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"The Shawshank Redemption:" the best and worst of Hollywood

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films, neatly wrapped up in one effort.
Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman do what they do very well, portraying sincerity, honesty, and trustworthiness: you know the characters will not disappoint the faith in them the director has them work hard to give you.
The scenes of the early years of Robbins' incarceration as as brutal as any ever filmed: "The Sisters" are the scariest group I've ever seen and, unlike in most prison films, they seem to function as a law unto themselves.
It is hard not to be drawn into empathy and sympathy towards the chief characters but it is very skillfully done: still, it is hard not to feel like a puppet.
If one likes to be spoon fed his melodrama, this is fine pablum.

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RE: "The Shawshank Redemption:" the best and worst of Hollywood - laznos 22:22:04 03/06/08 (0)
It is excellent within the parameters it was created in. Yes it is melodrama. Don't look for nuance. One of the best films of the '90s.
RE: "The Shawshank Redemption:" the best and worst of Hollywood - delboy 02:47:16 03/05/08 (0)
This is the ultimate guy film. It has all the key ingredients, revenge, redemption, a healthy dose of violence and exactly the characteristics you decribe in the leads to carry it off.

It has become so familiar and it's hard to see why the critics were so hard on it at the time.

The guy who 'actually' committed the crime Dufreyne was sentenced for was supremely insane and evil* even though you only get to see him in silhouette and via a second-hand confessional story.

Still in my top ten.

* benchmark: Frank Booth

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