The place where the story happened is quite unusual-the death row detention center, a place full of crime, death and even abnormality. Several death row prisoners waited here for the electric chair at the end of the green, and a few guards numbly executed the death sentence until one possessed With the arrival of the super-powerful big black man John Coffey, everything has changed. In fact, in a certain sense, John Coffey is a person close to God. He is afraid of the dark. He can save a dying life. He can feel the pain in the mind and body of others. He can see through by shaking hands. A person’s everything, he can predict the future, and his eyes are often full of tears. He will look at the stars and smell the fragrance of the earth with innocent eyes, and gather all the brilliance of humanity in him-compassion, Kindness, justice... But such a person, a true person or a person close to God, was misunderstood, wronged, reviled by people around him, and sentenced for being a descendant of a black slave and other reasons. The death penalty. As a result, that small detention center was filled with all kinds of contradictions-good and evil, life and death: among several death row prisoners, there was the evil devil Mad Billy, and he had committed crimes for himself like Old Dai. There are people who repent, like John Coffey, who have no sin at all; among the guards, there are Paul, who is kind and full of justice, and there are villains and sadists who are almost perverted like Percy.
There are at least two places in the film where these contradictions are concentrated. One is the scene of the execution of Lao Dai. It was a very horrible scene: Percy put the sponge on Lao Dai’s head out of a certain perverted mentality. After Lao Dai confessed before leaving, he also smashed Lao Dai’s last hope with bad words. After turning on the electricity, Lao Dai died in the pain of a long electric burn. At this moment, the room where the torture was executed was already in chaos. The second is the scene of the execution of John Coffey. When John Coffey walked to Green Lane, everyone who knew him was heartbroken. People can't help thinking about the meaning of Luli. At its end is the electric chair and death. It carries all topics about life and death, and for death row prisoners, it should also mean reflection and repentance of crimes. From birth to death, from being to nothing, it is the last journey of life. But why would a person like John Coffey use the Green Lane to end in such a way? While he was sitting in the electric chair, there were still people spitting down below, but Paul and several of his colleagues were crying quietly: People will execute the most severe capital punishment they have enacted, which is arguably the purest. Life, and at the same time they think it’s so happy...it’s painful and sad.
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