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I'm sensing a theme of awesome throwback movies. Could you guys do a video on Edward Scissorhands? There's great allegory and it'd be perfect for the Halloween month coming up!!!
I just saw the movie and quite did not really like bcos it shows how ugly prison life can be, but your video made me rethink this movie especially the music/mozart part & inner life...keep up the good work
I didn't notice either till you pointed it out, seen that movie 100s of times and never thought twice about that line, that's awesome, kind of want to watch it again and see if there's any other foreshadowing like that.
Rule 1- put your attention where you want it Rule 2- keep your inner music playing Rule 3- have a dream Rule 4- find a friend who gets you Rule 5- put up a fight Rule 6- integrate beauty in your life Rule 7- don't put a prison around your mind Rule 8- let pain change you for the better Rule 9- express your inner world in the outer Rule 10- give yourself a project Rule 11- invest in people Rule 12- escape your prison Rule 13- save yourself Rule 14- reserve a few secrets just for yourself Rule 15- keep hope alive
Number 9 happens no matter what, whether people are conscious of it or not. People are always mirroring what’s in their mind to their outer world. As within so without.
Still one of my all time favourite films, with plenty of value life lessons to take from it: "Get busy living, or get busy dying", and "Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free". 😊💙
Hey sis, I’ve never seen this movie before, but I’m going to watch it not just because of this video, but because of this comment. Thank you. Why am I crying in my room rn? 😂
I'd rather let fear control me because of my dad always telling me to expand my horizons, which nowadays causes me to overthink, and I can't even focus on my own visions of life, which is something I'm not forgiving him for. 😡
This movie changed my life, pulled me out of darkest times of my life also and showed the power of cinema which made me persue filmmaking. This is one True masterpiece and thanks for the Take for making such an extraordinay content, brilliant as always :)
Watching this reminded me of Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" - he didn't have the physical freedom of his captors, but was freer than them mentally.
yep. and the other fault that has always annoyed me is that they do not age in this film. look at Andy in Mexico,when he meets with Red again. He doesn t look a day over 30. How can that be? Only Hollywood, I guess.
@Darth Aliyah actually the 3 Alcatraz prisoneers that escaped in real life DO STOOD in the same cell from the they they came in to the day they escaped....... so it s not a mistake
Andy was well educated and read the classics. This give him insight into human character and allowed him to have the inner resources to deal with his circumstances.
I love this movie and how closely they held to the source material, many lines are verbatim. Some of Stephen King's best work is outside the horror genre.
you mean, other than Morgan Freedman's soothing voice? well, yes. Red speaks in simple sentences, and his thoughts flow naturally from one another. It is, in short, unpretentious. It's philosophy not as an academic field, but as an attitude.
I love this movie but this review is just way too long. Too many rules to follow for a fictional character. Lifes not an effing movie. Fictional characters who turned out better 3) Forest Gump who had 3 rules.2) Bruce Wayne/batman who had one rule. 1) the joker who had no rules.
@TK Wallace you should read it, it's a short story titled "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" it's part of the 'Different Seasons' collection of short stories, at least I'm 99% sure that's what collection it's from been probably 4 or 5 years since I last read it.
love the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote! "The voices we hear in solitude... grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." "Nothing is sacred but the integrity of your own mind." Ralph Waldo Emerson, essay Self-Reliance
Not sure how this story can even be discussed without ever mentioning its author Stephen King. All of it came from his mind, his thoughts and his talent. A good man with a rich inner life.
The most important thing is never mentioned - Andy constantly worked to achieve his dream, not just daydreamed all the time. All the list of rules mean nothing if you don't put effort into actually doing the right though hard things and do them repeatedly, no matter how tired, abused, beaten up, depressed you are.
And that is why I fucking hate this movie. I'd rather not work too hard to achieve some anfld don't mind just daydreaming it. The whole thing of "just do it" absolutely revolts me. The rules mean everything to me regardless of how much effort I put. I would stop doing something if I'm depressed since I got depressed once and didn't care for one time when I made a sidewalk on our front lawn and put my hand prints on it since I felt nothing during that time. I also despise how people call the best movies of all time to be the ones where the characters are strong, conquer feand expand their horizons. That is all that's to a screenwriting course I once took. It told me about some iconic films like Jaws and how each one had a certain conflict, like a lifeguard trying to conquer his fear of water. It also told me how each story needed to tie up loose ends in its ending. But after watching every episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, I started to l8ke how some episodes just abruptly. That screenwriting course just shackled my creative mind. I wanna be a children's book author, but I can't get any good ideas with the lessons that damages screenwriting course taught me. I don't care about a movie's message, conflict or ending! I just wanna make a story my own natural way without worrying about the beginning, middle and end like most movies do! I don't even wanna make movies! I only went to that screenwriting course to make TV shows! I didn't ask to know how to make movies! I'm autistic and I used to have a very creative mind full of weird and strange stories, but that was taken away from me when that damages screenwriting course implanted a Communist regime telling me how I should make my own stories! So fuck screenwriting courses, fuck making movies, and FUCK SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION!!!!!
You've summed up one of the best things about this movie - Andy's remarkable, beautiful, rich inner life. Andy became a better person due to a terrible thing that happened to him. He was a beautiful example of the power of the human spirit. This inner life saved him (and I am sure many others in that prison). Andy broke free in his mind long before his physical escape. The cast in this film was just phenomenal. The Shawshank Redemption is truly one of the best films of all time and is further proof that you don't need huge budgets or special effects to make an absolutely outstanding film. It still moves me to tears today.
I find it very emotional watching this video about reaching your inner self, it's a wonderful everlasting film that just captures the heart , spirit and give you another perceptive of life.
AMAZING! I don't know if you realize, but your analysis of movies are comforting for the spirit, really profound and touching for the heart. Thank you so much for this and for many others. You do a really amazing job here!
The biggest lesson I took from The Shawshank Redemption: Sometimes the only path to freedom you have lies in half a mile through a pipe full of waste. It's scary and unpleasant and you're uncertain what is on the other side. But if freedom truly is valuable to you - you will crawl that path.
I know, I was hoping that they would cover "Shawshank" at some point, and my prayers were finally answered!😉 There's just so much to love about this film, from the story, to the characters, to the performances, to the immensely quotable lines.🌟
Trina Q I agree there are so many elements to break down, the irony is it was s box office dud and originally reviews were not kind. As you know it has turned into one of the top regarded movies on IMDb etc and much beloved by millions😘
Andy Dufresne's rules for building an inner life: 1. Put your attention where you want it. 2. Keep your inner music playing. 3. Have a dream. 4. Find a friend who gets you. 5. Put up a fight. 6. Integrate beauty into your life. 7. Don't put a prison around your mind. 8. Let pain change you (for the better). 9. Express your inner world in the outer. 10. Give yourself a project. 11. Invest in people. 12. Escape your prison. 13. Save yourself. 14. Reserve a few secrets just for yourself. 15. Keep hope alive.
I so appreciate how your videos give me new insights into films I've seen earlier (especially when I was younger and didn't comprehend all the subtext). Love it all, keep it up!
That final shot of Shawshank where Red and Andy meet up again is on my list of movie scenes that get tears rolling down my face no matter how many times I see it.
...going through a very difficult season in life & this video is a very timely message that I appreciate more than I can eloquently express. THANK YOU.
Some people may call this film overrated but they can't change the fact that this is a great film. People call the Beatles overrated but they're still very that musicians that wrote amazing songs.
I saw the movie again today in the theater in honor of its 25th anniversary and this video is a nice companion piece to it. This was excellently done and really shows that Andy's story is a nice reminder of hope. Keep up the great work!
What a fantastic video. I've loved this channel since the amazing Breaking Bad analyses, but this is something else. Analytical of the film, revealing, uplifting. Simply great. Thank you for this.
It's true...I'm happiest when I'm alone...treating myself to wonderful visions in my head...it's when I'm around others that I start to become unhappy.
just remember that it's best if you can find someone, at least one person, who can understand and appreciate your visions. You'll probably have to look hard for that person, but there's 13 billion people in the world: one of them gets you, promise.
This movie also has one more thing to convey that in the outer world u r consumed with completing worldly desires and not having time in exploring ur inner self but Andy had a lot of time in prison to explore his inner life contradicting to his life in the outside world
I love how the layers of meaning in a movie like this can only be seen after seeing it more than once. After we see how Andy escapes we can't help but smile at 5:20 "It's just shitty pipe dreams." and at 5:50 "You think your shit smells sweeter than most."!
Like some others I believe this may be your best video so far. Wonderful analysis and spot on character discussion of Andy IMO - his inner life is what saved him, and Red BTW (and helped so many others). Gives his character the treatment its complexity deserves. Well done.
I absolutely love this channel and the work that goes into these videos. Just saw Shaw redemption and checked immediately if you made a video essay on it. Keep up the good work!
i am one of those folk who saw it during a tough time in my life, and believe it really, really helped me get through. I remember seeing Pulp Fiction a while before which at the time I hated SO much cos it seemed to be stupid and pointless and a bit of a sad view of human nature; saw Shawshank the week it come out (it had got really good reviews on an old Johnny Vaughn Film Review Show, think its the only film they gave a maximum 40/40 for...anyone remember that show? any clips on RUclips of review?). Anyways, within the previous 12 months I had lost my mum to cancer, was helping to care for my grandad who was senile and had lost his onlydaughter and was living with us, and had just walked out of University due to a lack of money and having panic attacks/blackouts etc...really felt like my whole life was over, was very alone and due to circumstances had little support around me, my friends all away at other Unis etc...anyways I saw the film once and loved it so much I went 2 times more after the same day to see it... the cinema was empty but I never experienced such a feeling before. Saw it about 10-12 times total that week, bawled my eyes out (the old fella on the outside, the beautiful music at the end ALWAYS set me off), but it was SO overwhelming for me, and seemed to clear out a LOT of nonsense and negativity from my mind.....few weeks later I met a nice girl and we were together for some time.................. BAsically it was a film that made me feel human again, and I never will forget those dark days in 1995 (UK). Funny thing is when my life is going good I can look at the film and see why folks would find t a bit simple and twee even, and can enjoy something like Pulp Fiction much more... but never has a movie had such an effect on me, and so for me... its VERY special 😎✌️
The Take, could you make more videos like this? This is my favorite video from you, although some other videos come close too. I want more of your heartfelt, inspiring, therapeutic movie commentaries. I watch this one whenever I need encouragement in my life. I believe in your work!
Been a subscriber for awhile and have always enjoyed the content, and I dont know what's changed recently but I'm not complaining. I've been enjoying your content even more recently and I hope yall enjoy it and keep it up
I have a rich inner life but that's probably what I have right now. I guess I have a better inner life right now than an outer life but would be nice to have the best of both lives.
8:41 I think along these lines when I step on a bus and every person on there is glued to their phone. I like to sit and think about stuff, watching the world drift by the window. It's okay to be "bored" like that, I think. Or rather, to be okay despite a lack of direct stimulus. I don't think I'm better than the other passengers. Just different, and maybe a little bit lucky that I can just be inside my own head for a while without the need to be entertained.
@@joshmciver4847 No, I'm average. I never said differently. Also, unique is not a word that works on a gradient. One is either unique or one isn't. There's no such thing as being incredibly unique, no more than one can be incredibly drowned, or incredibly inside. You're being a douche, so I'm returning the favour with pedantry. You go now.
I believe this video is the best advice anyone could ever give to someone....... We live such sophisticated lives yet most of us are depressed as fuck..... So many diversions just to make us forget our so called "Sadness"..... That's why I loved the core values presented in Shawshank Redemption........(I know many of this movies plot points can be debunked but just hear me out)...Andy is hopeful of making it outside and works each and every day without any regret...One wrong move and he is gone......But yet he never thinks about failing and just powers on through..........He waits for the perfect opportunity to achieve his goals....But he is not only interested in his goals......He uses all his abilities to help others......Gets them beer, Build's a library, help's the guy get his high school degree and finally remains Red's true friend no matter what.......... Andy, even though he didn't kill his wife, actually thinks he should serve his time since he was on the path to something terrible and it deserves punishment.....He redeems himself and forgives himself at the same time over a period of 25 years and finally achieves his goals......People need to be like Andy more than trying to be famous assholes.......Just keep your guard up, help the people you can, do your work and achieve your goals......And please don't set your goals into monetary benefits.....It is an endless chasm you don't want to fall into
I like how they pointed out that everyone gets their just do and not because of a deity God gave us all free will so sometimes the things that happen get is just a result of our actions or choices. Cause amd effect
I love this movie, however, I felt that Andy doesn't learn inner strength, he already had it and it was tested throughout the movie. Andy doesn't change--he started digging that tunnel (i.e. planning his escape) a month into being in prison. Andy never had an 'in the box' way of thinking, therefore he could never be boxed-in; figuratively speaking of course. And throughout the film he helped many characters shed there 'in the box' mentality--Red is the biggest example of change, which is why Red is the main character. This movie has 'a main character taking the backseat' format; like No Country for Old Men and The Great Gatsby.
@pete knicks Thank you for the reply, I read your comment. You are correct, he does have inner strength/hope/will--whatever you want to call it. I never said that. What I said was, I believe Andy doesn't change, as I stated in my comment above, in fact Andy's character/archetype can be considered the living embodiment of inner strength. You said you don't agree with me--so are you saying he DOES change? If so, I'm having trouble seeing it. His (will/hope/inner strength, whatever) to act was there from the beginning, and unlike those who imagine escape, he's the only character to act on it. Granted, I like said above, his inner-strength is TESTED but he never had to change/grow or give up something in order to get that inner-strength. Red mentions this in one of his 1st encounters with Andy (i.e " the way he strolled through the prison...) in fact throughout the movie, Andy fights to hold on to his inner strength both literally and figuratively...all I'm saying is he doesn't change.
This movie captioned the time I spent growing up, a latchkey kid with a violent, abusive, and mentally ill brother, isolated at school. In the face of peer and sibling abuse, inner life was my lifeboat. I read books, wrote letters, kept a journal. That was my life. I decided how I was going to be. I didn't make the best decisions, I was young, but I could read my journals and remember who I was. It made a big difference.
One of the best movies ever, but also one of the best movie critic ever You (The Take) did a great job with the explanations. one would get a lot treasury life lessons! Thank you.
I’m always good with anyone quoting Emerson. “Beware when the great god lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson; “Circles” Essays: Second Series (1841)
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Pls make a video on Into the Wild
Still waiting for that Lane Pryce video!
Three RUclips commercials and the one in the video? Come on!
I'm sensing a theme of awesome throwback movies. Could you guys do a video on Edward Scissorhands? There's great allegory and it'd be perfect for the Halloween month coming up!!!
I just saw the movie and quite did not really like bcos it shows how ugly prison life can be, but your video made me rethink this movie especially the music/mozart part & inner life...keep up the good work
"The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings." Powerful.
☝🏽
Beautifully put
Who seeks outside themselves, dreams; who seeks within themselves, awakes.
Very beautiful
Whoa, "shitty pipe dreams." Today I realized that line wasn't thrown in there on a whim, but was some awesome foreshadowing o.O
Oh shit
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I didn't notice either till you pointed it out, seen that movie 100s of times and never thought twice about that line, that's awesome, kind of want to watch it again and see if there's any other foreshadowing like that.
Your comment reads like a poem..
Ahaha, you're very clever.
The shwashank redemption, still one of the top movies, if not the top one.
Mine too, every time I revisit it, I notice more things about it that I missed on my initial watches, and makes me appreciate it all the more!🌟☺
The Godfather will be always the classic number 1
@@johannesCCR meh. that's not even the best Coppola film (Apocalypse Now is)
Subjectively for me, it's LOTR as one film but Shawshank and others, like Green Mile and others are right up there
@Sanjog Nepal THE top.
"No good thing ever dies" - Andy
Just like this movie
Rule 1- put your attention where you want it
Rule 2- keep your inner music playing
Rule 3- have a dream
Rule 4- find a friend who gets you
Rule 5- put up a fight
Rule 6- integrate beauty in your life
Rule 7- don't put a prison around your mind
Rule 8- let pain change you for the better
Rule 9- express your inner world in the outer
Rule 10- give yourself a project
Rule 11- invest in people
Rule 12- escape your prison
Rule 13- save yourself
Rule 14- reserve a few secrets just for yourself
Rule 15- keep hope alive
These are rules we all shall follow!
1. Rule 1: 1:37
2. 3:11
3. 4:56
4. 5:42
5. 6:31
6. 7:15
7. 7:44
8. 9:00
9. 10:53
10. 11:39
11. 12:46
12. 13:23
13. 14:45
14. 17:45
15. 18:31
@@aishaahmed5849 Thank you! i going to get back to this one!
Thank you!
Number 9 happens no matter what, whether people are conscious of it or not. People are always mirroring what’s in their mind to their outer world. As within so without.
Still one of my all time favourite films, with plenty of value life lessons to take from it: "Get busy living, or get busy dying", and "Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free". 😊💙
Hey sis, I’ve never seen this movie before, but I’m going to watch it not just because of this video, but because of this comment. Thank you. Why am I crying in my room rn? 😂
I'd rather let fear control me because of my dad always telling me to expand my horizons, which nowadays causes me to overthink, and I can't even focus on my own visions of life, which is something I'm not forgiving him for. 😡
My favorite movie of all time. Nobody could have played Andy like Tim Robbins.
Yeah not even Tom Hanks
This movie changed my life, pulled me out of darkest times of my life also and showed the power of cinema which made me persue filmmaking. This is one True masterpiece and thanks for the Take for making such an extraordinay content, brilliant as always :)
I'm working on my inner life/self because my life circumstances, and what people consider normal always felt like a prison for me.
Watching this reminded me of Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" - he didn't have the physical freedom of his captors, but was freer than them mentally.
That’s is so true!!
Agree. Frankl's book is hard to get through for me.
Yeah that is a great book!
Another good book to read is 'Man's Search for himself'
YinYangHomebwoy going to read. Thanks for the recommendation!!
Boy how lucky is Andy that he stood in the same cell for 20 years
Good point
Lol right. I changed several times a bid🤣🤣🤣 that's funny
yep. and the other fault that has always annoyed me is that they do not age in this film. look at Andy in Mexico,when he meets with Red again. He doesn t look a day over 30. How can that be? Only Hollywood, I guess.
@Darth Aliyah actually the 3 Alcatraz prisoneers that escaped in real life DO STOOD in the same cell from the they they came in to the day they escaped....... so it s not a mistake
norma desmond Well .... it was 1994 so .... CGI wasn t a thing and using make-up would make only worse...
Andy was well educated and read the classics. This give him insight into human character and allowed him to have the inner resources to deal with his circumstances.
I love this movie and how closely they held to the source material, many lines are verbatim. Some of Stephen King's best work is outside the horror genre.
I completely agree
“With enough pressure and enough time all that’s inside us will be revealed” So well put!!
Philosophical narrative can be cringey. But not this movie due to some reason. That's why it may be everlasting.
Philosophical? This movie?
you mean, other than Morgan Freedman's soothing voice?
well, yes. Red speaks in simple sentences, and his thoughts flow naturally from one another. It is, in short, unpretentious. It's philosophy not as an academic field, but as an attitude.
I love this movie but this review is just way too long. Too many rules to follow for a fictional character. Lifes not an effing movie. Fictional characters who turned out better 3) Forest Gump who had 3 rules.2) Bruce Wayne/batman who had one rule. 1) the joker who had no rules.
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@TK Wallace you should read it, it's a short story titled "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" it's part of the 'Different Seasons' collection of short stories, at least I'm 99% sure that's what collection it's from been probably 4 or 5 years since I last read it.
love the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote! "The voices we hear in solitude... grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." "Nothing is sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, essay Self-Reliance
Not sure how this story can even be discussed without ever mentioning its author Stephen King. All of it came from his mind, his thoughts and his talent. A good man with a rich inner life.
The most important thing is never mentioned - Andy constantly worked to achieve his dream, not just daydreamed all the time. All the list of rules mean nothing if you don't put effort into actually doing the right though hard things and do them repeatedly, no matter how tired, abused, beaten up, depressed you are.
Beautiful insight
Collecting
And that is why I fucking hate this movie. I'd rather not work too hard to achieve some anfld don't mind just daydreaming it. The whole thing of "just do it" absolutely revolts me. The rules mean everything to me regardless of how much effort I put. I would stop doing something if I'm depressed since I got depressed once and didn't care for one time when I made a sidewalk on our front lawn and put my hand prints on it since I felt nothing during that time. I also despise how people call the best movies of all time to be the ones where the characters are strong, conquer feand expand their horizons. That is all that's to a screenwriting course I once took. It told me about some iconic films like Jaws and how each one had a certain conflict, like a lifeguard trying to conquer his fear of water. It also told me how each story needed to tie up loose ends in its ending. But after watching every episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, I started to l8ke how some episodes just abruptly. That screenwriting course just shackled my creative mind. I wanna be a children's book author, but I can't get any good ideas with the lessons that damages screenwriting course taught me. I don't care about a movie's message, conflict or ending! I just wanna make a story my own natural way without worrying about the beginning, middle and end like most movies do! I don't even wanna make movies! I only went to that screenwriting course to make TV shows! I didn't ask to know how to make movies! I'm autistic and I used to have a very creative mind full of weird and strange stories, but that was taken away from me when that damages screenwriting course implanted a Communist regime telling me how I should make my own stories! So fuck screenwriting courses, fuck making movies, and FUCK SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION!!!!!
At the end one of the rules is ‘escape your prison’. Also love that you think emotional care is daydreaming
Can relate to the spirit of this film
You've summed up one of the best things about this movie - Andy's remarkable, beautiful, rich inner life. Andy became a better person due to a terrible thing that happened to him. He was a beautiful example of the power of the human spirit.
This inner life saved him (and I am sure many others in that prison). Andy broke free in his mind long before his physical escape.
The cast in this film was just phenomenal. The Shawshank Redemption is truly one of the best films of all time and is further proof that you don't need huge budgets or special effects to make an absolutely outstanding film. It still moves me to tears today.
I find it very emotional watching this video about reaching your inner self, it's a wonderful everlasting film that just captures the heart , spirit and give you another perceptive of life.
AMAZING! I don't know if you realize, but your analysis of movies are comforting for the spirit, really profound and touching for the heart. Thank you so much for this and for many others. You do a really amazing job here!
The ladies killing it again. I love your videos..
The biggest lesson I took from The Shawshank Redemption: Sometimes the only path to freedom you have lies in half a mile through a pipe full of waste. It's scary and unpleasant and you're uncertain what is on the other side. But if freedom truly is valuable to you - you will crawl that path.
I watched this film after I escaped my father. Saw so many parallels. I view this as practical advice.
I'm only 2 minutes in and I already consider this to be your best video yet, thank you so much!
i totally agree!
Crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side, one of my favorite lines
I never clicked so fast. Thanks for doing something on this top notch movie. One of the best of all time
I know, I was hoping that they would cover "Shawshank" at some point, and my prayers were finally answered!😉 There's just so much to love about this film, from the story, to the characters, to the performances, to the immensely quotable lines.🌟
Trina Q I agree there are so many elements to break down, the irony is it was s box office dud and originally reviews were not kind. As you know it has turned into one of the top regarded movies on IMDb etc and much beloved by millions😘
Welp. Time to set 3 hours aside again.
I can’t believe i watched this for the first time just after turning 30. Such a great film.
Shawshank Redemption is one of those films that has so many great scenes that makes you think deeply about life and yourself.
«Get busy living or Get busy dying» Great Shawshank quote. Escape my mind prison, I will!
Andy Dufresne's rules for building an inner life:
1. Put your attention where you want it.
2. Keep your inner music playing.
3. Have a dream.
4. Find a friend who gets you.
5. Put up a fight.
6. Integrate beauty into your life.
7. Don't put a prison around your mind.
8. Let pain change you (for the better).
9. Express your inner world in the outer.
10. Give yourself a project.
11. Invest in people.
12. Escape your prison.
13. Save yourself.
14. Reserve a few secrets just for yourself.
15. Keep hope alive.
How a movie/story can be so interwoven and intricate ? A master's creations. Sublime.
It's written by Stephen King, and he is a master.
This is so hopeful. I really needed this.
Wow! I've always known Shawshank Redemption is a deep, meaningful film. This proves that it's much more complex than I ever guessed. Thank you!
So many wonderful moments and scenes in this film, but my favourite that still moves me is the final scene of Red walking towards Andy on the beach.
I’m glad that someone is giving this film its dues.some how despite being the highest rated film on IMDB not many people talk about it anymore.
What a beautiful essay. The talk of hope brought me to tears. I need to re-watch this movie immediately. Good work! The Take is amazing!
when I'm a great artist and I'm accepting an award for my work, I'm going to thank this channel in my acceptance speech.
I so appreciate how your videos give me new insights into films I've seen earlier (especially when I was younger and didn't comprehend all the subtext). Love it all, keep it up!
This analysis has really caught me at the right time when I needed it most. Thank you to everyone at this channel for making such enriching content
Now I will have to rewatch it once again. I don't know how many times I have watched this movie.
I don't wanna cry all over again!
That final shot of Shawshank where Red and Andy meet up again is on my list of movie scenes that get tears rolling down my face no matter how many times I see it.
...going through a very difficult season in life & this video is a very timely message that I appreciate more than I can eloquently express. THANK YOU.
Some people may call this film overrated but they can't change the fact that this is a great film. People call the Beatles overrated but they're still very that musicians that wrote amazing songs.
This is by far the best video you guys have made. I am literally having goosebumps watching this
I love reading,dancing,watching nice videos like this.❤️
Unbelievable video this is my favourite film ever and almost find it emotional watching this video, thank you!!
I just realized something, Andy has a lot in common with Cinderella. They both find solace in their dreams.
I saw the movie again today in the theater in honor of its 25th anniversary and this video is a nice companion piece to it. This was excellently done and really shows that Andy's story is a nice reminder of hope. Keep up the great work!
Thank you The Take for making this great content, that's realy what gives us good questions to ask ourselves..
What a fantastic video. I've loved this channel since the amazing Breaking Bad analyses, but this is something else. Analytical of the film, revealing, uplifting. Simply great. Thank you for this.
It's true...I'm happiest when I'm alone...treating myself to wonderful visions in my head...it's when I'm around others that I start to become unhappy.
just remember that it's best if you can find someone, at least one person, who can understand and appreciate your visions. You'll probably have to look hard for that person, but there's 13 billion people in the world: one of them gets you, promise.
@@sophiejones7727 Nah...I'm not much of a sharer.
@@MastaSmack I'm not either, but I've discovered that it's important anyway. You learn things when you share that you couldn't learn any other way.
I cherish my inner world.
Please make a video on Unbreakable, easily the most underrated superhero film of all time.
This movie also has one more thing to convey that in the outer world u r consumed with completing worldly desires and not having time in exploring ur inner self but Andy had a lot of time in prison to explore his inner life contradicting to his life in the outside world
I love how the layers of meaning in a movie like this can only be seen after seeing it more than once. After we see how Andy escapes we can't help but smile at 5:20 "It's just shitty pipe dreams." and at 5:50 "You think your shit smells sweeter than most."!
This, for me, is my 3rd BEST FILM OF ALL TIME. Thanks The Take for the amazing commentary
Brilliant!
Love The Shawshank Redemption.
Legendary Movie!
Like some others I believe this may be your best video so far. Wonderful analysis and spot on character discussion of Andy IMO - his inner life is what saved him, and Red BTW (and helped so many others). Gives his character the treatment its complexity deserves. Well done.
I absolutely love this channel and the work that goes into these videos. Just saw Shaw redemption and checked immediately if you made a video essay on it. Keep up the good work!
i am one of those folk who saw it during a tough time in my life, and believe it really, really helped me get through. I remember seeing Pulp Fiction a while before which at the time I hated SO much cos it seemed to be stupid and pointless and a bit of a sad view of human nature; saw Shawshank the week it come out (it had got really good reviews on an old Johnny Vaughn Film Review Show, think its the only film they gave a maximum 40/40 for...anyone remember that show? any clips on RUclips of review?). Anyways, within the previous 12 months I had lost my mum to cancer, was helping to care for my grandad who was senile and had lost his onlydaughter and was living with us, and had just walked out of University due to a lack of money and having panic attacks/blackouts etc...really felt like my whole life was over, was very alone and due to circumstances had little support around me, my friends all away at other Unis etc...anyways I saw the film once and loved it so much I went 2 times more after the same day to see it... the cinema was empty but I never experienced such a feeling before. Saw it about 10-12 times total that week, bawled my eyes out (the old fella on the outside, the beautiful music at the end ALWAYS set me off), but it was SO overwhelming for me, and seemed to clear out a LOT of nonsense and negativity from my mind.....few weeks later I met a nice girl and we were together for some time.................. BAsically it was a film that made me feel human again, and I never will forget those dark days in 1995 (UK). Funny thing is when my life is going good I can look at the film and see why folks would find t a bit simple and twee even, and can enjoy something like Pulp Fiction much more... but never has a movie had such an effect on me, and so for me... its VERY special 😎✌️
This video is like therapy. I'll be listening to your video again and again like a motivational speech!
The Take, could you make more videos like this? This is my favorite video from you, although some other videos come close too. I want more of your heartfelt, inspiring, therapeutic movie commentaries. I watch this one whenever I need encouragement in my life. I believe in your work!
I adore The Shawshank Redemption. It's definitely one of my top favourite movies and this in-depth look at it is beautiful.
Been a subscriber for awhile and have always enjoyed the content, and I dont know what's changed recently but I'm not complaining. I've been enjoying your content even more recently and I hope yall enjoy it and keep it up
Thank you for this TED Talk
Recent ted talks are shi+s
I have a rich inner life but that's probably what I have right now. I guess I have a better inner life right now than an outer life but would be nice to have the best of both lives.
Still my favorite video from you, The Take. I listen to it like therapy.
This video and the movie itself are beautiful.
Beautiful video, emotionally touching and inspiring.
Thanks.
Your channel is amazing! I really enjoyed this video :)
Great depth
I'm so glad I found this channel...you guys are extraordinary
What a fantastic interpretation of a timeless classic. Kudos to you ladies.
Possibly the single best channel on RUclips.
This video was brilliantly done. I was focused the whole 23 minutes of the video 🏁
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I think along these lines when I step on a bus and every person on there is glued to their phone. I like to sit and think about stuff, watching the world drift by the window. It's okay to be "bored" like that, I think. Or rather, to be okay despite a lack of direct stimulus. I don't think I'm better than the other passengers. Just different, and maybe a little bit lucky that I can just be inside my own head for a while without the need to be entertained.
yeah, you're incredibly unique.
@@joshmciver4847 No, I'm average. I never said differently. Also, unique is not a word that works on a gradient. One is either unique or one isn't. There's no such thing as being incredibly unique, no more than one can be incredibly drowned, or incredibly inside.
You're being a douche, so I'm returning the favour with pedantry. You go now.
I believe this video is the best advice anyone could ever give to someone....... We live such sophisticated lives yet most of us are depressed as fuck..... So many diversions just to make us forget our so called "Sadness"..... That's why I loved the core values presented in Shawshank Redemption........(I know many of this movies plot points can be debunked but just hear me out)...Andy is hopeful of making it outside and works each and every day without any regret...One wrong move and he is gone......But yet he never thinks about failing and just powers on through..........He waits for the perfect opportunity to achieve his goals....But he is not only interested in his goals......He uses all his abilities to help others......Gets them beer, Build's a library, help's the guy get his high school degree and finally remains Red's true friend no matter what.......... Andy, even though he didn't kill his wife, actually thinks he should serve his time since he was on the path to something terrible and it deserves punishment.....He redeems himself and forgives himself at the same time over a period of 25 years and finally achieves his goals......People need to be like Andy more than trying to be famous assholes.......Just keep your guard up, help the people you can, do your work and achieve your goals......And please don't set your goals into monetary benefits.....It is an endless chasm you don't want to fall into
I used to live down the road from the prison where they filmed this movie. It's a museum now, managed by former prisoners.
Thanks for making these lessons.❤❤
I like how they pointed out that everyone gets their just do and not because of a deity God gave us all free will so sometimes the things that happen get is just a result of our actions or choices. Cause amd effect
i have waited this video since you've produced your first one thank you
Still my favorite film of all time, absolute masterpiece.
Even watching this had me in tears remembering the swell of emotion i felt the first time i saw this astounding film.
I love this movie, however, I felt that Andy doesn't learn inner strength, he already had it and it was tested throughout the movie. Andy doesn't change--he started digging that tunnel (i.e. planning his escape) a month into being in prison. Andy never had an 'in the box' way of thinking, therefore he could never be boxed-in; figuratively speaking of course. And throughout the film he helped many characters shed there 'in the box' mentality--Red is the biggest example of change, which is why Red is the main character. This movie has 'a main character taking the backseat' format; like No Country for Old Men and The Great Gatsby.
@pete knicks Thank you for the reply, I read your comment.
You are correct, he does have inner strength/hope/will--whatever you want to call it. I never said that. What I said was, I believe Andy doesn't change, as I stated in my comment above, in fact Andy's character/archetype can be considered the living embodiment of inner strength.
You said you don't agree with me--so are you saying he DOES change? If so, I'm having trouble seeing it. His (will/hope/inner strength, whatever) to act was there from the beginning, and unlike those who imagine escape, he's the only character to act on it. Granted, I like said above, his inner-strength is TESTED but he never had to change/grow or give up something in order to get that inner-strength. Red mentions this in one of his 1st encounters with Andy (i.e " the way he strolled through the prison...) in fact throughout the movie, Andy fights to hold on to his inner strength both literally and figuratively...all I'm saying is he doesn't change.
Thanks, TT. I needed this today. :)
The Tommy arc made me the most mad I have ever been at movie, I think
crazy how this movie was panned when it was released
Every time I need hope, The take comes along
Whenever I have a few minutes to spare, I always go straight to the take! I always end up going way over hehe
What Red tells Andy @ 5:24 is somewhat prophetic to the movie when you think about Andy's final method and route of escaping the prison.
OMG WHAT! Great catch 👍
this is the first time i watch your work its awesome. i didnt expect this. mindblown.
This movie captioned the time I spent growing up, a latchkey kid with a violent, abusive, and mentally ill brother, isolated at school. In the face of peer and sibling abuse, inner life was my lifeboat. I read books, wrote letters, kept a journal. That was my life. I decided how I was going to be. I didn't make the best decisions, I was young, but I could read my journals and remember who I was. It made a big difference.
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Always will be in my list of best movies.
One of the best movies ever, but also one of the best movie critic ever You (The Take) did a great job with the explanations. one would get a lot treasury life lessons! Thank you.
I watched the Shawshank redemption right now, so I could understand the post. Glad I finally watched this movie.
I’m always good with anyone quoting Emerson. “Beware when the great god lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson; “Circles” Essays: Second Series (1841)