Saddest Moment In This Film?
I mean, gosh, mine has to be when Brooks hung himself. That was just so emotionally touching and I felt so bad, my eyes started to well up. What's yours?
shareBrook's suicide was devastating.
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The part that always gets me is after Andy escapes and Red is narrating the part about how much they mis him. How happy they are he's free, a bird that shouldn't be caged. He pauses and just says ,"I just mis my friend."
I think Andy made the day to day life in prison an adventure. After he was gone it was very depressing for his friends that were left behind.
I agree. Brooks suicide was the saddest part of the movie.
shareNobody spares a thought for Tommy? I guess that's because Brooks was old and his death was a poignant one, whereas Tommy's death was more dramatic. At least Brooks got to die on his own terms in his old age. Tommy had a young family and was rehabilitating himself until his life was taken for wanting to do the honourable thing.
shareGood point. Tommy's demise was awful and uncalled for. Brooks got the sad narration when he decided to check out (and rightly so) but poor Tommy didn't know what hit him.
Brooks's remaining scenes up till he hung himself. Just the thought of him in his twilight years with no one left in the world except the ones he left back in prison and that pathetic bagging job made me wail like I was at a funeral. Haven't cried like that for a movie in a long long time.
shareDefinitely the "Brooks was here" scene.
shareMy sentiments exactly.
shareBrooks saying goodbye to Jake. That was a sad moment. Such a wonderful film.
"The end of the shoelace is called the...IT DOESN'T MATTER!"
I agree with when Brooks hung himself.
Also, the ending in which Red and Andy reunites.
When Andy gets raped.
Andy never got raped....
Saddest part for me was when the kid was lured outside and shot. He was just a young guy. Although Brooks was sad, he was old and at the end of his life anyway.
Didn't he get gang raped by The Sisters. Red, during the voiceover implied this.
shareThe voiceover never implied that. They just beat him within an inch of his life.
shareThe voiceover said straight up that he was raped the first time he was sent to the backroom during his laundry shifts. This was way before the scene where they beat him within an inch of his life. They clarify in that scene he was not raped at that time, however it was a common occurrence in his first 2 years in the prison.
shareMigarzolom, for a moment there I thought I imagined the whole scene all together. The sistersere infamously known for sexually assaulting men; why would they just physically assault Andy and not rape him when he's most vulnerable?
shareYou may need to rewatch the film. Morgan Freeman's voice over NEVER said that once... He did say "I wish I could tell you Andy fought the good fight" implying the beating they gave him then. All they did in that scene too was kick his ass. Then they came at him again later in the movie, and almost killed him.
shareThe first time, they are clearly seen trying to rape him. Later on they attempt to rape him again, so it is likely they would've raped him more times that were not shown.
"Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?"
Also, in that later scene where Andy got beaten, he said "Let's get this over with" and turned around. Like it was a common occurence for them.
Of course, he said it just to lure the guy closer to him, but the way he said it implied it wasn't the first time.