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The movie begins with the scene of close-up of drunken Andy,
and changes the camera angle along the way he views things. In Movies
and Meaning, the close-up stresses characters or objects over the
surrounding environment, usually for expressive or dramatic purposes,
and it can be an extremely powerful means for guiding and directing a
viewer’s attention to important features of a scene’s action or meaning
(12). The beginning scene shows Andy’s conflict between his rage to his
wife and his personality, a good person. Then, suddenly he is sitting on a
chair in a court and trying to depend himself innocent but he fails. He
eventually gets imprisoned for murder of his wife and her lover. At the
beginning of the imprisonment, he seems not only just quiet more like
emotionless. And the camera introduces the other important character,
Red (Morgan Freeman), walking into the meeting room where trustees
decide whether he can get paroled or not. At this point, the camera
shows the environment and the trustees through his eyes and they look
cold and harsh to the old prisoner. Red also tries to convince the trustees
that he is rehabilitated and fails just like Andy before. This is one clue of
the director for the audience in order to know how Red and Andy become
friends easily and quickly. They were different in outside, but in the
prison they are exactly same as prisoners, who are powerless and
isolated by the high and thick walls. The director emphasizes how the
prison looks like by showing it over with low angle. The camera shows
the Gothic style prison and prisoners from upside so that the audiences
think how difficult to escape from it and how small people can be in a
prison.
Red’s narration illustrates how Andy and the other prisoners are
living in Shawshank prison and getting used to it. Everyone in a prison
hates getting...