自由的光辉,救赎的可贵——《肖申克的救赎》

《肖申克的救赎》 在IMDB中被超过40万以上的会员选为250佳片中的第一名，并入选美国电影学会20世纪百大电影清单。从19xx年到今天，距离弗兰克·达拉邦特缔造这部伟大的作品已经有二十年了，时光的流逝并没有遮去它的光辉，也许真正好的东西注定是不朽的。

影片讲述的是20世纪40年代末，小有成就的青年银行家安迪因涉嫌杀害妻子及她的情人而锒铛入狱。在这座名为肖申克的监狱内，希望似乎虚无缥缈，终身监禁的惩罚无疑注定了安迪接下来灰暗绝望的人生。未过多久，安迪尝试接近囚犯中颇有声望的瑞德请求对方帮自己搞来小锤子。以此为契机，二人逐渐熟稔，安迪也仿佛在鱼龙混杂、罪恶横生、黑白混淆的牢狱中找到属于自己的求生之道。他利用自身的专业知识，帮助监狱管理层逃税、洗黑钱，同时凭借与瑞德的交往在犯人中间也渐渐受到礼遇。表面看来，他已如瑞德那样对那堵高墙从憎恨转变为处之泰然，但是对自由的渴望仍促使他朝着心中的希望和目标前进。而关于其罪行的真相，似乎更使这一切朝前推进了一步?? 影片的灵魂人物自然不用说，是主角安迪，在影片的着重点“救赎”上，他是唯一一个既能够自我救赎又能够救赎他人的角色。从对抗三姐妹、解决海利的问题换取啤酒、坚持给州议会写信、冒着禁闭的风险向整个鲨堡放歌曲，全部饱满而有力度的展示出安迪作为一名“囚犯”在鲨堡的与众不同，一点一滴的表现出安迪身上带有的对生命的珍惜、负责，坚定的相信美好、向往自由的特指。尤其是自由，安迪对于自由的向往和渴望，那种含蓄中隐藏不住的极致的向往，演员在塑造时表现的淋漓尽致，观众可以感同身受到那种压抑和狂热，为影片的主旨表现添上有力度的一笔。如果安迪除了本身对于自由的向往之外与别人别无二致，那观众可能不会产生那么大的反响，即使在最终得到救赎之后，我们在感慨之余还是忍不住惋惜，因为安迪除却本性之外所携带的才华，他是那么的精明、睿智，有着极高的经济素养和良好的品质，瑞德在初见安迪时也忍不住感慨“他的步伐和谈吐简直是异类，他就像在公园散步，那么无忧无虑”，这样谦和低调、才华横溢的主角硬生生放在鲨堡十九年，那是十九年啊，我想无人不为此感到哀伤和惋惜，也正因为如此残酷，才极致的表现出安迪作为“注定关不住的鸟儿”所携带的光辉。

瑞德是除了核心人物之外必不可少的人物，不在于他在影片中的表现，而在于这个故事完全可以等同于是“瑞德的复述”，导演安排了这样一个角色来充当人物关系解释，以画外音的方式帮助观众理清人物关系，推进影片进度，串联情节。我们在他的叙述和视角中，看

到了完整了故事发展和各个人物的结局。他在影片中是个幸运儿，因为最接近安迪，所以得到了安迪和自己的救赎，在这场救赎中，安迪对他的影响，是绝大多数的。瑞德，从最初的一次假释，我们可以看到他的命运——永远待在鲨堡，被形式化、被体制化。在鲨堡，他算是个风云人物，有手段弄到一些外界的东西，在监狱有着一定的地位，他一面憎恨着鲨堡，另一方面，他离不开并且无法不承认他也享受着这个地位带给他的自我满足。直到他遇到了安迪，如果说安迪是影片塑造出的完美的不真实的形象，那么瑞德就是我们普通人的代表，他也向往自由，但没有毅力；他也憧憬美好，但懦弱；他有着实现自身价值的渴望，但从不去努力，芸芸大众就是这样庸庸碌碌的完成自己的一生，不管是监狱内还是监狱外。在情感上，瑞德和安迪是相互扶持相濡以沫的关系，漫长的监狱生涯里，如果说安迪的生活中典狱长和他的“监狱事业”，那么瑞德的生活中，能够成为他积极向上的航向标，就只有安迪。在这里，我们看到了峥嵘岁月中磨练出的一段伟大的友情。除却安迪对瑞德的他人救赎，瑞德在影片最后的自我救赎也是不可忽视的，正因为人性中被岁月和艰苦磨练仅存一星的希望，使他完成了最终的救赎，涉过污河，彼岸重生。

影片中间也讲述了假释出狱后因不适应社会而选择了自杀的老布，老布在这个影片里简直就是瑞德的镜子，如果不出意外，瑞德的结局很可能和老布是别无二致的。影片塑造出一个老布，同时也塑造出鲨堡千千万万个老布，他们都像他一样，被监狱体制化，形式化，离开了监狱便丧失了自己，将自己的一生依托找在鲨堡，灵魂失去了寄托，信仰得不到救赎，最终留下悬在房梁上的一句“老布曾到过这儿”，在这个世界上，再也找不大关于这个老人的一点一滴，也许小杰知道，那也只能在森林、在原野，“呜哇、呜哇”的叫着人们听不懂的哀歌。影片的冲突和对抗表现在这里，安迪和其他人的对比，瑞德和老布的对比，管理者和被管理者的对比。就是在对比中，在看到芸芸众生的生活和结局中，安迪一次次的反抗，一次次的完成自我救赎，这样的救赎来的不易，来的心酸，更来的伟大。

影片中涵盖全片的主题是“希望”，全片透过监狱这一强制剥夺自由、高度强调纪律的特殊背景来展现作为个体的人对“时间流逝、环境改造”的恐惧。《肖申克的救赎》用冷静而尖锐方式讲述了信念、自由和友谊。

信念，瑞德说，希望是危险的东西，是精神苦闷的根源。重重挤压之下的牢狱里呆了三十年的他的确有资格这么说。因为从进来的那一天起，狱长就说过，“把灵魂交给上帝，把身体交给我。”除了他能弄来的香烟和印着裸女的#9@k牌，任何其他异动在这个黑暗的高墙之内似乎都无法生长。 然而安迪告诉他，“记住，希望是好事——甚至也许是人间至善。而美好的事永不消失。” 于是 Andy 能够用二十年挖开 Red 认为六百年都无法凿穿的隧洞。

当他终于爬出五百码恶臭的污水管道，站在瓢泼大雨中情不自禁的时候，我们仿佛看到信念刺穿重重黑幕，在暗夜中打了一道夺目霹雳。亮光之下，我们懦弱的灵魂纷纷在安迪张开的双臂下现形，并且颤抖。生活中的我们，似乎已经习惯了按部就班，习惯了先说“那不可能”，习惯了没有奇迹，习惯了，习惯了。可是正如《飞越疯人院》（One Flew over the Cuckcoo’s Nest）中说的那样，“不试试，怎么知道呢？”

自由，“我到今天也始终不明白，这两个意大利女人在唱什么。事实上，我也不想去明白。有些东西不说更好。我想，那是非笔墨可形容的美境。然而却令你如此心伤。那声音飞扬，高远入云，超过任何在禁锢中的囚犯们所梦，仿佛一只美丽的小鸟，飞入这灰色的鸟笼，让那些围墙消失，令铁窗中的所有犯人，感到一刻的自由。 ”当 Andy 不顾一切在监狱的喇叭里放《Le Nozze di Figaro》时，镜头缓缓划过正在广场上放风的犯人们和狱警们。他们叫人感动地静立当地，抛却所有愤懑，狠毒和怨怒，沐浴着我从未觉得如此自由的阳光。莫扎特的乐声铺洒在这些人们身上，来自俗世的美妙音符似乎将他们都洗濯得纯净无

比。 “强者自救，圣者渡人”，我这才明白 Andy 的用意。修屋顶的时候，他为大家争取来啤酒，事实上是为大家争取到那种像在修缮自家的屋顶一般自在的感觉，所以他不喝酒，微笑却带着巨大的幸福；放费加罗的婚礼，也是要唤醒他们已快丧失的自由感。

友谊，这部影片无关爱情，除了背叛。有的只是监狱中的男人间的友谊。瑞德和安迪的那种友谊置放在高墙之下，似乎比我们纷繁俗世中的友情来得更加纯粹和干净。他们都是内敛的人，然而洞悉一切，心意契合。我喜欢这种感情。所以在他们终于相会在太平洋小岛的阳光沙滩之上的时候，忍不住一人笑了。

看完影片，很多东西需要我们细细深思。一条漫长的自由之路，走得异常艰辛，这样但最终是走了出来，重获自由。“希望”遵循神的旨意安睡在内页被挖空的《圣经》里，附着在安迪高大的身躯里，匍匐在500码的下水道里，最后，那条仅有的肮脏之路把安迪送往美丽的新世界。于我们而言，可能不会遭遇安迪这样极端的困境，不会遇到“海利”、“典狱长”这样的人，但人生之路并不平坦，如果不想被这个社会体制化，就应该怀揣着一颗勇敢之心，去对抗本性的懦弱。记住一句话：“怯懦囚禁人的灵魂，希望才可感受自由。强者自救，圣者渡人。”

 

第二篇：肖申克救赎赏析

。 整 完 卷 试 持 保 意 注 请 ；： 面级背班 卷试 到 写 可 ， 时 ： 线足业封不专密空 订留 装题 答 ； 题 答 笔 铅： 用系使 能 不 ， 外 图 画 除： ，名迹姓 字色 红 现 出 得 不 题 答 生 考： 号 学 请从此页开始答题： Review of The Shawshank Redemption 1. Background Adapted from Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption , the Shawshank Redemption is not a Reiner movie per se . It is a production of Castle Rock Pictures (Reiner's film company), and ranks among the best filmed versions of any King stories to date . Published in 1994 , it nearly defeated Forrest Gump in the Oscar award. Filmed on location in a disused Ohio prison, the Shawshank Redemption is set in a place of perpetual dreariness. What little color there is drab and lifeless (lots of grays and muted greens and blues) , and there are times when the film is a shade away from black-and-white (give credit to cinematographer Roger Deakins, a longtime Cohen brothers collaborator) . First time feature director Frank Darabont helms a fleet of impressive performances. In this movie , Red narrates a fantastic story happened to Andy , a reserved banker , who is wrongly judged and put into Shawshank Prison for life sentence . Andy survives from the sisters’ sexual harassment , then voluntarily offer financial service to those guards and warden ; on the basis of the clout he thereby acquires , Andy subsequently transforms the prison library into a source of learning and contact with the outside world for all the inmates . After the dubious death of the young mate , aware that his release is out of the question , Andy strengthens his will to gain freedom by his own hands. 39 years later , in a storming night , crawling through the tunnel he chipped for unknown years and a 500 hundred yards sewer, Andy manages escaping and finally arrives Zihuatenejio , a fairy place in Mexico by the Pacific Ocean . The Shawshank Redemption is not a depressing story .There is a lot of scalding irony and humor in it, and warmth in the friendship that builds up between Andy and Red .

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There is even excitement and suspense, although not when we expect it. But mostly the film is an allegory about holding onto a sense of personal worth, despite everything. If the film is perhaps a little slow in its middle passages, maybe that is part of the idea, too, to give us a sense of the leaden passage of time , before the glory of the final redemption . As to the perfect performance in this movie , the several leading characters makes great contributions.

Tim Robbins, as Andrew Dufresne, plays the wrongly convicted man with quiet dignity. Andy's ire is internal; he doesn't rant about his situation or the corruptness of the system that has imprisoned him. His unwillingness to surrender hope wins him the admiration of some and the contempt of others, and allows the audience to identify with him that much more strongly.

Ellis Boyd Redding (Morgan Freeman), or Red , as his friends call him, is the self-proclaimed Sears and Roebuck of the Shawshank Prison (for a price, he can get just about anything from the outside). His is the narrative voice and , for once, the disembodied words aid, rather than intrude upon , the story . Serving a life sentence for murder, Red is a mixture of cynicism and sincerity - a man with a good soul who has done a vile deed . His friendship with Andy is one of The Shawshank Redemption's highlights.

Ultimately , the standout actor is the venerable James Whitmore, doing his finest work in years . Whitmore's Brooks is a brilliantly realized character , and the scenes with him attempting to cope with life outside of Shawshank represents one of the film's most moving and effective sequences.

2. Theme

The Shawshank Redemption has nothing to do with love , but a film about friendship , hope and freedom .

Hope, more than anything else, drives the inmates at Shawshank and gives them the

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will to live. Andy’s sheer determination to maintain his own sense of self-worth and escape keeps him from dying of frustration and anger in solitary confinement . Hope is an abstract , passive emotion , akin to the passive, immobile, and inert lives of the prisoners. Andy sets about making hope a reality in the form of the agonizing progress he makes each year tunneling his way through his concrete cell wall . Even Andy’s even-keeled and well-balanced temperament, however, eventually succumb to the bleakness of prison life. Red notes that Tommy Williams’s revelation that he could prove Andy’s innocence was like a key unlocking a cage in Andy’s mind , a cage that released a tiger called Hope.

This hope reinvigorates Andy and spreads to many of the other inmates in the prison. In his letter addressed to Red, Andy writes that “hope is a good thing,” which in the end is all that Red has left . Red’s decision to go to Mexico to find Andy is the ultimate proof of Red’s own redemption , not from his life as a criminal but from his compromised state, bereft of hope and with no reason to embrace life or the future. Red’s closing words, as he embarks tentatively onto a new path , show that hope is a difficult concept to sustain both inside the prison and out .

Never a moment dose Andy cease his hope . It is still impressive that the peaceful and quiet smile appears on Andy’ face when he watch his inmates drinking his cool beers freely and when he immersed in Mozart’ Le Nozze di Figaro . His inner hope stimulates him keeping forward regardless of the cruel reality . And hope is his gift to his friend Red, who no longer even tries to impress the parole board at his hearings . The power of hope can never be neglected . Hope is a good thing , maybe the best of things , and no good thing ever dies .

3. Conflicts

3.1 Bible VS Rock hammer

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Warden Norton embodies the hypocrisies and contradictions of the penitentiary system . The national exposure and adulation he gets for his “Inside-Out” program belies and conceals the corruption that prevails during his tenure and the campaign of threats, intimidation, abuse, and excessive cruelty he employs to maintain control of the inmates. At times aligned with images of death , his face is compared to a cold slate tombstone—Norton is a self-deluded despot who justifies his exploitation and the promotion of his self-interest at the expense of others in the name of his faith and the fire-and-brimstone Bible passages he often quotes.

"Salvation lies within," advises Warden Norton at one point . Norton disguises his hypocrite . In western world , the Bible leads the mortal to the Paradise . Ironically , Norton commits suicide when his ugly deal publicized to the media . “HIS JUDGMENT COMETH AND THAT RIGHT SOON .” Norton pays his life for his vicious doings .

As to a rock hammer , nobody would connect it with chipping a tunnel out the prison , since it is believed to spend 600 years to finish the task . Andy spends no more than 19 years . It is the rock hammer , to be more precise , his faith and hope , not the bible , saves him out . Bible can not save everyone , but to teach them to self-save .

3.2 Hope VS Institution

“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free .” The old Brooks is a typical example to be institutionalized . He serves as a librarian in the prison for 50 years or so and he becomes used to it . He fears the outside world . He gets used to lock himself in the prison . Everything changes so that Brooks dosen’t know how to live in an alien outside world . Poor Brooks hangs himself . “Believe what you want. These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. After long enough, you get so you depend on 'em. That's "institutionalized."” Red’ words is to the point , and also it defines his very being . He fears . He would rather be the very guy in the prison instead of nobody outside .

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When he finally realizes the hope underlying in Andy’ mind , he begins to treat things differently . The power of hope defeats institution .

4. Analysis of the intrinsic cause ---Andy’ characters

Before his prison life , he is a superior banker , lived a life with fame and fortune . The impression Andy leaves is calm and upright , introverted and uptight , wordless and thoughtful ,meticulous and patient .

He is extraordinary in his work , but fails in his marriage . “ANDY DUFRESNE, mid－20’s, wire rim glasses, three－piece suit. Under normal circumstances a respectable , solid citizen ; hardly dangerous , perhaps even meek . But these circumstances are far from normal . He is disheveled , unshaven , and very drunk . A cigarette smolders in his mouth . His eyes, flinty and hard , are riveted to the bungalow up the path .” His wife , had an affair with a famous golf pro , and asks divorce . Though Andy is nearly mad at his wife’s misbehavior , he doesn’t surrender or beg her to stay . He raises a bottle of bourbon and knocked it back.. Andy just stands and listens, devastated . He doesn’t look like much of a killer now ; he’s just a sad little man on a dirt path in the woods , tears streaming down his face , a loaded gun held loosely at his side . A pathetic figure , really .

Andy confesses his inner heart with Red one day . To his wife , Andy is a hard man to know , like a closed book . Andy loves her , but he just doesn’t know how to express it . He always seems lonely and sober , never talked much . Facing such a humiliation , he drowns his sorrow in liquor . He isn’t mad enough to kill his wife , though that idea comes to him once but eventually he gives up .

He always bears everything quietly , and receives everything without any complaints . Even in the courtroom , where everything goes against him , he still speaks in soft, measured tones . Andy quietly accepts his unjust imprisonment for two life sentences , calmly . Maybe he won’t be sentenced all life if he defends for himself and

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behaves a little more innocent , however , he dose not . Maybe he talks more with his wife , he would have a perfect family , however , he dose not . That is his characters , otherwise , he would not be so thoughtful but lonely . It is partially his characters led to his misfortune . To some extent , Andy is the product of a society that stresses hard work and dedication to ascribed statuses.

At the same time , it is his characters help himself survive in the brutal prison . He is patient , meticulous . Andy is that kind of bird that can never be trapped in a cage . All prisoners in Shawshank are institutionalized except Andy . He strolles like a man in a park without a care or worry in the world , looked as if “he wore an invisible coat that could shield him from the prison” . Unlike the other prisoners at Shawshank , Andy tries to maintain ties to his life outside the walls and simply refused to resignedly accept his role as a prisoner . Andy tells Red at one point , “Better to have Sunday expeditions here (in the prison yard)than no Sunday expeditions at all .”

Nothing can stop Andy’ pursuit for freedom . When it goes to the ending part , Andy’ willing becomes more stronger . Maybe his plan begins as soon as he steps into the prison . He closely approached Red to get a rock hammer , which used to chisel a hole to the outside . His hobby of carving rock sculptures covers his real purpose and shields the sound of chiseling the wall . Andy vividly illustrates his intention to possibility . When the inmates tarring a prison proof , Andy offers unsolicited advice to one guard having financial problems , advice grounded in his own past as a banker ,on condition that three beers apiece for his co-workers .Then he earns a special status in Shawshank by becoming a tax consultant to the guards and warden . His talent slowly earns him the respect of his fellow inmates and even the prison staff . He starves off the forces of institution and remains a free man in spirit if not in flesh . He keeps writing to the State Senate and request funds directly from them Once every week .10 years letters finally made Andy be able to rearrange the prison library , where he gets touch from the outside world . He gradually gains more and more freedom , more and more advantageous to his plan . After

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39 years in prison , when everything is preparatory , Andy gets escaped away from the prison in a storming night . He indeed fulfills his ambition . He obtains his freedom .

Andy’s persistence , patience , prudence , as well as his wise contribute to his glorious redemption . Without them , Andy would be institutionalized and never dream for hope and freedom .

References

--- James Berardinelli 2007-07-31The Shawshank Redemption

--- Roger Ebert 2007-07-31The Shawshank Redemption review

--- Stephen Edwin King 2006-7 人民文学出版社

--- 王镇平AN ADVANCED VIDEO COURSE 85-89

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