That Andy Dufresne looooves his posters. But what—no war films? No scenes from a courtroom drama? Why's it always gotta be the half-naked ladies?We get the sense that Andy isn't a total perv, so...

Late in the movie, Red gives us the most on-the-nose instance of symbolism we could reasonably hope for:RED: Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes, really. Pressure…and t...

Probably the single most enduring, striking image from the entire film is that shot of Andy standing outside Shawshank, shirtless, holding his arms up as the rain washes over him. Not just because...

As a symbol, the library operates on a few different planes in the film. It represents Andy's relentlessness, society's dismissiveness of the inmates, and, as all libraries are, an entrance to a wo...

The beautiful Mozart duet from the famous Mozart opera that Andy plays for the prisoners represents everything that the prison lacks: beauty, a world outside the confines of the prison, sharing the...

Who can forget the image at the end of the film of the Bible with the perfectly cut-out space for Andy's rock hammer? The Bible does double duty in the film, too, playing on two different takes on...