Former Inmate Reviews Prison Movie, "The Shawshank Redemption" - one of my favorite movies | 100 |

hey everybody larry lawton here for another movie review edition you know i like to keep our videos uh varied we do gaming videos we do untold stories and i do movie reviews ask me anything today is a movie review of a lot of requests we've been getting uh to for me to review the movie shawshank redemption but before i get started i really you know i really haven't been hitting on it enough uh we have a membership program with both patreon and youtube on the patreon membership program it's really pretty cool i actually do uh live uh one-on-one video chats with the members the higher level members uh there's a lot of stuff from memes and contests and specific emails i give out that kind of stuff to members so please check it out you can just hit the you know join and you can check out both of them go to patreon as well and you can check out that there please check out all the description stuff below in the description from my book gangster redemption which is a lot about this movie we're going to be talking about and because this movie reminded me a lot of that so let's get started with shawshank redemption a revolver holds six bullets not eight i submit that this was not a hot-blooded crime of passion that at least could be understood if not condoned by the power vested in me by the state of maine i hereby order you to serve two life sentences back to back one for each of your victims so be it first of all let me say it's one of my favorite prison movies and i'll tell you why the authenticity of the brutality of what goes on in prison is pretty much displayed in this movie it really got you it got you going because you fell for the character you fell for tim robbins tim robbins played andy dufresne and he was sentenced to murder he was sentenced for two life sentences for murder this is what the premise of the thing is and he sent to the ohio state uh reformatory i don't know if they called it the ohio state in the movie but it was sent to shawshank prison is what they said but it was done in ohio and it was the ohio state reformatory i actually had a friend i was in prison with who was in that facility actually and before they shut it down and he was in that facility and he was a meth head but he was a funny dude anyway so this movie's on the premises of this guy who was he claimed he was wrongly convicted and during the movie they do find out it wasn't him uh but what happens is they showed him one to brutality when he first guest gets there as a new fish he uh gets sexually abused multiple times by a guy they end up getting rid of that guy in the movie but i'm telling you that's not that's not that happens you know sexual abuse is not i always talk talk about it's not happening every minute of every day but it happens uh friends of mine have been abused and we've talked about it and uh you know it's just some sad that i look at in a big way because i don't care if you're straight or gay or whatever you want or whatever you identify yourself at because you know i love all people i really do in all my heart i mean that and it drives me nuts because anybody who says oh this person's gay they're gonna like it nobody nobody likes to be violated and abused physically so they show this very in-depth how it's done in prison there and when he's working in the laundry and and it's sad as it is exactly how it happens and it gave me chills you know what gave me chills of this movie is the oldness and the way the prison was set up because it reminded me a lot of atlanta the only difference in this movie that atlanta prison didn't have is this had the bar doors you know the bar doors atlanta had doors that open and closed not bars but if you go to what they call charlie house in atlanta to this day and i'm unless something changed that i don't know drastically charlie house has the bars just like that and when i was in atlanta we used charlie house we the prison system used charlie house as one of the holes they had multiple multiple holes or shoe special housing unit or whole whatever you want to call it i call it abuse but uh that's where they put you in solitary and you know this movie you know when i watched this movie and i watched it develop and the characters they developed were really cool uh they had the one guy red red was played by morgan freeman and what listen i love morgan freeman i think he's one of the greatest actors we have and morgan freeman plays red to a t a convict who's got a store he can get things from the outside has the connections and he's been in prison for at that time like you know 20 years when he first meets him because the prison actually is over a span of like 20 years he gets in there in the 40s andy dufresne does and then he escapes i think in the 60s is when they have it kind of like have it and uh i got it because the way time went and how long andy was in there and and what he got you know how we expect first of all how we escaped was really cool but before we get to that i'm just going over the characters so you got you got andy dufresne and i find out later that you know who wanted that part tom cruise tom hanks kevin costner you know when there's a good script actors gravitate towards it because they wanna they wanna be known as doing a movie that's good not just the money they're making and obviously they make a lot of money but they also want a movie that's gonna be you know exciting like it was goodfellas or uh if they have a good script and as i say when my movie comes out gangster redemption and if you haven't seen or read my book gangster redemption go in the link below and get that book that book i'm told is one of the best and i am in talks for a movie i'm i'm discussing how to get the script done and maybe i'll be asking for a gofundme page i don't know at this point but that book gangster redemption please read it it's just a great great read and i'm not just saying that because uh i wrote the book it's because everybody tells me it's been a great book and they really love the book so with that said so here we are uh in the book in andy dufresne and it's the it's a prison book and it's a prison movie what is absence in this movie which it didn't bother me there was no like female lead if you want to call it that you know there was no love story involved this was a raw movie and that's what drew me to the movie not that i don't like good scenes like that and stuff like that but what happened was the authenticity of the movie and how they did it really really struck me uh how they got andy's brains listen in prison brains will get you farther than brawn that's a fact brains will get you farther than brawn because in prison you know you got to figure out i always tell people you know anybody ask me somebody they know is going to prison what should they do well the first thing they should do is learn how to communicate with people in a very good way and how to read people you know andy ended up was working on a roof and a cop overheard him talking about uh taxes and how he had to pay something for taxes and andy said what you don't write off your uniform something like that and i just watched it i forget that part but it was so good because he got where he started doing the tax work for people in the prison the warden hears about it gets him to do books well the warden another guy great part you know it's like i think of these wardens and i'm sorry to say it i hate to i know there's got to be good wardens out there i really do but they the ones i know and we all know who i mean in my prisons those kind of guys are i i feel too much you know whether they lose their heart and the whole business well this warden was stealing this warden was embezzling money and he was having andy do the books so to figure it all out and andy's the one who has it you know funny scene in the movie is you know when you're in prison for a long time you start losing your identity you really do well andy finds a record that's sent into the library he was writing letters to get funding for a library and he gets it and they send this album in and what does he do mandy he gets to where the speaker is you know the the the whole unit speak away you know when they want to make a general announcement so anyway uh he puts his record on the speaker system and locks the door so they can't get to them so this music is playing throughout throughout the facility and boy when they get through them do they throw him a beaten and i mean a beat and they throw him in solitary uh this solitary was even worse than any solitary i was ever in uh and i was in solitary for a long time you know that i was in solitary for three years out of my 11 11th straight in prison i was in solitary three years i was in solitary for 11 straight months and that's just such brutality i keep looking i get i get i get goosebumps when i think about that but anyway andy gets thrown in a hole but you know he comes out and everybody's like loving him you know like he's the man and when people stick up for people or do something crazy you do get that respect like me i got respect in prison for fighting the prison system i fought deaths of my fellow inmates by writing letters to senators writing letters to newspapers writing letters and they got published and i was always complaining about the abuses going on in this facility and i ended up getting respect from the other inmates in that way because they realize they need people to fight for them but sad you know and they show this very well in prison in this movie a new guy comes to prison and he's the guy who eventually says oh he was at another prison with a guy who said that he's the one that killed andy's wife that's what andy went to prison for for killing his wife but he really didn't do it and that's when he finds out more of that but what they really show in the prison is them educating this kid his name is tommy tommy was a character that was kind of a stupid guy he goes to prison for burglary and they teach him to get his ged and i it brought back such memories because when i was in prison i uh myself and another couple of inmates helped this older black guy about 50 years old at the time i'm about 40 at the time we helped him get his ged and get his graduation and you know what he said at his graduation he says i have a life sentence i'm never getting out and this is one of the best days of my life that's what he said and it really struck us because if you read all your young people out to all the friends everybody out there on my youtube guys we can read i'm sure i don't know what percent i'm i'm i don't know 99.99 of all you can read i can't even imagine what it's like to be in prison and uh not being able to read it just blows me away that's one of the things that blows me away the most how could somebody go to prison and not be i mean it's there obviously there's very functional illiterates in prison there's i don't know what percentage probably 15 to 20 of what they call functional illiterates meaning they could never pass their ged never but even them most of them could read a little bit we taught some people to read who couldn't read the word the didn't know what you know the cat in the hat would be you know or any kind of uh structure of a sentence have no clue and i can't imagine it because i'm a reader i love to read i love to read i'm always reading it's amazing i didn't even think about that until after i started thinking about this scene about the reading and they taught this man to read and get his ged and i did that and it's a great feeling for us to help a person do something like that it really is it's one of the great feel of feelings in the world so anyway they also have a scene in this movie now andy in the meantime and you don't know it during the movie he's escaping he's into rocks and later in the thing they say andy said oh i it would take 20 years to go through a wall and get out of a prison with one of those and i think he took i don't know 17 years 60 whatever it was and he did it but it was so cool the way they did the escape but before the escape a guy named brooks a guy named brooks is an old dude who does 50 years in prison i know people like this i know people like this so brooks does 50 years in prison well brooks does 50 years he gets out and he has what they call uh institutionalization he's institutionalized totally institutionalized he can't make it out on the outside and what did he do he hung himself and sadly that is so true if i did not have my family and my close friends and really people tied to me i don't know what i would have did i really could say that because i was institutionalized and i was educated and i got my degree in prison and a lot of things but i i can't fathom uh how i would have been if i didn't have the support system i had getting out what i really would have did and you don't realize it because then you don't care and you might just get reckless and then you do a few bad things and before you know it you're on that edge again and before you know it you're doing whatever it takes and that is terrible i mean it just happens i'm sorry to say it does so anyway at this time andy's in whatever 17 years and one day they show him and they should they don't show it it's like kind of it goes back it's really cool the way they did it and they have count time and get on a ledge get on a ledge you know the way they do things come on count time don't make me wait that kind of stuff i mean that's just the way it is you know you have to get out for in the federal system you have to stand up on your two feet countdown have to do it no way around it you got to do it so anyway here we are in this facility and they say count time and andy's not there does it don't let me come up there dufrey don't let me come up it's andy dufresne don't let me come up there and sure enough they go up there and he's missing oh my god now the alarms go off and red is like even red don't know what's going on he's like what you know what like he's like in shock everybody's in shock and andy's gone so then they come back and they show how he did it first of all in the cell the warden comes in and the warden is just this typical [ __ ] i told you about and he's just the way he is this warden so the warden gets you know he sees andy that he has his cell set up with rocks or whatever and he has a picture on the wall a poster which is a girl that we'd all be masturbating to that's just what those things are in prison trust me and it's a picture of rita hayworth for young people rita hayworth was like the i don't know who who uh i don't know one of these hot broads today you see uh kate upton you know what kate upton is well rita hayworth was that kane upton back in that day and back in the 60s and stuff and the war and his throwing rocks and everybody throws one at the poster and it goes through and there's a hole behind the poster you know yo big and then they show how andy got out through the system he went through [ __ ] pipe you know which is the toilet pipes he broke the toilet pipe open and he literally swam five i think they said 500 yards which was outside the prison into a a ravine but it was where the [ __ ] tank or a drain comes out and andy did that and he got away and he had it done he but what really was so cool about this whole thing is how he set it up how andy set the whole entire thing up i was so impressed with that how he set up the books and how he he sent the books back to the to the newspaper to expose the wardens crimes how he went into the banks with fake id to get to get the money that he took from the war and the warden was stealing the money and he had it redirected to him so as the fake person he set all this up because he was working in a library and he was working in the warden's office so he said it i'm telling you it was so so good so when he gets out obviously he's out and they don't show him and the next person who does 40 years in prison and gets out is red which is played by morgan freeman again so red gets out now red starts working on the outside and obviously he's having a tough time there is no way you can do 40 years of prison not have any help on the outside and make it i don't think anybody can do it i really don't i think you're done you can't make it it's just something you can't do so anyway red is working in a grocery store asking the manager can i can i go to the bathroom you don't need to ask me every time you need to go take a piss just go understand like you know people on the outside the little things that inmates do you know the other day i was with a couple of people and they asked me like what's the one of the things you really missed and you know what i told them and they looked at me weird i said taking a shower without having shower shoes think of what i just said you get up you take a shower you wash up you wash your feet wash everything you wash your body what you try to do that with shower shoes you have to wear shower shoes like you're in a gym so for all the time i'm in prison i never didn't wear shower shoes because of the you know people guys are jacking off in there and you don't want to s you know stand in their crap and they'll come or whatever it is and then you just don't want to do it so here you are and it's something that you don't get when you're a free man that wow you don't get it man i'm free i can't i'm in the shower that only i'm taking or my mom and somebody else is taking so you know they're clean and it's amazing because that that's something uh that just hits you well here's here's red asking for permission to go to the bathroom it's just crazy so anyway what does red do red goes then and and he was really thinking about he was living in the same apartment that the old guy brooksy the guy who killed himself was in and he went up to the beam to to write red was here but he saw you that's when you see brooks did the same thing and you'd think in the in the milk that he was going to hang himself but he doesn't hang himself he leaves he breaks his parole he breaks he's on parole he breaks his parole gets on a bus goes to texas and from texas he had a plan you know andy said beforehand if you ever get out go to this area or whatever and it was just something he always said to him and he went there and andy had money and directions to mexico where andy was and then at the ending scene you see red walking down the beach and andy working on an old boat and they you know the two guys reunite and let me tell you what the reunite reuniting even at the end of the movie made me think you know to this day i have very close friends that i know uh that i still talk to that we were in the joint together and it's because when you're in an environment like that you get to know people and you get to know them and you're living with them your [ __ ] with them you eat with them and let me tell you something you get connections you get good people connected and you know it's a shame yes everybody there made bad choices no question about i'm not talking about that i am talking about the situation where uh this has happened and now you have such connection with a person when they get out and i still have that and that's it and it's amazing but that movie really brought back memories it is still to me one of the best movies out there especially this the uh uh with display of prison and how it is and the brutality of the guard and the captain of the guard and how they treat people and sadly sadly i don't think it's changed in fact i think it's gotten worse it blows me away when i hear they don't have cameras everywhere in prison why but anyway this movie was a great movie if you have not seen shawshank redemption make sure you do please make sure you do and if you have comment let me know what you thought of the movie as well what part of the movie struck you i'd love to know that as well trust me it's a movie that was came out in 1994 so you'll love it but you know it is what it is and you guys know i'm very passionate about that kind of stuff trying to change the system we all know that but you know i got to do reviews i got to do my gta and i got to do uh uh untold stories which is coming too so lies i really love in this channel i love my youtube audience i really do you guys are very dear to me you don't know it i do comment we love you i respect you have a great day stay safe please everybody make good choices watch the movies don't go in one have a great day much respect [Music]

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Length: 23min 15sec (1395 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 18 2020