The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins andMorgan Freeman.
Adapted from the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the film tells the story of Andy Dufresne, a banker who spends nearly two decades in Shawshank State Prison for the murder of his wife and her lover despite his claims of innocence. During his time at the prison, he befriends a fellow inmate, Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, and finds himself protected by the guards after the warden begins using him in his money laundering operation.
Despite a lukewarm box office reception that was barely enough to cover its budget, the film received favorable reviews from critics, multiple award nominations, and has since enjoyed a remarkable life on cable television, VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray. It was included in theAmerican Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Movies 10th Anniversary Edition.[2]
In chapter 17, Brooks was here, we witness first hand what toll past sin and the affects institutionalization has on a person. Brooks, an admitted "old crook" is released after a long stretch at Shawshank and has regretfully come to realize that he has allowed his time there to define him rather than refine him. With no sense of purpose or worth Brooks is unable to deal with real freedom or the world he cannot experience due to his constant fear of it.
Romans 8:14-18
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14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
15For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father!
16The Spirit Himself [thus] testifies together with our own spirit, [assuring us] that we are children of God.
17And if we are [His] children, then we are [His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His inheritance with Him]; only we must share His suffering if we are to share His glory.
18[But what of that?] For I consider that the sufferings of this present time (this present life) are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and [g]for us and [h]conferred on us!
In chapter 20, The danger of hope, we see Andy's triumphant return from 2 weeks of solitary confinement. Andy describes to the boys at chow that there are some places in this world that are not made of stone. This should ring ironic since Andy considers himself somewhat of a rockhound even though Red tries to disparage Andy's charge with the ideal that hope has no place "on the inside".
Romans 15:13
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13May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith] that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound and be overflowing (bubbling over) with hope.
In chapter 38, "No good thing...", we find Red with the same decision to make that Brooks had years before him. Unlike Brooks though, Red has had truth spoken into his life by the most uncharacteristic of friends, Andy. Red follows through on a promise to Andy and in it finds the encouragement to truly live. Hope becomes revealed to Red in a whole new perspective as he responds to the push of a friend and the seed planted years before.
But Christ (the Messiah) was faithful over His [own Father's] house as a Son [and Master of it]. And it is we who are [now members] of this house, if we hold fast and firm to the end our joyful and exultant confidence and sense of triumph in our hope [in Christ].
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