The Green Mile – the black angel

1. The Green Mile is a 1999 English movie directed by Frank Darabont that talks about a supernatural black prisoner who gets executed for a crime that he did not commit.
2. It’s 1935, and a new prisoner, 6ft 5in African-American, soft-spoken, John (Michael Clarke Duncan) arrives at the E-block of “the green mile” death row prison. John is accused of raping and killing two minor sisters. The prison is headed by Paul (Tom Hanks), whose urinary infection gets miraculously cured by John. He also brings a dead mouse back to life, which was deliberately killed by a sadist cop, Percy (Doug Hutchison). Another mad prisoner, Bill (Sam Rockwell) joins the prison. One night, John is sneaked out of the prison to heal the warden’s wife suffering from a brain tumour. After healing her, they return to the prison, where John infects Percy with his power, which leads to Percy killing Bill. It is revealed that Bill was the one who killed those two minor sisters and thus, John used Percy to kill him. Percy gets shifted to a mental asylum for all his wrongdoings at the prison. Finally, the day comes when John gets executed. It’s 1999, and in an old-age-home, a 108-year-old Paul is telling his prison stories to his colleague Elaine. He takes her to see the mouse that is still alive along with him, which he believes is due to some supernatural power that John passed on to them.
3. The movie moves on an emotional and supernatural path and has a good storyline. It can make you cry, sometimes when the rat gets killed or by sufferings carried out by John or on thinking how the world is full of sadist people.
4. The movie is long enough, but not a single scene will make you yawn. Each scene has its own importance and gives you some life lessons. You could learn about different human characters and their mindset.
5. Electric chair execution is horrific, but why were people allowed to be on-premises, and how could they watch that even. Executions by hanging have decreased in this “sympathetic” prison world.
6. People like Percy who do not have any mercy exist in this world. Persons like John who have too much mercy to shower upon also exist. Percys should not even be allowed in a normal society, and Johns should be aware of the society that exploits.
7. Do prison guards like Paul exist? These minorities stay hidden for their good as the majority of inhuman guards will eat them alive along with the prisoners. A prisoner is always in a state of stress, and more torture will only make them monsters.
8. The acting by the cast was just remarkable and the direction too. The movie is basically about the wrongful conviction of a person who happens to be black. But inside that black body resides a pure white person, a god-sent angel to heal the world.
9. A critically very much acclaimed movie that rocked the box office as well.
10. A many-time watch movie and I say it’s VERY GOOD.