I'm just LotR/Frodo obsessed, applying it even to twentieth century prison movies....

[mechtild]

Tonight, as a change of pace, I did not hang out on the internet (until now) but watched a film of my husband's choice with him. (Later I will be finishing Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets with our daughter.)

We watched the very well-known American film, The Shawshank Redemption.

SPOILERS

The Shawshank Redemption was released in 1994

Comments

[breelee10]

Hey Mech! I absolutely love Shawshank Redemption; it's one of those movies that will run on AMC every once in a while, and I always have to stop and watch it when it's on

[mechtild]

Bree, I think that when you look at polls of people's favourite all-time films, Shawshank is up there with the Godfather. It encourages me, now that I have seen it, to know that so many people loved this film. Its message is a very humanizing one. It's a film in which the best characters are the best men, not the worst. That is a good indicator, I think

[wendylady1]

Hey Mech

[mechtild]

D'oh! "Persuasion," for heaven's sake. It's not as though I haven't memorized the stinking film from repeated viewings and read the book umpteen times. (My second favourite Jane Austen). Well, I really am on the edge of senility, Pearl, it seems.

All this Frodo stuff is in my mind, I begin to think ....

[mechtild]

ETA: My first posting of this had some sort of hitch. I'll try it again.??

You are lucky to be less obsessed, Pearl. I didn't expect to see any Frodo parallels in Shawshank, you know, but there they were, lurking

Re: All this Frodo stuff is in my mind, I begin to think ....

[lembas_junkie]

Hee hee! :D If all the world tried to figure out how they might connect stuff in real life to their obsessions, imagine the funny things we'd get to see every day! :D You'd have people wearing *only* stilettos to work, beds on hot air balloons, hockey all year long, and more airlines than you could shake a stick at! :D

[mechtild]

Lembas, you wrote, Like traveling; sometimes, I am doing everyday normal stuff and I'll just stop and remember when I did the same thing, but in a different spot in the world.

Do you mean like "deja-vu"?

Or I think about what the birds in the jungle that I saw are doing right now. Are they still alive? Is it raining right now, or does the sun shine at that spot by the waterfall that I loved so much? As I sit here and study for histology, does that bird call, echoing so lovely through the trees like it did when I first heard it? :)

This is a poignant thought, a sort that often strikes me, too. I know just what you mean. Rosamunda will have those feelings often, you know ... afterwards.

OT: Lembas, are you a member of Board 77?

[maewyn_2]

Shawshank Redemption is one of my elder son's favourite movies. I enjoyed it too and have seen it several times now. It's good to see a prison movie that actually has a happy ending!

I haven't compared or associated characters from other movies with LOTR. However, it was interesting how you described being sidetracked by something in the midst of a movie when you see some sort of parallel to your story. I've been guilty of seeing something that will set me thinking about something else during a movie, so you're not the only one!

[mechtild]

Yes, it's not your usual prison film, thankfully. But, you know me. I've already begun to compare it to Book Five of HP (beleaguered friends enduring pointed bullying in an institution that seems ranged against them). I'm hopeless, I guess.

P.S. Maewyn, the latest LJ entry is, I am sure you have figured out, full of Prizoner of Azkaban spoilers. Don't look at it. You can look at the pic, though Bree Frodo reaching for the Golden Snitch). I found it on Google images when looking for a good PoA screencap. Isn't it good? I am sorry I can't credit whoever made it, it looks so realistic.