Perhaps the biggest gap in my personal Shame List is now closed: I finally got around to watching "The Shawshank Redemption" and, what a surprise, I'm thoroughly impressed. This type of film is simply made far too infrequently nowadays. It is a rather unspectacular, yet at no moment boring, prison epic. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman are incredibly good in the lead roles, but the rest of the cast is also consistently convincing. The plot, on the other hand, is by no means unpredictable, but that doesn't matter much. After all, what happens is exactly what you want to see. Only the ending is perhaps a bit too mushy. But, to be honest, it seems appropriate for a film about a lifelong friendship.
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Perhaps the biggest gap in my personal Shame List is now closed: I finally got around to watching "The Shawshank Redemption" and, what a surprise, I'm thoroughly impressed. This type of film is simply made far too infrequently nowadays. It is a rather unspectacular, yet at no moment boring, prison epic. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman are incredibly good in the lead roles, but the rest of the cast is also consistently convincing. The plot, on the other hand, is by no means unpredictable, but that doesn't matter much. After all, what happens is exactly what you want to see. Only the ending is perhaps a bit too mushy. But, to be honest, it seems appropriate for a film about a lifelong friendship.