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Overrated and almost unbearably corny. I was recommended this as "The ultimate feel-good movie" and it just didn't cut the mustard. The entire film just insults your intelligence from start to finish; with its extreme use of sentimentality and all that goes wih it (the cheesey dialogue, men in prison feeling their hearts lift when they hear music over the speakers, the "redemption", the bird imagery etc) has all the subtlety of a bulldozer. This is not to say that being direct with the audience is a bad thing it's just that "The Shawshank Redemption" puts on a pretence of being something a lot more significant, intelligent and meaningful than it actually is. As big a fan of Morgan Freeman as I am, I would give this movie 2/5 which is about as high a rating as I would give for a movie so heavily drenched in clichés.
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