The Shawshank Redemption

Adrian Sanchez Intro to Film 1 Sharri Hefner 4/20/13 Shawshank buyback The Shawshank Redemption is a drama film released in 1994 written and directed by Frank Darabont. The over some(prenominal) theme of The Shawshank Redemption is the burden of isolation and im prison housement. Each of the inmates inside Shawshank Prison is locked up metaphorically as well as literally. Most captives in Shawshank redemption ar there for life sentences. All that time behind the walls make up changed the substance the prisoners think and how they live.The young prisoners always say they be innocent when they be truly guilty. But Red, (played by Morgan Free troops) admits that he is guilty after forbiddenlay 40 years in throw out. The time he had to think just about what he did is what led him to confess the truth. This is just one example of what all those years of isolation does to a person. The formal elements, camera, and the archives is what I leave use to prove the theme. The overa ll look and olfactory modality of the film is tenebrious until the ending. The mise-en-scene of shawshank prison is below the belt and shady.The design and characters help shape the mise-en-scene as an unjust and shady prison formation. The design of shawshank looks like an old school unsung sort of tower as you can see when andy first arrives to the prison. The clothing is spot on in this movie. The officers uniforms look in truth intimidating as the prisoners uniforms look very dirty and plain. The warden is also dressed nice passim the movie always in a suit. They use this to differentiate the full(prenominal) class and the degrade class. The higher class is always controlling the lower class and accessing their dominance.They instill fear in their prisoners by abusing them and beating them which is very unfair. Years of being in that sort of environment can perk up some prisoners to go crazy. Imagine going through that and witnessing that type of insult every day of y our life? Its going to have a grand effect on your brain mentally. This type of abuse start up tos a prisoner feel trapped and even more isolated. Also the camera helps govern the feeling of isolation and imprisonment. The camera is key to the theme. The camera shots and angles help make the viewer see how it feels to be isolated and trapped.One of my favorite shots of the movie is when andy is go inside shawshank prison and they use a cut transition into a subjective shot where andy is looking up and seeing the tall construction as hes walking inside the prison. That scene lets me know that he is already feeling trapped and he had just got there. They also use kindling to help inforce isolation and imprisonment. When Red is in his jail cell and as soon as the lights go out the lighting immediately changes and they do a close up shot to reds face and his emotion seems sc be and scared.Also when Andy gets cornered by three guys for the first time the lighting helps material b ody shadow to make andy feel trapped. The narrative also helps shape the theme. The narrative as a whole helps dictate the theme. The characters throughout the movie feel trapped. There are different levels of isolation within the prison from the large, enwrap recreation yard to the smaller work crews down to the cellblock, cells, and, finally, solitary confinement.The prison then becomes a multilayered world that they have to live and deal with for the oddment of their lifes. The sad thing is they cannot do nothing about it. When Bogs gets locked up in solitary confinement for a week the officers opened the door and verbalize Times up bogs then he put on a fake grin and said its your world boss. This is the warden and the officers world and the prisoners are trapped in it with nothing they can do about it. They are in for so long that they get used to the prison system and this cruel world.But they forget about the life outside the bars. When brooks finds out he will be on parol he loses it. He just about kills his friend just to stay in jail. He wants to stay in jail because outside of the walls he is nothing but inside the prison he is actually somebody. The montage of brooks when he gets out of jail is extremely sad. It depicts the negative effect on being imprisoned for a long time. When he gets out he is lost in the world. He feels even more alone then he ever was in shawshank.Being in prison for that long has negative effects on the brain. When you get used to one way of living you feel like thats the exactly way to live but when you step out in the certain world you are just confused and dont know how to react to the environment. Sadly he committed suicide at the end of the montage. Also red told andy in the last scene that they were in prison together ive been in here for most of my life. Im an institutionalized man now In here im the guy that can get things for you. out of doors all you need is the yellow pages. He is saying that he is so use d to the prison that he would never survive in the real world. This futher proves my theme that isolation and imprisonment is a burden. You feel trapped both physically and mentally when youre in jail for that long. Andy and red were the only ones to break through the physical and mental hurdle that many prisoners couldnt. Others would have just given up. But andy and red had other intentions. They wanted immunity so bad they would do anything to get it. And so they did. Now thats The Shawshank Redemption.