Hope is dangerous? The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
A must watch movie, the Oscar Academy didn't see it, I would recommend:
The Shawshank Redemption - 1994 Castle Rock Entertainment & Turner Home Entertainment.
Tim Robbins - Same actor of "Anti Trust" has a famous wife named Susan Saradon.
Morgan Freeman- A famous black actor in "Seven".
Director: Frank Darabont
Writer: Stephen King (short story "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption")
Frank Darabont (screenplay)
This movie talks about the subject of "Hope is dangerous?" Prisoners in the jail of Shawshank in New England living with the "hope" under authority's permission. Movie in the past usually more focus on discussion about the value of life, and how people deal with it.
This story has very smart way of interpret how we ordinary people should define and deal with "hope" and how we see it in our eyes. Each character in this movie shows a better selection of the actors to fit more convincingly into the role in this story than most movies today in USA as my point of view. The first time I watched this movie, I was stunned when Morgan Freeman told the young man Tim Robbins,"Hope is dangerous!".
Seeing a black man's serious face when this sentence came out of his mouth to warning a white young man, whose life might has never gotten the chance to know the "Hope" is surpressed by a glass ceiling called "Class" back to 1940-1960. As a happy and naive Chinese American, I have never think of too much about any ceiling problem in this country will cause "Hope", a positive term as we usually think of, became danger and that is the reason of my stunning reaction to be so puzzled by Morgan Freeman's warning.
Later on, I realized how in today's working place or any our social life the management or authority using "Hope" as a carrot to donkey people like us to work and work harder for a goal we might never able to reach. Hope then is truly dangerous. How can we do to adjust the hope that guide us to live on? Sometimes I think even without any glass ceiling from outside, we are facing our own ceiling by not dare dreaming what we want or to fulfill a dream in our lives and the smartness of how to be sneakily to lift over any ceiling to get hope of dream works, as same as Tim Robbins in the movie hopelessly dealt with the attaches came from those gays and the darken future lay ahead of him . Life is hard, my God!
As we all wish "All good things will never die.." as Tim Robbins wrote to Morgan Freeman in the letter when the movie close to the end. We all do wish all good things will never die while we all need to working on struggling with each of our little tiny lives.
The Shawshank Redemption - 1994 Castle Rock Entertainment & Turner Home Entertainment.
Tim Robbins - Same actor of "Anti Trust" has a famous wife named Susan Saradon.
Morgan Freeman- A famous black actor in "Seven".
Director: Frank Darabont
Writer: Stephen King (short story "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption")
Frank Darabont (screenplay)
This movie talks about the subject of "Hope is dangerous?" Prisoners in the jail of Shawshank in New England living with the "hope" under authority's permission. Movie in the past usually more focus on discussion about the value of life, and how people deal with it.
This story has very smart way of interpret how we ordinary people should define and deal with "hope" and how we see it in our eyes. Each character in this movie shows a better selection of the actors to fit more convincingly into the role in this story than most movies today in USA as my point of view. The first time I watched this movie, I was stunned when Morgan Freeman told the young man Tim Robbins,"Hope is dangerous!".
Seeing a black man's serious face when this sentence came out of his mouth to warning a white young man, whose life might has never gotten the chance to know the "Hope" is surpressed by a glass ceiling called "Class" back to 1940-1960. As a happy and naive Chinese American, I have never think of too much about any ceiling problem in this country will cause "Hope", a positive term as we usually think of, became danger and that is the reason of my stunning reaction to be so puzzled by Morgan Freeman's warning.
Later on, I realized how in today's working place or any our social life the management or authority using "Hope" as a carrot to donkey people like us to work and work harder for a goal we might never able to reach. Hope then is truly dangerous. How can we do to adjust the hope that guide us to live on? Sometimes I think even without any glass ceiling from outside, we are facing our own ceiling by not dare dreaming what we want or to fulfill a dream in our lives and the smartness of how to be sneakily to lift over any ceiling to get hope of dream works, as same as Tim Robbins in the movie hopelessly dealt with the attaches came from those gays and the darken future lay ahead of him . Life is hard, my God!
As we all wish "All good things will never die.." as Tim Robbins wrote to Morgan Freeman in the letter when the movie close to the end. We all do wish all good things will never die while we all need to working on struggling with each of our little tiny lives.
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