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The Green Mile - review
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THE GREEN MILE REVIEW The Green Mile was directed by Frank Darabont and was set in a death row prison block in Louisiana in 1935. The Green Mile is a film which explores the forces of good and evil and the different characters these forces inhabit. The Green Mile is narrated by the retired guard (Dabbs Greer as the elderly Edgecomb), in an extended flashback which takes the viewer to 1935. The story takes places inside a penitentiary and mainly involves the head prison guard, Paul Edgecomb, the irrepressible, sadistic guard Percy Wetmore and John Coffey, the most mysterious of the prisoners on death row. Although the story of The Green Mile is not realistic, it is however a sentimental film with full of emotions. It's sentimental because it manipulates us into feeling a great deal and then leaves us in tears, wondering if the tears are worth it. Paul Edgecomb...
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