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Title: Institutionalism A Theme developed in Shawshank Redemption


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Institutionalism A Theme developed in Shawshank
Redemption
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Convicted criminals are sent to prison to be
rehabilitated so that one day they will no longer
pose a threat to citizens on the outside.
This is not the case at Shawsank
Prison
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Shawshank, in Reality, is a Place of Permenant
Confinment, and Institutionalism
  • Its system strives to eliminate the tiniest of
    hope of freedom from their prisoners.
  • Shawshanks system in action is shown through the
    character Brooks.

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Brooks Institutionalized
  • Early on in the movie Brooks, a prisoner in the
    jail for over 50 years, discovers he will soon be
    set free. Brooks is horrified, and attacks an
    inmate in hopes his act of violence will revoke
    his parole.
  • Its the only way theyll let me stay!

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Reds Words About Brooks
  • These walls are funnyfirst you hate them, then
    you get used to them, then you depend on
    themthats institutionalized.
  • They send you hear for life, thats exactly what
    they take, the part that counts anyway.
  • In here hes somebody, out there hes nobody.
  • Brooks has been in prison too long to know how
    to function on the outside world.

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Brooks on the Outside
  • The Shawshank Redemption films a montage to show
    viewers Brooks experience as a free man.
  • Narration
  • Medium shot on bus
  • Work
  • He has trouble sleeping
  • Long Shot of Crossing Street
  • Buying Gun
  • Send me home.
  • Long shot in park
  • Close-up of hands

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Institutionalism Brookss Demise
  • Brooks commits suicide because he is unable to
    cope with life outside of prison.
  • As he is preparing for his death viewers see a
    close-up of his face smiling through the railings
    of the ceilings pillar.
  • This signifies that Brooks was a happy man in
    prison. He does not like his freedom. He commits
    suicide to escape it.

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Reds Comments
  • When Red and Andy hear the news of Brookss death
    Reds reaction is, He should have died in here.
  • Brooks should have died at home

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The Force of Institutionalism The Warden and
the Prison System
  • The Warden presents the image of a religious man
    who would like to see his inmates rehabilitated
    by the power of God
  • Cross-stitch
  • Bible
  • In reality the Warden is an evil, corrupt man who
    could not care less about his prisoners.
  • Bible and cross-stitch used to hide true
    personna.
  • Uses inmates as slave labor for his work program.
  • Does not allow Andy to leave prison, and kills
    Billy the only person who could testify to Andys
    innocence.

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  • The parole board is an example of how Shawshanks
    prison system is a force of institutionalism.
  • Reds parole hearings
  • Routieness of his answers
  • Yes sirwithout a doubtno danger to society
    here
  • Close-up of Rejected Stamp
  • Viewers can see the cold-blooded murderer in Red
    no longer exists. They know he is a changed man,
    a good man, but yet the parole continues to deny
    him the freedom he deserves.

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Andy A Force Working Against Institutionism
  • Andy hangs on to the life he lived before he was
    sent to prison.
  • Montage of taxes for guards
  • Andy has hope.
  • He spreads it throughout prison by playing music
  • Montage of prisoners listening to record player
  • Giving the Harmonica to Red
  • Instrument of music
  • Andy gives this to Red after his parole is
    rejected
  • Andy tries to give Red hope so he can avoid the
    same fate as Brookss
  • Red will not play it for Andy
  • Later on when he is alone in cell gives it one
    small whistle

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  • Andy confronts Warden on his policies of
    institutionalism when he rejects his plea for a
    new trial.
  • Calls him Obtuse
  • His actions are deliberate. He wants to keep Andy
    in prison.
  • Andy escapes from prison.
  • Spends 20 years digging a tunnel
  • Crawls through septic pipe
  • Arial shot when reaches the outside.

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Get Bust Living or Get Busy Dying
  • Andy recognizes the importance to have hope and
    to live for something, or else life isnt worth
    living. Andy refuses to sit in his cell for 80
    years and wait to die.
  • The hope of one day returning to the outside
    world is what allows him to regain his freedom at
    the end of the film.
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