Best Film of 2005

A drama depicting a community’s true-to-life struggle with racism, alienation, and rage.

I do not know many people who have watched this movie, but it’s a movie showed last year that I believe has made an impact in the movie industry. This is because Hollywood is making movies that has strong messages about society. This movie speaks to me in the areas of indifference and racism. I realized that sometimes I become so tolerant that it numbs me in feeling compassion for people, instead I often judge and label people. This movie has shown me that we can’t judge a book by its cover, and that our comfort zones will not keep us safe forever. Everyone are the same no matter what color, language, status or culture they belong to – after all we were all created in God’s image.

MOVIE QUOTES

[first lines]
Graham: It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.

Anthony: It's just black people demeaning other black people, using that word over and over. You ever hear white people callin' each other "honky" all the time? "Hey, honky, how's work?" "Not bad, cracker, we're diversifying!"

Jean: I am angry all the time… and I don't know why.

Daniel: She had these little stubby wings, like she could've glued them on, you know, like I'm gonna believe she's a fairy. So she said, "I'll prove it." So she reaches into her backpack and pulls out this invisible cloak and she ties it around my neck. And she tells me that it's impenetrable. You know what impenetrable means? It means nothing can go through it. No bullets, nothing. She told me that if I wore it, nothing would hurt me. And I did. And my whole life, I never got shot, stabbed, nothing. I mean, how weird is that?

 

My favorite movie

The Shawshank Redemption

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

Why is it my favorite movie?

As a kid, i was told to study hard to earn a decent living, get married, have kids,see them grow up, wait for grandchildren and finally die happy. Sounds familiar? This movie showed me that hope is a reason to keep on living but hope alone is not enough. This movie led me into thinking as to the reason of me being here on earth, and as a result, took me more closer to my Creator. I realise it is Him who gives me hope, endurance, freedom, and peace in staying alive.

—Hope: “A good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
(Romans 15:1–4, 13; 1 Corinthians 15:51–58; Philippians 3:12–21; 1 John 4:13–18; Revelation 21:1–4)
—Endurance: “It would take a man 600 years to tunnel through the wall … old Andy did it in less than 20.” (1 Corinthians 9:24–27; Hebrews 12:1–13; Philippians 3:7–14)
—Freedom: “Some birds aren’t meant to be caged.” (John 8:31–47; Romans 5:8; 6:15–23)
—Inner Peace: “An invisible coat that would shield him from this place.” (Philippians 4:4–9; Romans 12:1–8, 18)

MOVIE QUOTES

Andy Dufresne: Get busy living, or get busy dying.

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

Andy Dufresne: Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And a good thing never dies.

[on Red's harmonica playing]
Andy Dufresne: Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget. Forget that there are places 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.