"Miracle in the Green" lasts for 3 hours, the main theme of the whole plot is dull and depressing. I wanted to stop watching a few times and didn't want to continue to be immersed in such a sad atmosphere. However, the inflection point of the plot design is perfectly connected and very attractive, so it is fascinating to read the whole story step by step. Can not help but breathe a sigh of relief, but unconsciously aftertaste in the plot.
This is a work with an unrealistic taste. The location of the story focuses on the prison, and each character has a distinct personality. It is such a group of people, covering almost all human qualities. Good and evil, joy and sadness, and so on, as long as you have the characteristics, you can extract them from these characters. The dark tones, the expressions of real characters, and the unrealistic stories are mixed into a richly textured world of light and shadow.
Kofi put on the prison uniform, his eyes are clear, there is no trace of evil thoughts
In our conventional impression, only those who have committed crimes have the "opportunity" to put on the prison uniform, naturally also labeled, definition For a bad guy. Either murder and arson, or robbery, in short, violated the law.
What about the facts? Those who wear prison uniforms must be bad guys? The answer is yes. Most people are guilty, and there are also very few people who have been wronged and defiled. The world is like this, there are almost no absolutes, with some exceptions. Kofi in the
movie "Miracle in the Green" is such an exception, with a tall and burly figure, a chubby face, and innocent and clear eyes. At first glance, it was really impossible to connect him with a murderer, and with tears in his eyes, he was more of an older child.
The eyes are the window to the soul. The director sets up suspense for the character arrangement like Kofi, the murderer? It doesn't look like it really! No need for narration, no statement of charges, the first sense always feels that there is something hidden! This is indeed the case. Of course, all this is only based on a sense of film art.
Kofi did not do more to defend himself. He was in pain because he could perceive the pain and joy of the world. It turns out that he has a "sensing power" different from ordinary people. He can perceive the pain of Paul's urethritis and the sin of Billy. He is not a real murderer. He sheds tears more because he blames himself for his inability, and he can deeply experience the torture of dying people. This torture is like happening to himself, so his eyes are full of tears. . Kofi in the movie
always has clear eyes, just like a child, he did his best to cure Paul and Melinda's cancer. But he wanted to die, and didn't need to reverse the case or the truth. He looked like a selfless dedication, but he was wearing a prison shirt. This kind of plot design is really ironic and helpless. Kindness is treated like this, and it is really troublesome!
"Sin" is evil? No "sin" is good? The ending of the characters in the
movie made me think about the relationship between good and evil and the "sin" in the law. It turns out that the two are not necessarily related.
People who violate the law must be criminals. There is no doubt about this, but if they are good and evil, sometimes they are not necessarily evil.
Zhang Koukou, who was on the news a long time ago, was a man who avenged his mother and was eventually sentenced to death for breaking the law. From a legal perspective, he deserves this result. But if you get to the bottom of it, he is only avenging his mother, and it seems that he can get a part of understanding. Is he a villain? I don't think he is a villain, but a prisoner. What's wrong with being a human being to avenge his mother? But he did break the law by "arming a knife". Sometimes there is indeed a delicate relationship between morality and law, but the harmony of society is indispensable to legal constraints. In this case, we can only do our best to find a balance. Kofi in the
film is undoubtedly a good man. The death of the two little girls has nothing to do with him, just because he appeared at the murder scene. It was thus identified as the murderer. In this detailed design of the film, surrealist expression is adopted, the actual investigation and evidence collection is ignored, and the artistic depiction of the core of the film is emphasized. Explore the good and evil of human nature through the good deeds of a person without "sin".
If Kofi represents goodness with "sin", then Percy is evil without "sin".
As a prison guard, Percy is extremely psychologically distorted. He has always regarded the implementation of "electrocution" by himself as a wish in his heart.The cruel way he exercised his powers until the prisoners were "unrecognizable."
Percy is wearing a police uniform. He should behave according to the rules, but he only enjoys the pleasure of nothing. He has lost the most basic humanity. Such a person can be said to be evil, even if he has not violated the corresponding "crime" of the law.
Therefore, good and evil, as opposed to crimes in the law, need to be treated differently. If you violate the law, you should be judged. This is metaphysical, while good and evil are metaphysical.
Power and good and evil
If we talk about the relationship between power and good and evil, I think it differs from person to person. In the hands of good people, power can benefit, and in the hands of evil people, power is to create evil. Just like Reagan said:
is not a gun killing, but a person killing
is essentially the same. Whether it is a gun or power, it is just a tool. The root lies in the person who exercises it. Talent is the biggest hard core. Paul in the film
, as a jailer captain, takes into account the mood of the prisoners, and according to their performance, appropriately tolerates them, and tries to satisfy their wishes before execution. In order to treat the warden’s wife, he did not hesitate to cooperate with colleagues and break the rules, and took Kofi to save people late at night.
Percy, as a jailer, on the contrary, everything is based on his own preferences. For prisoners, they are just dolls.
The two have the same identity, but different actions. Although power blessing, it forms a completely different character style. In view of the above, power has no good or evil. The whole film of
takes a corner of the prison. The characters are clearly structured and each has its own characteristics. Through comparison, it explores the true nature of human nature, shows the daily life close to life, and raises the height of art, with a surrealistic color. The three-dimensional presentation of good and evil from the same time and space concept has an inner impact and vigilance. Paul, Persie, Billy, Kofi and others, representing different classes and different human natures, "placed" these roles in a closed space like a prison to conduct multi-level and in-depth exploration on both sides and between the two. The meaning is profound and at the same time it triggers a sense of substitution and vigilance.
As the director of this film, Frank De Labont, everyone should not understand that it is difficult to remember the names of foreign people, but when it comes to one of his movies, I believe that everyone knows the charming movie. "Shawshank's Redemption" is also from Frank. "The Green Mile" is not as good as Shawshank in terms of film aesthetics and plot, but it is also a rare masterpiece, with a Douban score of 8.8. If time is free, fans will Friends can take a look.
