The Shawshank Redemption and The Next Three Days Scuttlebutt

Both Andy and Lara are innocent and wrongly convicted of a murder. However, it takes you some time to discover that Lara isn’t guilty (about ¾ into the movie after she tells her husband that she did it), but from the get go, you can pretty much assume that Andy never killed his wife (same as Days, about ¾ through the movie, we hear another prisoner actually admit he’s guilty of the crime). Both films also center on the breaking out of jail, but in very different ways. In Shawshank, we don’t find out until the end that Andy’s been planning his escape all along. He has no spouse, friends, etc. so he must rely on himself to get out of prison. In Days, the main character (John), the one who isn’t in jail, is the one that we spend time with. His wife, God knows why, has no intention of busting out or pleading her innocence. It’s only when John literally forces her to come with him does she decide to finally break free. Both films also span over a great deal of time. In ShawshankI believe we spend over a decade with these characters and in >Days, we spend about three years with them. All in all, The Shawshank Redemption and The Next Three Days share subtle similarities (jail breaks, wrongly convicted characters), but it’s within these similarities that there are differences (one character wanting to break out, the other accepting her fate, etc.).