Andy Dufresne's Search For A Perfect World Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is a wrongly convicted lawyer, serving time in the hell known as Shawshank Prison for the murder of his adulterous wife. Andys life in prison startsoff miserably. He finds maggots in his food, is regularly raped by the Sisters, a group ofprisoners who beat an rape other prisoners, and is threatened an harassed by the prisons guards.However, as time goes on, Andy slowly turns the hell he lives in into a livable, if not perfectworld. He files the guards tax returns, so that he saves the guards money in ways they couldnever have found. In return, the guards protect him for the sisters. He even helps the warden ofShawshank to launder money. (The warden receives bribes in exchange for the free prison laborhe offers to farmers and businesses around the state.) Andy also befriends the prisons one manblack market, a man known as Red (Morgan Freeman), and is able to purchase a few luxuries.Through Red, Andy buys a rock hammer, which he uses to carve a chess set, and posters of thedecades most beautiful women (as time goes on, Rita Hayworth is replaced by Marilyn Monroe.Andy, though, still has dreams of a truly perfect world, one without walls or cells, where he canbe truly free. This causes Andy to work every night at digging tunnel out of the prison and intothe outside world. Before Andy escapes, he tells Red about a place to go to, if he should ever getout of prison. Then one night he escapes. He then empties every account he built up whileworking for the warden. After which he exposes the money laundering scheme going on insidethe prison. Finally Red gets parole, and he joins Andy on a sunny beach in Mexico. Andy hasfound his Utopia, a place where he has a friend, and no restrictions. Tim Robbins does an excellent job of portraying a man stuck amongst rapists, murderers,and thieves. Robbins shows just the right amount of unbeaten hope, combined with a certaindis...
