Movie Review: The Green Mile

It was on Tuesday September 4^th, 2012 when I heard it. Many people on my twitter’s timeline said RIP Michael Clarke Duncan. It seems that Im rather familiar with that name. Then I started googling it and found that Michael C. Duncan is a Hollywood actor, best known for his awesome role as John Coffey in The Green Mile. I was shocked. Im probably not a big fan of him, but The Green Mile is my very favorite movie. I watched the movie when I was still in primary school. I remember his magnificent act as John Coffey. I love the story that also written by my favorite writer, Stephen King. Oh God I was soo sad at that time. I remember how I cried very hard when I saw him died on The Green Mile. And I nearly cried for the second time when I knew that he is really really gone.

Today Im going to write a little review about The Green Mile. It was released on 1999. Im sure that not much people in my age knowing this movie. But trust me that this movie really knocked me down! I suggest that you have to watch it.

The Green Mile is a movie about Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) who is a prison guard in a charge of a death row and supervised all the executions at Cold Mountain Penitentiary during the summer of 1935. The cell block where Paul works in is called the "Green Mile." It is because the condemned prisoners walking to their execution are said to be walking "the last mile" to the electric chair or he called it Old Sparky. He also suffers from a urinary infection. One day, there come a big guy named John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) who was accused of raping and murdering two little girls arrives on death row, but he’s actually not. Later Paul realises that John has a magic power for he can heal Paul’s urinary infection and resurrect Mr.Jingle, a mouse. Then Paul also asks John to heal Hal Moores’ wife from her brain tumor. John also has another special ability, he can read people’s mind and guest what happen next in the future. Let’s call that he has a supernatural thingy or sixth sense.

The true rapist and killer of the two little girls, Wild Bill, come into the Green Mile for making multiple murders committed during a robbery. John Coffey knows that Wild Bill is the true killer. That’s why he transfers Moores’ wife’s disease to a sadistic guard named Percy. So that Percy can lost his mind and shooting Wild Bill until he died.

Paul finally knew that John Coffey is innocent and asked him whether he can help John to walk away from the Green Mile. But John refuses it. Because he thought that the world is full of suffering. He was tired of knowing that many people being ugly to each other. He’s tired of being alone, tired of having no friends. Simply because he can read people’s mind. And he’s tired of all the pain he had. That’s why he chose to be punished in a death row, instead of feel the suffering again. Finally John is executed.

At the end, Paul lives until he is 108 years old. His friend, Elaine asks him why he can have such an excellent health. He said that this is apparently a side effect of John giving a "part of himself" to Paul. Mr. Jingles resurrected by John, is also still alive—but Paul believes his outliving all of his relatives and friends to be a punishment from God for having John executed.

Ohh dear God! I swear you have to watch this movie before you die. Simply because this movie can help you to think about life. John Coffey is a God miracle. Knowing people’s mind is hurt. Because you will know that beside of people who love you, there are also people who hate you. That’s gonna be hurt knowing it. I sometimes wish to God that I can read people’s mind, barely, so I can be ready for what happen next in my life. But after watching this movie couple days ago (I’ve watched it before in primary school but this thing haven’t affected me yet) I realize that I don’t wanna have that super power. I don’t wanna spend my life in suffer just knowing what people do and think about me and others. Future also, let it be just God’s mystery. Knowing the truth is hurt sometimes.

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