3 Hours? It doesn't matter for such a great cinema experience

Rating: 9/10 (24 February 2014)

Remembering "The Green Mile", like I try to search again a very treasure in my past experience of watching movie. Man, it was three hours, but I didn't move to another attention while watching it. Yes, it was long, and the settings is just jail, house, and jail again. The character is just the ones that appear in the beginning. No such a great twist, but I feel the flow, the slow flow of characterization that Darabont give to the audience. A very precious sequence that easily come into my mind and still leave trace until now. Strong characterization, a great deal of humanity sense, critics, and drama delivered together by this motion picture.
I don't surprised when "The Green Mile" didn't win a single Oscar. In one hand, there are many great movie in that year, from "Fight Club", which is brand new and fresh. The modern visual effects and science fiction story from "The Matrix". The conclusion of mainstream American drama movie by "American Beauty", until a bunch of twist by Shyamalan in "The Sixth Sense". In the other hand, "The Green Mile" isn't the film to just entertain. It makes you gratitude to your life. It can touch the blind side of heart for some people, to look his very humanity, his compassion and feeling about each other.
I haven't said the technical things yet. Film like this doesn't need dozen of editors, superb cinematographer, or maybe those brand new visual effects. It is only need a deep contemplation. The story itself, indeed a powerful story, which directed by the suitable director and acted powerful actor. This is really a gifted movie!