As a prison break-themed movie, it's easy to compare it to The Shawshank Redemption. It's just that I think the direction of the two is different, and the things they value are also different. In this film, what I value more is: how to maintain a hope in a desperate situation?
As the protagonist, Papillon actually encountered countless blows, such as being framed and imprisoned, being punished more severely after two unsuccessful escapes, surviving two years in a desperate prison environment and the next five years. In fact, it represents three kinds of dilemmas faced in life: First, after being wronged, what kind of mentality will we face? Most people must be resentful and give up on themselves. The second is to keep working hard, but keep failing, or it can be said that we have been defeated and fought repeatedly. We should have chosen to give up, and very few people can have a third time. The third is how we can have the faith to live in a desperate and difficult environment, and suicide escape seems to be the inevitable result. Encountering any of them, we have basically declared the failure of life, and why the protagonist can continue to gain a new life after gathering all three, we have to admire and pay tribute.
Personally, I think that in fact, the protagonist may have a belief that he will die and then live, and the final result should be carefully considered. At the same time, at the tactical level, it also pays attention to the hope of life. The perfect combination of the two yields the final result. Do we have this spirit when we make up our minds to do something in our lives? If so, most of them should be successful.
The friendship in the film is touching. It's just another way of saying it.
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