The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Red walks through Portland, bewildered by the women and traffic.

Scene 234 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act three

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:50 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 234

After a banker is wrongly imprisoned for murder, he uses patience, expertise, and friendship to survive Shawshank and build a path to freedom.

Scenes 1–8
Andy’s former life and conviction frame a banker whose apparent control has vanished.
Scenes 9–10
Inside prison, Andy needs a way to survive without surrendering the inner self he is trying to protect.
Scenes 11–30
Andy enters Shawshank and confronts its violence, hierarchy, and rules.
Scenes 31–154
He adapts through Red’s help, builds the library, and slowly earns trust while preparing for freedom.
Scenes 155–156
Tommy reveals that another inmate confessed to the murders, offering Andy a route to prove his innocence.
Scenes 157–166
Norton refuses to help and has Tommy killed, costing Andy the legal hope he had found.
Scenes 167–218
Andy escapes with evidence and exposes the warden, returning to the outside world on his own terms.
Just before
Scene 231
Red finds Brooks’s message carved into the beam above his room.
Scene 232
Red struggles to keep pace at the Foodway market.
Scene 233
Red asks permission to use the restroom and realizes prison habits still control him.
Scene 234
This scene

234EXT -- STREET -- DAY

...which carries through as Red walks. People and traffic. He keeps looking at the women. An alien species.

RED (V.O.)

Women, too, that's the other thing.

I forgot they were half the human

race. There's women everywhere,

every shape and size. I find myself

semi-hard most of the time, cursing

myself for a dirty old man.

WO YOUNG WOMEN stroll by in cut-offs and t-shirts.

RED (V.O.) (CONT'D)

Not a brassiere to be seen, nipples

poking out at the world. Jeezus,

pleeze-us. Back in my day, a woman

out in public like that would have

been arrested and given a sanity

hearing.