肖申克的救赎(英文影评)

The Shawshank Redemption

When prison shows up in front you, which film firstly comes into your mind, Felon, Prison Break, Escape Plan, or maybe other Hollywood blockbusters? For me, The Shawshank Redemption is the one. As lots of people said, all of men have to watch this film, if don’t, they will definitely regret in their life. However, I can’t totally agree with this kind of opinion. Even though there is no leading actress in the film, it has nothing to with the audiences’ genders, because no matter what you are, as a flesh-and-blood human being, you can feel the passion and insistence of pursuing hope, freedom in this film, meanwhile, you also can realize how upset and pitiful an institutionalized person can be.

It was the first year of my college life when I watched The Shawshank Redemption. I’ve watched it for more than five times until now, and each time I got different experience and feelings about this special artwork. At the first time, I just thought lots of people liked it, because so many friends around me were talking about it very often. Then I told myself maybe I should watch it in order to find some similarities with others. Although this film hadn’t had exciting fights and many world-known stars for me two years ago, it still made a deep impression on me and made me

awfully moved. The most impressive person to me at that time, now he still is the one, of course, was Andy.

Andy had to serve two life sentences for he murdered his wife and her lover, he tried to defend for himself because his was innocent, all of the evidence was against him, however. After having made up him mind to escape from the prison, Andy never gave up his “career”—to dig a tunnel with a tiny hammer. This was the primary virtue that I loved him so much. He would never speak empty words, that is, if he decided to do something, he would insist on no matter how many people lack faith in him, even laughed at him. Red, one of the old and important persons in the prison, said that it would take 600 years to excavate a route to the hope. Yet the truth was: Andy spent 20 years digging a tunnel to get to the outside world. Later, when I became a sophomore, I constantly watched The Shawshank Redemption around three times, and I got a deeper understanding of it. Lots of questions came to me -- Why did the court announce Andy guilt and put him in prison? Why did no officials discover that Andy laundered money for the warden, Norton? Why could Andy make a person who had been existed before he escaped from the Shawshank? These questions were seemly not easy to answer, but one word, flaws in the system, could