Uncle Tom is now a faith healer on Death Row

Rating: 3/10 (31 January 2006)

I was coerced into sitting through "The Green Mile" the other evening on video. Quite a watchable thriller, really, but left me very uncomfortable. I'm a white Englishman, but even for me the words "Uncle Tom" were hovering in the air and refused to go away. OK, the plot device of the automatic assumption of guilt and wrongful arrest of the big black guy only worked if he was black. But the - apparently surprising - fact that he could be huge and black but still "nice" then seemed to be a central part of the plot.
The only thing this story reveals is the prejudice and bigotry of the writer and his intended audience.