Like an Angel--Non-Film Critic [Old Articles 2007.11]

Rigoberto 2022-03-16 09:01:01

What should I say? This movie was known early in the morning, I have been avoiding it, and even bought it soon after I bought it from this computer. I have been deliberately not watching it, deliberately pretending to forget and not delete it.
Still watched. One afternoon, holding my toast and crying in a mess. I remembered the Tao Te Ching quoted by a friend last night: "The world is not benevolent, and everything is a dog." Coincidentally, the multifaceted nature of people was discussed last night: kindness, cowardice, ugliness, and despicableness. . . .
After 3 hours, I watched the play, as if following and witnessing a miracle. Yes, "The Green Mile."
The huge black Kefei, who seemed to be capable of terribly destroying everything at any time, was carrying the death penalty of murdering two young children. In fact, he is kind, afraid of the dark, and easy to cry. This brown angel (with his brain flashing through the black, the big one said shyly and awkwardly: John Kefei, which is very similar to coffee, but with a different spelling) possesses the supernatural power to resurrect the dead, and even empathizes with all the suffering of the world. Having said that, do you feel familiar? My eyes turned to look at the thick "Bible" on my desk involuntarily.
"He used their love for each other to kill them, and this pain makes me feel the same every day." It was the last heartbeat that the prison guard Paul could hear before his execution. Ke Fei's supernatural power made him endure the suffering of the world for a long time, and finally gave up his life. Without the self-consciousness of the "son of God" in the Bible, and the mind to save the world, he just helps the sick people around him, and can't forbid the experience of countless great waves of pain.
The ignorant coffee-colored angel, I don't know if he found out that even love in this world was used as a tool for murder, and he was really desperate. He cried, and when he cried, the whole world seemed to cry with it, and there was also a salty taste in my mouth.
Jesus was nailed to the cross and Kefei sat in the electric chair-which punishment was more cruel? Recalling the death row prisoner Dell’s electric chair punishment, the scene was shocking, and the cruelty and bloodthirsty of the human nature has never changed.
Jesus on the cross was humiliated by the soldiers and scolded by the crowd. The innocent Kefei endured the unknowing roar and hatred of the victim's family before he was tortured. Misunderstandings, ignorance, and distortions have never been lacking for thousands of years.
After Jesus died, he was resurrected, but Kefei did not come back to life. Paul brought his body with the amulet given by the patient he healed, and then resigned from his position as a prison guard, with the gift that Kefei gave him-a much longer life than others, waiting for someone who did not know when he came. Death-a long life, is it a gift or a punishment? When the loved ones leave one by one, when the inner condemnation and introspection cannot disappear and cannot be weakened, death may be a better destination.
When I typed the above text, I suddenly found something that I didn’t pay attention to during the filming:
"Saul still threatens and murders the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest and asked him to send an official letter to the synagogues in Damascus. If When he found those who followed this way, he was allowed to take men and women to Jerusalem. When he was about to reach Damascus, suddenly light shone on him from the sky. He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul! Why are you persecuting me? He said: Lord, who are you? The Lord said: I am the Jesus you persecuted. Get up and go into the city! Someone must tell you what you should do. Those who are with you, Hearing the sound, but not seeing anyone, just standing there dumbfounded.” (Acts 9 of the Bible)
Saul is Jesus’ disciple, that is, Paul, with the same name as the prison guard in the movie. At the beginning, he questioned Kefei, and realized the miracle of Kefei, believed and helped Kefei, and finally had to execute the sentence by himself.
There are too many religious metaphors for deliberately arranged details. But he noticed this prison guard, not because he was Tom Hanks. This ordinary little man, who was troubled by illness, was considerate and sincere to the death row inmates under his care, perhaps because of what he has always emphasized: Don't irritate the prisoners so that they may have excessive behavior. However, the light of kindness dazzled him--remind his subordinates to take into account the self-esteem of the death row inmates; try not to let the death row inmates feel that they were spiritually insulted; in order to make the death row inmates feel at ease to be tortured, weaving beautiful lies; facing misunderstood victims Ke Fei's hatred, silence before the execution suppressed the great pain. . . .
Shan, watching the miracle be strangled, and personally participate in the act of strangling. Subtle ridicule, more despair.
They took advantage of the night to escape from prison to heal a woman who had a tumor. Through the long grass, Kefei stopped, leaned over and picked up a handful of dead leaves, leaned in front of him and took a deep breath, showing a bright smile. Deep joy like a child, like an angel.

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The Green Mile quotes

  • Paul Edgecomb: John, do you know where we're taking you?

    John Coffey: Help a lady?

    Brutus "Brutal" Howell: That's right. But how do you know?

    John Coffey: Don't know. To tell the truth, Boss, I don't know much'o anything.

  • Melinda Moores: Why do you have so many scars?

    John Coffey: Don't really remember, ma'am.