A film I love, by Jules

The Green Mile

 

 

  The Green Mile is an American drama film released in 1999 and directed by Frank Darabont .

The film is based on Stephen King's novel which has the same name.

 

 

[The serial novel was originally released in six volumes before being republished as a single volume work. The book is an example of magical realism.]

 

The story is told in flashback and narrated by Paul Edgecomb who now lives in an old-age home six decades after working for a long time as the head guard on Death Row at a Southen Prison named Cold Mountain Penitentiary.

Back to 1935, during the Great Depression, Paul Edgecomb, reflects on how he developed an unusual relationship with one of the inmate, sentenced, who is probably innocent. John Coffey, the inmate, is an African-American man who is convicted for the murder of two little girls.

 

 

But the thing is that Coffey has strange powers, both miraculous and mysterious … And the creepy persons in the prison have their own point of vue on his gifts. 

 

This film is one of my favourite and I think it's one of the best film ever. If you've never seen it, I recommend it to you. The first time I've seen it, I was so into it that people could talk, shout, cry that I didn't bother anything, all I wanted was to know the end.

 

And … the end made me cry, I couldn't stop !

 

After seeing this film you feel, just for a few minute, like if you had to take care of the people you love, well you know it's like when you go out from the cinema, you always feel a bit strange , here I felt like this : strange and shaky at the same time …

All this to say, that this film is incredible .