Im doing a film analysis on The Shawshank Redemption

Jake the bird symbolized the inherent lesbianism of female professional golfers.

I actually saw it for the first time two days ago. Security musta been pretty lax in that prison for them to go 20 years without looking behind Tim Robbins posters.

Ever watch OZ......

Talk about bad security.

Inmates were always getting raped or killed outside of their cells just walking around dark corridors unattended in every episode.

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Hope springs eternal

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Get busy livin, or get busy dyin.

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Im doing a film analysis on The Shawshank Redemption
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Irony:
That Andy hides his method of freedom (rock hammer) inside the "ONE" object (bible) that Warden Norton did "NOT" check inside Andy's cell when he was "tossing" it.
And that Norton actually held it in his hand and gave it back to Andy through the bars.

"His judgment cometh, and that right soon."
That Norton read that phrase when looking in his safe and taking out the bible - the bible that Andy hid his rock hammer in,
And when Norton opens the cover, he reads the ironic message from Andy "Warden, you were right, salvation lies within."
Warden Norton's "judgment" cometh right soon - as the police stormed the office.


The theme/word "hope" is all through the film:
(1.) When Andy returns from his first solitary, talking at the lunch table:
Andy: "There are things you can't measure by these walls."" Red: "Like what?"
Andy: "Hope."
Red "Hope. Let me tell you something my friend. hope is a dangerous thing."

(2.) When Red digs up the bag and letter under the Buxton tree:
Andy: (in letter that Red reads)
"Remember Red, hope is a "GOOD" thing. And no good thing ever dies."

(3) Red, on the bus to meet Andy:
Red (narrating):
"I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams.
I hope to see my friend and shake his hand.
I hope."

The number 6.
Six wardens that Brooks Hatlen saw.
Six years for Andy to get library funding and books.
Six windows on the red barn that Red's bus passes.
Six letters in Hatlen. Six in Brooks. Six in Norton. Six in Hadley. Six in Samuel.

The color red.
Red - Ellis Boyd Redding.
Red truck drops off Red in Buxton.
Red barn that the bus passes.

When Red and Andy were talking in the yard about Zhejuatanejo.
Red: "I don't think you should be doing this to yourself Andy, it's just shitty pipe dreams."

And that's the exact venue that Andy crawled through to escape from Shawshank.


Irony:
That Andy ended up getting $350,000 of Warden Norton's money - money that Andy earned for him through dirty laundering and kickbacks, by using a fabricated person. And it was Norton's idea to have Andy do his financial "dirtywork" for him.
If Hadley had not mentioned about his brother leaving him $35,000 (coincidentally exactly 1/10 of the money Andy stole from Norton at the end), then Norton would never have known about Andy's financial prowess, and would never have been taken out of the laundry.
And Andy went from laundering clothes in the prison laundry to laundering Norton's dirty money

And if Andy had not been one of the "guys Red knew" to do the roofing job, he never would have known about Hadley's windfall.

It was also ironic that Norton had Andy do his personal income taxes.