The story follows a banker, Andy Dufresne, getting sentenced with two life sentences for murder of his wife and her lover despite his claim otherwise. He is put in the prison called, Shawshank. He dealt with the new surrounding with calmness and nonchalance, causing a prisoner named Red, who was well-known among his inmates as "the person who can get things ", to lose a common bet. As time passed by, Andy and Red became friends.
Aside from that, Andy attracted the attention of a group of homosexuals and got assaulted by them multiple times. But after unconsciously winning the trust of the guards and warden there through his financing advices, Andy was kept safe and away from the assaults permanently. From then on, things went uphill for Andy as he managed to change the atmosphere around the prison and while doing so, he manages and deals with the warden's sneaky and illegal transactions. .
It was all well until Andy discovered through a newly-transferred young prisoner that he was innocent all along and that another murderer killed his wife and her lover. Andy reports this to the warden but was rudely received and shortly after, his only witness to his innocence was "shot because of escape " according to the warden. Andy, looking lost and void of all hope, worries his friends with the notion that he might commit suicide but as the next day came, the guards discovered his cell empty with a hole hidden behind a poster; Andy had escaped and was on the way to the authorities with proof of the warden's graven misdeeds and towards a remote island to live a life of freedom and innocence. .
There are a lot of social sciences elements displayed and portrayed by the actors in The Shawshank Redemption; the two most obvious and widely portrayed elements are sociology and psychology. The first is sociology, as the film began with a court scene.
