I watched Frank Darabont's The Green Mile

RK -

In this post here, I mentioned that I've been watching movies on Wednesdays this year. In this post, I gave my two cents on the movies I'd seen so far. And in this post, I listed the horror movies from my 2024 list that I was planning on watching this fall.

Well, I decided to take a break of the horror movies and watch a warm-hearted comedy for a change before getting back to the splatters - and the movie of choice was Frank Darabont's The Green Mile (1999).

Warm-hearted comedy? My ass.

Here are my four cents on the movie:

  1. Having seen The Shawshank Redemption a few times, it was obvious to me from the first scene that the film was a Darabont/King collaboration. (The Mist doesn't have the same obviousness, but that might be because of the different setting and the more advanced look in the cinematography.)
  2. I wanted to scream at Edgecomb for not seeing exactly what will happen if he puts Percy out front in the Del execution. I, and probably everyone else that's ever seen the movie, knew immediately and to the last detail how the whole thing would transpire.
  3. I enjoyed the movie.
  4. The metaphor is that we're all on death row, and the more suffering you experience and witness in your life, the longer the walk to the chair is. So... run? Make the walk shorter? Die as quickly as you can? I dunno.

I may have to watch The Mist again, though. The cinematography might be worse than in the other two, but at least the ending is more shocking.

RK out.