10 Things You Didn't Know About The Shawshank Redemption
3. Andy's Escape From Prison Has Biblical Undertones
Everyone's happy to see Andy finally escape from prison towards the end of Shawshank, after all, he was put there for a crime that he never committed. In the twenty years it takes him to form an escape route, Andy becomes a first-time criminal only after going to prison. Sick of laundering money for his corrupt prison Warden, who also has the one person who could testify to his innocence executed, Andy decides to make a break for freedom at whatever the cost. In one final middle finger to the man who essentially owns his life though, Andy reveals Warden Norton's corruption to the press upon his escape. One of the most satisfying and intricately crafted scenes in Shawshank is when Norton discovers that Andy has stolen his bank records and replaced them with a bible featuring a neatly cut outline within that had hidden his rock hammer. Other than Norton's facial expression upon discovering that he's been had, the page in which Andy has had the hammer hidden all this time is at the beginning of the Book of Exodus. The chapter in question details how the Israelites escaped slavery under Egyptian rule and found freedom, casting off the shackles of confinement.
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