Writer: Steven King
Director: Frank Darabont
Major Actors: Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman
Year of Release: 1994
Story: Shawshank Redemption filmed in 1994 is the story about Andy Dufresen, a banker that get sentence to shawshank for the murder of his wife.
Plot: it starts out with Andy in a court room being sentenced to life in the shawsank correctional facility. When he arrives there, the inmates are all gathered around taking bets to see which one will crack first on wanting to go home. It later goes on to telling the life and story of Andy’s morals and dilemma as he spends many years in prison. As you’ll see he deals with a troubling group of guys that calls themselves the sisters. Andy spends months fighting them off till he gets a lucky break one afternoon when they have a drawing to see who all would be picked to tar the roof. It just so happens that Andy’s name was picked along with a lot of other guys and that soon they become good friends of his. While tarring the roof Andy over hears one of the guards taking about how the government is going to take all of his taxes and not be able to calm anything in a refund. When Andy states he could help with the matter, the guard grabs him and tried to throw him off the roof till Andy states he could help him keep everything he has earned tax free. As the story goes Andy finds out from one of the new inmates that someone else was the cause of murdering his wife and is truly innocent. And when he tries to tell the warden everything he gives Andy 2 months in the hole. When Andy gets out after 2 months, he begins to work up a plan to escape and try to live life as a free man once more.
The movie goes in a non-linearly format because the movie does do a flashback. The flashback is for seeing who the actual killer was and how Andy was being framed for the murder. The choice of this format is so that the audience to see who is actually responsible for the murder and to gain more insight into the murder. It was used in a way to see how Andy was framed by the actually murderer. It gave the audience a better understanding since it was not actually shown at the starting of the movie.
If the movie had been told in more of a chronological order the audience would not have been kept in suspense about who the actual murderer was and the events of Andy being framed.
Resources:
Shawshank Redemption. (1994). The Shawshank Redemption – Trailer – (1994) – HQ. [Video file]. Retrieved from http://youtu.be/6hB3S9bIaco.
Images: Fanpop website – Sawshank Redemption. Retrieved from http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/the-shawshank-redemption/images/30536272/title/andy-photo.
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