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"The Green Mile" is told in a
flashback narrated by Paul Edgecomb to his friend Elaine Connelly. Edgecomb is
now living in an old-age home some six decades after working as the head guard
on Death Row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary.
Edgecomb’s tour of duty at Cold Mountain in the Depression-era South
included watch over a quartet of killers awaiting their final walk down
"the Green Mile," the stretch of green linoleum flooring that took
convicts from their jail cells to the electric chair.
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Over the years, Edgecomb walked the mile with a variety of cons. He had never
before encountered someone like John Coffey, a massive black man convicted of
brutally killing a pair of nine-year-old sisters. Coffey certainly had the size
and strength to kill anyone, but his demeanor starkly contrasted with his
appearance. Beyond his simple, naive nature and a deathly fear of the dark,
Coffey seemed to possess a prodigious, supernatural gift. Edgecomb began to
question whether Coffey was truly guilty of murdering the two girls.
As the story unfolds, Paul Edgecomb learns that, sometimes, miracles happen in
the most unexpected places.
This is quite an extraordinary film, powerful, often funny, mystical and
surprisingly moving. Carefully staged scenes and use of still camerawork really
allows the actors to vividly paint the story line - exceptional film making of
the highest order.
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