Movie Analysis: Shawshank Redemption - Research Paper Example

Andy applied his great financial knowledge and helped a lot of police staff officers by providing them with financial plans.

The warden also started taking help from him. He used to fax letters to the warden as well as the other staff. Before coming to prison, he was an honest man. After coming to prison, he gave financial ideas to staff and warden that were not legal but would make them rich. He also made different plans to make the warden a millionaire in just a few years.

After more than a decade in prison, a new young boy ‘Tommy’ came to Shawshank. Andy started teaching him. One day Tommy found out the reason for Andy’s imprisonment and told him that he had met the real murderer of Andy’s wife and lover. Andy tried to convince the Warden that Tommy could help him out of the prison. This warden got afraid that he would get caught for ill practices if Andy was released, so he got Tommy killed.

Soon after this incident, Andy escaped from prison. He had been working on his escape plan, by building a tunnel from his room’s wall, behind a woman’s poster, into the sewage pipeline.

RED: Red was a popular and old inmate in Shawshank. He used to smuggle cigarettes, wine bottles, or anything for anyone into the prison. He was a salesman for the prison. He was a good friend of Andy. He was the one who made Andy get hold of a rock hammer, which helped him in creating a tunnel in the wall.

Red lived in Shawshank for 40 years. After every decade, he tried to explain to the lawyers that he is a changed man, but to no avail, until 40 years has passed in prison. He was hopeless. But one day, finally he was released.

FIVE SCENES

• At the beginning of the movie, a police staff hit the inmate who asked “when do we eat”. Prisoners have a right to express concerns regarding prison’s living standards.
• When police staff hit the new inmate brutally, he was crying to go back home. Prisoners have a right to freedom of expression.
• When Andy told Warden, Tommy’s evidence was in his favor and staff ill-treated him and kept him in solitary confinement. International standards do not allow the staff to send any prisoner to dark cells.
• When the warden got Tommy killed, just because he could help Andy out of the prison. Such murders are not allowed by any law.
• When Andy asked to reach the court of law for his bail. Every prisoner has a right to reach a court of law.