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Interviews Biographies Sub-Plots DVD 10 Double Sided Single Layer Language: Menu: Aspect Ratio: Sound Tracks Region: Running Time: DVD Media:
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The Shawshank Redemption |
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Movies
that portray a very harsh injustice seem very popular, The Green Mile
is a good example, mixing a blend of a sympathetic character with
a spooky and all together horrible place to be. The Shawshank Redemption
is another movie which puts a pretty innocent man into a horrible
place, or rather the worst place you could consider. The good thing
about these types of movie is that they can give you the false sense
of the feeling that it is happening, the events are real and could
well have happened. Fortunately The Shawshank Redemption is based
around the mid-1900s, capturing the angst a mid-aged business man
has to go through as he is put away for two life sentence.
 The
movie is based around the 1960's a time when capital punishment was banned,
but the prison life was harsh and brutal. We see Tim as Andy Dufresne
become immortalised in what has happened - he found is wife with a golf
pro, but decided to wait for them to return home, whereabouts he would
confront them with a six calibre gun. However the court sees that the
two lovers were found with four bullets each - that last one for the head
- and Andy with no gun to prove he was innocent as he pleads The audience
at this point believe he did it, and so he is sent to prison - Shawshank.
Here is semi-unconcious at to what happened, he believing this is a nightmare.
For the first few month he keeps to himself, until meeting Morgan Freeman
playing Red.  It's
not until the banker becomes popular with the guards and wardon that the
story pick up pace. The man eventually winning up as an office assistant
and has built a library as the years pass by. As he orders all the deed
and paper work, becomes aware of the prison work scheme and fiddles the
money keeping it secure in banks around the country. All this is to do
with his escape which he successful completes with a rock hammer. Near the end of the movie you are satisfied with an enormous amount of amazement and joy that this man had the proof to get himself out of the prison, but turned down by the warden, then make his escape with thousands hidden in bank accounts. The acting and screenplay is superb and the plot is very unpredictable. Most of all it breaks the usual rules of what prison movies are about. Video Quality The disc comes
as a dual-sided single layer disc, one side has the 4:3 version and
the other has the 16:9 version. It comes with a few extras nothing
majors but substantial. The images are soft and colourful. Most scenes
have limited lighting, but it makes the black level which is slightly
high become noticeable.
The 16:9 side makes use of the wide angle shots, most of them are outside and it gives lots of detail, this is thanks to Warner going over it and improving it, the work is sucessful. The colours are warm and the depth is very good, most scenes are sharp and there are no artefacts or grainy areas. Audio Quality The vocals on
the disc are very nicely recorded, there is a small amount of hiss
left over in some areas, most noticeably in the night scenes with
lightning. There isn't anything groundshaking but it is better now
with a full Dolby Digital mix. Bass is slightly lose if ever, and
the surround sound is used to good effect. Most dynamic parts are
fairly dubbed down so they sound loud enough.
Extras The extras are
in the style of pages of text, there are a couple of interviews with
the two main characters. But the biographies are text based, there
aren't many images - the trailer is there but pretty poor.
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