Film Critique

Film Critique

Introduction

The Green Mile is the story narrated by Paul Edgecomb along with friend Elaine Connelly. The man lives in a nursing home, about sixty years have passed, as he worked as a captain of the guard on death row in Cold Mountain prison. During the Great Depression, in the old jail in the southern United States, Edgecomb dealt with four killers who were waiting to take their last walk along the so-called Green Mile, the corridor lined with green linoleum that would take them to the room with the electric chair.

Since serving in Cold Mountain, the man had walked that sad journey accompanying with very different men. Yet he had never met anyone who looked like John Coffey, a black boy sentenced to death for the murder of nine year old twins. Coffey was a giant, barely literate black itinerant, who kill anyone, but his demeanor was in stark contrast to his appearance. In addition to a simple and naive character and a childish fear of the dark, the boy possessed a supernatural gift. It was really guilty of the brutal murder? With the unfolding of events, Paul Edgecomb has found that sometimes miracles do happen in the most unexpected places.

Criticism

Many modern movies work with issues that affect us something, the death penalty is not accepted in United States, but also some other countries, such as the Germany. A film like "The Green Mile" is perhaps not change from one day to the general attitude of a population, but thought for a long time, we know that the media can influence our lives radically. So it is with young people who think they have nothing to do with religion, but they follow the daily religious texts embossed songs and movies, in which Christianity is approved.

"The Green Mile" is about death row inmates in the United States and their guardians who have to deal with the death penalty. Particularly cruel to the audience, which should have noticed during the previous scenes that John Coffey is innocent and Eduard Delacrois regretted his crime, that the execution in the electric chair is connected to these two great agony because they are dead immediately. In the U.S. in 2000, over 85 people have been executed, most by lethal injection, about which one does not know whether it causes pain and if so how large. Darabont has attracted the essential elements of ...