The Green Mile (1999 Tom Hanks)

The Green Mile - A story to touch your heart

The Green Mile is one of the most touching Movies ever; Tom Hanks plays at least one, (if not two) brilliant roles as a prison warder, and as the decrepit ex-warder in the scenes as an old man at the beginning and end of the Movie. The mixture of Human Ethics, Mysterious powers, the battle between good and evil, and the personal stories of various people who had to live with each other on the death row which is the main scene for the movie, and what is known in the Movie as "The Green Mile".
Evil is represented by the character of Billie the Kid, a disgusting example of a Human being who is the real guilty person for the murder of the two young twin girls for which our hero of the film "John Coffee" is accused and sentenced to death for. By coincidence, they both end up spending their last days on the green Mile, with Tom Hanks watching over them as their warden. Miraculous events then begin to occur, as John Coffee slowly reveals the big pure hearted desire to help others, and his magical ability to heal begins to infect the feelings of his companions on the green Mile... Watch on and be moved to tears, as Tom Hanks takes you into the world of the green Mile, and the wonderful Miracles, and Tragic facts will carry you to places inside your heart which you never even knew existed.

Although some people found the green Mile a little long with it's total running time of 3 hours, but for me, i find most films come too suddenly to an end, therefore an extra 30 minutes or so in order to develop a sensible ending is completely fine as far as i am concerned. Who set this stupid standard that a movie should only last 2 hours?? it's only set for commercial reasons, and if you look at the greatest epics (star wars, lord of the rings), you will see that a long story has a lot of magic to it and ends up as a classic if well directed and produced. The Green Mile is one of those Classics, which only an actor of the calibre f Tom Hanks can make stand up on it's own with ony himself as the main character sewing the rest of the movie together. Lord of the Rings and Star Wars both made use of several sub plots, whereas Tom Hanks handles the whole 3 hours of the movie almost constantly present in all the scenes. He does the same in Forrest Gump now that we mention it, which is also a long dragged out mega movie with only himself holding the many sub-stories and scenarios together.
Tom Hanks is a Cinematic Genius and can be considered a Method Actor for his well deduced and executed roles, which are always shrewdly examined and chosen before accepting the job on a new project. I was clasping my stomach with exasperation though as he enacted the scene where he was trying to urinate with a gall stone problem, and the expression on his face (synonymous with sucking an unripe lemon with an ulcerous tongue) - Although Mr. Hanks does not attempt any comedy in this movie, he still manages to bring you into fits of laughter with the simple seriosity of the fact that he is going through an incredible amount of pain, which many of us have either experienced, or can at least, imagine.

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