In Shawshank Redemption, Red receives parole after serving 40 years in Shawshank. In the beginning of movie it is shown that Red's plea for rehabilitation got rejected multiple times. When Andy breaks-out of Shawshank, it gives hope to Red but in his interaction with the prison authority Red shows no interest in getting out. So how did Red get approval for rehabilitation?
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In  Red has three parole hearings. For the first two, in 1947 () and in 1957, he tells the parole board what he thinks they want to hear, and is unsuccessful. In his third in 1967 () he takes a different approach, saying, quoting from the IMDB quotes page:     1967 Parole Hearings Man: Ellis Boyd Redding, your files say you've served 40 years of a life sentence. Do you feel you've been rehabilitated?      Red: Rehabilitated? Well, now let me see. You know, I don't have any idea what that means.       1967 Parole Hearings Man: Well, it means that you're ready to rejoin society...       Red: I know what you think it means, sonny. To me it's just a made up word. A politician's word, so young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie, and have a job. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did?      1967 Parole Hearings Man: Well, are you?       Red: There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit.   Red is then granted parole. Why, after this disparaging and weary speech? Was it because he was being so bluntly honest? Was intimidation a factor?
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In , Ava an advanced AI developed human consciousness. While Caleb thought that he was testing Ava through conversation, actual automated test was happening, designed by Nathan to see if Ava can find a way using her consciousness to escape. Everything was going fine. Ava trapped Caleb emotionally, sexually with extreme manipulation. Caleb falls for her. This was Nathan's idea to give Ava all human strength that we use to motivate people.  Caleb: Did you program her to like me, or not? Nathan: I programmed her to be heterosexual, just like you were programmed to be heterosexual  So Caleb finds out what Nathan will do to her after the experiment is over and what Nathan did to previous versions. He designed an escape for Ava. After that he came to know that Ava might have manipulated him to get freedom or to escape.  Caleb: What was the real test? Nathan: You. Nathan: Ava was a rat in a maze and I gave her one way out. To escape she will have to use self awareness, imagination, manipulation, sexuality, empathy and she did.  Then long story short, Ava took the revenge on Nathan for locking her up and his cruelty to her. Then she locked Caleb before going out. WHY? She used Caleb or not, Caleb didn't do any bad to Ava. Caleb was a good person (we knew this from the test that Ava took on Caleb during a session where every lie got detected by Ava). Then why did Ava leave him to die? Why did she betray Caleb? I can't see any reason for that. What am I missing? What is Ava's point of view?
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Do you have to serve two jail sentences? For example, you go to jail the first time and use your "Get out of jail free" card, and then go right back to jail for another sentence without rolling the dice.
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In the Deadpool movie when Wade his mutant cells get activated, his skin changes so he looks like Freddy Krueger (As Weasel referred too). But he obtains healing abilities and his cancer gets cured because of it. He's become an immortal person which can heal any wound super fast.  What I don't understand is, why doesn't his skin heal so he would look like before? I remember that Francis (or Ajax) said that it's a 'side-effect' of mutating, but why wouldn't it heal when he has a healing ability?
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Spoilers for the end of the second film      Towards the end of the fight against Ego, we see that the bomb Groot set off blows up Ego's core. Shortly thereafter, it cuts to a scene where Quill is shown apparently losing his powers.   Given that the movie builds up this finale so much, I'm left wondering:      Did Quill lose his powers or merely the means to access them after Ego's apparent death?   Answers from the film or comics are very much welcome.
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In Looper, it is established that permanent physical harm to a young looper will instantaneously affect the old version of the same looper. For example, a looper can send a message to his older self by permanently carving it in his arm.  I assume Abe and his gang know about this. Why is it, then, that in Seth's case:      when the killers capture young Seth, they torture and mutilate him in order to force old Seth to come to them, then end shooting him up? Wouldn't simply killing young Seth get rid of both Seths? Is the torture simply sadism?   We know the above will happen, since something similar happens later in the movie. And if Joe, who is definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed, can figure it out, surely Abe must also know it?
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Night's Watch deserters are sentenced to death, as we've seen in the very first episode of Game of Thrones. A man dressed all in black is apprehended by Stark men and brought before Lord Eddard Stark. Lord Stark sees him as a deserter and sentences him to die (and then executes that death penalty).  However, there are men of the Night's Watch south of the Wall, on a legitimate mission or on some kind of allowed leave. For instance, we have Benjen Stark visiting Winterfell when the king and his party is there. There is also Yoren, who travels around Westeros in search of new recruits.  I could imagine that the Warden of the North (and other lords in the northern part of Westeros) would have a good idea of who would be allowed further south and whose appearance would raise suspicion. But I reckon the southern lords don't have as many visits from the Night's Watch, so they might not know who would be allowed to be there and who wouldn't.  How would lords who are rather unfamiliar with the specific brothers of the Night's Watch discern deserters from brothers sent out for some reason?  That ends my question, but there is a spoiler from the season 5 finale that continues the question a bit more:      Sam is sent to Oldtown to become a Maester, so he can replace Maester Aemon at Castle Black.  But he is riding together with Gilly (a woman!) and her baby (a baby!), which might raise a lot of suspicion from people who don't know what he is sent out to do.  What prevents southern lords of sentencing Sam as a deserter from the Night's Watch?
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Towards the end of the movie, we see  in an apartment full of dead bodies. He ends up confessing what he's done to his lawyer. Later he goes back to the apartment, only to find the bodies are all gone. What happened to the bodies?
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In the movie, there's one scene that seems very strange to me.  First, the point:  When the team gets in the first level, they find out that Fischer has a militarized subconscious. After they freak out, and argue about it, they also find out that they can't die, otherwise they'd get stuck in limbo.  So, when Eames says that he won't go further, Cobb states that, since the first level sedative will last a week they would be killed. They needed to go on to the next levels as fast as possible, so the combined multi-level kick would make them wake up.  Here's the point: The plan was the multi-level kick would wake them up before the sedative was off     Ariadne: ...is ten years! Who would wanna be stuck in a dream for ten years?   Yusuf: Depends on the dream.    Arthur: So, once we've made the plant, how do we go out? Hope you have something more elegant in mind than shooting me in the head?    Cobb: A kick.    ...   Arthur: Are we going to feel a kick with this kind of sedation?   Yusuf: Well, that's the clever part. I customize the sedative to leave inner ear function unimpaired. That way, however deep the sleep, the sleeper still feels falling, or tipping.     Now, the question:  When they finish the job, they perform the kicks   The van hits the water Arthur detonates the elevator Eames explodes the fortress   But they don't wake up. They are back in the drowned van. So, as far as I could understand, they still had to sit and wait for the first level's week to end.  (We see Fischer talking to his godfather)  Why didn't they wake up with the kicks, as it was planned? And how did they managed not to get killed by Fischer's projections after they got out of the Van?
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At approximately 1:23:55 in Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda is trying to convince Luke to stay and continue his training, and then implores Luke to     Remember your failure at the cave!   The exact script quote is . Which failure is he referring to?  From my understanding, Luke killed a "fake" Vader in the cave, and then sees his own face behind Vader's helmet.  The fact that he missed that this Vader was not the real one could be interpreted as a failure for a Jedi as he did not stay calm enough to detect the real danger.  Is this correct?
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What do you call a former criminal who has served their sentence and been released from prison?  I thought of “convicted criminal”, but that might imply the person is still a criminal and/or serving a sentence.   Does “convicted criminal” fit this definition? Are there other--better--words that are more accurate?
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At the end of First Class, Xavier is paralysed, and him and Magneto split paths. However at the beginning of Last Stand, it flashes back 20 years, and you see the grown up Xavier and Magneto, friends, talking to a young Jean Gray.  Did Xavier get the use of his legs back and then lose it again?  Or is this just a continuity error?
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In Daredevil S02, we see two kinds of prison uniforms, full orange and full white. We see in the flashback that Wilson Fisk gets a white prison uniform but his current one was orange.  The Punisher was also given a white prison uniform but most of the prisoners had orange uniforms. What was with the two different colored uniforms? Does it have some significance or is it just random? Does it happen similar in real life US prisons too?
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So, to get spoilers out of the way -       Jon Snow is too honorable to break his oath and leave the Night's Watch.  However, he is stabbed a bunch, dies, and due to a line in the Night's Watch oath - "It shall not end until my death" - is able to leave without his usual reservation.   Now, this is fine from Jon's perspective.  However, there is a fairly rigid law about the Wall's deserters being punished by death. Which makes me wonder: why isn't Jon having more trouble with this?   He knows what happened, but others don't.  And the explanation that he actually did die doesn't seem like one the lands' lords and authorities would take on faith.  I know I wouldn't.  His story isn't quite like Sam's, who was sent by the Night's Watch to become a maester.  Jon is famous enough that many would know who he is, and that he has taken the black.  But a story like him dying and coming back to life is probably one that takes quite a but of time to stick - if it ever does.  A possible explanation might be that people know Jon is honorable and trust him. Or that they don't care about the law, and think that they can somehow benefit from not executing him - although the law seems to be a strict one, and not everyone seems to be psyched to help Jon out.  Or maybe by that time people coming back to life is a common enough thing that people believe it that easily.  Speculation aside, however, I am curious whether this was directly addressed from the higher-ups - the makers of the show, or the big boss himself.  Why isn't Jon executed on sight?
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During the events of Avengers: Endgame,       Spider-Man comes back from being snapped, exactly the same as he was five years prior.   At the end of the movie, we see that      he is back in high school, greeted by his best friend Ned Leeds, who expresses relief at seeing Peter Parker, implying that he either knew Peter was "snapped," (and therefore probably wasn't snapped himself) or that he thought he may have been killed in the fight against Thanos.   Additionally,       in the trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home, Peter and Ned are on a school trip with their peers from the first movie, including Flash and MJ, as well as at least one of their other classmates.   I was wondering if there was a canon explanation for why all of these characters still seem to be in high school? The obvious answer would be that      they were all snapped and so came back the same age, which is plausible, but it could also be that in the societal breakdown in the meantime, schools ceased to function, so everyone resumed where they had been.   While I find either of these to be reasonable explanations, is there a specific canon reason for this? And have any of them officially aged?
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At the end of his speech, the Architect explicitly states that Trinity is going to die and there is nothing Neo can do to prevent this.  The door to your right leads to the Source, and the salvation of Zion. The door to the left leads back to the Matrix, to her, and to the end of your species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you're going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal the onset of emotion, designed specifically to overwhelm logic, and reason. An emotion that is already blinding you from the simple, and obvious truth: she is going to die, and there is nothing that you can do to stop it.  Even though Neo saves Trinity at that instant, she dies only the next day, and Neo returns to the Source and to the salvation of Zion. The only difference is that Neo rejected choosing 16 females and 7 males to construct a new Zion. The Architect has full knowledge of everything that is going to happen within the Matrix. His knowledge includes emotions as well, in spite of his inability to understand them. Thus, there is no way he cannot know Neo is going to save Trinity, yet he still states she is going to die. One assumption might be him bluffing to goad Neo to go to the Source, however, he also states he is incapable of lies and deceptions as well.  I have your word? What do you think I am? Human?  So, my question is, how did the Architect know that Trinity will die outside the Matrix?
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I've always wanted to know if he can see while he's using his heat vision, and if he can, what does it look like, is everything red, does his vision spectrum change?   Have we ever seen through his eyes while he was using his heat vision?