The Hidden Meaning of the Shawshank Redemption

You eat when we say you eat. You shit when we say you shit you piss when we say you piss you you got that you mega dick motherfucker can a film which is grated are for a host of obscenities produced by a cast and crew of non-believers and which paints the only Christian as evil hypocrite be in fact the greatest Christian movie ever made but you trust in the Lord your ass belongs to me welcome to Shawshank the Shawshank Redemption is one of Hollywood's most beloved films according to public votin

g on IMDB it ranks just above the Godfather in the number one spot people are drawn to this film for its message of hope and enduring friendship I am warning you to afraid turn which remarkably come together in a Christian act of redemption man missing on care to sell to 45 when Andy Dufresne escapes after 2 hours of screen time 19 years in the story it hits as a total twist he was in his cell and lights out sansa reasoning still the air in the marginal quintessential lead-up or execution of a p

lan something someone not a worried Andy just disappears Lord it's a miracle man I'm finished like a fart in the wind or if you might get me a rock head given that escapes are endemic to prison films viewers might have expected it my rock camera the Shawshank Redemption in a slight of hand turns attention elsewhere contrary to every expectation the prisoners of Shawshank fear release while they may hate the walls of the prison they're not seeking to escape from the neither how to do the setup of

f anyway I do nothing I come in here to say fairly well made you heard his throw the missus embodied in Brooks after being locked up for 50 years Brooks responds to his parole by attempting to kill a friend just so he can stay behind bars I'm telling you these walls are funny praise to hate him enough time passes guess so your depend on for Brooks freedom as an exile to world he doesn't belong so when he ultimately finds himself in that exile emptying alone he sees no other option but to hang hi

mself this is the principle problem for the prisoners of Shawshank and yet not for any Dufresne Andy comes to Shawshank as the innocent outsider and refuses to give up hope he subverts the prison's dehumanizing system of rules and regulations extending to his fellow prisoners rare and extraordinary reminders of the outside world cold beer after hot days work angelic music over the prison speakers new books to educate men Andy's strength derives from his innocence but when at last the warden eras

es evidence of his innocence Andy appears to succumb to the same institutional pessimism of his fellow prisoners Andy come down to the loading dock today he asked me for a length of rope remember Brooks Hatlen no and he'd never do that I donno he returns to a cell and there appears to hang himself that's when the unexpected occurs you better be sick or dead in there I shit you not you hear me instead of finding a need ed the cell is empty oh my holy God now stop and think about that if you thoug

ht this film was just another prison flick take another look the film infuses Andy's escape with a symbolism of new birth it proceeds through a woman's womb and ends with him something headfirst from the other end this symbolism fits within the film's larger allegory prisoners enter Shawshank like newborns naked and coated in white a macho and naked of the day you were born and they come to fear release with life's corresponding dread of death in his escape Andy is born again becomes a new man s

pilling her little secret a man nobody ever laid eyes on hiepro preach the identity of wealth McHugh stop I set aside for the warden until that moment he didn't exist I hope you'll enjoy living abroad thank you and in taking on this new persona Andy passes judgment on the warden and his hypocritical system in the end the warden performs on himself the faith that only moments before he is assumed to be Andy's end now look at the empty cell again it's an allusion to the empty tune oh my holy God A

ndy's Escape is an echo of Jesus resurrection but this alone isn't what makes Shawshank the greatest Christian movie ever it's beyond the illusion where Shawshank touches people in a way that gospel films don't rather than ending with the resurrection Shawshank goes on to show why it matters it's not by accident that Andy the only innocent man in Shawshank becomes the best friend of read the only guilty man it's read and not Andy who needs to be redeemed thank you only guilty man in Shawshank re

ad like Brooks is institutionalized and three parole hearings at the beginning middle and end the film demonstrates Reds transformation if you've been rehabilitated I can honestly say I'm a changed man Oh tainted to society here in his second he admits to no longer being a danger to society not because he's a better man but because like Brooks he no longer looks forward to the outside world but it's Andy's miraculous escape and his life on the outside which redeems red well now let me see you kn

ow I don't have any idea what that means well that means you're ready to rejoin society I know in his final hearing read at last speaks as a free man he no longer cares whether he remains or goes whether he lives or dies the world outside no longer concerns him because Andy lives red can face what the future holds so when it's time of release does come it's hope and Andy which propels and Beyond and Brooks fate to a life in a world beyond Shawshank is it obvious now why red finds Andy working th

e wood of a fishing boat all before an eternal sea the Shawshank Redemption is a parable and like the parables of Jesus its seed which opens in the right soil you