The discussion on <Shawshank Redemption>

I think this movie is very meaningful. I like it very much. You must think so too. You must all have a lot to say. But according to what we have appointed, I’m the Chair, so please let me show you my opinion first.

The story begins with the trial of a young banker, Andy Dufrense, victimized by circumstantial evidence, resulting in a conviction for the murder of his wife and her lover. After a quick conviction, Andy finds himself serving a life sentence at Shawshank prison, with no hope of parole. He exists in this prison only in appearance, keeping his mind free from the drab walls around him. His ability to do this results in the gaining of respect from his fellow inmates, but most of all from Ellis Redding. Ellis, commonly referred to as Red, finds gainful use of his entrepreneurial spirit within the drab walls of Shawshank by dealing in contraband and commodities rare to the confines of prison. Andy\'s demeanor and undeniable sense of hope causes Red to take a deeper look at himself, and the world around him. Andy proves to Red and the other inmates that in the conventional walls of Shawshank prison convention will find no home in his lifestyle.

As far as I’m concerned, this movie shows us three things: freedom, friendship, and hope. If we take a movie as a novel, then <Shawshank Redemption> is a great novel without doubt. It reflects the real social life, and creates several typical characters with Classic Quotes and a few kinds of modifications. This movie organizes the main scenario of the story in a simple way and at the same time using some petty lines. It expresses the subject in a very artistic way.

There were three words, the first is freedom. However, what impressed me is nearly everyone in the prison got accustomed to the prison life. What’s more, an old man even suicide after he was set free. I have a very deep feeling of friendship. The second word accrued to me is friendship. Friendship is a necessary in our life. In this movie, the friendship between Andy and Red moved me. It gave me an idea: getting a real friendship is more important than money and power. Friendship is really important, and in my opinion, it is very hard to get a real friendship. When we don’t have a real friend, we will feel very lonely. I may have this feeling during these days. That is really incredibly hard.

Also there are some sentences in the movie that really impressed me. The sentence I like most is “hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” Because I think, it encourages people appreciate the beauty of life, to keep their hope in heart forever. “It was as if some beautiful birds had flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.” From this sentence, I start to know that, in fact, something cannot be noticed at all. That is like the freedom of our heart. We need it, just like you have never forgotten it.

Another one is: “Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. A strong man can save himself. A great man can save another.” I like this sentence because it teaches me to let me full of courage and hopes. It urges me to have the determination to succeed.

In the end, I want to use a sentence to summarize this movie: Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

第二篇：肖申克的救赎 观后感 英文版

《肖申克的救赎》英文观后感

‘Brooks was here’

Brooks’s hands were shaking slightly while he was carving, with a solemn look, in a western dress and lether shoes.

It was an old man who had stayed in prison for a few decades. Once he left the cage of prison, he chose to die instead of showing any happyness. Freedm and factual society seemed prison to him, just no walls. It was much more horrible than the prison with walls. He woke up in the midnight and was awake because of fear. Nobody gave him a guidance, no group he belonged to. He really had no way to adjust the strange and totally new world. When he was packaging in the supermarket, his fear could be find in every wrinkle. He was fading hopelessly. When he was sitting on the bench in the park, the loneliness was stronger than those grids iin the prison. His only wish was if the bird with freedom will come to have a look at the lonely old man.

I can’t believe it that this was the purpose of punishing a prisoner. Years ago, he might be leyond redemption. But, after a few decades,he was just a old man without abilities. When he was in the society which was decades away from that he knew, he can't adapt to it, filled with all kinds of new technology. At this moment, if you have the desire to walk into the film to comfort the old man? Wasn’t he the same age as our grandpas? He had no abilities to harm the society any more.

There is no doubt that when we watch the film The Shawshank Redemption, most of us are deeply impressed by Andy’s personal heroism. As a matter of fact, there is the first row in a classroom, and also the last row. All these seats must be filled with people. There are great men in the society, and also prisoners. Someone promote historical progress, and someone drag its heels. What we should do is to improve the level on the whole, rather than let everyone admire great men. After all, great men take up a pretty small part, so are heroes. It’s unrealistic to spend all the power to foster a hero. Because you need to satisfy others as well. So, it's better to let everyone try to make progress.

So I prefer to believe that the director aimed to encourage humanistic care in the way of telling heroism. He said, ‘Some birds are not meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright…’ However, such birds are not common to see. There is only one The Shawshank Redemption in the world, or, you can say Prison Break as well. Yeah, ‘Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free. A stronger man save himself, a great man can save another.’ When Michael carried out it, he also showed an altitude that they were trying for inocence. If the law system was perfect as to no grievances, they wouldn’t exist. It is the society’s ignorance of this aspact that made them show up tragically. Just as there won’t be hate without reasons, no revolt without revolt.

I think that I will always cherish the memory of the sadness and loneliness when Brooks left the prison. That was a kind of silent struggle which was ignored by a group. Red and Brooks lived totally different lives with the same loneliness. I think that what made the difference was the power of hope. Andy was a representitive of the power of thoughts, an altitude of tenacious self-saving, a kind of struggle consciousness more than a great man of guidance. We don’t want to see the ‘wonder’ created by the director became a swan song. So the film was spreaded for several decades. Everyone can experience the hope brought by the film. Everyone can save himself and others, if he wants to. At the end of the film, there was large area of blue sea which formed bright comparison with the depression in the prision. That was the most

shiny and cosy blue I have ever met. That was the colour of freedom. When you step over what you thought it was impossible, you will posses the beauty of the bloom in prosperous during your life.