How The Shawshank Redemption Humanizes Prisoners

Jul 02, 2019 00:06

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On a narrative level The Shawshank Redemption is a movie about the power of hope in the face of extraordinary hardship. But underpinning Andy Dufresne’s story we also find a blistering critique of the prison system and criminal justice policy in the United States.

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feminism / social issues, film, morgan freeman, race / racism

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__nocturna July 1 2019, 23:16:16 UTC
Brooks was here

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skekzok July 2 2019, 00:14:27 UTC
😢😭 I still cry sometimes at that part even tho I've seen Shawshank a million times (my name on my bff's phone comes up as Shawshank State Prison lol)

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winter_lace July 2 2019, 01:59:31 UTC
SAME. (the crying part not the the other part)

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war_machine_rox July 2 2019, 00:48:20 UTC
Why? Why would you do this?

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hormones July 1 2019, 23:19:55 UTC
i watched this yesterday. it was so unfortunate to go up against forest gump at the oscars because this movie is phenomenal.

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laminy July 1 2019, 23:28:36 UTC
God, I hate Forrest Gump.

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laminy July 2 2019, 12:20:49 UTC
I had never watched the whole thing until like, November and I was just like, this is terrible.

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laminy July 1 2019, 23:28:26 UTC
Never fail to absolutely sob my eyes out watching this movie.

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mayjailer July 1 2019, 23:28:39 UTC
i fucking hated this movie

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zoaster_toaster July 1 2019, 23:37:30 UTC
This was a fascinating video (and oops at the footage of Biden in the beginning of the video).

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