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Discuss the ways in which the directors of the ‘Shawshank redemption’ show hope and despair.
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Discuss the ways in which the directors of the 'Shawshank redemption' show hope and despair. The 'Shawshank Redemption' is a powerful film that displays many emotions predominately hope and despair. The directors of this film have used a range of tools to highlight these emotions, they are shown by: camera techniques, lighting, imagery and suggestion. It is possible that what you can't see suggests a more powerful action that what you can. The despair in this film is from the inmates, their lives and their treatment alongside the hope of the inmates, their lives, their dreams and in some cases their release. For example Brooks was despairing about his release against Red's anticipation to be released. In Shawshank prison two sorts of people were inflicting this despair; the prison officials and some of the convicts that had been at Shawshank for a long time, for example 'the Sisters'...
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