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Please sit down.
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Ellis Boyd Redding...
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...your files say you've served
40 years of a life sentence.
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You feel you've been rehabilitated?
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Rehabilitated?
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Well, now, let me see.
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I don't have any idea
what that means.
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It means you're ready
to rejoin society...
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I know what you think it means, sonny.
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To me it's just a made-up word.
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A politician's word so that...
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...young fellas like yourself
can wear a suit and a tie...
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...and have a job.
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What do you really want to know?
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Am I sorry for what I did?
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Well, are you?
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There's not a day goes by
I don't feel regret.
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Not because I'm in here
or because you think I should.
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I look back on the way I was then...
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...a young...
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...stupid kid who committed
that terrible crime.
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I want to talk to him.
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I want to try
and talk some sense to him.
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Tell him the way things are.
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But I can't.
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That kid's long gone...
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...and this old man is all that's left.
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I got to live with that.
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Rehabilitated?
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It's just a bullshit word.
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So you go on and stamp your forms,
sonny, and stop wasting my time.
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Because to tell you the truth...
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...I don't give a shit.
The most impressive part for me is a scene: Andy plays the elegant music for all the prisoners to enjoy the life. Though he knows what lies in front of him is confinement, he risks playing the music to encourage us to continue with their hope. When he looksout of the window:blue sky, fresh air,he has a lot to appreciate because of the faith, which urges him to press ahead in a not-so-perfect world.
Yes,everyone has his hope.
And me.I have seen this film for three times.
As to me,I would prefer saying that is fit for female,not only male.
Hope is a good thing.
When I was a member in the Student Union before,I took the film for the student in our department.
They all liked it.