Comments on: THE INDISPENSIBLES – #11: THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION

By: Nomis

Nomis — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:54:29 +0000

Read the story a while before watching this, not often a story that good is made into such a great film. Top stuff.

By: Grundy

Grundy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:45:03 +0000

It’s alright.

By: NotorietyH

NotorietyH — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:22:32 +0000

I have to whole-heartedly concur with what Kristina said, I’m a non-manly whimpering sap the second Red’s “I hope,” monologue starts.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:46:12 +0000

I’m not ashamed to say that this movie give sme goosebumps EVERY SINGLE TIME, and that beautiful end shot always makes me cry. ALWAYS. What a glorious movie.

By: Gazz

Gazz — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:32:46 +0000

Oh, the rest of the list is like my life presently… it’s all ****in downhill from here.

By: NotorietyH

NotorietyH — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:45:49 +0000

as I call it even, that’s a weird freudian slip, must be having some sub-conscious murder fantasies! Saying that I just watched an episode of Dexer so that probably explains it!\

Surprised Shawshank’s only at no. 11 on your list though, makes me even more curious to see the rest of the list.

By: NotorietyH

NotorietyH — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:44:09 +0000

As close to perfection as a movie gets. I was lucky enough to catch it in the cinema and was completely mesmerised by it. Saw it around the same time as I caught Leon and Pulp Fiction on video, and thus my passion for movies was born.

Glad someone else has mentioned that feeling of warmth, joy and satisfatction, or as I kill it the warm-fuzzies! Almost all my favourite movies have left me with a similar, almost indescribable feeling that Shawshank does. Punch-Drunk Love, Eternal Sunshine, Lars and the Real Girl, Beautiful Girls, Stranger than Fiction and most recently Wall-E. They’ve all had me almost in terms at certain scenes, not with tears of joy, or sadness, just scenes of pure empathy, where you’ve been completely been taken over by the stories and the characters. Like the part in Lars when he’s at the party, dancing on his own, his eyes closed and a small smile on his face. Moments that seem so simple but for whatever reason completely draw you in. Shawshank is full of moments like that.