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ANDY: My wife used to say I'm a hard man to
know. Like a closed book. Complained about it all the time.
She's beautiful. God, I loved her. But I just didn't know how to
show it, that's all. I killed her, Red. I didn't pull the
trigger. But I drove her away. That's why she died. Because of
me, the way I am.
RED: That doesn't make you a murderer. Bad husband, maybe.
Felt bad about it if you want to. But you didn't pull the
trigger.
ANDY: No. I didn't. Somebody else did, and I
wound up in
here. Bad luck, I guess.
RED: Yeah.
ANDY: It floats around. Has to land on somebody. It was my
turn, that's all. I was in the path of the tornado. I didn't expect
the storm would last as long as it has. You think you'll ever
get out of here?
RED: Me? Yeah. One day when I got a long, white beard and two or three marbles rolling around upstairs.
They'll let me out.
ANDY: Tell you where I'd go. Zihuatanejo.
RED: Zihua...?
ANDY: Zihuatanejo. It's in Mexico. A little place on the
Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?
They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest
of my life. A warm place with no memory. Open up a little hotel
right on the beach. Buy some worthless old boat and fix it up
new. Take my guests out
charter fishing.
RED: Zihuatanejo?
ANDY: In a place like that, I could use a man that knows how
to get things.
RED: I don't think I could make it on the outside, Andy. I've
been in here most of my life. I'm an institutional man now. Just
like Brooks was.
ANDY: Well, you
underestimate yourself.
RED: I don't think so. In here I'm the guy who can get things
for you, sure, but outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. Hell, I
wouldn't even know where to begin. Pacific Ocean? Shit! About to
scare me to death,
somethin' that big.
ANDY: Not me. I didn't shoot my wife and I didn't shoot her
lover, and whatever mistakes I made I've paid for them and then
some. That hotel, that boat... I don't think that's too much to
ask.
RED: I don't think you ought' a be doing this to yourself,
Andy! This is shitty
pipe dreams!
I mean Mexico's in the way the hell down there, and you're in
here, and that's the way it is!
ANDY: Yeah, right. That's the way it is. It's down there, and
I'm in here. I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really.
Get busy living... or get busy dying. |
