"Hope is beautiful, maybe the best in the world. And beautiful things will never disappear."
This is the encouragement and gift of the hero Andy to his friend Rhet in the movie " Shawshank Redemption ". It is also the secret to his successful escape from prison in the movie " institutionalized " in Shawshank Prison.
When you are emotionally broken and your life is confused, you might as well watch the movie "Shawshank Redemption" quietly, follow Andy to complete rebirth in desperate situations and realize self-salvation of body and mind.
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Life is a prison, and changes are always sudden. Only by enduring can you accumulate strength.
In "Shawshank Redemption", the male protagonist Andy was originally a young and promising banker, but was accused of being a murderer who murdered his wife and lover. No matter how he proved his innocence, he was sentenced to prison and became a prisoner.
The first night to enter prison was the most difficult night.
Prisoners are asked to receive "baptism" from prison: take off their clothes, be washed by water guns, sprinkle with insect powder, carry the prison clothes, walk into the prison, and walk into the boundless "bound and imprisoned" suppression and fear.
A fat man began to break down, and he cried in a low voice to go home and look for his mother.
Soon, the crying attracted prison guard . After being beaten up, the fat man quickly disappeared. Although he was carried to the infirmary, he died the next day because his injuries were too serious and he was not treated in time. This detail of
once again tells people: no resistance is allowed here.
Andy didn't cry, and even did not talk to anyone for the next month.
He was also confused in the face of the sudden change. Even if he was unwilling to do so, he could not help him turn the situation around in a short time.
He had to accept and face it, calm down, and look for a breakthrough to "change life another day".
Finally, a month later, Andy caught up with Reid, a powerful man with the reputation of "prison department store".
Andy asked Reid to buy a pickaxe himself. As an geology enthusiast, Andy wanted to "write and draw" on the wall to "send something", but she did not expect that she discovered the secret that the prison was not solid, and a bold "jailbreak" plan was born.
After that, every night after the lights were turned off, Andy was digging his "jailbreak passage" bit by bit under the cover of a large female star poster, and when the air was released the next morning, he shook the chiseled wall gravel on the playground bit by bit.
Red thought that it would take six hundred years to dig out an escape passage with a short pickaxe, but Andy used day after day to persevere, and it took only nineteen years to "get it done".
Every time I see this plot, I always think of myself in reality. When life gives us a heavy hammer, I just cried at the beginning, and sat on the ground and never wanted to get up again.
But after crying and making trouble, I realized that no matter whether you are willing or not, everything will change only when you regain your confidence, re-clutter your thoughts, and find a way out again.
Maybe three or five years, maybe ten or eight years, maybe longer, I can only endure silently, persevere, and persevere, and hope will become clearer and a new life will be in front of me.
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I am the redeemer, and the difficulties are always like shadows. Only with hope can one be reborn in desperate situations.
In the Shawshank prison, there is an old librarian Brooke. He is a college student and a cultural person. His daily job is to push a cart and deliver books to everyone before going to bed.
Brooke, who has been in jail for fifty years, has long become a part of the Shawshank Prison.
So, when he received the parole order, he was not happy, but pressed his knife against the inmate's neck, so he wanted to continue staying.
This scene is very similar to the homeless man Subi in the novel "Police and Hymns" by Maupassant . He wanted to go to prison for a long time because he wanted to survive the cold winter, so he deliberately committed a crime. Finally, when he was moved by the hymns in the church and wanted to turn back, the police sent him to prison.
reality is so ironic.
Whether it is Brooke or that thief, it is just like the classic line in the movie:
"The high walls in prison are really interesting. When you first went to jail, you hated the high walls around you; slowly, you got used to living in it; eventually you will find that you have to rely on it to survive. This is institutionalization."
In the long journey of life, everyone is entering the "system" and confronting "institutionalization", constantly playing games.
No matter whether we are passive or proactive, we enter a certain "system", we are confused at first, and even extremely resistant; but the days will not stop, and everyone must get used to the new "daily".
Even if there are many dark colors in these "daily" and are bullied and damaged, if a person gives up the struggle and gradually "adapt to" himself, the former constraints become thick armor and can never leave.
chooses to "subjugate" and becomes the "destiny" of most people. Even they sigh: "This is not the life I want."
In the video, everyone is being transformed in prison, but Andy has been transforming the prison.
Starting from when he "dare" recommending to prison guards on the roof that he can help them pay taxes, to him writing letters to seek funds to transform the library, to helping others get a high school diploma, or playing records for everyone "indiscriminately", Andy proved with his actions that as long as he has hope, freedom can be touched in prison.
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Action is the best placebo, and if you stick to it, a miracle is not impossible. Andy in the video
not only has the hope of "escape from the sky", but also has the action of doing it to the end.
Whether it is "digging tunnels", carving stone chess pieces, or insisting on writing to the state government every week to apply for building a library, or encouraging in inmates to do one thing, they must stick to it to the end. Andy is an eternal "actionist".
, these seemingly "useless" persistences, have shown the effect of "gathering sand into a tower, gathering armpit into a fur" after decades of repetition: the escape passage of
has been completed, and the state government's investment in prison libraries has increased from no news to two transfers, and has given away many books. Many people even started studying from scratch under Andy's training and obtained a high school diploma, illuminating hope for the rest of their lives.
When the warden killed the only witness who could prove Andy's innocence, Andy decided to let it all end.
However, he was still tolerant enough and continued to "launder money" for the warden under coercion.
days like this are the darkness before dawn.
Finally, he changed into the shiny warden's leather shoes and put his worn shoes into the shoe box. The same bag was also dropped, and the account book he made for the warden. It was a Bible, a thick book, and the best place to hide the pickaxe.
"The way to be saved is in it". Andy walked out of the warden's office for the last time, with a victorious but undetectable smile on the corner of her mouth.
Under the cover of night and lightning and thunder, Andy escaped from the cell through the passage, chiseled open the sewage pipe, and climbed over the suffocating section of the road. Finally, he jumped into the end of the sewage pipe, in a stream. He baptized him with heavy rain, and he took off his prison clothes and hugged freedom again.
Every time I see this shot, I feel excited and excited to be "reborn from the fire".
But only those who have worked hard for their dreams can enjoy such a beautiful ending.
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Conclusion:
When life is confused, no matter how bad the external environment is, as long as the hope department in the heart and the actions under your feet are constantly changing, everything is slowly changing
"Shawshank's Redemption" tells people not to be confused and not to sink. The strong can always save themselves, and the saints can always save others.
May you be strong enough and brave enough, and life will definitely give you a smile and a beauty.
Author: It’s as light as the wind and light as the clouds.
Your happiness, my blessings.
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