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求《肖申克的救赎》英语影评

Answer 1

Comment on Shawshank Redeem
Preface :Shawshank Redeem is a movie which reflect the unjustice in American law system.Leading charactoer in this film Andy is a exchange prisoner in Shawshank .He know this is a world that full of ridiculous ,black and white are reverse .Because he know he si innocent .But he have no complain much about his fate .He just adopt it quiet .The big life divide didn’t make him psychorrhexis ,anxiety .Nomatter being harassed by homosexual in prison or the violence of jail ,he shoe himself like quiet ,tolorance .Just like his best friend in prison said ,he stroll in yard leisurely ,just like in a park .We must be curious that why Andy can be so calm and leisurely in such a inhumarity place .In my opinion ,cause he live in a real profane world and a ideal hope world .But the most important invention important thing is nous ,the strong point of balancing the real and ideality between the two world .As a social man ,Andy sparkplug a reasonnable ,responsible life style according to a concept of rational and selfdiscipline .In prison , he can adapt to one of the daily life ,complete fixed work, meal on time to rest, let in fresh air.And at the same time ,he can keep his hobby ,get mallet from Red to curve stone .Thought he violate prison rules and is took into custody two weeks ,he can still being immerse in the beautiful melody of THE MARIAGE OF FIGARO.The director use this limited time of music to reflect transcendality in Andy’s inner mental world .At this point ,we can find that the aesthetic expression function of music disrupt the jail’s cruel despotism and the absence of ethics .When prisoners are touched by the beautiful melody and look back to the loudspeaker ,the film show us that under the constrain of prison system ,people have a eager to renew their living experience from the moribund ,usual institution form.From another angle ,Andy is living in a eager of freedom ,and hope to live in a nice world which exist in outside of reality .“Thought we have no wing ,we can’t give up our dream of flying .”this is his maxim in his life .Thus ,in this case film wecan find that Andy treat nous as his pursuit ,but what he really belongs to is a world that full of imaging and freedom .this is the real world he long for .And this the real meaning that Andy realize his redeem and leisure .
Background :This is a film about a secret heppened in 1 946.Andy ,a banker ,was charged for murdurede his wife and her lover with gun after he drunk .Andy got life ,which mean that he will spend the rest of his life in prison .Red,a lifers in 1 927 for murdur,and never succeed for release on parole .He has been an authority in Shawshank jail .As long as enough money you possess ,then he can get anything that you want .Everyone in jail will bet on the new comers to Shawshank for which one will cry first .Red thought Andy will cry first ,because Andy was so weak and like a egghead .But unfortunately ,Andy made him disappointed at last .But this made Red pay special regard to Andy .At first ,Andy was a silent man ,he didn’t talk much and just stroll in yard .The first word he speak to Red is to ask him to find a hammer for him ,which help him to past of time in prison .Besides ,Andy had a hard time at the first two years .But he got a chance to shoe his strong piont on tax .This chance not only make him get over that hard time and make friends with Red and others ,but also make him protect by jailers .As time goes by ,Andy became a tool for warden to launder and a library builed by Andy .But a coinsidence chance make him realize that he was really innocent .But the warden prevent him to leave the jail .Andy finaly escape the jail to Macxico .And the warden was lay open by Andy .Red was conditional relaese and go to live on with Andy .It is a happy ending .
Theme :I still can remember a dialog about hope .They talk about music at first .Red doesn’t agree with Andy’s thought .Andy said :forget that there are places in this world in the world that are not made out of stone,that there’s something inside that they can’t get to ,they can’t touch .It is yours ----hope .What Andy does seems unworthy to Red and other prisoners in the first place because they have rather different perception of life in prison .To Andy ,music is not only something beautiful and enjoyable ,but soenthing that can give him a taste of freedom and hope as well .Enjoying music is a way he uses to affirm both others and himself that he has not cease his hope for freedom .However ,Red and others have almost give up .Losing taste for music ,Red has long believed that freedom is beyond theirn reach and hope can only make them can ever more frustrated .It is a tragedy that a person live withot hope ,just like a walking corpse and running flesh ----a dead-alive person .In this film has mention the Institutionlized several times .We can find one scene in the movie.That is Red’s word : I find these walls are kind of funny like that. First you hate them, then you get used to them. Enough time passed, get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized. Jail has constrained convicts’s body and spirit .This kind of institutionalized convicts .They have no hope .Once they are go back to society ,they can’t adjust themslves to it .They afraid ,frustrated ,dismay ;discriminated by others .Just like old Brooks who had been in prison for 50 years,when he was release from jail ,he give up all hope and commited suicide at last. He is a tragedy of institutionalized .GET BUSY LIVING OR GET BUSY DYING .This is Andy said .Shawshank make life into a cruel choice .We must choose one of them . We must belive ourselves ,never give up ,waiting for our glory that belong to us .This is Shawshank redeem .
“Some birds aren't meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are just too bright.”Red appraise Andy .Yes, Andy is a bird which can’t restrain him .He never give up to strive for freedom .So he uses a mallet to chisel an enterclose to freedom which cost most of his life .So he always nerved ,and build up a library for himself and his inmate’s freedom in mind .So he make use of his intelligence to fight with evil warden ,and beat him at last. Andy told us never give up whatever difficult we face ,and keep our faith . A strong man can save himself, a great man can save another.Andy done it .He save himself at last .And he save Red ,save American justice under law ,save his inmates .Thought he is a scholar ,he is stronger than others .He is a great man.
Another theme we can’t miss ----the great friendship between Red and Andy .Because Red ,Andy can have a safe condition in prison and get things that he need .Because Andy ,Red can relaese from his past guilt.He get a salvation both in his mind and his future life . Just a few common dialog, have become eternal promise. The friendship between the two people is not only a star picture , but also greatly still mean intention of precious books, address of the stone. Because these simple thing, let us enjoy in particularly hard prison life, support each other, help each other and encourage each other of friendship. lthough this does not consider as what, but because of the special environment, more let a person experience it very precious. Film end, when two friends meet first, two heavy smile carefree really make the person extremely envy.because that smile full from Heaven to Earth,and full of neverending hope in human’s mind .
Conflict :This film full of conflict.Husband and wife ,innocent and guilty ,justice and evil ,freedom and restrain ,hope and hopeless ,loyal ang deceitful ,institutionalized and freedom, and so on .these conflict run through all the movie .But we can conclude into three points :thematic paradox , consciousness paradox and philosophy paradox .At the beginning of this film ,appear such scene :a drunk man in a car ,court questioning …These scenes confuse us .Then a lawyer’s relaxed conclution :Andy ,the banker ,because his wife had sex relationship with other guy ,so he killed them after he drunk .But the director don’t tell the truth at the beginning .When Red ask Andy the reson he was prosecuted ,Andy said he is innocent .Make us rebuild our doubt ,at the same time continue relief the thematic paradox .The reaction of Red after listenning these words is “everyone in jail are innocent ”.But as Tomy’s coming ,we know that Andy has tell the truth .At the same as time ,Tomy ,whi be loyal to to God ,is kill by the hypocritical warden.This show the paradox “the guity person is innocent ”.A lawexecutor shoud be justice but what the warden is doing is so evil ,he kill Tomy who have just got the diploma and hoping to be a lawabiding person .This enforce the thematic paradox .
When we first watching this movie ,we would find that lust come with give up .The warden is lure by money .He make money in relaxed .He become a solitude and swanky ,he want to conquer everything .And he own them .In a place of male ,the “three sister” unable to extinguish the flame burning sexual desire .Let off with stimulus and violence .Then they own the cure body and the body can not let off in prison ,they fill enough .But the director is so cruel ,he make the warden give up money which was drawed by Andy ,and commited suicide .The homosexual is crippled ,he give up bugerry .But even abandon the chance of enjoyment.On the other hand ,Red give up the thought of commited siucide cause by the discomfort of freedom .He got reborn .Andy give up to build the garden-like prison and give up to using legal to redress .He leave ,and own the fresh air beside sea and freedom .
The paradox of philosophy is take over at last .The sun after sunset is stress by the director at the end of movie .It show us severe and deep the paradox between possibility and impossibility .It explain this thesis in the following examples :Tomy shuoldn’t have pass the exam ,but he do it ;the person Andy create shouldn’t be exist ,but Andy make it ;after old Brooks be free ,he should have a comefortable life ,but because of diversity element ,he can’t .What I think is impossible is Andy’s mallet .He use this tool chisel a tunnel to freedom after decades .
Postscript :You will face many difficult position ,how to choose?Sometimes the choice may mean death ,but sometimes are not .When you are facing hopeless situation ,you must chose to this :keep busy living or busy dying .Sometimes when you facing such situation ,what you should do is to wait or stand . Actualy ,everyone has a endless power ,it is your potential .There are not defference .What the defference is how you use them .
No hope ever die .The film tell us that we should keep hope in our life whatever obstacle in front of us .And we will never fail .To choose a life style ,which will make never confuse in your daily life .Keep busy living ,you will feel happiness full of your mind and your family .Just do it.

Answer 2

　　Have you ever known a famous experiment of the flea? In my point of view, I think it has

　　some commons with the film Shawshank Redemption.
　　First I'd like to introduce the experiment. It was an experiment about the flea. A zoologist

　　put some fleas in a glass cylinder,then used a piece of glass to cover it. At first every flea did

　　all it can in jumping. It must be painful.So after several times,they jumped a little lower,in case

　　of knocking the glass.After three days,when the zoologist took off the glass,he found that no

　　flea would jump out of the glass cylinder.Why? Because they got used to jump gently.
　　We can find the glass is a visible prison to the fleas,but they build an invisible prison for

　　themselves after three days.
　　The same with the film,the characters like the fleas in a visible prison which is called Shawshank.

　　There are three characters made a deep impression on me. They are Andy 、 Red and Brooks.

　　Though they are the same in the visible prison,they are different .The difference

　　between them is whether there located an invisible prison in their heart.
　　Brooks who lives in the Shawshank for fifty years.He likes the flea in the experiment,when

　　he gets the chance to leave Shanwshank, he chooses to threaten his mates in order to stay in Shanwshank.

　　But he fails,his only hope is broken.During the fifty years,he builds an invisible prison for himself.

　　I remember the first time I watched this film was in my senior high school,and I still remember

　　that I cried hard when I saw Brooks hung himself.At that time I thought it's the fault of the

　　society,but now I think it's the fault of the invisible prison.Red's words proves my point:"Man's

　　been here fifty years. This place is all he knows. In here, he's an important man,

　　an educated man. A librarian. Out there, he's nothing but a used up old con with

　　arthritis in both hands. Couldn't even get a library card if he applied. You see what

　　I'm saying?”“Believe what you want. These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then

　　you get used to 'em. After long enough, you get so you depend on 'em. That's "institutionalized."”

　　It is the "institutionalized" put Brooks into the invisible prison.He has no hope in the

　　invisible prison,life becomes meaningless.He gets dying.
　　Red,is an man who can break his invisible prison.He is another kind of flea.

　　At first he likes Brooks,he build an invisible for himself.He told Andy that hope

　　is a dangerous thing,hope can drive a man insane,it's got no use the inside,you’d

　　better get used to that idea.At that time,he has already built the invisible prison

　　and broke his hope.He couldn't hack it on the outside.Been in here too long, he

　　is an institutional man now.Like old Brooks Hatlen was.In the prison he is the

　　guy who get it for the others.Out there, he wouldn't know where to begin. But

　　Andy's word influences him"get busy living,or get busy dying."At that time,Red

　　picks up his hope which breaks the invisible prison.When a man has the courage

　　to break the invisible one,let alone the visible one.At the end of film,Red get out

　　of the Shawshank and has a new life in the society with his hope! Red,may short

　　of the word"redemption",and he redeems himself.
　　Andy who is the hero in this film.And he is an amazing flea! There is no prison

　　in his mind.Shawshank is the visible prison which seems very sturdy .But he just uses

　　a small hammer to dig a hole,then he breaks the prison.19 years is a long time! But to Andy,his

　　hope supports him so that he can ignore the time! As the famous sentence goes hope can set

　　you free.I think another different between Andy and the others is that he never has an invisible

　　one in his heart.From the beginning to the end,he is free in his mind.That's why he can do what

　　the others cannot do! During the 19 years,he holds his hope,he still remember the hight which

　　he can reach.
　　The three man are three different kinds of fleas.The fleas tells us not to be prisoned in the invisible

　　prisons and remember hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever

　　dies.
　　We should set us free with our hopes!Let's break the invisible prison!

Answer 3

The story may sound simple, but the truth behind the words is remarkable. When I heard the name of the film first time, I considered the Shawshank to be a man’ name, but in face it is a jail——a hell in the world. Not only for the inhumanity of the jailors——they behaved brutally; but also for the jail gnawed at people’ heart by keeping them waiting and waiting as life passed. It seemed that only those utterly worthless people who gave up everything could survive. That’s where the story happened.

The part impressed me most is when Andy got out of the jai. He extended his arms in front of him in the heavy rain as if he were welcoming the fresh air and the freedom. At that moment, I saw the faith win the darkness, discharging light dazzling the eyes in the dark blue sky. Under the light, I could feel my recreant innermost being shivering as his voice said: “Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies!”

That’s why I like this film: it encourages people to fight to preserve the dignity of human beings, to appreciate the beauty of life, and the most important is to keep hope forever. He once that is born, that is die. Everyone is the same. The only difference is whether busy living or busy dying. The film tells me even a man can live once, but if he keeps faith, keeps hope and works his life right, then once is enough. The faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark, the hope is the chief happiness that this world affords, and the life should be full of the singing of the bird and the happiness hope brings. " What’s that do you think? It’s the trembling of the heart, the singing of the mind, the flying of the soul and the hope to be free.”