The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Have you ever judge a movie by just it's cover. A movie with bad cover might make you feel like not to watch it. The first time when I saw the cover of The Shawshank Redemption, I thought that the movie must be very boring. And I bet that many people think that this movie must be boring as well by just judging the cover of the movie.I looked up on Wikipedia and I found that the movie earned quite a little money compare to its budget: $58 million to $25 million.  I checked the ranking of the top 250 movies of all time by IMDB.com and The Shawshank Redemption comes as number one best movie of all time. I was very surprised and decided to watch it.

 The Shawshank Redemption is a story narrated by Ellis Boyd (Morgan Freeman) which is Andy Dufresne( Tim Robbins)'s best friend. The story is started in 1947, Portland, Maine, Andy Dufresne is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover although he didn't really commit the crime.  He is sentenced to two life sentences. The film portrayed on the life of Andy Dufresne in the prison.The film presents many morals such as to never lose hope or never give up.

There are many good quotes throughout the movie. Andy once told Ellis "Get busy living or get busy dying". Andy tried to tell Ellis to not lose any hope in the prison.  Andy once also say that " Hope is a good thing. Maybe even the best of things and good things never die." One of my favorite line in the movie is " It's funny. On the outside, I was an honest man. Straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook."  

The best scene in this movie is the ending. Andy had proved to Ellis that hope is the best thing in life and as long as you don't lose your faith, anything good can happen.  The director made the viewers surprised by Andy's plans and actions.

MY RATING 
Plot or story: 10/10
Acting: 10/10
Pictures: 8/10
Profound message: 10/10
Ending: 10/10
Enjoyable: 10/10
Overall: 9.7/10

*Spoiler Alert* (Go down)

Andy escaped the prison by spending 20 years using tiny rock hammer digging a hole on the wall. It shows that Andy planned from the very first day of his life in prison that he will escape out. He never loses faith and never gives up. 

Cite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shawshank_Redemption, April 28, 2016

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shawshank_redemption/quotes/ ,April 28, 2016

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/plotsummary , April 28, 2016
Picture from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shawshank_Redemption , April 28, 2016