The Green Mile Summary

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The Green Mile (Oscar Nomination 2000) In a Louisiana nursing home, Paul Edgecomb remembers about the time when he was in charge of the Death Row penitentiary. Unlike other prison officers, Paul and his team are very humane and sympathetic to prisoners. However, Percy Wetmore is an exception. He really means to the inmates. Because of his family connections to the government, Paul and other guards cannot get rid of him. It is a cruel summer to the prison staffs. Paul is sick and suffering a painful infection. Meanwhile, Moores, the wife of Paul's staff, Warden Hal, is dying because of cancer. One day, a new giant African-American prisoner, John Coffey, arrives and sentenced to the death row. He has been convicted of raping and killing two little white girls because he was found with the death bodies in his arms. However, it is a surprise to the guards, John is contrary to what he seems; He is afraid of the dark, very shy, talks softly and seems like an emotional person. When he shakes Paul's hand, Paul feels that he is like a man with nothing to be ashamed of. Paul and his staffs always try to be kind to the death row prisoners by making their death quickly and less painful. However, Percy deliberately does contrariwise. Instead of wetting the sponge that put on the head of the prisoners to conduct electricity and make the execution fast and more effective, he intentionally keeps it dry. It causes the prisoner to die in pain. One day, after seeing Paul suffer by the pain, John calls Paul to come to his room and suddenly pulls Paul close to the door. John reveals his amazing power - healing by touching. He then releases all the illness that transfers from Paul's body to himself by blowing all the black dots out in the air. When one of the inmate's well-trained mouse was killed by Percy, John again resurrects the mouse and blows out the back dots in

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