Bruce WAS HERR (meaning Bruce was here)

red wrote was here too (meaning that red has been here)

The classic line of The Shawshank Redemption:

Some birds don't mean to be caged.

They feathers are just too bright.

Some birds can't be caged.

Because every feather of theirs is stained with the glory of freedom.

Hope is good thing, maybe the best of things.

And no good thing ever dies.

Hope is a beautiful thing, maybe the best of things.

good things never die.

fear can hold you prisoner.

hope can set you free.

fear makes you a prisoner.

I hope to set you free.

It takes a strong man to save himself,

and a great man to save another.

A strong man can only save himself,

A great man can save others.

I find I’m so excited. I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.

I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, And shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams.

I find myself so excited that I can't sit down and think quietly.

I think only those who have regained their freedom and are about to embark on a new journey can feel the excitement of unveiling the mystery of the future.

I hope to cross the Qian Shan and hold my friend's hand. I hope the water in the Pacific Ocean is as blue as in my dream: I hope ...

The Shawshank Redemption Film Review

I am very excited. After watching the movie The Shawshank Redemption, I always feel a kind of emotion, an epiphany and an attitude towards life. Unfortunately, I didn't go to see it until my friend strongly recommended it, in the ninth year after the film was released; I regret that I missed a film that can cleanse my soul so much, and realized life for nine years later than others; Hopefully, I still grasped the small tail of understanding, so that I could be shocked enough in the film and concentrate on thinking after watching it, and face life and life with a positive attitude, as the movie said-"Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best in the world, and good things never disappear".

Andy, a promising young banker, was unjustly sentenced to life imprisonment and held in Sharkburg Prison. In this high wall, everyone has to accept the "institutionalized" purgatory, endure the cruelty and humiliation of the jailer, guard against the bullying of other prisoners, and silence all the darkness and despair here. Kill your life in endless imprisonment. Andy, on the other hand, is not so "institutionalized". He always does things that he thinks have "hope", and these "hopes" are dangerous to prisoners, so he risks winning the job of helping the warden to make accounts and bringing beer to his inmates that he hasn't tasted for a long time. He insisted on writing a letter to the governor every week for six years with perseverance, and got funding to set up a prison library; So he took advantage of the opportunity of making false accounts in the warden's office to play opera through a huge loudspeaker, which made prisoners feel that there was something in the prison that could not be stopped by high walls and institutions-hope.

If Andy lives in prison so prized, then he is lucky, but he has become an institutionalized slave. When he learned that he had a chance to prove that he was wronged, and the only hope of trying to get freedom through proper channels was killed by the warden's excuse, a secret buried for 2 years finally touched us greatly at the end of the film: Andy had been secretly digging a passage in the room with a small nail hammer less than a foot. . . And this move, to many other people in prison with legendary stories, but also like an injection to stimulate everyone's mind, I hope-forever beautiful! This made Ari, an old black man who was paroled, not lose his way after he was freed, and finally went to Andy to enjoy freedom and happiness!

when I think about it, I suddenly find that this so-called "institutionalization" has been attached to each of us as early as the devil, and I go to work-work-obey the orders of the leaders-get off work-do housework-obey the orders of the family-and then go to work. . . That's all, one day we don't receive institutionalized training, so that we don't know what to do with a slight change, and we can't find ourselves, just like the old Ari in the movie. If we don't report it, we can't scatter a drops of urine. And when these institutionalized packages make us unable to breathe, we have to face such a choice, just like the movie line: "Get busy living or get busy dying". . .

Andy's choice has given us great enlightenment. It may not be easy to get freedom, but as long as there is hope, it is a good thing, and all the good things in the world will not disappear. Face your life and life positively and enjoy the freedom of mind, because we all have hope. However, we have all developed the habit of "hope is not great, disappointment will not be too great". However, we need to insert wings of hope into our hearts. As long as we dare to fly, life will shine brightly. . .

The overall feeling of the film is very simple. It completely captures the audience with the storyline and characters' eyes, which makes people nervous about the impermanence of fate with them. After watching it, it always feels that the happy ending of the film weakens the cruelty of life and the expectation of hope that the whole story wants to tell, which is a bit like a Hollywood routine. In fact, on the way to see Andy, the film can end, because as Ari himself said, "It is dangerous to cross the border after parole, and I am excited to sit down. Free people will be so excited. A free man on an unknown journey, I hope to cross the border successfully. I hope to meet my old friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific Ocean is as blue as a dream. I hope … "Since it is hope, none of us know what will happen to us in this realistic and cruel institutionalized society. . . I think, leaving enough suspense for the audience to guess may be more shocking and in line with the center of the film. . .

However, after telling this idea to a friend, the friend laughed and said, "Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and good things never die." It suddenly dawned on us that because good things never disappear, it gives us enough motivation and hope to pursue. . .

By the way, the film has also been translated into Stimulation 1995, which is probably the name of Chinese people playing commercial gimmicks, but it is really a rare good film.

Schenk, when you walk into this place and turn around and lock the door, you realize that this is serious. In a blink of an eye, your life is ruined, leaving only endless regrets. You don't know how long you will stay here, and you may forget how many years you have spent here. In a trance, I remember the warden saying, "Trust God and give me your humble life."

This is how Andy walked into the prison. Like any guilty person, he was deceived by fate. He used to be a typical young entrepreneur with a bright future, but he was falsely murdered by his wife and her lover and lost everything he owned.

In Shawshank's long imprisonment career, what was really imprisoned was not the high wall of the prison, but the heart that Shawshank gradually polished and forged lost the self and the desire of normal people for the essence of life, that is, the emotional pillars that really supported people to tide over the difficulties, such as enthusiasm, dreams and hopes for life. In countless times, as Rhett said, you have to find something to do if you have nothing to do, and so does Andy. He chooses to collect stones again, of course, on a small scale. Shi Ying, mica, sandy granite ... Rhett is the kind of person who has a special way to get things in prison, providing him with a small hammer and a millstone cloth. One afternoon, when Rhett was holding a small piece of his stone carving, he was also quiet. Maybe he thought of something. You wouldn't look for Shi Ying in the sports field. It should belong to a jumping stream, washed clean by running water and stained with strange luster by sunshine. Maybe this is what has been in the gray wall for a long time, hope and freedom, and it is what Andy always has in his heart, his faith.

Rhett said: Prison is a strange place. At first you hate it, then you get used to it. After a long time, you can't live without it. This is called institutionalization. When you can't smell the sunshine for a long time, when light and life are no longer valuable, there is no hope or disappointment. In most people, they just spend their time listlessly on the field, and at the end of the day, they go back to their cells with their shoulders broken and heavy footsteps to face another endless night. This is the mentality of going to jail. The only difference is Andy, who seems to be wearing an invisible coat, with his head held high and his feet briskly, casually following stones, walking gracefully and comfortably, just like walking in the park, with dust at his feet raised in the sunshine, just like, like a free man.

For people in prison, time is slow. Sometimes you even think that time has stopped, but time is still passing by bit by bit. Rhett and his friends once gave Andy a poster as a one-year anniversary, and the concept of the next time is 19 years later. Andy can't always be an ordinary prisoner here. By chance, he began to use his rich financial knowledge to help the jailer "legally" evade taxes, at the cost of inviting his colleagues to have three bottles of beer each. At that time, the scene was very strange, and I believe Rhett felt the same way. Suddenly, Andy got the upper hand. The jailer Harry had a gun in his waist and a baton in his hand. Behind him stood his old friend Stemma and the management of the whole prison. But all of a sudden, under the bright golden sunshine, all this is nothing. Maybe they haven't felt this kind of equality and pride of free men since the prison car carried Rhett and his friends through the Shawshank gate and stepped out of the prison car on the sports ground. Rhett said, "So, the day before the completion, the prisoners on duty in the spring of' 49 sat in a pile at ten o'clock in the morning, drinking cold beer. Shawshank has always been the most ruthless prison officer to treat, and this son of a bitch is still pretending to be generous. The sun shines on our shoulders, like free men, like repairing our own roof, and we are as comfortable as the Lord of creation. Where's Andy? He's in the shade, with a strange smile on his face, watching us drink his wine. You can say that he wants to kiss up to the prison authorities or win the friendship of prisoners, but I think he just wants to relive his freedom, even for a moment. " The wantonness and warmth he brought at this moment will still be remembered by people who witnessed this moment many years later, and the only person who can really enjoy this freedom after many years may be Andy. Maybe when he was at this moment, he thought of himself driving a sports car in the west and never forgot it.

Andy began to help the warden to launder money, so he got more generous treatment. He even wrote to the state government tirelessly, and got a response a few years later-the state government donated books, record players and even an unprecedented prison book fund to Shawshank-5 dollars a year. The album includes "The Wedding of Figaro". Desperately, he locked the jailer in the toilet, and perhaps Shawshank's first song was released on the loudspeaker of the prison. The camera slowly flashed across the prisoners and prison guards who were on the lookout in the square. Everyone was shocked by this strange sound-a little breath from the secular world with a sense of freedom. I think they still don't understand what these two Italian women are singing. In fact, they don't have to understand. Some things are better left unsaid. I think it's an indescribable beauty. But it hurts you so much. The sound was flying high into the clouds, surpassing the dreams of any imprisoned prisoner. It was like a beautiful bird flying into this gray cage, making those walls disappear, making all prisoners in the prison feel free for a moment. Even if it was only a fleeting stay, even if it was only a flash that flew by, it seemed to awaken something in the prisoner's heart that had not completely disappeared. Yes, what old Rhett was thinking when he stroked the old harmonica at night.

As expected, Andy finally left. Some birds are too bright-colored. They can't be caged. There is a water-tube hole behind Andy's poster, using the Xiao hammer he used to collect stones. Rhett joked that it would take 6 years to dig a tunnel with it, but in fact it only took Andy 19 years. For 19 years, he hid the small hammer in the Bible, and finally left it to the warden. The Bible with clear traces ironically wrote, "Warden, you are right, the way of redemption is in it." Andy never gave up his faith, but he believed in himself.

maybe Shawshank can give us more. Have you ever thought that in reality, when we are faced with pressure, attempts and challenges, it is a beautiful excuse for us to give up and escape instead of being brave and excited, and find indifference and tranquility. Just like the old prisoner who spent half a century in Shawshank in the film finally got his long-awaited freedom, he was unable to adapt to the outside world and fell into deep fear. In prison, he was an old man with status and was convinced to manage the library, but in this society, he was nothing, not even a library card. He was used to prison life and gave in to imprisonment. Finally, he was lonely and had nothing.

Unlike Andy, in the first two years of his life as hell, Andy had to face the unfairness and inhumanity in prison like an alert and innocent rabbit, and was tortured all over. Although he experienced so much darkness and torture, he never forgot his beliefs and hopes. Perhaps, as Thoreau said, "How a person views himself determines his fate, or points out his destination." Andy always wears an ambiguous expression, silent but determined, alert but never takes unnecessary risks to achieve his goal. When Andy finally climbed out of the foul-smelling sewage pipe of 5 yards and stood in the pouring rain.