The Green Mile
The movie, "The Green Mile" is about Paul Edgecomb who lives in a retirement home, and whose only joy in life is to take long walks, even though he's not allowed to. One day when all the elderly people are watching TV, one of them switch to a channel where they're showing an old movie, and suddenly Paul starts crying, and one of Pauls friends, Elaine, asks him what's wrong, and he starts telling her about when was working as supervising prison warden of E Block on death row in 1935, in one of the southern states.1935, the year when he was having the worst bladder infection ever, and the year of John Coffey, he tells Elaine. Paul also tell Elaine about his colleagues on E Block, Dean, Brutal, some other guy, and then Percy, where Percy is a real bastard who nobody likes. Paul and the other three (without Percy) believe that it is important to keep the inmates calm during their last time on The Mile, because people under a lot of pressure can snap and go crazy, and that's why they talk quiet to each other, and don't yell.Then, one day Paul gets a new prisoner, his name is John Coffey, whose convicted for having raped and killed two little girls. At first sight they think that he's trouble because of his size, but then John a
But at Dels execution Percy don't soak the sponge, that if wet will give the prisoner a quicker death, so Del gets fried , and starts burning. After having put Wild Bill,, as they call him, in his cell, John Coffey tell Paul that he needs to talk with him, and when Paul is at his cell, John grabs him and sucks the bladder infection out of him, and then he cough it up again and let out of his mouth. sks Paul if they keep the lights on at night, because he's afraid of the dark when in strange places. Jingles to Mouseville in Florida, even though he now it dosn't exists. Jingles has been rescued by John, Paul promises to Del that when he's dead, he'll take Mr. At Johns execution all of the guards are sad and crying, that they have to kill him. Jingles, and he could get it to do tricks, like "fetch", and get it to walk from his fingers on the one hand, and to the other hand. When they get home from Hals house, John is sick because of the sickness he sucked out of Melinda, so he give the disease to Percy, so Percy goes crazy and shoots Wild Bill, and after he done that, he becomes a patiant of Briar Ridge mental hospital. later that day Pauls friend Hal tell him that something is wrong with his wife because she's having a headache all the time. Jingles to him before it's too late, and so John sucks the death out of Mr. So they drug Wild Bill and put Percy in the padded cell, so he won't tell nobody, that they're taking John out of his cell. Paul also ask John if he would like him to let him run, and then see how far he would get, but John tell him that he don't want to live anymore, because all he ever see in the world is people being mean at each other, and he show Paul what he saw when Wild Bill grabed his arm and he could see into his heart, he show him that it was Wild Bill that raped and killed the two little girls. When they're at Hals house John walks up to Melinda and tell her to be quiet, and then he starts sucking the disease out of her, and then, when he's finished, she's back to herself again, and don't remember that she was sick. The next day paul calls himself off sick, to go visit the lawyer who defended John Coffey in court, because he wants to ask him about if John Coffey did kill the two girls or not.
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