Buoyancy vs The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 7.1/10 for Buoyancy). Buoyancy is the shorter watch at 1h 33m compared with 2h 22m. The Shawshank Redemption is the older of the two (1994 against 2019). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Buoyancy
The Shawshank Redemption| Buoyancy | The Shawshank Redemption | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.1/10 | ★ 8.7/10 |
| Year | 2019 | 1994 |
| Length | 1h 33m | 2h 22m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Rodd Rathjen | Frank Darabont |
| Main cast | Thanawut Ketsaro, Saichia Wongwirot, Sarm Heng, Rous Mony, Yothin Udomsanti | Clancy Brown, William Sadler, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Ragno |
Synopsis
Buoyancy
An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he starts to wonder if his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.
The Shawshank Redemption
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
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