The Green Mile

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Why is it, that no matter how many times I watch this film or read the book, I still end up crying like a baby at Eduard Delacroix' execution, and at John Coffey's too ??

I must have seen this at the very least ten or twelve times now, and read it at least six, and it still gets me! :o

Is anyone else affected like this by a book or film, or am I (scarily) alone? :o
 
It's one of the few films that I can concentrate on entirely throughout the length. I have a short attention span normally, and start to fidget after about 20 minutes of most things. It is one of the most brilliant films ever. My friend lent it to me, and I then bought it myself on dvd. Apart from bawling and sobbing at the parts you mention, I also do so when the evil guard kills the mouse! And then when it's brought back to life again. :D
 
This is a brilliant story, one of the few books I have read cover to cover without stopping, and it's a long book. The movie was great too but reading was better, you get inside the character's heaRAB that way. I loved the movie and watch it every time it is shown, even though it is so long. It is unusual for one of Stephen King's films to have a good ending too, usually they are all a bit of a letdown at the finish, but this one keeps going to the very end.
 
I saw this once, three years ago and was stunned by it's brilliance. For that reason, I have never watched it, nor wanted to watch it again, in case it doesn't live up to my memory of it. It's one of those films I wish I was about to see for the first time. Sublime.
 
The only other film that does that for me is The Shawshank Redemption. I will watch it whenever I see it on telly. Wonderful film.
Written by the Stephen King as well.

A film I can never watch again is Schindler's List. I watched this in the cinema, and started sobbing from the point when the one armed man is killed. I didn't stop sobbing through the whole film. I had never cried before at the cinema and from that point my emotional threshold has been butchered. since seeing that film I cry at the slighted thing in a film. I think it affected me so badly as it was basically a true story, and if not actually true, based on things that had happened..
 
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