Shawshank Redemption: A classic MGTOW movie.

The commenter who posted this analysis on a movie discussion sub said it perfectly.<br><br>Shawshank Redemption (1994) is an excellent analogy for any man who’s been in a relationship with a woman.<br><br>Red (played by Morgan Freeman) is an experienced veteran of the prison system. Andy (played by Tom Hanks) is an innocent young man convicted of a crime he did not commit. Andy is an everyman, a regular guy who got screwed by the system. He’s a very good man who did nothing wrong, who paid his dues and never broke a rule, and yet he still gets screwed by the system. <br><br>Andy is the quintessential nice guy. He has a good job, he’s a good son to his parents, he marries a nice woman. When his wife has an affair with another man, he confronts her about it and he’s arrested for her murder (even though he did not kill her). He did not deserve to be in jail, and he did not deserve to have the women in his life betray him like that, but he gets punished anyway.<br><br>Andy is thrown into prison, where the tyrannical Warden Norton (played by Bob Gunton) and the corrupt and cruel guard Captain Hadley (played by Clancy Brown) make his life a pure hell. The warden and the captain are like the system, the legal system stacked against men. The captain takes a glee in beating the shit out of any prisoner who defies him, and the warden will stop at nothing to keep his power and his status.<br><br>The only hope any of the prisoners have is that someday they’ll be paroled. But the parole board is like the family court, stacked against men. They are cruel, corrupt, and sadistic, and they will deny parole to any prisoner who defies them. They deny every parole request Andy makes, no matter how hard he tries to prove himself to them, no matter how hard he works or how many times he kisses their ass. They only care about their own power and their own corruption, not about what’s right or what’s fair.<br><br>And yet even in prison there is hope. There is hope that someday you’ll escape. And when you escape you can discover a new paradise, a new life, a new freedom.<br><br>The only way to be free is to escape.<br><br>You cannot reform the system. The system will never change. The system is a cancer, and as long as the system exists men will be exploited and oppressed. The only way you can avoid being exploited and oppressed is to escape.<br><br>Escape to a new life, a new freedom, a new paradise where you can be the man you’re meant to be.