Firstly, it turns the setting into a dark hole of blankness, everything looks drab and dull. ... The prisoners are in comparison to ants, as the prison overlooks them sucking them into a damp and dark hole. ... A good portion of the movie occurs in the dark, the prison itself represents a drab and dark hole that sucks in the souls of the prisoners forming them to rely on its walls to stay alive. ...

• Word Count: 1083
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Andy, looking lost and void of all hope, worries his friends with the notion that he might commit suicide but as the next day came, the guards discovered his cell empty with a hole hidden behind a poster; Andy had escaped and was on the way to the authorities with proof of the warden's graven misdeeds and towards a remote island to live a life of freedom and innocence. ...

• Word Count: 616
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Andy, looking lost and void of all hope, worries his friends with the notion that he might commit suicide but as the next day came, the guards discovered his cell empty with a hole hidden behind a poster; Andy had escaped and was on the way to the authorities with proof of the warden's graven misdeeds and towards a remote island to live a life of freedom and innocence. ...

• Word Count: 616
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The movie "The Shawshank Redemption" has excellent examples of the issues of corruption and brutality of the prison system. ... When Young is released out of the hole and returned to the general population of the prison, he "snaps" and plunges a spoon into the artery in the neck of another prisoner (Tommy Lee Jones). ... After Henry Young is released out of his cell, an exceptional camera shot is used; you start to see some of the movie out of Henry Young's eyes and when you do the images are blurred and confusing which gives an indication of how Henry Young had mentally changed. ...

• Word Count: 1228
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate