There was once a question on the Internet: Which movie is the most worth watching in the history of world movies?

At last, the answer given by netizens has the highest approval rate.

Since 1994, this film directed by Frank Delatre has been ranked first in the world's classic movies for 26 years, and even now, it still ranks first in Douban's top quality movies list as a king.

After the film was released, Someone once commented on Shawshank: It is a work that can shock ordinary people, impress the great, admire the hopeful and regenerate the desperate. But after so many years, what is the truth of The Shawshank Redemption?

1. The most miserable thing for people is not wasting time and life, but the courage to break through the cage

In the movie Shawshank, all people's life scenes are confined to prisons, and they must accept standardized management. They must get up regularly every day, take exercise, eat, sleep, and even queue up to urinate

Prisoners and prisoners and prison guards, and the contradiction between them is irreconcilable. Even though Andy, the protagonist, doesn't want to make trouble, he is inevitably affected by the fighting between prisoners here

But it's hard to imagine that in such a chaotic environment, there are still people who are reluctant to part with this prison. He is Andy's cellmate Lao Bu. On the day before he left the prison, Lao Bu hijacked the prisoners to make trouble and tried to stay in prison

Nevertheless, he was released and detained for decades. After he got out of prison, Lao Bu was shocked to see all kinds of changes taking place outside. He couldn't speak very well, couldn't ride a car, and even worked slowly. After leaving prison, he woke up in nightmares every night. Finally, Lao Bu chose to bow to life and hang himself at home. < P > When the news reached prison, many people laughed at Lao Bu's practice, but Rhett said that this was life: at first, you hated the high wall around you and wanted to escape from this place at once, but when you stayed for a long time, I feel that I can't leave here, and this is the power of the system.

What Rhett wants to express is that it is not terrible for a person to be imprisoned. What is terrible is that during his long-term imprisonment, even his soul has lost the courage to step out of the high wall. This sentence not only implies the helplessness of prison life, but also makes many ordinary people think deeply, because today's life is also the same. When going to work, getting off work and losing a job, they are anxious and want to leave the company. We are just prisoners in the system

2. The key to success for anyone is "long-term"

Why do you say that? Andy, the protagonist, had already planned to escape from prison when he first went to prison. At that time, he only had a hammer less than 6 inches in his hand. When Rhett saw it, he sarcastically said: If we use this hammer to dig a tunnel, it will take us about 6 years to get out. < P > Andy didn't take that long. He spent 16 years, taking advantage of the outdoor time to scatter the soil and stones he dug out from his trouser legs every day. During this period, he had to endure the taunts and beatings of his cellmates.

The most shocking thing at the end was the picture of the prison guard opening a poster. It took 16 years for a long tunnel to escape from heaven, and Andy was also freed for a long time.

A similar situation happened when Andy established a library. When he was told that there was no library in the prison and the state government would not allocate a penny to this project, Andy applied to the other party once a week, and six years later, his application was approved, and he got 2 dollars and a bundle of old books. Andy was very excited. He said, "Look, it only took me six years to have a library."

After that, Andy applied for books at a fixed frequency every two weeks, and finally got 5 dollars a month in aid. He also helped inmates build the first library in the history of American prisons.

This is the case with long-term doctrine. Once you persist in a seemingly trivial and unremarkable thing for a long time, it will always produce incredible results. For example, Stephen King, the novelist of Shawshank Redemption, only writes in the morning every day and doesn't work in the rest time. Later, some people wondered why he could write so many classic works. Stephen replied: although I write very little every day, I have been writing for decades. 3. The key to breaking the game is to master the skills.

At the end of the film, let's sum up why Andy can escape from prison. First of all, he mastered scarce skills. Because he was familiar with the Bible, Andy recited the contents of the Bible when the warden was about to discover the cave under the poster, which aroused the interest of the other party. Later, because he was good at banking and helped the prison guards evade taxes, he got the right to work in the library and drink beer with friends on the roof.

Because he knew how to write off accounts reasonably, Andy had relative freedom in prison. In addition, He is also an excellent geologist and meteorologist, which makes him know how to dig tunnels and how to use weather factors to cover up the sound of knocking on sewers. Finally, he escaped

. This also tells us that sometimes solving seemingly impossible problems is not about how you do it, but what special skills you have. Every specialized skill is a tool. When your life toolbox is full of tools, there is no room you can't enter. This is the benefit brought by skills.

Sharast once said that everyone has the right to dream, but when your ability can't achieve your ideal, then hide in the cave and practice your magic.

Personally, I want to say that Andy's success is not accidental, but inevitable. When you meet an impossible problem, you might as well divide it into small things. When you finish these small things enough, you will find that.