Hope is a good thing, maybe the best in the world, and good things never die.

Rowland 2022-04-20 09:01:02

The movie said: These high walls are really interesting. At first you hate it, then you get used to it. After a considerable amount of time has passed, you will become dependent on it. That is institutionalization. When a person is truly devoured by the system, it is quite scary. In the movie, Brooks was obviously free, but he couldn't adapt to the society everywhere and chose to commit suicide, which is thought-provoking. He has been institutionalized, a man who has been out of touch with society for decades. Maybe he yearned for the outside world and was very eager to go out for more than ten years. However, after years and months of erosion, his freedom The will has long since worn out, and what remains is a heart that is content with the status quo, and he begins to accept it! The dream that I thought about realizing it day and night became meaningless at the moment when it was actually realized. At the beginning, he thought about the place to escape, but unknowingly it became his shelter, the air-raid shelter. On the other hand, our protagonist Andy, the fundamental reason for his successful escape from prison is that he was not institutionalized. From the first day he entered the prison, he planned to leave the prison. For thirty-seven years, his determination to pursue free will never wavered. However, for thirty-seven years, he never gave up hope.

There are parts of the world that the stone walls can't shut down, there is something in people's hearts that they can't control, it's all yours - hope. If you can always embrace your dreams, even if you fail, you will surely be able to obtain hope for redemption. Under no circumstances should it be institutionalized. Once it is institutionalized, it will have a limited scope. We must always remember that hope is a good thing, maybe the best thing in the world, and good things never die.

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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.