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Patreon: The Green Mile Watch Along

Thank you for being a member of Patreon! Enjoy this watch along version of Stef Solari's Reaction. Watch along means the video is not present, you will need to watch with your own copy of the program. Follow the timer and provided subtitles to sync up with your version. Enjoy!

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Ashtroga

Glad you liked it :) even when it isn't exactly a feel good movie. Impossible to watch with a straight face for the first time, though it doesn't get much easier on a re-watch. Michael Clarke Duncan is so good as John Coffey he makes this movie. Unfortunately he passed away in 2012. This actually is based on a novel by Stephen King and that is where the supernatural elements comes from. Many of the scenes are a lot more gruesome in the books but somehow showing less in the movie works, I don't think it would benefit from that. They also don't reveal what are the crimes of the other death row inmates and I think because it would take away especially from Delacroix. For me this movie also raised the question if death sentence is actually justice. Character like Delacroix, whose crime is extremely disgusting and irreversible, but who genuinely seem to regret what he has done and is no longer the same person who committed the crime, does he deserve death sentence? On the other hand there are people like Wild Bill who will never regret anything or never change their ways and causing people misery and pain is the only thing they seem to live and who will always be danger to other people around. And then there might be those John Coffeys who pay with their life for other peoples crimes. And then there is the victim or victims and their families, justice must served especially for their sake but is taking another life that? Heavy and difficult topic and I don't think anyone has an easy answer for it, I can certainly argue for both sides but I don't know where to land, perhaps there is no answer, at least an easy or satisfying one.

PastaDon

Thanks for sharing with us stef & crew behind the scenes.. It definitely takes a little time to process a story like this.. I remember it was stuck in my head for next week after watching it.. lol..

Anonymous

I think that justice is subjective. People look at something like the death sentence from their own perspective. How would I feel if? Kind of thinking. However, if the accused doesn’t care about dying, what then? Everyone involved in criminal cases, judge, jury.. get to walk away largely intact. The people who don’t are the victims and their families. The laws and sentences are mostly created by people who will never be affected by the crimes. The sentencing for crimes against women and human trafficking being standout cases. Ask 50 fathers with daughters what their idea of justice is if their child was assaulted, ask 50 single guys you’ll get different answers. As long as people with money and power get different sentences than people with neither you don’t have justice. You have political a feel good revenge system.