Hidden Meaning in The Shawshank Redemption - Earthling Cinema 

In a related piece of irony: this film had a life sentence to be played every Saturday afternoon on what used to be called cable television.

"As we all know, the being known as God left earth in the year 1991 *pause* "

Wormuloid says God abandoned earth in 1991. The year Freddie Mercury died.

"God abandoned Earth in 1991" .... I was born in 1991. Coincidence?! o_0 Also, I just noticed that Andy hides his hammer in the book of Exodus. Not only a book about slaves being freed, the word Exodus comes from the Latin word meaning "to expel, exit, or escape."

I studied this film in my final year of high school. It started a great love of films for me and to this day, Shawshank is one of my all time favourites :)

"you'll think you got fucked by a train" - Mark 13:35

Do The Silence of the Lambs, please?

Eyebrows look bushier than usual.

The Green Mile!

I want to thank you wisecrack. I really enjoy all the content you upload to youtube. I show some of your videos to my dad and he totally loved it!! He is 64 and he even learned how to use youtube just to watch your videos and thanks to you now i have new conversation themes to talk to my dad everytime you guys update ( I'm sorry if my english is awful, i'm still learning) But yeah, thank you so much, you are awesome, please keep doing earthling cinema, thug notes, pop psych and everything you think is interesting enough to be part of your channel!!

I just found your channel yesterday and I think I've watched about 10 of your videos. Every single one has given me a unique perspective on a movie I know and love. You're a genius, man. Even better, a funny genius.

Seriously! Do Blade Runner! It's non negotiable.

This my favorite movie. The "Brooks Was Here" scene still makes me teary eyed.

I would love to see you do Pan's Labyrinth! It's a rich and complex movie, I think it would make for great analysis.

Do O Brother Where Art Thou! I just saw it and it's amazing and probably worthy of an analysis.

Just discovered your channel thanks to the crossover with Cracked. Loving what you're doing. I haven't gone through your entire catalog yet so apologies if any of my suggestions have already been done. * The Fifth Element * Galaxy Quest * Star Trek (a variety) * Tolkein/Jackson collection * Gattaca * Empire Records * X-Men (pick one??) * Edward Scissorhands * Beetlejuice * The Shadow * Masters of the Universe * Interstellar There are just so many that deserve this treatment! * Anything by Rob Schneider, viewed by aliens as serious cinema and highly influential to our culture * Same for Adam Sandler * Ernest P Whorl as well? Probably best to not overdo this approach. And yet... * Peewee's Big Adventure (the movie, not his legal adventures) * Ocean's Eleven * The Matrix trilogy (or a take in which the sequels never happened?? I would love to see how you decide to handle it.) * "Kung fu" stuff. Jackie Chan, Jet Li (Fearless? Unleashed?), Bruce Lee, The Best of the Best, Karate Kid, etc. * The Sixth Sense * Signs * Mars Attacks So many more but I don't want to further dilute this list. Looking forward to more!

Apologies for having not realised a few minutes ago, that you had already produced a video on The Shawshank Redemption. At present I have just watched back to back your videos of Shrek, Titanic, Forrest Gump, Brokeback Mountain, and The Shining as well as obviously this one, and so far I am impressed and amused. Thanks for them, looking forward to the rest of the videos, regardless of whether I have watched the movie they are featuring as appears to be the case with several of them.

This is becoming one of my favorite youtube channels. Definitely deserves more attention

The is one of the best Earthling Cinema episodes ever. I loved it! Really good stuff.

Amazing video. Thanks for spreading knowledge.

Throughly enjoyed this episode. "Shawshank Redemption" is one of my favorite movies. I really hope "Clerks" or "Mall Rats" are on the list for future episodes. I also think "Rounders" would be a good episode as well.

I'd love to see an episode of Earthling Cinema on Ferris Bueller's Day off!

1991: The year Gene Roddenberry died, creator of Star Trek. That has to be it!

YESS. Thank you guys so much! I was hoping to this movie analyzed.

I love how good your show is, Sir.

Was not expecting the fully torqued on freedom line. Well played, Earthling Cinema. Well played.

Spot on, excellent analysis!

This is the first video I have watched on your channel and my heart is still laughing. Thank you for a thought provoking and humorous film. I have subscribed and hope to keep enjoying your shows. Please do the movie, V for Vendetta, staring Hugo Weaving. Thank you.

thank you for making me watch this movie one of the best and truly a masterpiece

Awesome work guys! I love your reviews.Please do Taxi Driver,There will be blood and Dr. Strangelove.

Great review as usual.

I love this channel :)

First video i see from you and i have to admit i loved it!

Beautiful. Your eyebrows and the analysis.

The Godfather, Casablanca, Gone With the Wind, Citizen Cane, please do more about the classics like these...

One of your best review so far.

Enjoyed, TYVM!

I can't believe how good this is

This video has just provided me with the greatest summary of the movie I've ever heard.

Best one yet. Love it!

Fantastic episode! I just... WOW! Can't wait for "Dr Strangelove"!

What a great analysis, this channel is awesome! Would love to see The Godfather or The Pianist (:

how about Akira, I feel like theres enough stuff there to analyze

Another great video! How about doing one for SLC Punk?

What a coincidence. One of my favorite movies, and I just turned in a paper today on Sartre's understanding of human freedom.

I'd really like to see you do one for the movie Hard Candy. It deals with really important subject manner and is really well done.

Love the episode ^^. Here's a movie that might be interesting to analyze, Fargo. (My mom and I have watched it and we discussed about the character and plot for a good hour) :D

This is the best episode yet

Why the heck is this series so good!

Plus, small things are funny! You are hilarious. Love the channel.

my favourite movie, thank you.

dude, your goddamn movies are GENIUS writing. it's unbelievable.

another great episode! I never saw much in this movie; didn't get the hype. I do like the 'shaping rocks and freedom' motif. Didn't Andy make wood sculptures in this movie too? Or was that another film? Also, Dufresne means 'ash' as in 'ash tree' in French, the leaves of which are spear-shaped. I think there's some significance in there, but I just can't grasp it yet.

You got to do " The Godfather " or " Enter the Void ". Awesome movies.

"Sucks for you, object!" had my dying.

This is my favorite video in my favorite video series in my favorite channel

Great stuff. Who wrote this last commentary? CAn I get the short book with pictures? LOL

that was really good! those who made this, pat yourself on the back because... Damn!!! that was epic, someone took their time on the jokes with this one!!!

my god this is brilliant!

Amazing!

Basically told me something I already knew, but with more details. Thanks.

I'd love a video on The Prestige, one of my absolute favorites.

His sign on the wall, the stitch work quote, misspells ‘judgment’... Lol

As always Mr Wormuloid.....Genius

You guys are the best ! Please do Bergman's The Seventh Seal ! Greetings from Greece x

The only bad point was the prononciation of Jean-Paul Sartre.

Love the channel! Especially Earthling Cinema! But you've missed a rather significant allusion in this one. You've said nothing about Andy being the figure of Christ himself. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--2hWKvq35RM.html Andy’s unexpected escape is a clear allusion to the death and resurrection of Jesus. “Oh my holy God.” Just as Red and others go looking for Andy’s dead body, the disciples went looking for Christ’s. Just as Red and the guards found the cell empty and Andy alive so too did Jesus’ followers. The entire film is in fact meaningful in light of the gospel. Andy’s resurrection redeems Red, “the only guilty man in Shawshank.” In a clear reversal of its prison film genre (think Cool Hand Luke and Escape from Alcatraz), the Shawshank Redemption depicts prisoners dreading NOT imprisonment, BUT freedom. And they dread it as they would death itself. Brooks, for instance, tries to kill Haywood when he finds he’s been paroled and later kills himself because of it. The prisoners of Shawshank are “Institutionalized.” Freedom for them means only to be empty and alone. Shawshank represents the life we know and outside, death, the world we've yet to encounter. But there is life outside, a point Andy, Shawshank’s only innocent man, wants his fellow prisoners to see. He offers them rare and extraordinary reminders of the outside world, like a beer on a hot roof, angelic music over the prison’s speakers, and a library, built by breaking down the walls of the prison. In the process, Andy suffers greatly for these acts. But it's Andy’s ultimate miraculous escape and life on the outside which means hope for Red. Because Andy lives Red will live also. He waits for Red, working the wood of a fishermen’s boat. All before an eternal sea. If that isn't an intentional allusion to Jesus, I don't know what is.

Earth salute you future enthusiast ! I hope the place were you find the artefacts is a blockbuster video tomb. It is truly a great place for excavation:)

Beautiful.

I love watching your show...please do breaking dawm..

Easy Rider!! I did a review for it in one of my film classes and I'd love to see what we find in common!

Another great episode, I get the feeling you guys could do something special with American Psycho.

Dr. Seuss died in 1991 and his books are deeper than the bible.

dope video

Why you gotta joke about brooks 😭😭😂😂

First time watching this series. Once you made The King Stephen joke. I'm in. subscribed.

Damn this shit just as funny as Thug Notes! You guys are hilarious and insightful at the same time-keep it up!

I don't know how much analysis can be done, but a review on Moonrise Kingdom would be awesome

Would love to see Wormuloid do the little-known 2001 Kevin Spacey/Jeff Bridges film K-PAX: That would provide a lot of food for thought, especially in the way that it's shot and uses light as a central theme.

Garyx! If you can find it, please review the movie The Sound of Music. I remembered that beloved earthling classic all those cycles ago.

Do Spirited Away. Pretty deep for a kids film

You should do music, books, and shows, too

Do A Serious Man by the Coen Brothers, that movie was amazing, please!!!

Damn Garyx, your eyebrows are extra fierce in this episode. 👌

That product placement was flawless

HOW DOES THIS NOT HAVE MORE VIEWS!

...awesome stuff garyx...how about alien or aliens?

Already subscribed to Wisecrack, but just discovered this pearl! Great format! I have an alternative interpretation to the whole movie which makes the ending turn out as a fictious representation - a dream of an optimistic possibility. Remember the night Red thought that Andy might have killed himself? Well, as he had lately been that gloomy because of all the trouble that happened to him lately, there is good reasons to believe the suicide really happened. A lot of things in the finale seem unrealistic to me: from the escape itself, to the fact that Red literally f**** off the giury, but they released him; and he anyway manages to find Andy in that paradisiac island in the middle of.. whaaat? Cmon. The happy ending is what the audience wants to see, as well as the epic revenge to the evil prison and their characters. Unfortunately, in reality that would never happen!

Psst, could you do Danny The Dog? That would be awesome. And thanks for this one, The Shawshank Redemption is probably my favourite movie ever. ^^

blew my mind

Would you consider doing "The Maltese Falcon"?

That was spectac-uloid! How about doing Silver Streak, or Vanishing Point (the original)

Speaking of "the word man" Stephen King, the Shining needs to be put on this list immediately.

Oh oh oh! Hidden Meaning in *Donnie Darko*. my favourite cult film. You should so do that. :P

Bring back earthling cinema!!!!!

Do Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, please.

i LOVE your eyebrows

could you please do The Hudsucker Proxy? it's a great movie with a ton of stuff to analyze

3:00 this makes an eerie amount of sense...

Top shelf! I'm still waiting on Babe the Sheep Pig, though. Braveheart stole best picture undeservingly!