Daily Dialogue — February 1, 2019

“The parole board got me into this halfway house called The Brewer and a job bagging groceries at the Foodway. It’s hard work and I try to keep up, but my hands hurt most of the time.”

— The Shawshank Redemption (1994), screenplay by Frank Darabont, novella by Stephen King

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Supermarket.

Trivia: Stephen King has said that his original novella was a culmination of all the memories he had from watching prison movies when he was a child.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The supermarket is a key point of reference in comparing the two post-prison storylines — Brooks and Red.