It’s been 18 years since The Shawshank Redemption released in theater, and this night I roll in that great movie again. Incidentally, I read one of the greatest works of Tolstoy entitled “God Sees the Truth, but Waits” the night before. Was I dreaming or dream that makes all sense, even if it remains in a fiction? I had just wake up from my lousy sleep when my subconscious mind said something about the movie and the short story.
Both of them, the movie and the story, tell about someone that in one circumstance deals with prison. Stephen King, the author of The Shawshank Redemption, took the main character, Andy Dufresne, as one that must be prisoned for a murderer that he didn’t really do. For more than 20 years he must live in the prisonhood, until in one rainy day he escaped from it and came to be a free man.
Tolstoy’s story pretty much reveals the same with King’s. Aksenof, the main character in the “God Sees the Truth, but Waits” also sentenced by the judge for the same case. It is different from King’s, Tolstoy put his character in other situation. It was said that Askenof was in a journey to an annual fair in one of the town called Nizhmi. However, Askenof’s intention was being prohibited by his wife as a dream came to her. She told Aksenof or Ican Dimitricvich that something bad would happen for she saw his husband’s hair grew with in that dream.
If Duresne was being fucked by the lawyer; Askenof was being slandered by someone-we don’t-know. The remarkable thing is that Dufresne and also Aksenof was being taken into a faith to meet the truth. The truth that they found the real crook who made them crouched in the prison. King’s must made a messenger upon one of the character, say Tommy Williams, to tell the truth, while Tolstoy did met the crook with the main character, Askenof. This kind of situation in further makes difference for both of the story.
However, it’s not the point. The point is that the method of the two authors uses to reveal the truth upon their story. This is the problem! A problem that made me think: Is it nothing but coincidence or what? I even think of King as the author that inspired by Tolstoy’s; but would it be possible? There’s so much possibility can be made bout this. But the truth is, I don’t know for sure. What I really know is that either Leo Tolstoy’s “God Sees the Truth, but Waits” or Stephen King’s The Shawshank Redemption, both of them are masterpiece. And like any other masterpiece of works, it worth to read or even watch. (FA/Saswaloka)
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