The Green Mile

Continuing with my top 5, here (Numbers 2-5 aren't in any particular order). I saw this movie for the first time about a month and a half ago on a Sunday. My parents and especially Tyler had raved about it and it was only a couple minutes into the movie so I figured I'd watch it.

This is one of the best movies I've ever seen. It was all I could talk about for days. It's amazing that a movie kept me entertained and mentally engaged with it for FOUR HOURS. Four hours!! And I don't think any other movie has made me cry that hard! It's so heart-wrenching! The first scene that did it was when Del was electrocuted. The thing is that once Percy was going for the sponge, I knew what was going to happen. And I'm not talkin about my eyes just waterin up, either. I mean tears streamin down my face, snot coming out all over the place kinda cryin. I also freaked out in the scene before that when Percy stomped out Mr. Jingles. It was one of those moments where you gasp aloud. The second is from when John showed Paul the vision to when he was put to death. OH. MY. GOSH. I was sobbing! For some reason, I cry whenever I see him sitting there watching the movie. It's like he took a childlike joy from something so simple even after all the pain and hate he'd known and even though he knew he was going to die. And the actually execution gets me into that uncontrollable sob kinda state, especially when the guy goes to put the cloth over John's eyes and he asks Paul to leave it off. My question, though, is if he was able to keep Paul and Mr. Jingles alive for so long with just a short exposure to his power, how old is John? He could be hundreds of years old, if what I gathered from the movie is right!

Now some of the funny parts, because this movie actually is really funny! I always laugh when Percy goes on his little rampage through the restraint room, trying to find the mouse, and Paul scolds him and tells him to clean up the mile. One of my favorite lines! I also love when Wild Bill spits the Moon Pie in Brute's (my favorite character) face and Del calls him Little Black Sambo haha. Racist, but funny.

Favorite Quotes!

"Get all this back in the room. You are cluttering up my Mile." -Paul

"Please, Boss... don't put that thing over my face.

Don't put me in the dark. I's afraid of the dark." -John

"What happens on the mile stays on the mile.

Always has been." -Paul, Brute

"John Coffey, ma'am. Like the drink, only not spelt the same." -John

"He killed them with they love, they love for each other." -John

"And I think about all of us walking our own Green Mile, each in our own time. But one thought more than any other keeps me awake most nights: if he could make a mouse live so long, how much longer do I have? We each owe a death. There are no exceptions.

But, oh, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long." -Paul