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What successful or popular movie that many loved you just HATE?
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The Shawshank Redemption. My boyfriend at the time absolutely loved this film. I can't stand it. Blokes in prison are so Noble and Misunderstood. They deserve to be free! Bleurgh.
I'm curious to know how that was your takeaway from the movie. The protagonist was wrongly imprisoned and I thought the film thoroughly demonstrated the worst of humanity in some of the incarcerated, juxtaposed against the corruption of prison staff and the protagonist's own struggle for a pretty powerful message.
Maybe I need to watch it again. It's been years.
The major dynamics you've got in The Shawshank Redemption are:
The prisoners. Most of whom are genuinely guilty of the crimes they're imprisoned for or close enough. Many are alright people who did something extremely dumb when they were young, often because they had few opportunities.
The prison guards, most of whom are actual monsters who get off on abusing the prisoners, chief among them the captain of the guard (the guy who just about throws Dufresne off the roof that one time) and the warden, who carries himself like a preacher but is genuinely fucking evil.
Andy Dufresne, a man imprisoned for a crime he was seriously thinking about but didn't commit who plays the ultimate long game.
"Noble and misunderstood" is probably stretching it a bit, but the film does ask who here is the real problem.
I thought I was remembering correctly. I posit that OP wasn't paying attention.
The protagonist claimed to have been wrongly imprisoned. That's one of the greatest hooks of the film imo, we the audience want to believe he was innocent, but if looking at the case objectively, he could have been guilty as well. I would even say it was probable. Andy even admits he went to confront his wife, armed and intoxicated, but claims he fell asleep on the driveway, while some other guy went into the house and did the killings. With the same type of bullets his gun used, which also mysteriously disappeared from his possession.
Andy was literally innocent