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Friendship
"It's friendship…friendship…just the perfect blendship…"
All right, so maybe a show tune lyric isn't the best way to describe the relationship between Red and Andy. It's kinda true, though.
This odd couple is thrown together near the beginning of the film. One's white, one's black. One's young, one's old. One's guilty, one's…not so guilty. Yet they click almost immediately, and remain friends for decades. That's quite an accomplishment for two people who have a thing or two in common, let alone these polar opposites.
Even though Andy's off doing his own thing, plotting his escape in secret, there's an argument to be made that he never would have been successful without Red's friendship. Not just because his buddy hooked him up with hammers and posters and whatnot, but because could you really stay sane in a place like that without a partner in crime (so to speak)?
Because Andy and Red meet on an exotic beach at the end of the movie, come together and embrace, neither having any romantic attachments (that we know of), the filmmakers were actually hinting that Red and Andy were more than just friends.
The bonds formed between prison inmates are even stronger than those formed between civilians on the outside, because of everything they're forced to go through together.
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