The Green Mile

Statistics:

Release Year – 1999
Running Time – 189 minutes
Director – Frank Darabont
Cast – Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan
IMDB Ratings – 91 among top 250 (8.4/10)
Awards – Nominated for 4 Academy Awards in 1999


Review:

This movie was lying with me since a long time, however I don’t know why I was delaying this. But its time came one day, when I made my mood to watch such a long movie already. I did not read about this movie before so was all unaware of the plot, which turned out to be in as a nice surprise. Yes the movie is little longer however it would keep you bound to it, and I can surely guarantee for this. The Green Mile, as the name suggests but it has nothing to do with any race or another such kind of stuff. Have you heard about the word, ‘The Last Mile’, if not then this denotes the last walk a convict takes before the execution, from his cell to the execution place. The Green Mile is an adaptation of Stephen King novel of the same name. The movie is about the prison guards who call the last mile as ‘The Green Mile’. The superintendent Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) is a dedicated person to his job, where he thinks that he is responsible to bring calm, peace and happiness in the lives of the prisoners who are going to be executed in few days only. His associates are also groomed on the similar principles and values under his guidance. However they have got one assistant guard of different and sadistic character, who is spoiling the atmosphere of the block. They also got a prisoner, a black one, who is very huge in his appearance and was convicted under rape and murder of two minor girls. Though his appearance is huge however his behavior is pretty mild, such as he asked to keep the lights open as he was afraid of dark. Can such a person be a murderer, was the suspicion in Paul’s mind.

A person who tells daily many people about their execution sentence, but what will happen if he has to say same thing to someone close to him? Paul’s boss’ wife was diagnosed for an non curable cancer, but now he don’t know how to convey this to her. How intrigue sometimes the situations are in our lives, isn’t it….Paul also witnessed some miracles from that black prisoner, and hence was convinced that the person was innocent, however he couldn’t do anything about it. He has to stand in his execution knowing that it is wrong. How will he do all this, is this enough that you can skip by saying that you are doing just your job, though you know that something is wrong. Sometime people just get away saying that they are just doing their job, though perhaps from inside they know something is wrong. However this cannot be true always in your life, sometimes you are so powerless that nothing lies within your hands, however what matters is whether you try your best or not in the interest of right direction. Would Paul try something similar or will just go ahead with his job? I would highly recommend this movie to all of you as this would be an enchanting and electrifying experience for you.