Sarah Abdeen

There are a few films that express deeply human emotions, mark a milestone in the history of cinema, and explore scenes with new meanings and ideas that grow with each view. One of the most important is "Goodbye Shawshank," which is 25 years since its debut in 1994.

Ranked as one of the top 100 films in American cinema, not only for the great performance of Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, and the screenplay and director Frank Drappont for Stephen King's novel "Rita Hayworth and Salvation from Shawshank", but also for the precise cinematography of photographer Roger Dickens who was able to focus On human emotions and eye gaze, to highlight the victories, tragedies and deeper meanings behind each scene.

The essence of the film
The film discusses several different ideas in concert, a film about freedom, friendship, patience, hope and the ability to change, albeit slowly. Banker Andy Dufferin, acted by actor Tom Robbins, first appears to viewers as a cool, rational person who is simply capable of murder.

We get to know Andy more as the story unfolds, and through his friendship with the prisoner Reid, who was played by Morgan Freeman, who used to live in prison and had no hope of getting out. He even arranged his entire life in prison, and no longer counted on the prospects for release. Conditional, he became dealt with automatically and repeats the same sentences about his rehabilitation as a good person in society every time, and is refused to release him every time.

Dufferin seems to have thrown a stone in the pool of stagnation, boredom, and routine that prisoners are used to, by keeping hope and his constant desire to change reality for the better, whether by resisting physical harm and not giving in, or by continuing to send letters to get funding for the library.

In the context of the anecdote, a person, in contrast to Dufrin, is Brooks, the oldest inmate in Shaushank prison.

Brooks was quite used to prison life and no longer knew what life was like abroad, and he almost committed a murder to stay inside the prison he knew.

In his new life after his release, Brooks faced the danger of freedom. He did not know how to cross the street, could not cope with his new work, and felt the loss of his personal identity. In prison, while in his new life he became less social because of the supervision of his manager, and criticism of clients for the slow mobilization of bags due to the pain of the joints of his hands.

In Brooks' case, the viewer shows that his sense of freedom was greater within the prison community, than in life after his release, as a result of his habit of living in prison.

Brooks could not cope completely with the new life until he eventually committed suicide, because he could not afford a life of freedom outside the prison.

The most important scenes of the film
As the hero of most of the film's main scenes, Andy Dufferin appears as an icon of continuity and freedom, especially in the scene where he risks his life while painting the factory roof, and offers the officer to pay him tax papers in exchange for each prisoner taking an iced drink.

This is not about the drink itself, but the feeling of small moments of freedom that are Andy's greatest and ultimate goal.

The second scene during the arrangement of the boxes that came to the library, where Andy discovers a music CD for Mozart, closing the door on himself in the sheriff's office and playing the "Figaro Marriage" in the prison's speakers. Prisoners for the first time listen to the music and sounds that fly away as a bird flying away from the prison walls, and feel the sense of freedom again.

Although he was certain that he would be punished for playing music, Andy did not care about that. After being held incommunicado for a month as a result of his act, he did not regret, but said, "Mozart music accompanied me throughout the imprisonment in my mind and in my heart. This is the beauty of music. They cannot take it. The world does not forget that there is something inside you can not reach or touch .. something for you alone.

The Marriage of Figaro was not chosen solely as a piece of music, but to date it is inspired by the story of Figaro Marriage by the famous French writer Pomarche.

The story takes place in the 18th century in Seville within a fictional comic frame with a revolutionary outlook on the social, psychological and political level. Hence the choice of the piece in the context of the events of the film a kind of incitement to the revolution on the prison and the restriction of freedom and hope.

Laws of Life
From the high footage of the prison at the beginning of the film, showing its breadth, magnitude and difficulty of penetration, as well as to emphasize the lack of sympathy of the old prisoners of the newcomers, it is clear that Shaushank prison may represent life in all its contradictions and conflicts between humans.

Even prison laws somehow resemble the laws of life.

The sheriff's attempts to domesticate prisoners from the very beginning are very similar to the attempts of governments to domesticate and oppress citizens so that they cannot think of freedom or revolution. To their citizens anywhere in the world.