This film is a rare genre, sentimental film for men. Alternatively, as Tim Robbins said, “A film about male friendship without car chases and ambiguous overtones”. The screen relationship of Andy and Red, cultivated over the years, in a strange way reflects the equally lengthy process of “educating the love” of viewers for the film. Steven Spielberg once called “The Shawshank Redemption” his “chewing gum film”: if you stumble on, switching channels to this film, you will watch it until the very end.
Surely, everyone knows that “The Shawshank Redemption” was sold on quotes, one of which - “Get busy living or get busy dying” - inspired everyone and everything, from songwriters to t-shirt designers and tattooists.
And at the time of the movie premiere, the Variety edition called The Shawshank Redemption a “rough diamond,” and it really took the film pressure (multiple views) and time (two decades) to become a cinematic diamond.

“It seems to me that the tape is so important for our viewers because it answers many questions related to their lives in one way or another,” says Tim Robbins. “It doesn't matter where your “prison” is located. Maybe this is an unloved job, or lack of mutual understanding in the family. Your boss may be your boss or wife (husband), but you need to believe that somewhere there is an island of freedom, a conditional warm beach and an ocean wave. Any internal or external ideal, to which we must strive and be sure to achieve. Although, of course, in other cases it takes years and even decades.”

I do not know about you, but I was puzzled after watching.
The moral of the film - that we should never give up, always hope and fight to the bitter end - contradicts its ending. Instead of taking up the solution of the problems, the injustices that caused the heroes so much suffering, Red and Andy leave them. They prefer to be alone with nature and with their friendship, to forget everything that happened, and just enjoy life. However, you cannot do that! Who, then, will create this world?