"The Shawshank Redemption" is a unique movie which involves many different personalities and underlying themes. The personalities of the inmates are very interesting and when combined they create a fascinating plot, which gives a different perspective of prison life. The main characters are Andy Dufrense (Tim Robbins) and Eliss "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman). Additional characters such as the wise and simple old man, Brooks (James Whitmore), and the evil warden help to enrich the movie, …showed first 75 words of 1282 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1282 total…that he had. The personalities of the characters create an almost unreal setting where you see things you may not expect to see, such as the brutality of the warden or the filth and squalor (morally) in which the prisoners live in. A community of people is what the movie is about. A community which goes through good times and bad ones. But the characters are what makes this film so unique and so great.