John A. Manley
26-11-2006, 06:43 PM
It's not quite a book... but a short story in a collection of Stephen King. It's called the SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION.
You may have seen the movie.
They're both excellent.
Plots vary signficantly.
Why do this movie is spiritual?
First, it's not a horror. Or at least not like most of King's. It's about a horrible situation.
Innocent man judged guilty of killing his wife and her lover is sentenced to life in a 1940s penitentiary.
He's beaten, raped, forced to do manual labour and to handle illegal bookkeeping for the warden.
The movie gets dark, hopeless and depressing. You think there's no hope.
What you find out is that there hope all along.
And the LIGHT at the end consumes all the darkness at once.
I don't want to say more, without ruining the film/book.
If anyone has seen/read it, maybe we could discuss it in the rest of the thread. And those who haven't seen it can go get a copy and let me know what they think.
John
You may have seen the movie.
They're both excellent.
Plots vary signficantly.
Why do this movie is spiritual?
First, it's not a horror. Or at least not like most of King's. It's about a horrible situation.
Innocent man judged guilty of killing his wife and her lover is sentenced to life in a 1940s penitentiary.
He's beaten, raped, forced to do manual labour and to handle illegal bookkeeping for the warden.
The movie gets dark, hopeless and depressing. You think there's no hope.
What you find out is that there hope all along.
And the LIGHT at the end consumes all the darkness at once.
I don't want to say more, without ruining the film/book.
If anyone has seen/read it, maybe we could discuss it in the rest of the thread. And those who haven't seen it can go get a copy and let me know what they think.
John