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Discuss what moral judgements the audience comes to from watching ‘The Shawshank Redemption’

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Discuss what moral judgements the audience comes to from watching 'The Shawshank Redemption' 'The Shawshank Redemption' was directed by Frank Darabont, who successfully interpreted the film, which was taken from the book 'Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption' written by Stephen King in the early 1980's. The movie stars Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins as two convicts serving time in a New England prison named Shawshank. Tim Robbins plays a man named Andy Dufresne, a banker, who gets convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and is sent to prison in Shawshank. Andy eventually becomes good friends with a fellow convict by the name of Ellis Boyd Redding (Morgan Freeman), known amongst fellow prisoners as Red, who is able to get anything for anyone within reason. The story follows the prison life of Andy Dufresne and his eventual escape from Shawshank's walls. Darabont shows the audience...

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