《The Shawshank Redemption(肖申克的救赎)》英文影评.doc

英文影评戴雪君Once again I watched the remarkable and impressing mivie,for the sake of writing the film review.It was a story happened in 1940s.The great banker Andy Dufresne was ordered to serve two life sentences,because of a conviction for the murder of his wife and her lover.He was innocent,but no one can prove it.Then he spent his twenty years in Shawshank Prison,doing many meaningful things for himself and other prisoners.Here comes the instences.He taught the warden,Mr.Hadley,how to get legacy without paying tax just to apply for some beers for his coworkers.So after finishing their jobs,they sat and drink with the sun on their shoulders and felt like free man.He wrote one letter per week to the state senate for six years,asking for expanding the library and get some new books for prisoners.Finally,he transformed a storage room into the best prison library in New England and help a couple of prisoners get their high school equicalency.The grandest thing is that he dug a big hole,using a small rock hammer, for himself to escape from Shawshank.Then a thunderstorm night,he crawled to freedom through 500 yards of shit-smelling foulness.From my perspective,The Shawshank Redemption is a movie about hope,freedom and friendship.Those prisoners got used to restriction and impossible in daily life. As Red,he couldnt squeeze a drop of piss without asking for permission even when he was out of Shawshank.They lost something inside that others cant get to,that others cant touch.Thats hope.Just as Andy wrote in his letter to Red,”Hope is a good thing,maybe the best of things.And no good thing ever dies.”Salvation lies within.Brooks,who stayed in Shawshank for 50 years,wanted to hurt his friend in order to escape conditional release.Once he left the cage,he chose to die instead of showing any happiness.Freedom and factual seemed prison to him.When he was packaging in the supermarket,his fear could be found in every wrinkle.When he was sitting on the bench in the park,the loneliness was stronger than those in the prison.”First,you hate them.Then you get used to them.Enough time pases,you get so you depend on them.Thatsinstitutionalized.”So when Andy flung caution to the winds and broadcast in the loudspeaker,people stayed in silence.They felt that it was something so beautiful.It cant be expressed in words and make your heart ache because of it.Andy was just like what Red descriped,”Some birds arent meant to be caged.Their feathers are just too bright.And when they fly away,the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up dose rejoice.”Red and Andy,their friendship in Shawshank seemed more sincere and