The biggest thrill for me in "The Shawshank Redemption" is the excitement, which collapses from the surface of the senses into the underworld of the soul, with countless flickering and rolling strong shocks. For a while, it was difficult to sort out a precise anatomical diagram of stimulation, and to make a superficial tentative analysis of the most dazzling "paradox" among them. The so-called "paradox" is a technique used by British and American New Critics to interpret poetry. Its essential meaning is to show a form of contradiction in the text. Two aspects of the contradiction appear at the same time and are unified in one truth. Here, I also try to "rent" it to construct an appreciation of "The Shawshank Redemption". "Everyone who comes here is innocent" - thematic paradox
The film begins to use cross-editing images to convey: drunken men in cars, court interrogations, male and female revelry, drunken men's clothing Several frames of information include bullets, interrogation, love climax and getting out of the car with a gun. Through the integration of possibilities, the audience has a cloud of doubts, and then the lawyer's eloquence easily helps the audience find the "fact": the banker, because his wife had an affair with someone else, killed them both drunkenly ( A pair of cheating lovers) and the important thing is that all this is virtual on the part of the viewer. It can also be said that the director helped the viewer do a mental warm-up exercise, but the film does not prove this "fact" process. reenactment. In the following "Prison Scene", the viewers' doubts about "facts" are occasionally provoked. When Ari asked Andy why he was imprisoned, he said: "I am innocent." On the one hand, it induces the viewer to doubt or even reconstruct assumptions, and on the other hand, it continues to highlight the thematic paradox. After hearing this, Ari responded: "Everyone who comes here is innocent." As a result, the thematic paradox was revealed inadvertently, and the viewer did not pay attention at this time. The brilliance of the film is that it inverts the relationship between cause and effect, putting forward the conclusion first, and then slowly explaining the premise, so that the viewer continues to experience the light as the film develops in depth. This light finally clearly reflects the great prophecy of the theme. Sex, this process itself is a paradox, but it greatly expands the appreciation space of the film. However, the viewer's reconstruction hypothesis at this moment is stranded on the question of "who is the murderer if it's not Andy?" I naturally thought of a scene in "Midnight Song": the male protagonist Song Danping was reading a letter in the room. There was a knock on the door, the door was opened, the door was closed again, and there was a fire. This process happened three times in a row, and the previous Both times also aroused the viewer's anger at not knowing the truth. Likewise, as the film progressed, it disappeared into sighs. The director is relatively "merciful" here, and does not make the viewers doubt themselves like "Tragedy on the Nile" did, nor does it make people faint like "Little Lee's Flying Knife" and "Moonlight Box". Instead, it helps the viewer to understand while solidly improving the thematic paradox step by step. The appearance of Tommy brought Andy's innocence to the "public", thus creating the paradox of "the innocent is guilty"; the beginning of the film also depicts the prison warden's extremely thrilling and exciting ending. At this time, Tommy also fell down next to the cigarette butt stamped out by the warden because of his honesty to God. This naturally formed another paradox of "the guilty are not guilty". At the same time, this This is reinforced by the fact that the prison warden, who was supposed to be absolutely righteous, did shameless things, and the death of Tommy, who was already holding a diploma and heading towards a future of beauty and kindness. Visual classic "The Shawshank Redemption"
Breaking through Hayworth's mythic wall was a popular explanation given by many professionals in European and American international films ten years ago after watching the film "The Shawshank Redemption". At that time or now, any attentive viewer who has watched the famous film "The Shawshank Redemption" will never forget the eye-catching movie star poster in the film. The heroine in the center of the picture is Hayworth, a generation of international movie queens. .
It is this huge Hayworth movie poster that blocks the black hole in the wall deep inside the prison, which is the only hole for the hero Andy to escape from the prison. It is also a channel for innocent prisoners to face hope and light. Due to the special location of the prison, the escape hole could only be blocked by a beauty poster. In this way, the gorgeous Hayworth's female artistic image has her own more dazzling new interpretation throughout the film. Based on this point of view alone, we should admit that this film "The Shawshank Redemption" is completely different from the prison escape style of "The Count of Monte Cristo". "The Shawshank Redemption" seems more humane.
The full name of Hayworth on the poster in the film "The Shawshank Redemption" is Rita Hayworth. After checking the relevant information, I found out that in the movie "The Shawshank Redemption", Hayworth, who was watched countless times by the life-imprisoned black prisoner Ellis, who has countless lines on the screen, and its poster are called "Giltar" 》. This "Gilta" movie poster is a symbol of the millionaire actress in Hollywood in the 1940s. She is one of the many advertising posters that have appeared in various entertainment corners around the world. Hayworth is an actress who never wants to be called a flower-like actress. If people insist on comparing her to plants, Hayworth is more willing to pretend to be a forest woman.
The film "The Shawshank Redemption" was successfully released in 1995, so it is also called "Excitement" because the film became a hit that year and indeed caused quite a sensation. This may be a reason why the movie "Shawshank Redemption" is also called "Exciting Nine-Five"? I don’t quite understand why the Hong Kong version’s translation is so straightforward, it’s called “Moon Dark and Flying High”.
Murder suspect Andy was imprisoned in early 1947. This is also the official beginning of the story of this movie.
In the fierce battle for the Oscars that year, the film "The Shawshank Redemption" was nominated for seven awards including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Cinematography. However, the film "The Shawshank Redemption" "Redemption" finally failed to defeat "Forrest Gump", "Pulp Fiction", "The Last Days" and other films of the same year and period, and was overwhelmed by the wave of blockbusters. Finally, on the table, "The Shawshank Redemption" ended in defeat. Completely lost to Hollywood's main movie character Forrest Gump.
However, this film "The Shawshank Redemption" still has an excessive number of viewers on the world's most prestigious movie website IMDB, and its frequency of appreciation is extremely high, surpassing that of noir films in the world's film industry. "The Godfather," ranked No. 1. The story of the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" is vivid, beautiful and gripping. Throughout the entirety of this 142-minute film "The Shawshank Redemption", it tells the story of Andy, a bank vice president who was wrongly imprisoned. In the story, Andy was sentenced to two life sentences for allegedly killing his wife, and was imprisoned for life within the walls of a prison in Maine. Being innocent and being wronged, wanting to escape and proving one's own innocence, this is the main line of the movie.
The film "The Shawshank Redemption" is adapted from Stephen King's novel of the same name, directed by Frank Darabont and produced by Warner Pictures. The first lead in the film is starring Tim Robbins. The second protagonist is co-starred by black actor Morgan Freeman. Since there is no female lead in the film, these two film industry icons are left to play in the film "The Shawshank Redemption". Especially Tim Robbins' performance is always so calm, tepid and very elegant. Tim Robbins' recent role in "Mystic River" is also true. Just like his actor style, some aspects of it are very similar to his own "Shawshank Redemption". The audience chewed it with gusto.
In the movie "The Shawshank Redemption", two big-name male stars, one white and one black, merged into one, and there were many scenes where they sat on the floor and talked about their rivals. The live performances of the characters are enjoyable and weighty. Every time the two stars meet as rivals, they always face each other, talk about their lives, and think about their escape. Inside the big walls of Shawshank, they always miss the outside world, and they long to fly away. They are willing to live freely like wild geese, and they always try to become the ideal of people outside the prison. Their methods are different. Ellis, a black prisoner, repeatedly applied for personal release from prison, but after forty years in prison, the Maine authorities did not give him this opportunity. Unlike Andy, a black prisoner named Ellis, the audience seems to have only seen Andy apply once and re-verify the verbal expression of his crime. After being brutally punished, Andy no longer tries to prove his innocence. Just accelerated his personal escape plan? Regarding Andy's escape concept, Ellis thinks it is a fantasy?
The film does not have any hints about Andy's self-desire. This is an important takeaway I gained after watching the film again. There is a scene where Andy finds a record of "The Marriage of Figaro" from the prison library. On impulse, Andy locks himself in the broadcast studio of Shawshank Prison and broadcasts loudly with a loudspeaker. The famous aria "Tenderness of the Night" from "The Marriage of Figaro". The high-pitched foreign-accented soprano seemed to pierce the sky above Shawshank. The price for Andy's radio abuse was two weeks of confinement. The inmate asked Andy if it was worth it. Andy pointed to his head and replied: Where there is music, there is freedom...
In fact, when I first watched the movie "The Shawshank Redemption", I really thought that the prisoners wanted to escape from this strong Shawshank. I'm afraid. Can it be nothing more than a beautiful, idealized empty talk? As for the impregnability of Shawshank's prison, as early as the beginning of the film, there are a series of highly skilled front and back attacks, both at high angles of depression and low angles of elevation. A moving movie camera was used to coordinate the situation. Understood. It does seem that Shawshank is quite heavily guarded. However, no matter how strict the Shawshank prison was, it could not stop the prisoners from smuggling private goods. For example, the huge Hayworth poster that Andy bought, as well as the small ax used to dig holes in the ground, and other valuable parallel imports.
When I first watched the movie, I didn't expect that Andy would escape in secret. And besides, at least when I first watched the movie, I never thought that there was a secret escape hole behind Hayworth. At that time, I just thought that the poster of Hayworth hanging in the iron cell was just a beautiful face. As a prisoner, Andy just used it to relieve his sorrow. But she never thought that behind Hayworth, there was actually a hole hidden from the sky. Ellis's heavy voice-over narration tells that below the cave entrance is a dark, smelly five-hundred-yard sewer ditch, which is five football fields away. Once you get out, you will be free.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the film "The Shawshank Redemption" is a suspense movie. In fact, from the very beginning of the film, the director has been secretly arranging arrangements for his characters at every turn. To be honest, when I watched the movie for the first time, I couldn't tell much about it. Especially behind the Hayworth advertising poster, I didn't even notice the hidden hole. In fact, this is also an excellent foreshadowing in the movie "The Shawshank Redemption".
The hole behind the painting was always hidden, and it was not until the end of the film that the audience, as the bully warden in the film revealed the hole, woke up from a dream and suddenly realized, and then they truly admired the tact and tactfulness of the entire film. Mysterious design.
Later we can also see that Andy's yearning for freedom in the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" is from beginning to end. Without wavering at all, he used a small stone-carving axe, and kept digging at the wall every day for twenty years. He dug until the day when he could finally save himself, and finally found the place where Hayworth opened her body and showed her face. When they came out of the cave, everyone in the movie was stunned. According to Ellis, a black prison inmate, it would take at least six hundred years to dig out a hole with such a small ax to escape
The movie montage of the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" is very well connected. The content of the movie is deeply thought-provoking. Movie scenes often use close-ups and medium and close shots. Due to the careful structure of the story, the film rarely uses empty shots to organize transitions. It explores the beliefs and consciousness of people in a hopeless situation in the deep prison of darkness and depression. The lens is colorful and clean, the front and back photography is unique, and the sound and background configuration are specially designed to serve the movie theme. It is comfortable and considerate and deeply rooted in the heart. Sounds pretty smooth and moving? Isn't it?
But what needs to be explained here is that there are no fairy tales in Shawshank Prison. This sentence was spoken by Ellis, a black man who had lived in Shawshank Prison for forty years. Whether among black or white prisoners, the birds flying high outside the wall are the protagonists of fairy tales, and every wing of the birds is stained with the glory of freedom. Within the big wall, only Hayworth's words and figures are symbols of freedom and fairy tales.
In the Shawshank Prison in the movie "The Shawshank Redemption", black and white classic movies from the 1940s are often shown. Ellis watched the famous film "Gilta" starring Tali Hayworth three or four times with great interest. According to relevant official history books, the Hollywood film "Giltar" was not only favored by people in Shawshank Prison, but "Giltar" was also the favorite of all moviegoers in the United States at that time. Even the atomic bomb ordered by Truman to bomb Hiroshima was named after Giltar.
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From this point of view, the black and white poster about Hayworth is not just a pure sea. Was pictured. According to the plot of the film, to be honest, this Rita Hayworth movie poster, posted on the back wall of Andy's prison cell in Shawshank, should be regarded as an interesting puzzle wall. They were in the same cell, Hayworth always smiled at her, and Andy always responded with a cold expression. They kept each other company, rubbing shoulders with each other, year after year, day after day, and the innocent Andy finally broke through the three- to four-meter-thick tall wall behind Hayworth coldly.
Andy gave himself the freedom of a new world of his own. That night, Andy rushed out of himself along the ditch and faced the storm. That night, the moment Andy stretched his naked arms to the sky, thunder suddenly struck from the night sky. That night of lightning was just like the divine calligraphy hung by Warden Norton on the wall of his office: God's judgment comes faster than expected. Norton was punished.
Andy's body and spirit rose were finally redeemed in Shawshank. The redemption did not come from the sky, but Andy dug it out millimeter by millimeter, which took a full twenty years. Time broke through the tall wall of confusion behind Hayworth. Breaking through Hayworth's wall of mystery, The Shawshank Redemption. Andy is in the blue sky... "The Shawshank Redemption" - hope, freedom, friendship
We have witnessed the charm of American Hollywood movies. Many classic shots make us still have endless aftertaste when we think about
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today. It allows us humans to realize many endless fantasies. No wonder people call it the “Dream Factory.” But I think the deeper reason is to promote the cultural and spiritual connotation of the American people to the world. In order to avoid lengthy elaboration here, I don’t want to make the topic too big. I just want to talk about my experience in this regard based on one movie. Regarding the previous topic of my friends, let me take "The Shawshank Redemption" as an example. Some friends think that the plot of this film is average and that there is nothing novel in its conception. I don't think so. I think it allows us to see at least three things: hope, freedom, and friendship.
If you want to understand a country’s social conditions, humanistic thoughts, living environment, etc., the best way is to look at the life of prisoners in prison, because that is the fastest and most real. And "The Shawshank Redemption" is such a prison movie. Banker Andy was wrongly imprisoned and was tortured by prison guards and prisoners. However, he remained determined, optimistic about life, and faced everything with hope. He finally used his wisdom to escape and brought the evildoers to justice. At the end of the film, the protagonist is carefree and shares his beautiful life with his old friends in prison on the beach of "Zihuatanejo". I would say that Andy's prison life after being imprisoned is the most important theme reflected in the film. From the deepening of the plot, we know that this man who longs for freedom contains rich emotions, excellent character, and extremely high wisdom. It’s not a simple matter of just trying to dig out a jailbreak tunnel.
If he didn't have to spend twenty years, he would have run away long ago if he had the chance, but for the oath and the good expectation in his heart. Because he wanted to use his wisdom and strength to enable all prisoners in prison to gain knowledge and new life. Let them know that prisoners in prison are also complete people and should also have the right to education and learning knowledge. Just because you have fallen, you should never lose hope of rebirth.
There is a line in the film "Institutionalized". Yes, prisoners who have achieved life through the right path will encounter challenges again after being released from prison for various reasons. But because of the passage of time and the experience of serving a sentence, people often lose hope and the courage they should have. "Old Bu" and "Arui" in the film are both people whose time has passed. Their mistakes and mistakes, and of course their injustice, have prevented them from enjoying the beautiful life like normal people. As a result, they do not know how to adapt to the changes, and the "institutionalized" life in prison has left an inescapable shadow on their hearts, so the kind-hearted old Bu can only escape through suicide. So we saw in the film why Andy wanted to expand the library so that the inmates could read? And why would you risk being imprisoned and play "The Marriage of Figaro" for everyone to listen to? There is only one reason: no matter how sinking and unruly we have been, how we have lost our lives, we must never give up our ideals and hope. Only with hope can life become meaningful and colorful.
The worst person in the film is probably the very impressive warden. This is an extremely greedy, shameless and vicious person. He used bankers to launder money, report expenses and evade taxes. After the banker learned the truth about his injustice, he suddenly changed his mind and brutally killed the young man who wanted to know the truth. I think this is what directly led Andy to really think about running away. In fact, from the day he was imprisoned, it was just an accidental action that allowed the protagonist to see the opportunity to gain freedom. When all good hopes and reasonable struggles have been ruthlessly suppressed, when all work is ready, then only freedom is the last hope. From the film, we can deeply feel how much a person longs for a free life and his fearless courage! The most unforgettable scene is when the protagonist climbs out of the prison sewers and excretion pipes, takes off his clothes, and stretches out his arms to embrace the wind and rain. At that moment, I was suffocated! I cried! In order to survive, hope and freedom, a person has such great strength, tenacious character and unyielding fighting spirit!
In the film, we see that beautiful friendships can also be established in prison. Just an ordinary conversation in prison turned into an eternal vow. The friendship between two people is not only a large-scale still of a star, but also a precious book and stone that expresses their feelings. It is these simple things that give us a taste of the camaraderie that supports, helps and encourages each other amidst the extraordinary hardships of prison life. Although this may not seem like much, due to the special environment, it makes people realize how precious it is. At the end of the film, when the two friends reunited, their cheerful smiles were really enviable. Because that smile fills the world between heaven and earth and the infinite hope in people's hearts.
"The Shawshank Redemption" is a rare and excellent inspirational film. The reason I personally keep this as a film is because of its profound themes. It gives people an invisible power and makes me know the most precious thing that a person should have in his life. So cherish the opportunity you still have it. Because we humans are always like this: Only when we lose something do we truly realize its value, and then we try desperately to get it back, and then we don’t cherish it.
Hope, freedom, and friendship are our most basic and basic feelings and needs. If we don’t cherish it ourselves, then why should we ask others to cherish and maintain it?