The Shaw Shank Redemption

Justice and Injustice was debated in class and questions arose; Was it justice that the fat prisoner was beaten to death by the guard on his first night???, When Bob the head sister was beaten to an inch of his life by the guards because of the acts he had done in prison??? Or when the warden shoots himself as the authorities were on their way to arrest him??? The director made us think in this movie with this theme as it wasn’t as simple as it was portrayed. Why was Red in gaol for 40 years? He was sentenced for one life sentence and he served double to what was given. In parole meetings he told the parole board what he thought they wanted to hear, saying that “He was rehabilitated and was no longer a threat to the community”. On his last parole meeting he went in there and said wha

For Andy Friendship wasn’t important for the first year he was in gaol, he then realised that he needed friends and he and Red became friends. When Red and his friends including Andy were picked to do an outside job Andy overheard the head guard had been given $34,000 through a will. The head guard was telling the other guards how he wouldn’t see much of that money because of tax. Andy stopped what he was doing and tried to ask the guard if he wanted help in trying to keep all the money. The guard was shocked that he had approached him and threatened to throw him off a building. Andy explains himself to the guard on how to keep all the money. From then on all the guards trusted Andy and got him to do their tax every year and he did so successfully.

Andy gave Red hope before he escaped. Red was scared of hope at first but when he was out of prison and he was starting to get scared. Red remembered what Andy had said about the stone wall in a field. Red went to that and found instructions from Andy to go to certain beach, where the two friends met.

The Director did really well with all the themes that were produced in the film and expressing them the way he did. The actors in

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