The movie..."The Green Mile"

zeroday

I have watched this movie a hundred times and everytime I cry such a powerful display of humanity...

I also love this movie, it shows how we make assumptions about people, just by looking at them, or by listening to what others may say about them, without getting to know them as a person. It shows how we have no clue about what is really inside their heart.

stillajwexelder

normally not my sort of film - but yes - fabulous film

RisingEagle

I caught the last part of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King earlier this evening and oddly enough the ending of that movie reminded me of the end of The Green Mile. Everyone who was a ringbearer was affected so deeply by it they would never return to normal and went off with the elves. Everyone touched by the big guy (John Coffee was it?) in TGM was destined to live for a very long time. Just noticed that.

alias

Yes, yes! And I love the "cornbread" scene.

alias

Locutus of Borg

One of those rare films that did justice to the book.

Mr King has moments of brilliance.

BurnTheShips

I have watched this movie a hundred times and everytime I cry such a powerful display of humanity...

Thats because John Coffey is a type of Christ. His name is "just like the drink only not spelled the same". 2 John Coffey is a Christ figure. Jesus Christ is the drink! ( John 7:37-38 ).

He comes to the very least (Death row - Louisiana Penitentiary - Depression Era)
He is gentle and meek
He is broken hearted over evil
He reveals himself to a few
He has a miraculous gift of healing
He takes evil back upon himself
He knows the stars by name and is intimate with the creation (earth and fireflies)
Evil spirits recognize and fear him
He can see into men's hearts
He is accused of a crime that he is innocent of
He is condemned to death
He accepts the condemnation
One who believes in his innocence tries to talk him out of being executed
He has a prisoner to each side of him; one that repents (Delacroix) and one that does not (Wharton)
He knows the Father by name
Before his execution, he is ministered to by angels (Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the flicker show)
He is mocked by those waiting to see his execution
His execution is both public and gruesome
A few who know the truth about him attend his execution and are broken hearted
The law is fulfilled in his execution
He has "infected" others with life

"Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of parched ground;
He has no stately form or majesty that we should look upon Him,
nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.
He was despised and forsaken of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
and like one from whom men hide their face, he was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried;
yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted."
Isaiah 53: 1-4

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