The Shawshank Redemption......A must watch

I must say that in the history of cinema, never has been such an excellent piece of work made. One of the finest, super finest movies I have ever seen till date. Amazing performance by Tim Robbins and above all one of the finest actors, Morgan Freeman.

The movie starts with Tim Robbins who plays the character of Andy Dufresne being convicted for murder of his wife based on circumstantial evidence. Though throughout the movie, he maintains he was innocent and didn't kill his wife, it is shown in the movie that he did went ahead with a gun in his hand, with an intention to kill both his wife and her lover.

However, that is not what the movie is all about. It explores the deep reminisces of the human mind and how people become psychologically conditioned to the situation they are in for such a long time.

When Andy gets convicted for a double life sentence for the murder of his wife, he meets "Red" (Morgan Freeman) and his gang within the Shawshank State Prison. After going through a couple of rough patches with their fellow inmates, he finally overcomes them when he has the support of the warden in exchange for the use of his financial planning skills to file tax returns for the prison staff and also to siphon off money for the warden.

Soon, Andy becomes indispensable to the prison system and 20 years fly by. Within these 20 years, Red has been rejected twice for parole and another oldie hangs himself because he couldn't cope up with the outside world, a fact which is depicted so nicely in the movie about the human mind becoming conditioned to a particular atmosphere.

During one of the conversation, Red warns Andy that HOPE is a dangerous thing and this word should not be uttered by him for his lifetime in the prison. The twist comes over here when Andy actually escapes from the prison one day, by just using the pen hammer, which Andy had smuggled for him within the prison with the help of "Red". And not only does he escape, he also exposes the corrupt warden and the security guard at the prison, while also amassing the enormous amount of money he had helped the warden siphon off from the prison by assuming a false identity and then escaping to Mexico to avoid the law of the land.

The title of the movie is "Fear can hold you prisoner, Hope can set you Free". And the movie lives to this title. Every inch of the film on which this movie was made has justified this very title and if you want to experience the same feeling, grab a DVD and watch this movie at least once in your life time. Absolutely Recommended