He is a young banker who is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to life at Shawshank State Prison. Here he befriends Red. The film is told from Red’s point of view. Red battles against institutionalisation and Andy tries to instil hope in him. “Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free” sums up the major themes of the film.
The Shawshank Redemption is about a man, Andy Defresne, wrongly convicted of murdering his wife and lover. He was to have served two life sentences at Shawshank State Penitentiary. The movie is about prison life in the late 1930”s and a friendship that develops between prisoners, Andy and Red, as a result of shared experience over the course of nearly twenty years. Andy and Red’s friendship creates a means of survival in an institutionalized system Refrained from the outside world and a normal society. During isolation most prisoners become violent and temperament.
The Shawshank Redemption opens with Andy Dufresne being interrogated and sentenced for the murder of his wife and her lover. During the interrogation Mr. Dufresne flashes back to the night of the alleged murders. The flashbacks show Mr. Dufresne reaching into his glove compartment and pulling out a gun and bullets while sitting outside of his wife’s lover’s home. The interrogating attorney accuses Mr. Dufresne of shooting his wife and her lover, but the flash backs do not show him using his gun. During the interrogation Mr. Dufresne states that on his way home to ‘sleep it off’, he threw his gun into the Royal River; the attorney states that after searching the river for three days the gun was never recovered.
The Shawshank Redemption is a film based on the Stephen King novel “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”. It is based on the imprisonment of a thriving young accountant named Andy Dufresne, played by Tim Robbins. He is sent to prison for the murder of his late wife and her lover. Andy is enrolled in Shawshank prison, a disheartening place where hostility from both the prison guards and inmates is not only tolerated but quite common. While Andy is serving his sentence he comes across a man named Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, played by Morgan Freeman.
Red is the mediator or polemicist, meaning that he’s a smooth talker and debater. In Shawshank he’s know as the man that can get anything for you from the outside … for a price of course. He’s a crook with a good heart and somewhat good intentions, but he confides to the prison walls to blur the lines of reality outside in the real world. Inside the prison he has value to his name and his insecurities are concealed by the opaque violence, and hard stance of Shawshank’s environment. Hope motivates him, but he does anything in his will to cloak that fact.
This idea that Americans have in their brains- that prison “works” seems to mean that it reduces crime. Upon further investigation, I’ve learned that prison not only impacts crime, but it sets up the perfect way for criminals to derive new plans to commit more crimes. Back in 1993, Terrie Moffett, a psychologist, wrote a paper about his idea that there are two different kinds of prisoners. The less serious kind of prisoner, known as “Adolescent-limited”, usually are young men, who commit crimes more so for fun, while being part of gangs, or other reasons, end up maturing and giving up their lifestyles and moving on. The other kind is “lifelong-persistent” prisoners, who commit crimes repeatedly and end up on a never-ending cycle in the criminal justice system (Why Prison Doesn’t Work: An Essay).
If an offender is brought into the prison system they may assimilate into the prison society and then they may think that there is no other way out of it. This is very prevalent when juveniles are brought out of the juvenile justice system and put into prison or jails (Hanser, 2010). These juveniles are seen as easy prey for bigger, stronger offenders who can take advantage of. This can cause a juvenile to become a full-fledged prison gang member. While, if they were able to be released back into the community they could have actually been rehabilitated.
They next crime scene they find a rich attorney murdered by bloodletting or draining of his blood. They also find fingerprints at that scene that leads them to an apartment where they find a man who they believe to be is dead. They find out that the man has been kept alive and immobile for one year by the killer. The man was a former drug dealer and child molester. After learning of latest victim being in captivity for a year Mills and Somerset set off to the library to do some research.
The movie has some very interesting narrative elements. The plot is about a man who is wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover. He is sentenced to serve out a life sentence at Shawshank Prison. The movie is set during the years of 1947-1966 and follows his experiences once he arrives at the prison. In act one, although Andy profusely claims his innocence, he is convicted anyway and sent to Shawshank.
The rampage that ensued on this day started mainly after William received the news of his mother passing. Convicted of first degree manslaughter in 1981 after murdering his grandmother he had been recently released on