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| | Review: Shawshank Redemption, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Instead of focusing on crusades for freedom, the movie ventures down a less-traveled road, concentrating on the personal cost of adapting to prison life and how some convicts, once they conform, lose the ability to survive beyond the barbed wire and iron bars. |
 | | What little color there is, is drab and lifeless (lots of grays and muted greens and blues), and there are times when the film is a shade away from fl-and-white (give credit to cinematographer Roger Deakins, a longtime Cohen brothers collaborator). |
 | | The Shawshank Redemption is all about hope and, because of that, watching it is both uplifting and cathartic. |
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