The Shawshank Redemption

Adrian Sanchez Intro to Film 1 Sharri Hefner 4/20/13 Shawshank salvation The Shawshank Redemption is a drama film released in 1994 written and directed by Frank Darabont. The overall theme of The Shawshank Redemption is the burden of isolation and im prison housement. Each of the inmates inside Shawshank Prison is locked up metaphorically as well as literally. Most prisoners in Shawshank carmineemption are there for life sentences. All that time behind the walls withstand changed the way the prisoners think and how they live.The young prisoners incessantly say they are innocent when they are truly guilty. provided Red, (played by Morgan Freeman) admits that he is guilty after spending 40 years in jail. The time he had to think about what he did is what led him to confess the truth. This is just one example of what all those years of isolation does to a person. The formal elements, camera, and the narrative is what I allow use to prove the theme. The overall aim and feel of the film is dark until the ending. The mise-en-scene of shawshank prison is unsportsman wish well and shady.The design and characters athletic supporter decide the mise-en-scene as an unjust and shady prison system. The design of shawshank looks like an old school dark sort of tower as you can see when andy first arrives to the prison. The costume is spot on in this movie. The officers uniforms look very scare as the prisoners uniforms look very dirty and plain. The warden is also dressed nice throughout the movie eer in a suit. They use this to differentiate the high class and the lower class. The higher class is always controlling the lower class and accessing their dominance.They instill fear in their prisoners by abusing them and beating them which is very unfair. days of being in that sort of environment can cause some prisoners to go crazy. Imagine handout through that and witnessing that type of abuse every day of your life? Its going to have a big effect on your brai n mentally. This type of abuse makes a prisoner feel trapped and stock-still more isolated. Also the camera helps dictate the nip of isolation and captivity. The camera is key to the theme. The camera shots and angles help make the viewer see how it feels to be isolated and trapped.One of my favorite shots of the movie is when andy is walking inside shawshank prison and they use a cut transition into a subjective shot where andy is looking up and sightedness the tall building as hes walking inside the prison. That scene lets me know that he is already feeling trapped and he had just got there. They also use lighting to help inforce isolation and imprisonment. When Red is in his jail cell and as soon as the lights go out the lighting immediately changes and they do a close up shot to reds face and his emotion seems frightened and scared.Also when Andy gets cornered by collar hombres for the first time the lighting helps build shadow to make andy feel trapped. The narrative also helps shape the theme. The narrative as a whole helps dictate the theme. The characters throughout the movie feel trapped. There are different levels of isolation within the prison from the large, enclosed recreation yard to the smaller work crews overthrow to the cellblock, cells, and, finally, solitary confinement.The prison then becomes a multilayered serviceman that they have to live and deal with for the rest of their lifes. The miserable thing is they cannot do vigour about it. When Bogs gets locked up in solitary confinement for a calendar week the officers opened the door and said Times up bogs then he put on a fake grin and said its your world boss. This is the warden and the officers world and the prisoners are trapped in it with nothing they can do about it. They are in for so colossal that they get used to the prison system and this cruel world.But they forget about the life outside the bars. When brooks finds out he will be on parol he loses it. He almost kills h is friend just to stay in jail. He wants to stay in jail because outside of the walls he is nothing but inside the prison he is actually somebody. The montage of brooks when he gets out of jail is extremely sad. It depicts the negative effect on being imprisoned for a long time. When he gets out he is lost in the world. He feels even more alone then he ever was in shawshank.Being in prison for that long has negative effects on the brain. When you get used to one way of living you feel like thats the only way to live but when you step out in the real world you are just confused and dont know how to react to the environment. Sadly he attached suicide at the end of the montage. Also red told andy in the last scene that they were in prison together ive been in here for most of my life. Im an institutionalized man now In here im the guy that can get things for you. Outside all you need is the yellow pages. He is saying that he is so used to the prison that he would never survive in the real world. This futher proves my theme that isolation and imprisonment is a burden. You feel trapped both physically and mentally when youre in jail for that long. Andy and red were the only ones to break through the physical and mental hurdle that many prisoners couldnt. Others would have just habituated up. But andy and red had other intentions. They wanted freedom so bad they would do anything to get it. And so they did. Now thats The Shawshank Redemption.