![]() Taking a leap of faith, Red boards a bus and travels all the way to Andy's dream home, and the two are reunited on the beach. ReunionĪt the end, Red finds money and an invitation to Mexico in a box under the oak tree that Andy described to him. Later on in the film, we realize that the pin-up posters represent literal escape as well, in that the Raquel Welch poster covers over the hole through which Andy makes his escape from the prison. It represents escape, freedom, and pleasure. The poster hangs on Andy's cell wall, a vestige of the outside world, the pleasures of sensuality and female company. His request is cheeky in that he knows it would be impossible for the ever-crafty Red to procure the actual Rita Hayworth for him, but Red makes good on his claim of being "the guy who knows how to get things" and gets Andy a large poster of the starlet. ![]() One of the first things that Andy requests from Red is the American film actress and sex symbol Rita Hayworth. The shots of the prison in all its drabness and darkness show the viewer the difficult and depressing dimensions of incarceration. The image gives a clear representation of the confinement of jail, the inhuman conditions in which prisoners live every day. ![]() The first time Andy enters the prison, Darabont shows us a dark hallway behind a set of bars, and down that hallway is a door with a tiny fenced-in square opening. ![]()
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