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Why would Andy have thrown a perfectly good gun into the river??

posted 6 months ago by pepetoony (1539)
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Makes no sense. What am I missing?

Just one of the small bits of "evidence" that suggests Andy wasn't as innocent as we want to believe he was. I'm not convinced he wasn't the killer of his wife and her lover.

Playing devil's advocate, the answer to your question would be that after coming so close to killing two human beings, he discarded the gun in a way that he wouldn't have access to the gun if he changed his mind. Throwing it in the river couldn't be undone.

Of course, that doesn't mean he couldn't easily acquire another gun ..

[–] Elvisp23 (323) 3 months ago

Elmo Blanche A prisoner admitted that he did it who confessed this to Tommy who them got killed by the warden for saying he would go on the stand and give evidence. Did you miss all that? Quite an important plot sequence

[–] Ranb (7339) 5 months ago

Perhaps he is lying, or perhaps he threw the gun away to avoid the temptation to kill her in the future?

[–] PaladinNJ (20325) 5 months ago

He knew he couldn't bring himself to use it. So he discarded it. Then he could Never use it again.

[–] strntz (10891) 5 months ago

Or did he...

[–] liscarkat (16605) 3 months ago

In the movie, Andy did not kill anyone. Thinking that he did is writing your own movie. There's nothing in the movie to indicate he did, it only is shown that he didn't.

[–] pepetoony (1539) 3 months ago

I never said he killed anyone? I said he threw a perfectly good gun into the river which makes no sense. Who does that?

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7423) 2 months ago

Well not everyone's a member of the National Rifle Association.

[–] pepetoony (1539) 2 months ago

He obviously was enough of a gun person to buy the thing in the first place!

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7423) 2 months ago

I feel like it doesn't matter. It's a story of a guy who was wrongfully convicted of murder escaping prison and living happily ever after with his best friend he met in prison. The gun would have proved his innocense which would make the whole movie not happen. You strike me like you wanted a different story than what this movie is.