The Next Three Days and The Shankshaw Redemption

                The Next Three Days, directed by Paul Haggis, and The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont, were two movies that showed the imprisonment of innocent people and the drive to escape their forced destiny. The Next Three Days is about a woman name Lara who is charged for the murder of her boss. John is convinced that she is innocent but all evidence point to Lara being guilty. John becomes desperate to release his innocent wife from jail but he couldn’t appeal her case. So he finds and plans an escape for his wife from jail. In The Shawshank Redemption, is very similar to The Next Three Days, because it also deals with an innocent man named Andy Dufresne who has been found guilty of murdering his cheating ex-wife.  Andy becomes good friends with an inmate named Red, who helps Andy get through the hardships of prison life. Although Andy is innocent and can prove it, he still kept in the prison to be a personal assistant to the warden of the prison. What nobody knew was that Andy had been planning an escape for 20 years.  

                Both movies have mistrials given to each person who is innocent but who have great evidence against them. Another similarity I found was that they both dealt with the escape of both, although the motives were different. In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy drives himself to the point of insane desperateness of escaping the prison and is given through the point of view through Red his good friend. In The Next Three Days it is not Lara who plans her escape but rather her husband. Another difference I saw was the incentives for breaking out of jail. John and Lara had the need to be with each other and to form the family again. As for Andy, it was a sense of escaping his life altogether and finding a new peaceful life, one he didn’t have even before he went to jail.