肖申克的救赎

监狱里的高墙实在是很有趣。

刚入狱的时候，

你痛恨周围的高墙；

慢慢地，

你习惯了生活在其中；

最终你会发现自己不得不依靠它而生存。

这就是体制化。

These walls are kind of funny like that.

First you hate them,

then you get used to them. Enough time passed,

get so you depend on them.

That`s institution alized.

世纪年代末，小有成就的青年银行家安迪（蒂姆·罗宾斯 Tim Robbins 饰）因涉嫌杀害妻子及她的情人而锒铛入狱。在这座名为肖申克的监狱内，希望似乎虚无缥缈，终身监禁的惩罚无疑注定了安迪接下来灰暗绝望的人生。未过多久，安迪尝试接近囚犯中颇有声望的瑞德（摩根·弗里曼 Morgan Freeman 饰），请求对方帮自己搞来小锤子。以此为契机，二人逐渐熟稔，安迪也仿佛在鱼龙混杂、罪恶横生、黑白混淆的牢狱中找到属于自己的求生之道。他利用自身的专业知识，帮助监狱管理层逃税、洗黑钱，同时凭借与瑞德的交往在犯人中间也渐渐受到礼遇。表面看来，他已如瑞德那样对那堵高墙从憎恨转变为处之泰然，但是对自由的渴望仍促使他朝着心中的希望和目标前进。年的时间里，安迪自己挖通了一条通往外界的隧道，他爬过长达近米排污管，最终获得自由。当瑞德获得假释后，他找到了安迪为他留下的礼物:一叠面值的美元和一封信，并在墨西哥找到安迪，两个朋友最终相遇。

救赎

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. A strong man can save himself. A great man can save another.

懦怯囚禁人的灵魂，希望可以感受自由。强者自救，圣者渡人。

自由

Some birds aren't meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are just too bright.

有些鸟注定是不会被关在笼子里的，因为它们的每一片羽毛都闪耀着自由的光辉。

I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were s inging about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Som-e things are better left unsaid.I’d like to think they were singing about somethings so beautiful,it can" t expressed in words,and it makes y-our heart ache because of it.I tell you, th ose voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a great place dares to dr eam. It was as if some beautiful bird had flapped into our drab little cage an d made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man is Shawshank felt free.

到今天我还不知道那两个意大利娘们在唱些什么，其实，我也不想知道。有些东西还是留着不说为妙。我像她们该是在唱一些非常美妙动人的故事，美妙得难以用言语来表达，美妙的让你心痛。告诉你吧，这些声音直插云霄，飞得比任何一个人敢想的梦还要遥远。就像一些美丽的鸟儿扑扇着翅膀来到我们褐色牢笼，让那些墙壁消失得无影无踪。就在那一刹那，肖申克监狱的每一个人都感到了自由。

希望

Here’s where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don"t foget. Foget that there are palce in the world that aren’t made out of stone That there’s a---there’s a---there’s something inside that’s yours, that they can’t touch.

这就是意义所在。你需要它，就好像自己不要忘记。忘记世上还有不是用石 头围起来的地方。忘记自己的内心还有你自己的东西，他们碰不到的东西。

Let me tell you something my friend: Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

听我说，朋友，希望是件危险的事。希望能叫人发疯。

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

恐惧让你沦为囚犯。希望让你重获自由。

Remember, Red, hope is good thing, mabye the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

希望是件美丽的东西，也许是最好的东西。美好的东西是永远不会死的。

友谊

I find I’m so excited. I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

我发现自己是如此的激动，以至于不能静静地坐下来思考。我想只有那些重获自由即将踏上新征程的人们才能感受到这种即将揭开未来神秘面纱的激动心情。我希望跨越千山万水握住朋友的手，我希望太平洋的海水如同梦中的一样蓝：我希望。

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they’re gone. I guess I just miss my friend.

我不得不提醒自己有些鸟是不能关在笼子里的，他们的羽毛太漂亮了，当他们飞走的时候...你会觉得把他们关起来是种罪恶，但是，他们不在了你会感到寂寞，可是我只是想我的朋友了...

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