Freedom...

“Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free.” this is a sentence written on the poster of the movie <The Shawshank Redemption>. It’s a movie about freedom, friendship and hope. And the aspect that shakes me a lot is “freedom”.
What is freedom? It’s a carefree and content breath under the sun. To us, it just like air, so ordinary that you can’t imagine what it will be when you lose it. But to those prisoners, especially those who would live there all their lives, it’s a precious happiness out of reach. Andy finally got rid of Shawshank, what made his redemption come true? Maybe his aspiration after freedom, his believing of hope!
What is freedom? It’s that blue sky above the prisoners in the wall; it’s Andy’s pure blue eyes where hope revealed; it’s the vision that the prisoners sitting on the roof drinking beers; it’s the little jack that Norton fed flew out of the window; it’s “Le Nozze de Figaro” flying over the roof of heaven in the prison; it’s the arms Andy stretch out in the lightning day; it’s the ocean the heaven the cockleboat…
Freedom isn’t always a good thing especially when it comes to Brooks who was discharged from prison and committed suicide in his room. “Brooks was here”- it turned me to a deep think, it’s not a death of a person but a death of individuality and mentality “These walls are kind of funny like that. First you hate them, and then you get used to them. Enough time passed, get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.” When freedom comes so suddenly, it may lose its glary and even become a murderer. Because if there is no support from life, no meanings of survive, then freedom will become an even bigger prison to you.
Freedom can linger on in a steadily worsening condition relying on compromise, but can be gained by compromise. Freedom may be glary, but darkness is its premise. Andy got his freedom through a 500 yard cesspool, although it’s rough and humiliated, it had the support of faith then showed the luster that it should have.
The movie gives me a invisible strength, it let me know what the most precious things in a person’s life. When we face frustration, embarrassment and defeat, shall we be depressed or struggle, persist in or give up, cease all activities or try our best, <The Shawshank Redemption> give us a clear answer.
Life is what? Get busy living or get busy dying.