On a dimly lit night, Andy slowly drives the car to the neighborhood of his wife's lover's house, followed by a drink and a revolver that appears repeatedly on camera. A pair of hands were loading the gun, but they didn't say who it was. On the big screen, the images of Andy's wife cheating on her lover kept flashing, and the audience began to worry.

A court trial ensued, where Andy was accused of killing his wife and lover. All the accusations and evidence were against him, and he could not prove his innocence, so he was sentenced to life in prison. Andy in the picture, although he is Asian, seems to be a big brother in the neighborhood, giving people a sense of honesty and reliability, which makes it difficult for people to associate him with a murderer.

What follows is a long section of prison words, dark pictures: fights, merciless mutilation, perversion, especially when Andy was sodomized and raped, the constantly changing horror, anger, despair, and numbness on his face made fans feel cold from the heart. God, is this a real prison?

On a sunny morning, the picture gives people a gloomy feeling.

"Give your faith to God and your body to me."

The warden, who was arrogant and disdainful in his bones, spoke to the prisoners very blatantly, and his meaning was nothing more than that: "Here you have no freedom, you must do anything unconditionally, and do not have any unrealistic illusions, which belong to God." ”

Thus, a struggle for dignity and humanity began. But in this struggle, the savior is not God, but the Chinese Andy.

Andy, who suffered the humiliation of ****, after a period of decadence and pain, finally faced the reality under the persuasion of his cellmate Ellis Pod Red, and began to redeem himself and his cellmates in his way.

For the first time, he helped Captain Clancy Brown evade taxes and earned his fellow inmates a reward of 3 beers each. When Andy offers to get Clancy Brown to avenge him, the vicious Clancy grabs him by the neck and pushes him off the stairs. At this time, the cellmates in the movie and the audience in the theater were worried: because the ruthless prison guard, Clancy Brown, could definitely do such a thing.

But Andy wins, and Clancy agrees to his request for the sake of the future, and Andy smiles for the first time. Because his fellow inmates can bask in the sun and drink beer on the balcony, just like a free man.

The second time, Clancy Brown ruthlessly broke the backbone of the ****, the culprit, and made the theater erupt in a gasp: it turns out that justice can be obtained in this way, although it is not in accordance with the law, and it is full of evil.

The third time is the best part of the film, Andy is in the prison guard's office, risking the play of "The Marriage of Figaro".

"I couldn't understand what the two Italian ladies were singing. And I didn't want to know. There are things that often cannot be expressed in words, and I believe they are singing about the most beautiful things in the world, so beautiful that they cannot be described in words, and so beautiful that they make people feel heartache. The singing is high-pitched, elegant, and so beautiful that it is intoxicating, just like seeing a beautiful bird fly into a high wall, she makes you completely free from the shackles of the iron bar, at this moment, all Shawshank people have experienced the freedom that has been lost for a long time! ”

Then Morgan Freeman's voiceover sounded. This time, Andy's smile is one with a sense of victory. He used his value as a prison guard and the trust he gained to bring his friends once again a sense of freedom, even for a moment.

"Bang, bang!" Some viewers couldn't help but applaud, they had been deeply moved, and there had never been a movie so vividly expressing the most glorious things of human nature with an insignificant story.

However, a young prisoner appears, and he knows who is the real murderer in Andy's case, and the plot takes a turn. The audience begins to rejoice for Andy because his grievances can be cleared, but the dark reality ruthlessly shatters their good wishes.

When Andy asked the prison director to reopen the case, he was rejected and severely punished with two months of solitary confinement. And in order to prevent Andy from being released, the prison warden designed to kill the insider!

Does Andy kill himself?

The audience has long regarded Andy's fate as a part of themselves, because there is a joke in the play that he borrowed a piece of rope through the mouth of others. And Lao Bu committed suicide with a rope from being released from prison to committing suicide, which is also a tear-jerking clip, he has been completely "institutionalized", he can't adapt to the raw words outside the prison, so he can only choose to hang himself. Cars had just appeared when he was in prison, and now the streets are full of rampaging cars. Andy's last hope of clearing his grievances is dashed, and choosing suicide is also a natural choice.

Faced with the harsh reality, Andy becomes depressed. One day, he said to Red, "If one day, you can get parole, you must go somewhere and fulfill a wish for me." That's where I went on my first date with my wife, digging up a box under a big oak tree there. You'll know what it is. ”

But the drama came when one day at the early roll call, Andy disappeared and flowed away as freely as air. It turned out that that night, taking advantage of the wind and rain and thunder, Andy, who had been redeemed by his soul, escaped from prison.

When the camera pulls farther and farther away from the warden's shocked face after the prison escape, and retreats into the long cave that seems to have no end, there are sensitive people, and even tears on their faces that can't tell whether they are sad or happy.

For the past twenty years, Andy has been digging holes with that little pickaxe every day, and then covering the hole with posters. After Andy was released from prison, he took away some of the black money saved by the warden and reported the truth about the warden's corruption and bribery. In the safe where he kept his small ledger, the warden saw a Bible left by Andy, the first page of which reads, "The way of salvation is in it," and a hollowed-out part of the Bible where the pickaxe was used to hide the hole.

......, Red is released, he finds a box of cash under an oak tree, and the two old friends are finally reunited on Mexico's sunny beachfront.

The lights of the theater were turned on for a few seconds before thunderous applause rang out, and Sun Ziming and the others also stood up and applauded with the audience. This is indeed a classic film, even if Sun Ziming has seen it countless times, they are still impressed by the superb performances of Fa Ge and Morgan Freeman.

The reporters in the audience were also applauding, they were also moved by "The Shawshank Redemption" and were also impressed by the performances of Fa Ge and Morgan Freeman.

Amin Müller Starr may have relied on his acting skills to prop up "The Count of Uzi", but his performance is far less straightforward than Andy's. "Grand Canyon", "Ruan Lingyu", and "Captain" may be excellent films, expressing some of the things that directors want to express, but they are far less shocking than "The Shawshank Redemption".

Compared with Sun Ziming's experience of serving a prison sentence, the reporters looked at the crew with reverence. No wonder last time in Venice, there was news that China Ming made this movie and almost broke himself. The scenes in this movie are so real and believable, it is indeed a spiritual purgatory journey for both the director and the actors.