"The Green Mile" mainly tells the story of the death row in the prison in the southern United States. The "green journey" mentioned here is a whisper, referring to a journey to the death row. This road is green. Hence the name is "green journey." The film's protagonist is a prison guard in the death zone of prison. He deals with the prisoners who are about to be executed every day. In his eyes, every prisoner is a mystery, especially the tall black death row man John Coffey. A kind heart is hidden under the strong appearance of John Coffey. In such a moment, those who want to save others' lives, in order to save the lives of a small sister, are mistaken for the murderer and eventually sentenced to death. When the prisoner painfully watched the innocent John Coffey sitting on the electric chair, his already numb nerves were awakened, and the humanity deep in his soul recovered.
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For Frank Darabont, the film "The Green Mile" has a completely different way of filming than the previous director's masterpiece "The Shawshank Redemption". In "The Shawshank Redemption", the director tries to be from the perspective of the prisoner. The way to look at the prison problem is mainly focused on the key features of the prison's bad conditions. However, the director’s perspective in this film has naturally changed. In this new film, director Frank Darabont has incorporated many warm human care into the cruel prison life and re-lead through the prison guard’s perspective. The audience saw new stories and characters. At the same time, the director used a lot of lens techniques and narrative techniques in this film to highlight the atmosphere of prison life and the mood of the characters in the prison. In the expression of the hero's heart, he incorporated the montage and carried out the past through a unique perspective of the protagonist.
Recalling that while the audience followed the protagonist to feel the fluctuations of emotions, it also gave a good account of the relationship between the various characters in the prison with the main character as the center. The director also carefully portrayed the communication and dialogue between the protagonist and the various characters in the prison. On the one hand, the protagonist's character and image are more three-dimensional and multi-faceted. On the other hand, it also paves the way for the further advancement of the story. Although there are many different people and things in this film, the director shows the two sides of each person's good and evil through the portrayal of their character, showing the inner heart of each character from the side, in order to make the director have a solid foundation for the deep description of human nature.
In this film, because the character of the important prisoner John Coffey is characterized by his amazing superpower, the director adopted a surrealistic approach to describe the prisoner John Coffey in the prison. Whether it is that he has an extraordinary healing ability for the disease, or his super power can be destructive to the object. The film is through the super-powerful image in this real prison, which organically integrates surrealism and specific scenes, making the whole story with the help of surrealism. It shows the absurdity and human nature of the prison society, and also shows the human nature after people suddenly wake up. This combination of profound, entertaining and artistic aspects of the film makes the film satisfy both the pleasure of viewing and the connotation behind the story. Throughout the whole film, "The Green Mile", while expressing the life scenes in prison and the inner feelings of the characters, is also further exploring and reflecting on the good and evil of human nature. The film uses excellent lens language and clever narrative techniques. The balance between heavy and absurdity is just right, and the director’s deep thinking on the human moral predicament behind the story makes this film an excellent work with great social significance and value.
Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/497-the-green-mile?language=en-US
Critic: AAA
영화: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/497-the-green-mile?language=ko-KR
별점: AAA