The Gretchskank Redemption
...is loosely based on the movie Shawshank Redemption, but instead of a population of confined inmates doing hard time and pining about the days they used to be free, the Shawshank Redemption is just about some prison.
These prison walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, gets so you depend on them. That's institutionalized. They send you here for life, that's exactly what they take. The part that counts, anyways.
In the movie "Shawshank" in that clip above, Red is talking about Brooks. In the movie, the old man was a fish out of water after having gained his freedom. SPOILER: It doesn't end well for him.
In the remake, the character of Brooks is played by all of the judgmental mask-wearers who cling to their useless pieces of clothe (or in Alyssa Milano's case, their crocheted face mask). What will they do when these masks are no longer required by the local retailer or staying home is no longer mandated by The State?
This is Brooks.
Brooks is a mask-wearer.
Brooks loves his mask even though its useless.
Brooks is lost now without his mask.
Brooks is institutionalized.
Be like Andy
Speaking of our good friend Andy Dufresne, he is summoned to the Warden's Office.
WARDEN WHITMER: Nothing stops. Nothing, or you will do the hardest time there is. No more protection from the guards, I'll pull you out of that one-bunk Hilton and cast you down with the Sodomites.
Andy doesn't like the Warden and everything that she spews from her piehole. Andy heard there is freedom out there and wants to find it.
RED: But Indiana's way the hell down there and you're in here...
ANDY: "I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying."
Excellent, Sir.
ReplyDeleteThank you, sir!
ReplyDeleteI hope I don't get gang raped in here. Unless, you know....
ReplyDeleteLol just wear the mask and take your chip bro.
ReplyDeleteWell done Jerry!
ReplyDeleteI went to the store today.
I and a few others were surrounded the enablers.
The ones that go along with the scam.
The ones that wear masks, where the demand to wear a mask is unreasonable. Parking lots, even!
Enablers are what lets this governor continue with her despotic oppression of our citizenry.
Enablers of her killing our economy.
Logan's Roadhouse shuttered today.
240 + restaurants and all the jobs that went with them.
Because of a scam. Because of inordinate fear.
I accompanied my wife to the store yesterday and neither of us do the mask thing because, A) we are not retarded, and B) Freedom. also I was ready to tell anyone who forced themselves into my business that C) it is a felony to wear a face covering while carrying a concealed weapon. None were required as I was left TF alone. I must have a twitchy eye.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant. Neither my wife or I wear masks because (a) we aren't retarded, and (b) freedom. We do have them, though. We're making a road trip and some states do mandate them. Gotta have a good kit. We argued lately about masks. I want to order a balaclava mask and she thinks it's a stupid idea. My point: I just want to see how employees will react when I wear one inside the bank ... for virus safety, of course. I couldn't find any balaclava masks that were reasonably priced, though ... and I refuse to put lady's stockings over my head.
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