文档介绍：The Shawshank Redemption
Themes
Chicago Sun-Times film reviewer Roger Ebert suggests that the integrity of Andy Dufresne is an important theme in the story line, especially in prison, where integrity is lacking.
The Shawshank Redemption is an allegory for maintaining one's feeling of self worth when placed in a hopeless position.
Angus C. be suggests that the film provides a great illustration of how characters can be free, even in prison, or unfree, even in freedom, based on one's outlook in life.
Plot
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts mon decency.
Plot
Andy Dufresne is a young and essful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover.
Set in the 1940's, the film shows how Andy, with the help of his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner.
Cast
Tim Robbins as
Andy Dufresne:
the main character
of the film.
Cast
Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding: the other main character and the film's narrator.
Cast
Bob Gunton as Warden Samuel Norton: the head of Shawshank State Prison and the primary antagonist.
Cast
James Whitmore as Brooks Hatlen: The prison librarian/trustee and one of the oldest convicts at Shawshank.
Winter
Stephen Edwin King
Institutionalism A Theme developed in Shawshank Redemption