Inside the "Tommy Tonight Show" studio.
Tom and Li Yi looked at each other in confusion again. The one before was a priest, so what is this one?
College Students?
"Are you really a college student?" Tom couldn't help but ask.
"Yes!" Nick said with a smile.
The other spectators below couldn't help laughing.
I had no choice but to call two audience members to come up, and each one made a longer speech than the other.
"So, what are you majoring in?" Tom asked again.
"Film and media studies!" Nick said.
"Hahaha!"
This time there was another burst of laughter.
is not that right? They are really professionals, so it’s not surprising that when they went up, they talked a lot.
Of course, movies are movies, and even if it is the "uncrowned king" in memory like "The Shawshank Redemption", it is impossible for everyone to like it.
However, the perspective of some negative reviews is very interesting. Strictly speaking, they should be regarded as complaints rather than negative reviews.
For example, one of the comments received a lot of likes.
What is written inside is:
"The Shawshank Redemption" has become very popular recently, and people who watched it were full of praises. For this reason, they also went to the theater to watch it again.
Different people may have different feelings when watching the same movie.
I have seen many comments written by people who think that the plot twist of the movie is amazing, that the movie has given people inspiration, that it is a very inspirational movie, etc., etc.
It seems that many people feel that they have been changed after watching the movie, but I want to say that that is just an illusion. People who think that they have been changed after watching the movie are using bullshit logic.
This is just a movie. Simply speaking from the plot of the movie, this movie is pretty good, but is it inspirational? Sorry, I really don't find anything inspiring.
On the contrary, my only feeling after watching the movie was that I finally found the reason for my depression in life.
For me, who is unable to change the current situation, my deepest feeling after watching this film is: "Talent and perseverance are the best ways for anyone to gain freedom in any situation."
But there is a premise for this, you need to be talented, talented, talented!
Say important things three times, you are still talented!
Andy, the male protagonist of the movie, who is he? He is an elite to begin with, and he is an elite among the elites, and he is even more talented.
It is not universal at all, so for those who feel inspired and ideologically touched after watching the movie, I want to say that you have really been deceived. Of course, this is a movie.
I'm just saying that each of us is more Brooks than Andy, or even Red.
First, let’s take a look at our leading actor, Andy Dufresne!
Who is he? It can be said that he is definitely young and promising. He is a young banker, and he also studies geology very much. He can also sculpt. Oh, YGOD, if you have such a talent, then congratulations, you really only Lack of perseverance.
Look at how Andy turned things around in prison.
He heard the prison guard captain Hadley chatting with the prison guards and heard them talking about tax issues.
Come on, normal Americans, who doesn’t have a headache every year during tax season? I still don't understand those things.
So, if you don’t understand either, then congratulations, you are an ordinary person too!
But what about Andy? With his proficiency in banking and financial knowledge, he not only won life safety and some freedom for himself in prison, but also secured material and spiritual benefits for his fellow inmates. It is precisely because of his financial proficiency that the hero finally completely defeated the cruel and insidious warden and gained material freedom.
Look, if you don't know these skills and don't understand financial knowledge, in prison, you will be nothing more than Rhett.
Also, tunneling, gosh, we all had the same idea as Red, right?
But what have we overlooked?
When Andy first asked Red for the hammer, it was really not for the purpose of escaping from prison, because he didn’t have that condition, you know?
If it were Rhett, would he understand? He knows nothing!
Why can Andy dig tunnels? Because he discovered that the wall was some kind of rock that was easy to dig out, he started to have the idea of escape!
Because this is a prerequisite! But if he didn't understand geology, would he still use this method to escape from prison?
Even if you want to, it will definitely be difficult to succeed!
On the other hand, look at those six years of unremitting application letters every week, the two application letters every week for N years, the tunnels dug day by day with the stone ax that "can't dig a tunnel in 600 years", the thunder and lightning. The sewer pipes smashed with rocks, the 500-meter-long stinky sewer that I crawled through while vomiting... all of which are profoundly described in one word: perseverance. Therefore, the movie actually tells us a cruel fact, that is, anyone who wants to finally gain freedom under the blue sky and white clouds must possess these two things - extraordinary talent and perseverance.
But on the other hand, if we have extraordinary talents and perseverance, then we may not need to think so much at all.
Therefore, "The Shawshank Redemption" is indeed a bowl of chicken soup in my opinion, but for us, it is actually a bowl of poisonous chicken soup.
He used the case of Brooks to tell us that without talent, even if you are outside, you can only do the lowest level of work, climbing from one wall to another.
So, he chose to commit suicide!
He also uses Red's case to tell us that without talent, even if he is in prison and is good at dancing, he will end up like Brooks. Of course, he has another option, and that is to hug his thigh!
But is Rhett really free?
So, I finally realized why I am still depressed:
First: No talent that can be used
When I was a child, I loved painting and playing ball. But gradually, I discovered that I was not as good at playing ball as others, and I never mentioned the paintbrush again.
I studied medicine in college, but the days I spent studying medicine were spent learning guitar and reading. After work, I don’t have time to practice the guitar, so it naturally falls into disuse.
All along, I have practiced calligraphy, seal cutting, sketching, comics, photoshop, flash, dreamaver, gardening... and other interesting things intermittently. However, no matter which one, it is typical Although the reasons for giving up halfway through trying something are different, in the end, they all failed to persevere. ..
So, I'm basically the kind of person who knows a little bit about everything but doesn't know how to do anything.
Are you like me? Or I believe this is true for most people, because we are so ordinary, so we are not Andy!
Second: No perseverance
In fact, it can be seen from the above that there are so many hobbies and so many attempts, but in the end I gave up halfway. If one thing can persist for half a year, the results will be very different.
I am the typical "people without ambitions always make up their minds". I have a notebook specifically for writing plans. I don’t know if others have such a book, but I have to create a small book like this because every time, the plan I made will be updated.
In fact, every time I make a plan, I hope I can keep doing it, but...
I knew I was not sustainable, so after I made my latest plan, I solemnly wrote at the end of the plan: "I hope I can stick to it for three months." - As a result, a month later, these words reminded me when I wrote the new plan. I don't have the courage to look ahead.
In fact, many of us are like this. In fact, everyone knows the truth. Perseverance is very important. I remember watching a Chinese movie where a swordsman wielded a sword a thousand times a day for ten years, and then he became a master. , but how many people can do it?
So, it’s all bullshit! "
This movie review has a lot of comments below.
"OH, YGOD! You and I are actually the same. We both know a little bit about everything, but we can't compare to others in anything!"
"Yes, "The Shawshank Redemption" is the story of a talented banker's escape from prison. In fact, if we think about it carefully, today's tycoons and successful people, even if they are in prison, live better than us outside prison. !」
"So, he is a saint, and we are not even strong!"
"Well, actually when we watch a movie, it's like going to church for worship, a pilgrimage! We all know that God is powerful, but none of us can become God!"
"Then my years of skill...does it count as a talent? Does it count as a kind of perseverance?"
"Keep it up and you will become a god!"
Of course, such film reviews are always in the minority. In fact, movies are artistic creations, and the characters in many movies are different from ordinary people. If he were an ordinary person, would so many people be interested in his story?
the answer is negative!
What's interesting is that Jack, the young pastor who appeared on "The Tonight Show with Tommy", also works part-time as a film critic.
I have to say that this person overturned Li Yi's impression of priests, priests and the like.
In Li Yi's impression, most of the time, priests, priests and the like would rarely participate in such entertainment events.
But in fact, this is not the case.
In the United States, whether it is a priest or a pastor, it is even just a profession.
Jack has verified his account on the social platform. His dual identity as a pastor and a film critic, coupled with the broadcast of "Tommy Tonight Show", has gained him a lot of fans!
His film reviews are very consistent with his identity.
"In the Lord's teachings, human evil deeds are classified into seven sins based on the degree of violation of love: pride, jealousy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony and lust.
It was once explained in "Seven Deadly Sins" that people are born with original sin.
But people in the world don’t think they are guilty, just like Shawshank Creek, where the prisoners admit they are innocent.
This world is undoubtedly not a huge prison. Outside the walls is freedom, happiness and love.
We were all locked up in Shawshank Creek. He spent his whole life looking at the outside world without repenting.
Remember the first conversation between Red and Andy?
"You've come to the right place, where everyone is innocent."
Red said to Andy with a smile.
This wife-killing banker was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife and her lover.
Despite being imprisoned in this prison called Shawshank, he still vehemently denied it.
The prisoners were tried, found guilty, and put in jail. Here, only by being reborn and becoming a good person can you go out.
Prison is a place to punish them, but it is also a place to redeem them, but the irony is that if they want to get real redemption, they must admit their guilt.
Warden Norton always held a Bible. He admonished the new prisoners, "Put your faith in God and entrust your life to me."
In Shawshank, he has absolute authority, as if he is the incarnation of God, to educate these evil people.
Just like he once said to Andy, his favorite sentence in the Bible is this, "I am the light of the world, and whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but must follow the light of life."...
But what was hidden in his exquisite suit was sanctimony. He relied on these prisoners to make a lot of black money, and relied on Andy to launder the black money.
He considers himself the master and thinks that the fate of these prisoners is written by him.
Therefore, when Andy found a witness named Tommy who could clear his name, Norton was afraid that the corruption would be exposed and could not accept that there would no longer be a steady inflow of black money.
He was so angry that he asked the captain of the security guard Haley to shoot Tommy. He was charged with trying to escape from prison.
The ledger was hidden in the safe behind his hanging painting that read "The Lord's Judgment Comes Soon."
He was proud and arrogant. He never knew that he had already committed the most serious crime among the Seven Sins - arrogance.
He is cruel, abuses power, and claims to be a god, but he is not a god after all. In Shawshank, he only judges others, but never examines his own heart.
Not only was he arrogant, but he was also guilty of greed, so power blinded his heart, money covered his eyes, and he fell deeper and deeper into the trap. This arrogance finally came back to bite him, the Lord's judgment quickly came, and Shawshank became his final place.
Some people say Andy is special, he is not an ordinary person, of course he is not!
This was something Rhett discovered when he first arrived in Shawshank. "His pace and conversation were simply alien. He was like walking in the park, carefree, as if he was wearing an invisibility cloak."
Andy is indeed different.
One of the important reasons why this movie is great is that the character Andy it depicts is great in itself.
He was perseverant and spent nearly 20 years digging a tunnel leading to freedom. Many people were saved by Andy's final escape. After struggling to crawl through the 500 yards of dirty and smelly sewer pipes, he faced a thunderstorm and escaped again. The scene of embracing freedom moved me to tears.
But I was deeply shocked by his careless words.
In order to expand the prison library, he wrote a letter to the state assembly every week to apply for funding, even though he knew it was impossible. He wrote for six consecutive years and finally received a sponsorship of US$200 and a donation of some used books.
He laughed and said, "I only wrote for six years."
This sentence is shocking. He said, "I only wrote for six years!"
It was an understatement, but it took a full six years!
Andy's persistence is indeed admirable, but what's even more frightening is that he never received any feedback for his efforts.
He doesn't need victory and success to give him satisfaction and motivation, he just does it inertia, and any gain seems to be an unexpected surprise.
From then on, he began to send two letters a week, and eventually the state Legislature decided to give the Shawshank Library $500 a year so that Andy could write.
From the moment he stepped into Shawshank, he never admitted his crimes.
But nineteen years later, he suddenly realized that it was not me who fired the shot, but I was the one who killed her.
He has already dug the tunnel leading to freedom, and he is waiting for it.
Waiting for this moment, "I did not kill my wife and her lover, and the mistakes I made have been paid for."
He spent nineteen years to redeem himself.
No one can lock him up unless he binds himself.
At this moment nineteen years later, he finally let go of his hatred and liberated himself.
He knew it was time to leave. "
