The Green Mile

Rating: Null/10 (22 February 2007)

The Green Mile Directed by Frank Darabout
The Green Mile was set on Death Row in a Southern prison in 1935. The Green Mile is the remarkable story of the cell block's head guard Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), who develops an unusual relationship with an inmate named John Coffey (Michael Duncan), who possesses the spiritual gift of healing and supernatural insight.
The movie is very complex in both innocence and evilness. The character essence of all actors was outstanding because they made the audience believe that in this world there is a great deal of good and evil in all aspects of life. There is a tremendous amount of irony because not only they executed an innocent man, but also a savior that had the power to heal.
The acting done by Michael Duncan was outstanding because his physical appearance is of a very strong muscled black man; however, he had to play the role of a child-like innocent person that is often scared of the dark. He would laugh and embrace the moments when a pet mouse owned by another prisoner would perform tricks in the cells. There were times in the movie that he would think about all the horrors in the world and how he knows the pain of innocent people. One day, he cried about a murderer that was also an inmate, called Wild Bill (Sam Rockwell). Sam played a good role in being the evil, cruel murderer of the two girls. John cried because his supernatural powers gave him the ability to see what Wild Bill did to two innocent little girls. At one point John grabbed Paul's hand, which he called "boss" and through his powers allowed Paul to see what happened to the little girls.
In other times he cried and suffer over the abused that a guard name Percy Wetmore (Doug Hutchison). All the other prison guards felt they had an unpleasant job witnessing brutal electrocution of men that were sincerely undignified and sorry for what they had done. However, Percy was a very sadistic evil man that took comfort in making the prisoners that are in death row suffer by antagonizing them and took pleasure in seeing them walk their last steps heading towards the electric chair.
John does not say where exactly he's from. He is a southern man with very genuine good-hearted manners. The movie is set in rural Louisiana, back in 1935, in a prison called Cold Mountain Correctional Facility. Because of its dull-green linoleum tiles headed straight towards the death chamber, it earned the odd nickname "The Green Mile."
The Green Mile has music that was used back in the 1930's. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' character type of Band like music. The music at that time had an appearance of being "clean cut" music that people like our great grandparents enjoyed dancing to. A scene that the director used for a visual special affect was when John was sitting in his cell and a beam of sunlight was shined on him making him stand out like an angel.
In conclusion, John's tribulations of watching the bad of the world and trying to heal everyone had exhausted him. He literally sucked out illnesses and dark souls out of everyone's mouth with a strong divine light and then opened his mouth and released that evil into the air into what it seemed like a swarm of flies. It looked very miraculous. In the end, his death puts a great guilt on Paul's soul. Even though the white folks condemned him, John finds peace in knowing that his innocence has served good to all the people he helped.