For example, in the few minutes of the previous scene before Andy begins to run away, we have a narration of Red telling the audience that he believes Andy will kill himself due to his recent behavior when he left isolation after two months spent with his own thoughts. Red says, "I've had some long nights... alone in the dark, with nothing but your thoughts, time can stretch like a blade. That was the longest night of my life. Because of these specific formulations of Red's narration, we as an audience automatically expect the worst. This narration and Red's character are one of the most significant and influential elements of the film to manipulate the audience's emotions towards a particular scene concerns the aftermath of Andy Dufresne's disappearance from Shawshank Prison, we see the warden open what he expects to be his black dress shoes, which he had Andy shine the previous night, but opens the box to find a set of brown dress shoes prisoner. The audience then begins to see a flashback of what happened the previous night, and we see Andy swap the corrupt account books and dress up in the Director's clean suit. This scene following Red's night in his cell worrying about Andy is one of the best for
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