How did the story take place over 19 years?
What I mean is, all the events feel very connected, they all feel like they happened one after the other. I can't think of a moment where there could be a gap.
shareBetween what we saw was the day to day general gaps.
For instance, Red's narration explained that many months went by before Andy first approached him (when he wanted to buy the rock hammer).
In fact, they showed a point where several years expired in about 30 seconds: when Andy started doing estate planning and taxes, they first showed the Shawshank guard, then they showed all the guards, then they showed a visiting prison's baseball team, then they showed the warden. That's four years right there.
Red also narrated that many years went by before Norton started his con-construction project.
That's true it still comes across gappy though. Now I only noticed it after umpteen times of watching but when Red rigs the tarring job there's nothing up to that point to suggest that Andy and Red had become friends to the extent that Red would include him in the fix. What I mean is yeah Red says "I think it's fair to say I liked him straight away" and he narrates Andy's first two years in SS but there's nothing in his narration to suggest they were becoming friends nor anything visual like eating lunch together to demonstrate the development of a close relationship! In fact Red even says that Andy kept pretty much to himself!
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