Copy cat

Last night I had dinner with my friend and a future to be cinematographer. Had some BS but self indulging talks. Glad to learn that The Shawshank Redemption ranks no 1 now in imdb. So let me be lazy and copy a piece from my old blog. -----------------------------------------------------------

My most favorite movie is The Shawshank Redemption which I watched more than 10 years ago.The movie ranks no 2 in IMDB site, only after God Father.

It is about an innocent man, Andy, being falsely accursed of first murder of his wife and serves his life in Shawshank prison. An innocent man serves a life sentence and still stand firm of his core in a most unfavorable place and time. The man can positively influence in darkness. The man plays an aria from Marriage of Figaro to all his prison mates from the boardcast room of the prison. The man asks for just chilled beers for his mate after giving a favor to a prison guard, just because of he wants his mates to feel as a free man in prison. The man’s persistence can lead to an establishment of a prison library, and he leads other to learn, to have fun and to grow.

The man transends in an institutionalized prison, and put it more correctly, in an institutionalized world.

How should the movie end? In the movie, Andy finally makes a prison break and sets all things straight. Andy lives ‘happily after’ in Zihuatanejo and Red finds him there. The ending is too Hollywood and gave people what they needed to see. In reality, he probably serves his life and ends in Shawshank.

Should it, or shouldn’t it?

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ANDY -- Here's where it makes most sense. We need it so we don't forget.

RED -- Forget?

ANDY -- That there are things in this world not carved out of gray stone. That
there's a small place inside of us they can never lock away, and that place is called hope.

RED -- Hope is a dangerous thing. Drive a man insane. It's got no place here.
Better get used to the idea.

ANDY (softly) -- Like Brooks did?

(Brooks, a elder inmate, committed suicide after being released from the prison because he could not adjust to the "free world" outside the walls.)

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