I love The Shawshank Redemption too. There are so many little elements that are to be savored. One of my favorite sequences is when Tim Robbins' character plays the Mozart opera duet over the loudspeaker, and Morgan Freeman as the narrator says that to this day he had no idea what those two ladies were singing about in Italian, but that it was probably something that couldn't be expressed in words, and for a moment every man in the prison felt free. It's not a fast-paced movie; it took its time to tell the story and reveal its most important themes (including the paradox that the warden was the worst criminal of all, the concept of individual freedom, the difficulties of finding true justice when there was no one to speak for you). I never read the King story on which it is based, so I don't know how faithful it is to the written work, but on its own merits it's thought-provoking and rewarding. All the actors do a splendid job, especially Robbins and Freeman. Definitely a movie to watch again and again.