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"The Shawshank Redemption:" the best and worst of Hollywood

Posted by tinear on March 4, 2008 at 18:27:58:
films, neatly wrapped up in one effort.
Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman do what they do very well, portraying sincerity, honesty, and trustworthiness: you know the characters will not disappoint the faith in them the director has them work hard to give you.
The scenes of the early years of Robbins' incarceration as as brutal as any ever filmed: "The Sisters" are the scariest group I've ever seen and, unlike in most prison films, they seem to function as a law unto themselves.
It is hard not to be drawn into empathy and sympathy towards the chief characters but it is very skillfully done: still, it is hard not to feel like a puppet.
If one likes to be spoon fed his melodrama, this is fine pablum.