Keep Calm and Watch Movies
Have you ever been flipping through the channels
and noticed that some movies are always on?
Chances are that one of those movies was "The Shawshank
Redemption”. It's all because the movie is really, really
watchable. I have watched it many times and it gets better with every showing.
Like so many other people who love watching this movie repeatedly, I was and am
profoundly moved by this simple and eloquent depiction of hope and friendship
and redemption.
The Shawshank Redemption is a rated R film. It
includes profanity and occasional violence, including a scene that discreetly
suggests homosexual rape but without a single riot scene or horrific effect, it
tells a slow, gentle story of camaraderie and growth, with an ending that
abruptly finds poetic justice in what has come before. The movie shares a tale
with a surprising degree of loving care.
What
made me fall in love with watching this movie?
It is definitely the rigorous mood swings through
every emotion as the cranky, wiseguy and downright crazed array of criminals
bare the brunt of the turbulent life within the doomy Shawshank catacomb. Then
it gets really mean, gearing up for its injury-time shockers.
Many movies offer us vicarious experiences and
quick, superficial emotions. "Shawshank" slows down and looks. It
uses the narrator's calm, observant voice to include us in the story of men who
have formed a community behind bars. It is deeper than most films; about
continuity in a lifetime, based on friendship and hope.
People like excitement at the movies, and titles
that provide it do well. Films about "redemption" are approached with
great wariness; a lot of people are not thrilled by the prospect of a great
film - it sounds like work. But there's a hunger for messages of hope, and when
a film offers one, it's likely to have staying power even if it doesn't grab an
immediate audience.
There are standard ways to stage a prison film and
standard ways to tell a story by Stephen King. But "The Shawshank
Redemption," based on a King novella and set in the correctional
institution of the title, succeeds in avoiding the familiar.
The cinematography is tactful, not showy. Two
opening shots, one from a helicopter, one of prison walls looming overhead,
establish the prison. Shots follow the dialogue instead of anticipating it. The
music enhances rather than informs, and there is a subtle touch in the way deep
bass rumblings during the early murder are reprised when a young prisoner
recalls another man's description of the crime.
Having said all that, the film is satisfying, but
cloying. Andy is the minister of the healing power of hope. He educates the
inmates on the healing power of Mozart. He builds a library. He asks Red why he
stopped playing the harmonica. When Red replies that it's no use in prison,
Andy looks at him soulfully and replies that "here's where you need it the most". Despite the somewhat
unbelievable friendship between a white, upper-class, innocent banker and a
black man in 1949, it's a valuable lesson that seems to refresh my soul after
every time that I watch it.
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