How The Shawshank Redemption Humanizes Prisoners

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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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[__nocturna]

Brooks was here

[skekzok]

😢😭 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)

[winter_lace]

SAME. (the crying part not the the other part)

[war_machine_rox]

Why? Why would you do this?

[hormones]

i watched this yesterday. it was so unfortunate to go up against forest gump at the oscars because this movie is phenomenal.

[laminy]

God, I hate Forrest Gump.

[laminy]

I had never watched the whole thing until like, November and I was just like, this is terrible.

[laminy]

Never fail to absolutely sob my eyes out watching this movie.

[mayjailer]

i fucking hated this movie

[zoaster_toaster]

This was a fascinating video (and oops at the footage of Biden in the beginning of the video).