One of my favourite movies of all time is The Shawshank Redemption, starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. I’m not really sure why. Maybe it’s because any movie narrated by Morgan Freeman puts me into a deep, introspective mood. Unrelated note: If I knew Morgan Freeman, I would totally ask him to narrate my life story at my funeral.
Okay, SPOILER ALERT because I’m gonna summarise the Shawshank Redemption for you in the next few paras. This is for those of you who’d rather spend your 2 hours watching philosophical, profound movies like Transformers: Age of Extinction.
Anyway, The Shawshank Redemption tells the story of Andy (played by Tim Robbins) who’s wrongly convicted of killing his wife and her lover. He gets sent to Fox River Shawshank Prison, where he meets another inmate named Red (played by Morgan Freeman). Red is like the prison version of Lobang in Ah ...