声音简介：今天我们来重温下豆瓣评分Top1的经典影片《肖申克的救赎》The Shawshank Redemption. 之前也聊过这部，但看了很多遍，每次看都有新的启发。

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For those of you that may have forgetten the plots of the movie: In 1947, Andy Dufresne, a banker in Maine, is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. Since the state of Maine has no death penalty, he is given two consecutive life sentences and sent to the notoriously harsh Shawshank Prison.

Andy keeps claiming his innocence, but no one believes in him. Twenty years later, he successfully escaped from the prison.

At the beginning, Red says, “Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.” Because he was rejected to be released a few times, and have been waiting several decades in the prison to get the parole. He had lost his hope.

There was a time Andy sneaked into the broadcasting room, locked the door, and played opera for the entire prison, sitting there, simply enjoying the music. He was, of course, punished for his malfeasance. But he was very proud of himself.

I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.

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