Listening to a later conversation in the prison yard, we get the sense that this is about more than just a literal prison. Andy, played by Tim Robbins, remarks, “I just don’t understand what happened in there. That’s all.” Another inmate chalks it up to the old man going crazy, but Red, played by Morgan Freeman, takes issue with the remark. “Would you knock it off? Brooks ain’t no bug. He’s just … institutionalized. The man’s been in here fifty years, Hayward, fifty years! This is all he knows. In