Chapter 568: Redemption
Later, Andy started doing things again.
This time he snuck into the room where the radio was playing and put on a song for Shawshank Prison.
At the moment when the song sounded, whether it was a prisoner walking in the playground or a prisoner working in a labor camp, they all raised their heads with him and looked at the place where the song came from.
Although many people can't appreciate this song, although many people don't even hear what the lyrics are, and some people even think it's not good, they still look at the sky in a daze, and hope flashes in their eyes.
As Red said, "I've never understood what they're singing, and I don't want to. They... sings an indescribable beauty, and the beauty is heartbreaking. The song soars into the clouds, surpassing the dreams of amnesiac prisoners, like a bird flying into the cell, making the walls disappear without a trace. At this moment, all the Shawshank prisoners felt free. ”
Andy leisurely put his hands behind his head and closed his eyes to enjoy the beauty of the music, even after he was later arrested and imprisoned, he still did not grieve.
When he came out, he touched his chest and said to his fellow inmates, "They have taken everything from me, but they can't take away what is in my heart." ”
Yes, it's like locking up the master, but not the heart.
If the audience doesn't understand this, then let's be more rude.
It's like forcibly taking away someone's cute girl, taking away her body, but not taking away her heart.
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Later, Andy continued to do things, writing letters to the government every week for an unknown number of years, and finally drove the government crazy, directly giving him books and money, and helping my brother build a prison library.
I can also listen to songs.
After the incident was exposed, many media interviewed the warden. The warden unceremoniously took the credit for himself, and said that he would take the prisoners to do more "meaningful" things in the future.
These prisoners are free labor.
What manpower, materials, there are loopholes everywhere, and oil can be rubbed everywhere. And behind every black money, Andy is there, and it is all the accounts he makes.
He and Red revealed that when the warden retires, he will be a millionaire!
This was an unimaginable number in the 60s.
The audience couldn't help but feel speechless, this is special, it's too good, right?
The point is that Andy also made up an identity, and he was not afraid of being found out at all.
This further fueled the warden's corruption.
This went on for many years, until 66: Andy's 19th year in prison!
At this moment, Andy has gray hair on his sideburns, and when he reads, he still has reading glasses on the bridge of his nose. After he set up a reading hall, he helped many inmates obtain diplomas over the years.
This year, many new prisoners came to the prison, one of whom was Tommy, a thief who liked to tell jokes, and soon became one with the prisoners.
He sought out a teacher from Ann Dubai and began to learn from the spelling of the alphabet. Andy's willingness to teach him is not only because of Tommy's likable personality, but also because of the necessity of prison life.
Life in prison is too slow, and the inmates have their own way of passing the time. Someone collects stamps, someone builds a matchhouse, Andy used to carve stones, then built a library, and now he has a new plan: to help Tommy get his diploma.
In prison, you have to find something to do if you have nothing to do.
But unexpectedly, Andy's unintentional move to pass the time brought him an unexpected surprise.
The young man, Tommy, had been in other prisons for stealing a car. In that prison, he met a fellow inmate who said he had lurked at a golf club and targeted the rich. In one mistake, he killed the manager of the golf club and his mistress.
The prisoner also boasted to Tommy that the mistress's husband, the big banker, had taken the blame for himself.
Wow!
At this moment, I don't know how many viewers around the world were in an uproar, although everyone had expected that he didn't look like a murderer through Andy's usual performance, but they didn't expect the truth of the matter to be so weird.
Andy was really wronged and took the blame for others.
Twenty years in prison...
It's really sitting in vain.
Later, Andy, who finds out the truth, comes to the warden's office and tells him that he was wronged, hoping that he can help him overturn the case.
But the warden ruthlessly refused, saying that Tommy's words were a lie.
It seems that this is not enough, and the warden simply kills Tommy.
Now it's clean, just launder the money for Lao Tzu, do you have to overturn the case? And you Tommy, just stay honest, you have to tell Randy the truth of the matter?
Why bother, he buried his own life.
Seeing the incomparably dark scene, the audience's hearts instantly cooled.
Reality, is it really that dark?
"Damn, it's too dark, isn't it? In order to prevent Andy from overturning the case, just kill the innocent witness?"
"It's so vicious!"
"The warden is also afraid that after Andy overturns the case and is released from prison, he will tell him about his money laundering. ”
"Hehe, I bet the year the warden retires is the year Andy loses his usefulness, the year he dies. With the warden's urine, it is absolutely impossible to leave Andy as a hidden danger. ”
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As soon as the camera turned, Tommy, the soy sauce beater, became the second prisoner to be killed in the movie.
Compared to Tommy, Andy's experience is even more chilling. He was really wronged, twenty years in prison, I really don't know how he survived.
Some viewers thought, this Tommy might as well not appear, it is better not to tell Andy the truth of the matter.
Give him a little hope, and then reality sends more despair.
Some viewers suddenly thought of what Red once said to Andy: "Friend, let me tell you, there is hope before it is dangerous, hope can drive people crazy, hope is useless, you better not have hope." ”
That's what Red said to Andy after he made a song storm. At that time, after saying this, he went to apply for bail after 30 years in prison, but the result was still Juju. At that point in time, it has been nine years now.
In Rhett's eyes, a desperate place like a prison should never have any hope for it, just get by, and don't let the hope grow....
The greater the disappointment.
That's what Red came to after years in prison, like every time he tried to apply for parole with hope, only to be denied. Over time, Red lost all hope.
This is a very negative theory, but in prison, it is the most applicable theory, especially for prisoners who are imprisoned for life.
Red is negative, he feels that he has been institutionalized and there is no way to save him.
But Andy is not.
It's like he told Red before he said that he was going to Chivatanio, Mexico, for the rest of his life because of its proximity to the sea. Because there is a saying in Mexico that says that the Pacific Ocean is an ocean without memories.
Andy wants to spend the rest of his life in this place where he has no memories left.
But Red obviously doesn't understand this idea, Shawshank is 108,000 miles away from Mexico, and you don't have wings, how can you go?
Andy then tells Red, "Yes, it's far away, but people always have to make a choice." ”
"Busy living, or busy dying!"
These words made Rhett stunned, and also hit the hearts of many viewers.
Busy working, holding on to hope, living a more meaningful life.
Busy dying? disheartened, not concerned about anything, feeling that life is meaningless, it is better to die.
Andy chooses to be busy with his life, and Brooke chooses to be busy with his death.
Red wandered on both sides, he used to have no hope, but after a long time of contact with Andy, his attitude is slowly changing....
Before parting, Andy asked Red to go under the big locust tree after he was released from prison on parole, where was there anything left for him.
Andy then disappears from everyone's sight one night.
It wasn't until the warden accidentally discovered the big hole behind the poster on the wall that he realized that Andy had escaped from prison.
The audience was also stunned for a moment, it turned out that Andy really bought a hammer to dig out a passage, and bought a poster just to cover up the hole!
On the screen, the climax of the whole film!
On this night of lightning and thunder, Andy lifted the poster, climbed into the hole, then crawled to the outside of the house, and then crawled down the sewer pipe to the outside of the prison, crawling towards freedom.
That's almost five rugby fields!
But Andy endured the stench and crawled outside little by little.....
All the way to the river outside the prison.
Facing the stormy night, he opened his arms and raised his head high, as if embracing the pouring rain and the freedom that had been lost for twenty years.
Relieved laughter came from Andy's mouth, it was a mockery of fate, a satire of the system!
You can lock up my body, but you can never lock my heart!
At this moment, the audience all over the world was boiling, watching the scene of Andy embracing the heavy rain, watching the water stains slide down his face, I don't know how many people also want to learn from him and embrace the freedom outside the fence with him.
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As soon as the camera turned, Andy appeared in a suit and leather shoes at major banks, pretending to be the non-physical identity, and ran away with the warden's money. When you leave, you don't forget to report the crime of corruption against the warden.
When the police came to arrest the warden that day, the old man chose to kill himself, and shot himself through the jaw in the whole head.
Later, Red receives a postcard from Andy, and although he doesn't have his name written on it, he knows that this is what Andy sent. Because he remembers that the place on the postcard is the ocean of no memories that Andy is going to.
In the face of this old friend, Rhett not only missed, but also praised: "There are some birds that should not be kept in cages, and every feather of them shines with the brilliance of freedom." ”
Soon after, Red applied for parole after serving forty years in prison.
This time, perhaps because he is old, he has no use value, and he can't cause harm to society. Or maybe it's because of his indifferent attitude that he caught the attention of the auditors.
Because he knows that he is institutionalized, and he can only end up with Brooke when he goes out.
But this time, his parole application was approved.
So he went back to Brooke's old path, living alone in a large room, going to work as a packer in a supermarket, not reporting and peeing, and without the atmosphere of prison constraints, he couldn't sleep.
He and Brooke suffer from the same prison institutionalization syndrome, which is out of step with the new world.
It wasn't until he remembered what Andy had left him that he didn't hang himself like Brooke.
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In the final scene of the movie, Red digs up a gift under the locust tree, which contains the money and a letter left by Andy.
The most memorable sentence in the letter was the one sentence: "Remember, Red, it's a good thing to have hope, maybe the best thing to do." With hope in your heart, there will always be hope. ”
At this moment, Red was silent for a long time.
Once he told Andy that hope is dangerous, it drives a person crazy, and it brings more disappointment.
Now, he faltered.
Do you choose salvation, or do you choose to continue to sink?
The audience also watched nervously at this scene, was it self-redemption, or did they sink to death like Brooke?
Eventually, Red chooses to go to Andy.
He chose salvation!
The camera pans to a beach, where Andy is wiping the hull of the boat, and Red is walking barefoot and stepping on sand.
The two saw each other from a distance, then looked at each other and smiled, and walked over.
The camera zooms in until the two men hug each other, becoming a small black dot on the seashore.
The movie is over!