I have watched over 100 movies, but this is the first time that I felt so sad after watching it that I couldn't help but write about my feelings.
Prison themes are inherently attractive, and there is a gathering place of human sin. The background of the story is the United States in the 1930s, but don't forget that it was a period of serious racial discrimination. Discrimination stems from prejudice, people are only willing to choose the facts they want to believe. When the kind John blamed himself for holding the two girls in pain, from that moment on, he was sentenced to death.
This death sentence comes not only from the lawyers who defended him falsely, the people who denounced him, Pesci who shouted dead man and niggers, but also came from his own mental exhaustion in the face of these unbearable human nature.
When Paul couldn't say the password to turn on the electricity in pain, he slowly stepped forward and held John's hand. He wanted to know John's heart at this moment.
John told Paul:
I saw him use their love for each other to kill them, and every day.
It turns out that John can let go of racism, but he can't free himself from the darkest side of human nature. Only go to heaven, to redeem yourself.
God gave John the miracle of healing wounds and exploring people's hearts, but he forgot about the human world where kindness was long gone. The most ironic thing is that when Paul asked John how he should face God's questioning after his death, he blamed him for killing this miracle that God gave to the world. John answered him and told God that you had done a good deed.
(This is the end of the thematic analysis. But I still want to say a little about the film from the perspective of video narrative)
There are, of course, some fly in the ointment. In the first half, the appearance of John is naturally attractive at the beginning, but the content about the other two death row inmates is introduced for a long, long time after that, which breaks the rhythm. There is still room for adjustment in the montage of John's plot.
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