Narrative Techniques In Shawshank Redemption

In the movie Shawshank redemption. Directed by Frank Darabont in 1994 was a great movie that used different techniques to show and highlight key idea. A method that was a main technique was narration. The use of narration was used many times through out the film from the beginning to the very end. The narration was done by the character Red, Red's narration of his stories and personal thoughts of Andy really helped develop Andy's character through out the film.

Andy's character was mainly shown through the character Red through his personally thoughts on Andy, this is giving the audience a nice first hand experience of Andy as they feel like Red personally thoughts are actually the viewers thoughts. The first example of the narration to help …show more content…
A couple of scenes later during the "fresh fish" scene where the prison mates are provoking the new inmates to crack and win a bet that they placed on a prisoner, Red put a bet on Andy to break but Red in a narration voice says that he didn’t make a single sound the whole night, not even a peep . This makes the audience feel quite confused about Andy's personality, as he as come into prison as a man who killed 2 people but he has a character that keeps to himself and is quite mysterious. This is a perfect introduction to Andy character, this gives the audience a perfect look at his personality, here it is showing the audience that Andy is a cereal killer and there is in prison being a quite …show more content…
When Andy was sitting on the bus in his way to the prison Red narration tells us that Andy was on his to prison because he killed his wife and her secret lover, and also tells the audience that he was a fancy banker. This information was only explained by Red, so without this narration of Red the audience would've been left with a big hole of who Andy is and why he is in prison. Another example of this is when Andy brakes out of prison, the audience was left with a suspense as it looked like Andy was going to commit suicide in prison as he had a rope in his hand before cutting to the next scene, the way he broke out of prison was only shown through Reds flash back and narration of how he got out of prison, of how Andy dig a hole and crawled through a mile of a sewage pipe. Without these narrations of Red there would be big holes of information that needed to be known to the audience, through Red information was handed to the audience and made them know what was going on through out the film. Red played a big part in the entire