Chapter 2166： The death of old cloth

All the audience in the movie hall felt a touch of relief and smiled on their faces.

However, the next episode made them feel inexplicably sad.

There is a librarian in the prison called Lao Bu. He has been in the prison for fifty years and he is already very old.

One day, his parole was approved.

This means that he can leave the prison, leave the prison where he has stayed for fifty years, go outside and be free.

After staying for a full fifty years, he was finally free, which should have been extremely exciting.

The audience in the cinema thinks that Lao Bu should laugh with excitement, thanking God for finally letting him be free, and then full of endless yearning and expectation for the free life outside the prison.

However, this is not the case.

Not only was Lao Bu not happy, but he was very painful.

Because he didn't want to leave prison.

In order to stay in the prison, Lao Bu tried to hurt a fellow inmate with a sharp knife so that he could stay in the prison.

Later, under the persuasion of Andy, Reid and others, Lao Bu finally let go of his inmates.

Lao Bu didn't hurt his inmates, his parole was approved, and he could only leave the prison.

At this time, the inmates didn't understand why Lao Bu didn't want to leave the prison?

All the audience in the theater also didn't understand. After being in prison for fifty years and now finally being free, shouldn’t this be happy?

The prisoners in the prison, the freedom that everyone desperately desires has finally come, but why doesn't Lao Bu want freedom?

Rhett gave the answer to the inmates and to all the audience in the theater.

Reid said that Lao Bu was institutionalized.

Institutionalized? The inmates still didn't understand, and the audience in the theater still didn't understand.

Reid went on to explain that Lao Bu has been in prison for fifty years and has become a frog at the bottom of the well. He can still be useful in prison because he has studied and is a librarian.

However, once he goes out, Lao Bu will become useless. He is just a dull old man with arthritis in his hands. He may be refused to borrow books from the library. He doesn't know how to live outside?

Prison is a strange place. At the beginning, you hated the prison to the bone, and then you become accustomed to it. After long enough, you will become dependent on it. This is "institutionalization."

These words of Rhett made all the audience in the movie hall thoughtful. Rhett is undoubtedly a very wise man. He sees everything very thoroughly.

Through these words of Reid, the audience finally understood, why did Lao Bu not want to leave the prison?

Lao Bu has been in prison for too long, and he has been completely out of touch with the outside society. When he knew that he was leaving the prison, his heart was not excited, but confused, very confused, overwhelmed, and even fearful. .

This is why Lao Bu didn't want to leave the prison.

All the audience in the theater understood, but Lao Bu finally left the prison.

When Lao Bu walked out of the prison gate in a suit and leather shoes, the audience not only did not feel happy that Lao Bu was finally free, but was very worried that Lao Bu could live a good life outside?

He has been derailed from society for fifty years, too long.

Lao Bu's figure is walking through the flow of people and cars, lonely and hesitant, which makes people feel inexplicably sad. When he was young, he only saw one car, but now the streets are full of cars.

For Lao Bu, the outside world has changed so rapidly that it is too unfamiliar.

The parole board arranged a place for Lao Bu and recommended a job as a packer in a supermarket.

Lao Bu is already an old man with arthritis in his hands. He has been unable to finish his work smoothly, which makes people look pitiful and sad.

After get off work, Lao Bu sometimes went to the park to feed the birds. He sat alone on the park bench, with only a group of pecking birds in front of him.

Old Bu was expecting that the little guy he was feeding would appear in the prison, but the little guy still did not appear after all.

Old Bu only hopes that little guy, no matter where he goes, he can make new friends.

This made the audience in the theater feel sad again. Old Bu himself must want to make new friends, but he is too old, and no one wants to make friends with him, an old man.

He was destined to continue to be alone, and then he continued to hesitate, out of tune with this society.

Lao Bu is just a poor and lonely old man, which makes people feel sad.

At night, Laobu suffers from insomnia and can hardly fall asleep. Even if he is asleep, he will often be awakened by nightmares, and can’t remember where he is.

Obviously, for Lao Bu, only prison can make him sleep peacefully.

There is no doubt that this is very sad.

The audience in the theater could only sigh helplessly.

Old Bu wanted to rob a supermarket in the past and commit a new crime so that he could be sent back to prison again.

But he is already old, too old to be able to continue to fool around and rob the supermarket? He can't do it anymore.

Lao Bu didn't like the life outside. Tired of being scared all day long, he decided to leave.

go away? Where else can Lao Bu go?

All the audience in the theater was shocked. They suddenly had a bad feeling. They thought of Lao Bu's so-called "leave" and where they were going.

They prayed that things would not be what they thought. They couldn't bear to see this sad and poor old man end up like that.

However, everything is doomed.

Lao Bu put on his suit and tie again, just to leave with dignity.

He took out a knife and carved a line on the beam of his house, "Old cloth is here for a visit."

Then he ended his life with a rope.

Lao Bu finally left, no more loneliness, no more hesitation, no more panic.

He went where he should go.

And such an ending, the moment Lao Bu walked out of the prison gate, may have been doomed.

All the audience in the theater sighed for a long time. They wanted to stop Lao Bu, but they couldn't help it.

They can't stop it at all, even if they stop this time, they may not be able to stop the next time.

Perhaps they shouldn't stop it either. Life just ended like this. For Lao Bu, it was a relief.

Perhaps, for Lao Bu, the shady Shawshank prison is no longer a prison. The free world outside is the real prison.

Old Bu walked out of the gate of Shawshank Prison, not toward freedom.

Instead, he went to a real prison that made him unable to survive.

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