<The Shawshank Redemption（肖申克的救赎）>英文影评

戴雪君

Once again I watched the remarkable and impressing mivie——<The Shawshank Redemption>,for the sake of writing the film review.

It was a story happened in 1940s.The great banker Andy Dufresne was ordered to serve two life sentences,because of a conviction for the murder of his wife and her lover.He was innocent,but no one can prove it.Then he spent his twenty years in Shawshank Prison,doing many meaningful things for himself and other prisoners.

Here comes the instences.He taught the warden,Mr.Hadley,how to get legacy without paying tax just to apply for some beers for his coworkers.So after finishing their jobs,they sat and drink with the sun on their shoulders and felt like free man.

He wrote one letter per week to the state senate for six years,asking for expanding the library and get some new books for prisoners.Finally,he transformed a storage room into the best prison library in New England and help a couple of prisoners get their high school equicalency.

The grandest thing is that he dug a big hole,using a small rock hammer, for himself to escape from Shawshank.Then a thunderstorm night,he crawled to freedom through 500 yards of shit-smelling foulness.

From my perspective,The Shawshank Redemption is a movie about hope,freedom and friendship.

Those prisoners got used to restriction and impossible in daily life. As Red,he couldn’t squeeze a drop of piss without asking for permission even when he was out of Shawshank.They lost something inside that others can’t get to,that others can’t touch.That’s hope.Just as Andy wrote in his letter to Red,”Hope is a good thing,maybe the best of things.And no good thing ever dies.”Salvation lies within.

Brooks,who stayed in Shawshank for 50 years,wanted to hurt his friend in order to escape conditional release.Once he left the cage,he chose to die instead of showing any happiness.Freedom and factual seemed prison to him.When he was packaging in the supermarket,his fear could be found in every wrinkle.When he was sitting on the bench in the park,the loneliness was stronger than those in the prison.”First,you hate them.Then you get used to them.Enough time pases,you get so you depend on them.That’s’institutionalized.’”So when Andy flung caution to the winds and broadcast <Le Nozze di Figaro>in the loudspeaker,people stayed in silence.They felt that it was something so beautiful.It can’t be expressed in words and make your heart ache because of it.Andy was just like what Red descriped,”Some birds aren’t meant to be caged.Their feathers are just too bright.And when they fly away,the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up dose rejoice.”

Red and Andy,their friendship in Shawshank seemed more sincere and purer than ours in earthliness.So when they finally met at the beach of

Pacific Ocean under the sunshine,I laughed in front of the screen.

第二篇：The.Shawshank.Redemption.肖申克的救赎3

[00:00.65]Do you understand?

[00:04.39]I need your help, son.

[00:07.42]If I'm going to move on this

[00:09.93]there can't be the least little shred of doubt.

[00:13.83]I have to know

[00:15.10]if what you told Dufresne was the truth.

[00:17.93]Yes, sir.

[00:19.27]Absolutely.

[00:21.00]Would you be willing to swear before a judge and jury

[00:24.21]with your hand on the Good Book

[00:26.41]and take an oath before Almighty God himself?

[00:29.28]Just give me that chance.

[00:35.35]That's what I thought.

[01:23.77]I'm sure by now you've heard.

[01:27.44]Terrible thing.

[01:30.07]A man that young

[01:31.87]less than a year to go, trying to escape.

[01:35.01]Broke Captain Hadley's heart to shoot him.

[01:38.25]Truly, it did.

[01:42.75]We just have to put it behind us.

[01:46.86]Move on.

[01:49.69]I'm done.

[01:52.49]Everything stops.

[01:56.10]Get someone else to run your scams.

[01:59.70]Nothing stops.

[02:02.87]Nothing.

[02:07.44]Or you will do the hardest time there is.

[02:10.95]No more protection from the guards.

[02:13.48]I'll pull you out of that 1 -bunk Hilton and cast you down with the sodomites.

[02:19.30]You'll think you've been fucked by a train.

[02:23.63]And the library?

[02:25.80]Gone

[02:27.00]Sealed off, brick by brick. 1 00:02:30,250 --> 00:02:32,912 We'll have us a little book barbecue in the yard. 2 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,247 They'll see the flames for miles. 3 00:02:35,455 --> 00:02:38,288 We'll dance around it like wild Injuns. 4 00:02:39,559 --> 00:02:42,551 You understand me? Catching my drift? 5 00:02:46,299 --> 00:02:48,164 Or am I being obtuse? 6 00:02:59,946 --> 00:03:02,574 Give him another month to think about it. 7 00:03:49,329 --> 00:03:52,389 My wife used to say I'm a hard man to know. 8 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,031 Like a closed book. 9 00:03:55,836 --> 00:03:57,861 Complained about it all the time. 10 00:03:58,805 --> 00:04:00,363 She was beautiful. 11 00:04:02,776 --> 00:04:04,300 God, I loved her. 12 00:04:08,014 --> 00:04:10,244 I didn't know how to show it, that's all. 13 00:04:12,986 --> 00:04:14,647 I killed

her, Red. 14 00:04:16,523 --> 00:04:18,320 I didn't pull the trigger 15 00:04:19,759 --> 00:04:21,488 but I drove her away. 16 00:04:22,996 --> 00:04:25,692 That's why she died, because of me 17 00:04:25,899 --> 00:04:27,264 the way I am. 18 00:04:36,276 --> 00:04:38,107 That don't make you a murderer. 19 00:04:41,481 --> 00:04:43,244 Bad husband, maybe. 20 00:04:46,887 --> 00:04:50,152 Feel bad about it if you want but you didn't pull the trigger 21 00:04:50,357 --> 00:04:51,688 No, I didn't. 22 00:04:52,092 --> 00:04:54,026 Somebody else did. 23 00:04:55,262 --> 00:04:57,355 And I wound up in here. 24 00:04:59,833 --> 00:05:01,425 Bad luck, I guess. 25 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:08,073 It floats around. 26 00:05:09,109 --> 00:05:11,339 It's got to land on somebody. 27 00:05:12,245 --> 00:05:14,145 It was my turn, that's all. 28 00:05:14,848 --> 00:05:17,612 I was in the path of the tornado. 29 00:05:23,556 --> 00:05:27,515 I just didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has. 30 00:05:31,865 --> 00:05:33,560 Think you'll ever get out of here? 31 00:05:34,801 --> 00:05:35,825 Me? 32 00:05:38,805 --> 00:05:39,794 Yeah. 33 00:05:41,141 --> 00:05:43,439 One day, when I got a long, white beard

[05:43.64]and two or three marbles left rolling around upstairs.

[05:48.84]I tell you where I'd go.

[05:51.95]Zihuatanejo.

[05:54.48]Say what?

[05:55.98]Zihuatanejo.

[05:58.75]It's in Mexico.

[06:01.79]A little place on the Pacific Ocean.

[06:05.06]You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?

[06:09.66]They say it has no memory.

[06:13.64]That's where I want to live the rest of my life.

[06:17.94]A warm place with no memory.

[06:23.68]Open up a little hotel

[06:27.32]right on the beach.

[06:29.42]Buy some worthless old boat

[06:32.15]and fix it up new.

[06:36.52]Take my guests out

[06:38.59]charter fishing.

[06:43.80]Zihuatanejo.

[06:49.07]In a place like that, I could use a man that knows how to get things.

[06:59.48]I don't think I could make it on the outside, Andy

[07:08.99]I'vd been in here most of my life.

[07:12.49]I'm an institutional man now.

[07:15.16]Just like Brooks was

[07:18.37]You underestimate yourself

[07:20.64]I don't think so

[07:26.07]In here I'm the guy who can get things for you, sure, but

[07:30.78]outside all you need is the Yellow Pages just

[07:33.52]Hell, I wouldn't know where to begin

[07:37.89]Pacific Ocean?

[07:39.92]Shit.

[07:41.52]Scare me to death, something that big.

[07:43.93]Not me.

[07:46.43]I ain't shoot my wife and I ain't shoot her lover.

[07:50.93]Whatever mistakes I made I've paid for them and then some

[07:55.20]That hotel, the boat

[07:58.47]I don't think that's too much to ask.

[08:05.61]I don't think you ought to be doing this to yourself, Andy

[08:08.25]This is just shitty pipe dreams.

[08:10.72]I mean Mexico is the way down there and you're in here

[08:13.39]and that's the way it is.

[08:15.29]Yeah, right. That's the way it is.

[08:19.63]It's down there and I'm in here.

[08:24.60]I guess it comes down to a simple choice.

[08:30.24]Get busy living

[08:33.11]or get busy dying.

[08:47.26]If you ever get out of here, do me a favor.

[08:50.19]Sure, Andy. Anything.

[08:54.33]There's a big hayfield up near Buxton. You know where Buxton is?

[08:59.67]- A lot of hayfields up there. - One in particular.

[09:03.00]It's got a long rock walk with a big oak tree at the north end.

[09:07.14]It's like something out of a Robert Frost poem.

[09:10.95]It's where I asked my wife to marry me.

[09:14.85]We went there for a picnic

[09:17.35]and made love under that oak

[09:20.12]and I asked and she said yes.

[09:26.36]Promise me, Red.

[09:29.03]If you ever get out

[09:30.87]find that spot.

[09:33.54]At the base of that wall, there's a rock that has no earthly business in Maine state.

[09:39.51]Piece of black, volcanic glass.

[09:45.21]Something's buried under it I want you to have.

[09:48.65]What, Andy?

[09:50.32]What's buried under there?

[09:53.66]You'll have to pry it up

[09:55.72]to see.

[10:02.86]No, I'm telling you. The guy is

[10:05.50]He's talking funny.

[10:08.34]I'm really worried about him.

[10:10.44]Let's keep an eye on him.

[10:12.07]That's fine during the day, but at night he's all alone himself.

[10:16.78]Oh, Lord.

[10:19.25]What?

[10:21.58]Andy come down to the loading dock today.

[10:24.55]He asked me for a length of rope.

[10:26.85]Rope?

[10:27.89]Six feet long.

[10:29.79]And you gave it to him.

[10:32.03]Sure. Why wouldn't I?

[10:34.03]Jesus! Heywood.

[10:36.20]How could I supposed to know?

[10:38.37]Remember Brooks Hatlen? 114 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,929 No

[10:41.94]Andy never do that.

[10:44.47]Never.

[10:47.61]I don't know.

[10:51.78]Every man has his breaking point.

[10:56.15]Lickety-split. Want to get home.

[10:58.72]Just about finished, sir.

[11:17.61]Three deposits tonight.

[11:27.22]Get my stuff down to the laundry.

[11:29.32]And shine my shoes.

[11:31.15]- I want them looking like mirrors. - Yes, sir.

[11:39.59]It's good having you back, Andy

[11:42.00]Place wasn't the same without you.

[12:30.75]Lights out!

[13:04.65]I've had some long nights in stir.

[13:07.72]Alone in the dark with nothing but your thoughts

[13:10.59]time can draw out like a blade.

[13:18.59]That was the longest night of my life.

[13:37.45]Give me a count!

[13:43.12]Tier 3 south, clear!

[13:49.09]Man missing on tier 2 south, 245!

[13:52.46]Dufresne!

[13:54.06]You gets out of the cell before You hold up the show!

[13:59.63]Don't make me come down or I'll thump your skull for you!

[14:10.61]Damn it, Dufresne, you're putting me behind! I got a schedule to keep.

[14:14.65]You'd better be sick or dead in there. I shit you not!

[14:18.15]You hear me?

[14:25.59]Oh, my Holy God.

[14:44.68]I want every man on this cellblock questioned.

[14:47.68]- Start with that friend of his. - Who?

[14:51.00]Him! 144 00:14:52,825 --> 00:14:54,383 Open 237.

[14:57.89]What do you mean, "He just wasn't here"? Don't say that to me.

[15:02.43]Don't say that to me again.

[15:03.97]But sir, he wasn't.

[15:05.23]I can see that, Haig! Think I'm blind?

[15:09.37]Is that what you're saying?

[15:10.97]- Am I blind, Haig? - No, sir!

[15:14.54]What about you. You blind?

[15:17.55]- Tell me what this is. - Last night's count.

[15:20.31]You see Dufresne's name there? I sure do. See you right there.

[15:23.82]"Dufresne."

[15:26.82]He was in his cell

[15:28.52]at lights out.

[15:29.69]Thing's reasonable he'd still be here in the morning.

[15:32.99]I want him found.

[15:34.83]Not tomorrow, not after breakfast. Now!

[15:38.53]Yes, sir.

[15:40.74]Let's go. Move your butts.

[15:46.41]Stand.

[15:48.84]Well?

[15:53.35]Well, what?

[15:54.55]I see you two all the time. You're thick as thieves, you are.

[15:59.09]He must have said something.

[16:01.32]No, sir, Warden.

[16:03.22]Not a word.

[16:06.03]Lord, it's a miracle!

[16:09.20]Man vanished like a fart in the wind.

[16:12.43]Nothing left

[16:14.44]but some damn rocks on a windowsill.

[16:17.37]And that cupcake on the wall. Let's ask her.

[16:20.31]Maybe she knows.

[16:22.31]What say there, fuzzy-britches? Do you like talking?

[16:26.48]Guess not.

[16:28.35]Why should she be any different?

[16:31.62]This is a conspiracy.

[16:33.92]That's what this is.

[16:36.36]One big, damn conspiracy!

[16:40.36]And everyone's in on it!

[16:43.00]Including her!

[17:19.20]In 1966

[17:21.10]Andy Dufresne escaped

[17:23.70]from Shawshank Prison.

[17:27.51]All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes

[17:30.71]a bar of soap

[17:32.45]and an old rock hammer

[17:34.22]damn near worn down to the nub.

[17:41.19]I remember thinking it'd take a man 600 years to tunnel through the wall with it.

[17:46.59]Old Andy did it in less than 20.

[18:07.52]Oh, Andy loved geology.

[18:10.58]I imagine it appealed to his meticulous nature.

[18:14.16]An ice age here

[18:16.42]million years of mountain building there.

[18:19.93]Geology is the study of pressure and time.

[18:23.60]That's all it takes, really.

[18:26.33]Pressure

[18:28.07]and time.

[18:30.67]That and a big goddamn poster.

[18:36.78]Like I said

[18:38.21]in prison, a man will do anything to keep his mind occupied.

[18:45.02]Turn is out, Andy's favorite hobby was toting his wall out into the exercise yard

[18:50.36]a handful at a time.

[18:53.59]I guess after Tommy was killed

[18:55.86]Andy decided he'd been here just by long enough.

[18:59.03]Lickety-split. I want to get home.

[19:02.34]I'm just about finished, sir.

[19:25.83]Three deposits tonight.

[19:35.07]Andy did like he was told.

[19:37.57]Buffed those shoes to a high mirror-shine.

[19:44.75]The guards simply didn't notice.

[19:47.35]Neither did I.

[19:49.02]I mean, seriously

[19:50.75]how often do you really look at a man's shoes?

[21:57.31]Andy crawled to freedom through 500 yards

[22:00.71]of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine.

[22:05.05]Or maybe I just don't want to.

[22:11.79]Five hundred yards.

[22:14.66]That's the length of five football fields.

[22:18.37]Just shy of half a mile.

[23:16.16]The next morning, right about the time Raquel was spilling her secret

[23:21.06]a man nobody ever laid eyes on before

[23:24.13]strolled into the Maine National Bank.

[23:27.30]Until that moment, he didn't exist.

[23:31.04]- Except on paper. - May I help you?

[23:33.81]He had all the proper ID

[23:35.94]driver's license, birth certificate, Social Security card

[23:40.08]And the signature was a spot-on match.

[23:42.82]I must say I'm sorry to be losing your business.

[23:46.12]I hope you'll enjoy living abroad.

[23:48.66]Thank you.

[23:50.42]I'm sure I will.

[23:52.49]Here's your cashier's check, sir. Will there be anything else?

[23:56.03]Please.

[23:57.60]Would you add this to your outgoing mail?

[24:00.60]I'd be happy to.

[24:03.60]Good day, sir.

[24:05.87]Mr Stevens visited nearly a dozen banks in the Portland area that morning.

[24:10.78]All told, he blew town

[24:12.58]with better than $370,000 of Warden Norton's money.

[24:18.12]Severance pay for 19 years.

[24:28.13]Good morning, Portland Daily Bugle.

[25:23.00]Byron Hadley?

[25:24.50]You have the right to remain silent. If you give up this right to remain silent, Anything you say will be held against you the part or lot

[25:30.77]I wasn't there to see it, but I hear Byron Hadley started sobbing

[25:34.63]like a girl when they took him away.

[25:42.00]Norton had no intention of going that quietly.

[26:02.50]Samuel Norton.

[26:04.50]We have a warrant for your arrest. Open up.

[26:10.07]Norton

[26:11.50]- Open the door. - I'm not sure which key is.

[26:23.00]Make it easy on yourself, Norton!

[26:37.56]I like to think the last thing that went through his head

[26:41.44]other than that bullet

[26:43.03]was to wonder how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him.

[26:48.97]Not long after the warden deprived us of his company

[26:53.71]I got a postcard in the mail.

[26:56.54]It was blank, but the postmark said

[26:59.58]Fort Hancock, Texas.

[27:02.25]Fort Hancock

[27:03.89]right on the border.

[27:06.02]That's where Andy crossed.

[27:09.59]When I picture him heading south in his own car with the top down

[27:14.06]it always makes me laugh.

[27:18.13]Andy Dufresne

[27:20.07]who crawled through a river of shit

[27:22.30]and came out clean on the other side.

[27:25.54]Andy Dufresne

[27:27.71]headed for the Pacific.

[27:32.28]Hadley's got him by the throat, right?

[27:34.65]He says, "I believe this boy's about to have himself an accident."

[27:38.65]Those of us who knew him best talk about him often.

[27:42.19]I swear, the stuff he pulled

[27:44.09]"My friends could use a couple of beers."

[27:47.39]And he got it!

[27:50.30]Sometimes it makes me sad, though

[27:52.97]Andy being gone.

[27:55.10]I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged.

[27:59.71]Their feathers are just too bright.

[28:03.48]And when they fly away

[28:05.65]the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.

[28:11.12]But still

[28:12.85]the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone.

[28:21.40]I guess I just miss my friend.

[28:48.46]Please sit down.

[28:55.23]Ellis Boyd Redding

[28:57.33]your files say you've served 40 years of a life sentence.

[29:01.40]You feel you've been rehabilitated?

[29:05.41]Rehabilitated?

[29:09.01]Well, now, let me see.

[29:11.91]I don't have any idea what that means.

[29:16.35]It means are you ready to rejoin to society?

[29:19.19]I know what you think it means, sonny.

[29:23.69]To me it's just a made-up word.

[29:27.03]A politician's word so that

[29:29.80]young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie

[29:33.80]and have a job.

[29:37.37]What do you really want to know?

[29:40.24]Am I sorry for what I did?

[29:42.64]Well, are you?

[29:45.71]There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret.

[29:49.92]Not because I'm in here or because you think I should.

[29:56.86]I look back on the way I was then

[30:01.56]a young

[30:03.83]stupid kid who committed that terrible crime.

[30:10.34]I want to talk to him.

[30:13.97]I want to try and talk some sense to him.

[30:17.18]Tell him the way things are.

[30:21.21]But I can't.

[30:24.85]That kid's long gone

[30:28.05]and this old man is all that's left.

[30:32.23]I got to live with that.

[30:35.06]Rehabilitated?

[30:37.13]It's just a bullshit word.

[30:39.90]So you go on and stamp your forms sonny, and stop wasting my time.

[30:45.91]Because to tell you the truth

[30:48.51]I don't give a shit.

[32:17.03]Here you go, miss.

[32:21.37]Restroom break, boss?

[32:28.21]You don't need to ask me every time you need to go take a piss. Just go. Understand?

[32:45.79]Forty years I've been asking permission to piss.

[32:49.70]I can't squeeze a drop without say-so.

[32:56.20]There's a harsh truth to face.

[33:00.04]No way I'm going to make it on the outside.

[33:10.82]All I do anymore is think of ways to break my parole

[33:15.32]so maybe they'd send me back.

[33:23.00]Terrible thing, to live in fear.

[33:26.33]Brooks Hatlen knew it.

[33:28.20]Knew it all too well.

[33:31.74]All I want is to be back where things make sense.

[33:35.58]Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

[33:40.31]Only one thing stops me.

[33:44.12]A promise I made to Andy.

[34:07.04]There it is.

[34:18.79]obliged, sir.

[37:59.47]Dear Red:

[38:00.97]If you're reading this you've gotten out

[38:03.64]and if you've come this far maybe you'd come a bit further

[38:07.98]You remember the name of the town, don't you?

[38:12.75]Zihuatanejo

[38:15.89]I could use a good man to help me get my project on wheels.

[38:19.99]I'll keep an eye out for you, and the chessboard ready.

[38:24.33]Remember, Red

[38:26.07]hope is a good thing

[38:28.37]maybe the best of things.

[38:30.57]And no good thing ever dies.

[38:33.27]I will be hoping that this letter finds you

[38:36.34]and finds you well

[38:38.58]Your friend

[38:40.01]Andy

[39:15.02]"Get busy living

[39:16.95]or get busy dying."

[39:21.55]That's goddamn right.

[39:28.96]For the second time in my life

[39:31.33]I'm guilty of committing a crime.

[39:34.97]Parole violation.

[39:37.57]Of course I doubt they'll toss up any roadblocks for that.

[39:41.91]Not for an old crook like me.

[39:44.14]Fort Hancock, Texas, please.

[39:49.85]I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head.

[39:55.02]I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel.

[39:58.56]A free man at the start of a long journey

[40:01.26]whose conclusion is uncertain.

[40:06.87]I hope I can make it across the border.

[40:11.04]I hope to see my friend and shake his hand.

[40:15.94]I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams.

[40:21.85]I hope.