Chapter 395: A Man Who Doesn't Fit In With The World
Two of the real villains in this movie.
The first was the sanctimonious warden who gave his first lecture to the new prisoners with a copy of the Bible and said: "I believe in only two things here, discipline and the Bible, both of which you can get here." ”
The second is a prison guard chief, Hadley, who is brutal and tyrannical, and anyone in the prison who offends him will either be beaten to death or beaten to death.
In Shawshank prison, there are no human rights.
Prison wardens and prison guards are the ones who rule.
The film was told to all viewers from the beginning.
How bad the situation Hong Chen is facing now.
Unjustly imprisoned, imprisoned forever, sanctimonious wardens and brutal prison guards......
It's like a nightmare that you'll never wake up from.
When ordinary people encounter this situation, they are afraid that they have already lost any will to survive.
The first night was the hardest for the new inmates.
Old prisoners will taunt new prisoners wantonly, and this happens every year.
They swear and taunt the new prisoner, hoping that the new prisoner they are betting on will be the first to cry.
"I can't stand it anymore, I don't belong here, I'm going back to my mom. ”
In the end, the fattest one couldn't stand it anymore and was the first to cry.
Hearing his cry, the whole prison began to cheer.
They were laughing wildly in the iron-barred room.
"The winner is born!"
"It's the fat man, the fat man cries first!"
"Your mom isn't that good. ”
It was at this time that the cheers of the prison drew the jail guard Hadley. He came in with four or five men, and he broke in viciously.
At this moment, all the old prisoners shut up and were quiet, except for the fat man, who was still crying.
"Shut up!" Hadley shouted as he came to the fat man's prison door.
"Sir, I don't belong here, they're mistaken. The fat man was still crying and begging him for mercy.
Seeing his appearance, Hadley's face became more and more gloomy, and he said, "I count to three, no, I don't actually want to count one." ”
Immediately, he took off his hat and handed it to the person next to him, and asked the younger brother to open the prison door, and then rushed in and pulled the fat man out, took out his baton and began to beat the fat man.
Until the fat man lay flat on the ground, there was no longer life.
"Take him to the infirmary. Hadley said indifferently.
Then he glanced at the others and threatened viciously, "If I hear any rats farting again tonight, don't think about it!"
With that, he left.
This night has always been Freeman's point of view.
And the person he bet on is Hong Chen.
Freeman could often guess who was the first to cry, but this year was his most unsuccessful year, because the whole night, Hong Chen didn't make a sound.
He went through such a predicament and didn't know what he was thinking at this time.
The fat man died in the infirmary the next day.
In the following month, Hong Chen was in prison, alone, without saying a word, and rarely communicating with others.
Freeman had been silently watching him, and Freeman thought to himself that he was probably still adjusting to the prison environment.
It wasn't until a month later that Hong Chen talked to someone for the first time, and the person he was looking for was Freeman.
Hong Chen knew that Freeman could get his hands on anything, and wanted to buy him a small hammer for striking rocks.
"Why do you buy a hammer, do you dig tunnels?" asked Freeman, confused.
Hearing this, Hong Chen smiled and said, "You will understand when you see that hammer that this is simply impossible." I'm a rock lover and just want to keep my hobby to a minimum. ”
Then, the two men made a deal.
When Freeman got the little hammer from the outside, he couldn't help but laugh.
Because that hammer is small.
"If someone really wants to dig a tunnel with this hammer to escape, it will need to be dug for at least 600 years. ”
This was Freeman's first thought when he saw the hammer.
Since then, it has been the flood dust from Freeman's perspective.
"I understand why so many people think he's pretentious. ”
"Because his quietness is different. ”
"Talking and walking are out of place here. ”
"It was like a walk in the park, carefree. ”
"It's as if there's an invisible garment separating him from here. ”
The way this film tells the story is very different from other films, and it belongs to the style of telling the story, but it is extraordinarily attractive.
The whole scene was also filmed smoothly.
This drama needs hundreds of group performances in prison uniforms every day, and the group performances in Mi Guo are expensive, so the cost is not small.
After that, the plot was a little depressing, and Hong Chen offended the "Sisters" for some reason.
He naturally resisted, but as the movie said, this is not a fairy tale, and the reality is often very cold.
In the next two years, Hong Chen often had injuries on his face and body.
Freeman watched him silently as a spectator.
This is a real prison, a real prison without so many gangs, not so many brawls, there are just obedience.
Because of Hong Chen's maverick, no one helped him.
Freeman likes Hongchen's personality, but can't really help him.
Freeman couldn't help but think: "The first two years must be the hardest two years for him, and I believe that after a while, he will not be able to hold on." ”
It wasn't until a mission in the beginning of spring that all that changed.
The task was to go to the roof and apply asphalt, which was very good work for the prisoners, because it was May, and the sun was so bright in May that they were able to see the sun.
Prisoners crave the outdoors.
Freeman knew the jailer well, so he only paid the price of two packs of cigarettes to put him and the group of people he had befriended on the list, including Hongchen.
While working outdoors, a few of them were using mops to apply asphalt. The prison guards were there chatting.
The topic was that the prison guard, Hadley, had received a $35,000 inheritance, but was unhappy to complain there because he had to pay a large amount of taxes.
Before he was imprisoned, he was a banker and knew how to avoid taxes reasonably.
Then, at the risk of being thrown off the roof by Hadley, Hong Chen stepped forward and offered his own proposal. According to his proposal, Hadley would not have to pay a penny of taxes.
Similarly, Hadley doesn't need a lawyer, because Hong Chen can add all the forms for him.
The premise is that Hong Chen wants Hadley to ask each of his "colleagues" to drink three cold beers.
Here, Hong Chen uses the word "colleague" instead of "accomplice" or "prisoner", which also gets an early warning mockery.
In the end, Hong Chen did it.
He earned these people a keg of ice-cold beer.
The voiceover is Freeman's voice:
"The day before the work ended, in the spring of 1949, a group of prisoners were asphalting the roof. At 10 a.m., they sat together and drank cold beer. And the person who invited the guests was the most ferocious and stingy prison guard in the entire Shawshank Prison. ”
"We sat in the sun, drank beer and felt like free people. ”
"It's like we're fixing our own roof, we still have everything. ”
The picture cuts to the flood dust, and the narration continues:
Andy, sitting in the shade of the roof at this moment, with a strange smile on his face, watched us share his beer. ”
"Some people say Andy did it to curry favor with the prison guards, while others say he did it to make friends with us people. ”
"As for me, I think Andy did it to feel like he's become a normal person again. ”
"Even if it's just for a short time. ”