To be superior is easy, to feel superior, they have to find some achnowledgment that there is still someone "below". However, the bureaucrats understand that at the end of the day, they go home, and this is the only true superiority to the prospective parolee. Remember prison confines those on both sides the prisoner's walls are physical, the parole board's walls are mental or metaphysical. This is purely my opinion on parole, and may not be the opinion of the scene's author: Parole is a play, acted out by two battle-weary combatants - the parolee who wants to get out his prison cell at all costs, and the bureaucrat who wants to get out of his prison cell at all costs, too. Why, after this disparaging and weary speech? Was it because he was being so bluntly honest? Was intimidation a factor?
Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. Red: There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? A politician's word, so young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie, and have a job. Red: I know what you think it means, sonny. You know, I don't have any idea what that means.ġ967 Parole Hearings Man: Well, it means that you're ready to rejoin society. Red: Rehabilitated? Well, now let me see. In his third in 1967 ( YouTube link) he takes a different approach, saying, quoting from the IMDB quotes page:ġ967 Parole Hearings Man: Ellis Boyd Redding, your files say you've served 40 years of a life sentence. For the first two, in 1947 ( YouTube link) and in 1957, he tells the parole board what he thinks they want to hear, and is unsuccessful. In The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Red has three parole hearings.
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