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REVIEW OF THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION It has been a long time since I wanted to write a movie review of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION.I had so many feelings the first time I watch this film.The second.And the third.Every time.More and more feelings, I would say.It is a very impreive movie, being known to us all.Once you got it, you couldn’t help being touched.That’s it!It is one of my favorite movies.However, I dared not say that I fell in love with it at the very first sight.Actually I had thought it was very boring.It’s probably more because I didn’t understand its plots, let alone its theme until I’d watched a quarter of it.It’s hard to understand when I was just a senior high school student.I was not that smart.But I finally got it.And I loved it immediately!What a deep theme it is!Institutionalized!That’s exactly the word I gonna interpret!Before that, a story first.There was a time when my history teacher told us all before our final exam,“It is very relunctant for me to say that, but I gotta say, when you write down your answers on the paper, you’d better write down the same as the book says.I ain’t saying that my opinions are wrong, but it wouldn’t be recognized when your papers are being checked.It’s only my opinions.If you didn’t, then you’re stupid.I ain’t the only person who’s gonna check your paper.That’s the system.We teachers have rejected that kind of checking because it would not be fair for every teacher having his or her own key points to teach and thus, deserving their own standards for evaluation.Besides, you know that you have no enough powers to overthrow the system.Do you? So don’t be stupid and ridiculous.That’s all.” It was the sentence “That’s the system!” that attractted my attentions and made me reflect.System.Isn’t that exactly the same as institutionalization?
As a matter of fact, all of us, more or le, have been institutionalized or are being institutionalized.That’s what I got from THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION.If we pay a little more attention on ourselves, we would find that fact.The systems have already been set for us as soon as we were born, without le similarities as the prisoners.They own their numbers as soon as they are put into prison.We own our identy cards.Then we try to fit right in the totally new world.For that matter, we try our best to do the same stuffs as everyone else under the system, such as the education.More or le, the prisoners are the same.No need to argue with that.What’s more, “Believe what you want.These walls are funny.First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em.After long enough, you get so you depend on 'em.That's “institutionalized.” That’s what Red said.And that’s exactly the truth.Why would we be institutionalized? Not having enough force is just an excuse.The point is we have no awarene that we actually would have had the choice not to be institutionalized only if we hadn’t lost the hope for freedom.As for “hope”, actually, Red and Andy have totally different viewpoints at first.“That there are things in this world not carved out of gray stone.That there's a small place inside of us they can never lock away, and that place is called hope.” Andy said.And Red said,“Hope is a dangerous thing.Drive a man insane.It's got no place here.Better get used to the idea.”
Whose would I stand by? Without doubt, Andy’s.You just can never ever lose hope for life, for freedom unle you are totally desperated for life.Neither can Red.As we can see, Red regained freedom finally.Isn’t it a relief? He once said that he was the only guilty man in Shawshank.Yet he got redemption in the end.Thank god.It’s not the end of his life.No one would want to be institutionalized.But how come one began to be institutionalized? Well, living a life under a system is a start to be.When we begin to think that we are out of the fashion, we are institutionalized.Because the fashion is one of the ways the system set to lead us.When we begin to think that we’d better not do something since nobody else did, we are institutionalized.Who made the rules for people to obey? The system.Then how come we not to be? Flee away from the systems.Only if we had such determinations as Andy did.And get busy living of get busy dying.That’s the only truth.Tina
2013.6.14.
