看过三遍以上的影片都是美国影片：《肖申克的救赎》、《阿甘正传》、《星际穿越》、《教父》，而《肖申克的救赎》以独特的旁白，冷静地把我们带入到被限制自由后人们的各种状态，用第三者的角度而不是主角，让我们看到生命中最重要一部分“自由、隐忍、坚持、努力、真诚、善良”的价值和意义，更让我们知道只有有希望的生活才是有意义的：Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

        汉语翻译的再好，也是无法诠释出英语语言本身的美和意境。那些触动你灵魂深处的镜头时常闪现在你的记忆中。

一、Andy用自己的勇气、知识为一起劳动的狱友从最吝啬的监狱官那里拿到每人三瓶啤酒：

狱友们 We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men.We could have been tarring the roof of one of our own houses.We were the lords of all creation.这时Andy 蹲在一个墙角“A strange little smile on his face".

二、Andy冒险在喇叭里播放音乐意大利歌剧《费加罗的婚礼》而被独自监禁两周。

狱友问他这样做值得吗？同时他们觉得独囚的日子最难熬了,度日如年。

  Was it worth two weeks?  No such thing as easy time in the hole, a week in the hole is like a year

Andy却说这是他过得最舒服的两周：

Easiest time I ever did.You need it so you don't forget that there are place in the world that aren't made out of stone. There's something inside. That they can't get to.They can't touch.That's yours.

三、放弃了挣扎、放弃了希望、归顺了环境的Brook在释放后却选择自杀

I can't believe how fast things more on the outside.The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.

四、Red听不懂歌剧《费加罗的婚礼》，却能感受到它的美：

Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best unsaid. I like to think it was something to beautiful.it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache ...

        生命本无意义，是我们自己赋予了它意义，而希望和自由就是我们赋予它最大的意义。绝大多数人在被生活不断捶打之后就放弃了挣扎，依靠习惯和体制生活，也慢慢地失去自我，也没有所谓的生活意义了，有的只是生活的负担和身体的欲望，正如影片中的Brook一样，最终释放后无法适应外面的新世界而选择自杀。

       赋予生活足够的意义，不放弃自己的“Hope",不断地丰富你那饥渴的的灵魂，你会越来越享受独处，你也越来越淡定、宁静、从容。