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Shawshank Redeemed

Watched The Shawshank Redemption this evening. It remains in my estimation one of the greatest movies ever made - if for no other reason then because it's a film that I can watch whatever my mood, and always get something out of it. The film manages - eventually - to be feel-good without restoring to romance or sentimentality, and puts you through an emotional grinder along the way. There seems to be a huge amount of plot and character crammed into it, and yet at the same time the pace is leisurely, never rushed. It never puts a foot wrong, and it seems a shame that none of its seven Oscar® nominations produced a statuette - Morgan Freeman in particular was robbed in my opinion. It does have popular acclaim, though - both IMDb's Top 250 films and the top 100 movie list on Channel 4 a few months back had it in the number two spot, behind The Godfather and Star Wars respectively. Oh, and it serves as a reminder that Stephen King can write more than just trashy horror tomes...
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nmalfoy

August 26 2003, 10:30:35 UTC 17 years ago

It is. It is the rare case where the movie is as good as the story. They didn't change much at all, and the last line of the story... yeah. Read it. It isn't very long.

zorac

August 27 2003, 05:27:09 UTC 17 years ago

Thanks for the rec - I've now got a copy of Different Seasons on order from Amazon.