There are too many beautiful things in this world. It was the hand of God that gave everything in the world at the beginning of creation. Human beings and everything except human beings coexist and multiply in this vast land. Sunshine, air and water are shared by all. Freedom seems to be the right of every living thing.
However, in The Shawshank Redemption, a group of people are deprived of their personal freedom.
In this world, as long as there are people, there are gangs and there are good and evil. As long as there are stories and people's stories, there is right and wrong. It is said that the criminals in Shawshank prison are all wronged. Can you believe it? Let's walk into this shocking story.
The hero Andy, a banker accused of shooting his wife. He said: Bad luck is everywhere, and you will always bump into someone. Just like the rainstorm warning, some people sit in the living room and enjoy the rain, but the house next door is destroyed. It's my turn this time, that's all.
Prison life is boring. In addition to normal life, prisoners work most of the time. Andy was originally arranged in the laundry room, and the washing machine made a harsh sound. He participated in the assembly line work. A job he doesn't like very much.
After reading this book, you will know that in this prison, the argument that human nature is good still holds. There are more good people than bad people, which has been surprisingly and satisfactorily confirmed in the most unlikely place of prison. Rhett is Andy's friend. Tommy, Andy is his mentor-helped him get his high school diploma in prison. Brooks, who spent decades in prison and was finally released, hanged himself in a free world. The free space outside is not safe for him. Besides, there are many people in this prison. These people are good people. Most people here are insulted and hurt by law and discipline. However, they are also insulting and hurting each other.
Shawshank is a small society, where there are many normal social organizations besides the prison area, confinement room, kitchen, canteen, shower room and infirmary. Woodworking workshop, license plate workshop, loading and unloading office, laundry room and other places are places where prisoners carry out oral labor in prison; Auditorium, chapel, library, projection room and other places are places to relax after work; Prison backyards, bleachers and playgrounds are places to relax after work. Prisoners' cells are independent of each other and even have their own private space at night. It seems that this is an ideal prison.
Although they spend most of their time working as coolies and the food in the canteen is of poor quality, there are still some places to relax. Human rights seem to be more or less embodied here. However, this seems to be a joke again. Because what is lacking here is freedom. Freedom of activity and spirit.
Freedom is not only what you can do if you want, but also what you can do if you don't want. For them, no matter what they want to do or don't want to do, they can't do what they want to do. Whatever you are doing, you must be under the surveillance of armed guards. This is why prisons are called prisons, which is the essential attribute of prisons. It seems unfair, but it's just fair. Prison is a place to punish prisoners and reform sinners.
Andy used to be an excellent banker. On the roof of the license plate workshop, he risked his life to give Hadley a "tax-free gift", thus earning three bottles of beer for each of his outdoor workers. Rhett said: we sat there, drinking beer, and the sun shone on our shoulders, feeling like free people. It's like repairing your own house. Looks like a fairy.
Andy, who has given up drinking, looks at them with a strange smile on his face. At that time, he found the feeling of being normal. As a criminal, he used normal people's thinking and behavior to exchange benefits for his partner in a place called prison, and also won short-term spiritual freedom for himself and others.
Later, Hadley and milt beat Andy's sodomy "three sisters" with batons until they could not take care of themselves. Before long, the warden helped Andy find a job commensurate with his education-prison library.
Here, another plan of Andy as a normal person is to expand the library. With unremitting perseverance, he spent six years writing a letter to the state legislature once a week, and finally applied for funding for the residents of Shawshank, turning the impossible into reality, with dozens of packages, a batch of second-hand books and other sundries.
When Andy tore open a package, he labored to lift an old phonograph to the table. When Andy rummaged through piles of old records, he found Mozart's The Wedding of Figaro and put his arm on his favorite piece of music. Andy rushed to lock the front door, went back to his desk to fix the loudspeaker of the radio, got up the courage and turned on all the control keys;
Andy was grounded for two weeks because of a brief shock. Of course, the price is worth it, because at that moment, Andy not only kicked Shawshank out of his heart, but also made all the people who lived in the same world with him feel free.
Later, Andy continued to write to the state legislature, turning the turpentine-smelling utility room into the best prison library in Britain.
It can be said that Andy is the only person in The Shawshank Redemption who is not swallowed up by the gloomy world. He has a free heart and touching hopes from beginning to end.
It was also here that Andy began to file tax returns for the guards. Give them financial advice. The most important thing is to do accounts for the warden. Andy, an honest banker, was transformed into an excellent financial operation expert in prison, and he had to become a The Good Liar. He let dirty money circulate, filter and wash … stocks, securities, tax-free bonds … He spilled money all over the world and came back … cleaner than a virgin.
When Amy inadvertently clarified Andy's crime and Andy was finally acquitted, warden Norton and guard captain Hadley brutally shot Amy in front of the prison gate on the grounds of escape. The warden made a hullabaloo about and threatened Andy to drag him out of his comfortable single room and let him live with the most savage and strong sodomite; He will burn all his efforts, and they will dance around the fire like savage Indians.
In the tiny society of prison, the author showed us a huge black hand and a huge black net. This bottomless abyss is far darker than Shawshank itself.
In The Shawshank Redemption, the only thing Andy doesn't lack is time. During the day, he runs a library and runs literacy classes, providing many young people like Tommy with learning opportunities and helping them get high school degrees. In the long night, Andy polished the chess pieces for a long time and tried his best to kill time.
Andy said: Either live actively or die quickly. His hope and freedom are far away in a small place called Chihuatanio in the Pacific Ocean. It is said to be an ocean without memory. Every long night in 19, Andy used an eight-to nine-inch long miniature awl to carve a path of freedom from Shawshank to the blue ocean of Mexico. I didn't forget to provide the police with Shawshank Corruption and Murder.
This is a thrilling and wonderful drama that reverses Gan Kun.
Every resident of Shawshank, although longing for the freedom of isolation from the outside world, has been institutionalized by these high walls. Just like Old Brooks, although they have long-awaited freedom in their later years, they can't adapt to the "noisy, chaotic and unruly world" at all, in which they feel panic and insecurity. Only by choosing suicide can we find our way home. The feeling of being imprisoned, those high walls, is the only great motherland that can make Shawshank residents feel happy and safe.
Only Andy despised the wall from beginning to end. Everything he has done for Shawshank proves that he will continue to be a man with a free spirit. The Shawshank Redemption, within his power, is not only to save himself. The inhabitants of that land are waiting for his help. The end of the warden and the captain of the guard made his companions breathe a sigh of relief. They are willing to talk about him. His stories always make them laugh.
Most importantly, he inspired his friend Rhett with his own spirit and actions. When Rhett finally broke away from the nightmare that trapped old Brooks; Finally, we came to the Dream Coast. We knew Shawshank Prison was a prison for them and a place where freedom was born.
In our hearts, there is a place that can't be locked, and that place is called hope.
The road to freedom is in front of you.