wife and boyfriend for money. Andy took the news to the warden and asked for another trial. With too much at stake, the warden downplayed the accusations and finally ended up killing the prisoner who gave Andy the information. Andy soon realized the warden was not going to ever let him out of prison so he devised a plan to escape. Just before his escape he sent all of the laundering documentation to the local press. On the morning of learning of Andy’s escape the warden read the newspaper article and committed suicide.
Once he was settled in Mexico, Andy sent Red a blank postcard dropping a hint of where he was. Red soon made parole and met up with Andy in Mexico where they lived.
Chronological: I believe the film was played out in chronological order because it shows Andy and Red’s life as it goes along. Character development is present throughout the film. You see Andy when he first arrives at prison and is an outcast and then through the film you see how he become the center of all things that are going on legal and illegal.
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