Apr 14, 2008 01:53 AM
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To start with I should confess that I am not much of a movie watcher but recently I have started watching movies with my husband as he is a die hard fan of cinema.I am a bookomaniac and almost all the movies seem to have no effect on me.So a few days back, i came across this movie, the green mile when it was bieng played in Dubai One.Although I was not quite sure of watching it, i sat there staring at the television as I had nothing better to so.To my suprise my passive sleepy attittude soon changed as I got glued to the TV.
A story told in flashback and narrarted by Paul Edgecomb, now living in an old-age home six decades after working as the head guard on Death Row at a Southen Prison named Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Travelling back to 1935, during the Great Depression, the former prison guard, Edgecomb, reflects on how he developed a poignant, unusual relationship with this one inmate, sentenced to Death Row, who may be innocent. The inmate, John Coffey, is an African-American man-convicted of the rape and murder of a pair of 9-year-old sisters-who awaits his death in this harsh prison. Coffey has strange powers, both mysterious and miraculous; and the creepy characters in the prison have their own views of his gifts. and of God's. The beauty of the movie is seen in each and every aspect from the story to the cast to the script to the cinematography.I just have no words to explain it.The scenes were so detailed and so captivating.For example the scene where the jailers play with the rats is a great scene.There isnt a single person in that movie who is out of sync.The happiness, the emotional stress;it is felt by the viewer as each scene unfolds.
I have got only one thing to say.of the movies I have watched so far, this is one movie that has touched my heart!
