Review of The Green Mile (1999) by Shreekara B — 23 Sep 2014

"On the Day of the Judgement when I stand before the God and if he asks me why did I kill one of his miracles what do I say? That it was my job? '' this heart touching line is from 1999's Hollywood film ''The Green Mile''.

''The Green Mile'' is the combination of Miracles and Humanity and it's the conflicts between the 'Responsibility' and the 'Morality', it's a story of the Prison Officer Paul who once witness the arrival of the John Coffey who is convicted of killing two little girls, but he is endowed with some miracle power of healing and seems to be very soft and calm in his tone and do not exhibit any traits of being a criminal, he becomes very close to Paul right after healing his problem and Paul's co workers also witnesses John's miracle when he bring back the dead mouse into life he then also heals Paul's friend Hal's wife's brain tumour, looking at John's modest and piety nature Paul strongly feels that John is not the actual murderer and its sinful to have him killed with electrocution, eventually Paul comes to know that John is not the actual murdered and during this scene of confusion Paul asks John "On the Day of the Judgement when I stand before the God and if he asks me why did I kill one of his miracles what do I say? That it was my job? '' John says "I am tired boss - mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other'' and asks him to go with his responsibility and thus Paul is killed with electrocution in turn John giving his life span to Paul where Paul live for more then a century which he feels like a sweet punishment.

The narrative is neat and the performances are great with some intense emotional lines, its Michael Clark who evokes emotions with his heart touching performance, Tom Hanks is just fantastic with his great involvement into the character, overall ''The Green Mile'' is the kind of movie that remains green in everyone mind.