The ending of
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) has a recently paroled Red (Morgan Freeman) on his way to join Andy (Tim Robbins), who had earlier escaped the prison in Maine where they both were confined and was now in Mexico. The entire trip, from a rooming house in the town where the prison was located to Red's arrival on a Mexican beach, is accompanied by the film's main theme. My transcription of the music below is annotated. Of particular interest is that the first statement of the theme ends with a descending line to a PAC (just before 1:05), but the second statement (ending just before 1:43) rises to close (against Red's line "that only a free man can feel").
From 1:43 on I have marked shots (numbered 1-13). During this segment, the orchestra's melody ascends twice (marked with an annotation the first time, with notes the second time). From a musical standpoint, the effect is that of a coda.
At (a) is a sketch of the melody in its first statement (which incidentally matches the earlier iterations of the theme in the film). A three-part
Ursatz (bass isn't shown here) works well as ^5 is obviously the focal note but the descent is from ^3.
At (b) is a reading that encompasses the theme in both statements -- that is, the music from the beginning through 1:43.
