Always tried to avoid watching this movie since it's often considered as one of the best movies of all time. This usually results in disappointment. Not this movie though. It's a 9/10. Some characters are perhaps a bit too cartoon-ish (like the warden and some of the guards), the story is perhaps too positive (although horrible things happen) and the end is perhaps too kitschy but it's also very uplifting at the same time. I enjoyed almost every minute of it. Awesome histrionic performance. I know that there are profound philosophical and religious undertones (I'm not really interested in the latter) and that's why you can probably watch this movie multiple times to decipher its meaning. It's awesome that such a movie was made: it doesn't need a lot of action. It doesn't need t&a. It doesn't need dozens of locations. It never tries to produce crazy memes like -let's say - a Tarantino movie.
PS: is that a realistic depiction of a US prison of that era? That's of course not the point. I know that. This is not a documentary. I still wonder though. In any case, it makes an intriguing location.
Shout by Alexander von LimbergBlockedParent2023-02-03T20:24:45Z
Always tried to avoid watching this movie since it's often considered as one of the best movies of all time. This usually results in disappointment. Not this movie though. It's a 9/10. Some characters are perhaps a bit too cartoon-ish (like the warden and some of the guards), the story is perhaps too positive (although horrible things happen) and the end is perhaps too kitschy but it's also very uplifting at the same time. I enjoyed almost every minute of it. Awesome histrionic performance. I know that there are profound philosophical and religious undertones (I'm not really interested in the latter) and that's why you can probably watch this movie multiple times to decipher its meaning. It's awesome that such a movie was made: it doesn't need a lot of action. It doesn't need t&a. It doesn't need dozens of locations. It never tries to produce crazy memes like -let's say - a Tarantino movie.
PS: is that a realistic depiction of a US prison of that era? That's of course not the point. I know that. This is not a documentary. I still wonder though. In any case, it makes an intriguing location.