RED (V.O.)

I have no idea to this day what

them two Italian ladies were

singin’ about. Truth is, I don’t

want to know. Some things are best

left unsaid. I like to think they

were singin’ about something so

beautiful it can’t be expressed in

words, and makes your heart ache

because of it. I tell you, those voices soared.

Higher and farther than anybody in

a gray place dares to dream. It was

like some beautiful bird flapped

into our drab little cage and made

these walls dissolve away…and for

the briefest of moments — every

last man at Shawshank felt free.

(from The Shawshank Redemption)