This movie, which is twenty years earlier than "The Shawshank Redemption", has many similarities with "Shaw". For example, there are various crimes in the prison: the prisoners do not treat the prisoners as human beings; infringe...
The male protagonists Papillon and Andy were both wronged and imprisoned. Papillon was even worse than Andy, and his life was like a livestock.
The most similar quality between the two is the yearning for freedom. The scene of Papillon staring at the blue sky before being locked up reminds me of the most famous line in "The Shawshank Redemption": Some birds are destined not to. Imprisoned in cages, every feather of them shone with the brilliance of freedom. The butterfly tattooed on his chest, from which he got the nickname Papillon, also symbolizes freedom.
Another valuable quality in Papillon is his strong desire to live. After being imprisoned, he was deprived of rations because he refused to betray his inmate Degas, but he stubbornly relied on eating dead leaves, cockroaches, and centipedes to survive.
A dream about the trial he had during this period was also very interesting:
So he started doing non-equipment exercises such as push-ups to exercise his body. Even if he was so weak that he could only walk, he still had to pace back and forth in the narrow confinement room, and even bumped into the wall in a trance and bleed his nose again and again on the wall. .
In Andy and Babylon, we can also see "righteousness". Babylon joined the prison to protect Degas, and was deducted from his rations because he was unwilling to betray Degas. The "old man" who fell from lack of nutrition. Under such double torture of body and mind, he also wavered once and decided to sue Degas, but gave up at the last moment, and even ate the evidence because he was afraid that he would have such thoughts again: the small piece of paper signed by Degas. note.
When it comes to Degas, I think Andy is like a combination of Papillon and Degas in a way, Degas represents the "knowledge" and "financial" parts, he is an expert in counterfeit money, by helping prison Long bought a house and got the position of small supervisor.
After a friendly native and a leper; a vicious Indian doctor and a sanctimonious nun, Papillon is back in prison again to serve his sentence. In his old age, he was exiled to an island and met his old friend Degas. At this point, in fact, he should have been honed by the cruel reality and learned to accept his fate, but Babylon still did not give up, and finally jumped off the cliff to gain freedom. In the vast sea, the narrator said, "Papillon is finally free. In the last few years of his life, he lived the life of a free man. The notorious French Guiana punishment system has not lived long before him." And stop, it's not over.
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