Rehabilitated?...to me it's just a made up word. A politician's word..

The Shawshank Redemption, 1994
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtwXlIwozog

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. 

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     This dialog is form one my favorite movies of all time and probably one of the most critically underacclaimed of the last 20 years. The entire movie is about justice from the perspective of Prison spectatorship and the perceived harsh life of prison. The movie underscores the long prison terms given, especially through Red, a man serving life for a murder he committed while a teenager. We have seen Red go through other parole hearings in the past attempting to feed the panel the same lines that he thinks they want to hear. This dialog brings an alternate perspective to the sentencing laws in the United States.