There is a Moses in everyone

Jamil 2022-04-19 09:01:02

According to MBTI personality classification, Andy Dufresne is a typical INTJ——

(I: extremely self-driven) + (N: firm belief in hope and inner freedom) + (T: careful and calm to terrifying thinking ability) + (J: Undoubted power of action)

The proportion of INTJs in the population is less than 1%, and every dimension is developed to the extreme. To paraphrase Garbo: he is the ultimate in human evolution. Even in banker's sample group, it's hard to find a person whose inner energy is close to Andy's. Big cows such as JP Morgan, known as Moses in the financial world, have never been able to get rid of depression in his life.

Many people say that some movies such as "Forrest Gump", "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", etc., are very tricky. They pretend that a genius is a fool, or they choose a big cow with an IQ of 150 from the gangsters in the market. The expensive, bitter American dream is suddenly alluringly cheap. From this point of view, "The Shawshank Redemption" is too sincere - it does not intend to shape a person at all, it is naked to create a god. I believe that very few viewers can find a sense of substitution in Andy, even those who think they are smarter, we get more identification with Brooks and Red (there are reasons for the film's perspective, but more important reasons) Yes - everyone has self-knowledge). I even doubt that when Tim Robbins was selected from a list of rising male stars, did the director take a fancy to his 6'5" figure? In the original book, Andy is a small man, but Andy of Robbins, no matter how noisy the scene is Below, among the chaotic figures in uniforms, always standing out from the crowd, always visible at a glance, reminds me of a description of George Washington:
He was like God himself, levitating above it all. He was silent and aloof, like the man in the moon.
(He exists like a god and spans all beings; he is so quiet and detached, as if he is in the moon.)

And this movie is not a trip to the moon completed by the audience and Red.
This feeling is different from a girl who dreams of marrying Clark Gable after watching Gone With the Wind, and it is also different from a boy who fantasizes about being Don Corleone after watching The Godfather. Andy's convertible headed for a sea of ​​no memory - if only for a moment - I freed myself in my head - I saw my Moses on his way out of Egypt, and would I follow?

I think I'll be willing, like Red, to run to Zihuatanejo without hesitation, to embrace Andy and eternal freedom.

But turn around, the Pacific is there, here I am.
I have my routine.

After the age of 16, after the personality is formed, I don't know how many people will change the trajectory of their lives because of a movie, even if it is the top movie on IMDB, even if we are really for the invisible wall And moved by the ocean without memory. Struggling between the mundane, the soul throbbing for a moment in the short-lived firelight, and then quickly disappearing into the invisible, for some people, it will leave a shallow imprint. Just like Figaro's wedding floated high, and disappeared forever in the air, perhaps those who are interested will remember the feeling of being stinged at that time.

Half asleep.

We have landed on the moon, but after all, we have to return to the earth to live. But I am still grateful that on a normal afternoon many years ago, there was a movie that made me feel like I was walking out of Egypt with Moses for a split second.

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The Shawshank Redemption quotes

  • [after Brooks held a knife to Heywood's throat]

    Andy Dufresne: I just don't understand what happened in there.

    Heywood: Old man's crazy as a rat in a tin shithouse, is what.

    Red: Oh Heywood, that's enough out of you!

    Ernie: I heard he had you shittin' in your pants!

    Heywood: Fuck you!

    Red: Would you knock it off? Brooks ain't no bug. He's just... just institutionalized.

    Heywood: Institutionalized, my ass.

    Red: The man's been in here fifty years, Heywood. Fifty years! This is all he knows. In here, he's an important man. He's an educated man. Outside, he's nothin'! Just a used up con with arthritis in both hands.

  • Red: [narrating, referring to the warden committing suicide] I'd like to think that the last thing that went through his head, other than that bullet, was to wonder how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him.