How to live after ...

Stephen King - a modern master of horror - is also the author of the most sentimental (and even religious) stories of the Great Depression. This three-hour movie is one of those stories.

As in the previous film of Frank Darabont (and King too) - Escape from Shawshank - it's again about prison and again about the innocent. Only the authorities are not only insidious, but even kind (especially Tom Hanks), except for the sadistic boy with connections. Of course, there is also an infernal evil in the person of Sam Rockwell.

But there are a couple of differences:

1) Prison is not exactly a prison, but a place where execution is punished - execution on an electric chair.

2) An innocent guy is a giant, and a negro, and, therefore, one can see a slight note of racism in the American judicial system.

3) He is not only a giant, but also has supernatural powers (miracles can do)

4) Finally, if the protagonist of "Escape" dreams of life and freedom, then the hero of Michael Clark Duncan wishes almost the opposite.

Well, a few simple thoughts:

First: the gift is a very heavy burden, not freedom. Modern man does not think much about Christ, healed miracles, but no one thinks about what it cost him as a man. Gift is also a sacrifice. Not what you gave, but what you give yourself.

Thought the second: about faith and miracles. Imagine yourself in the place of heroes - they do not even believe, but they know that there is a miracle. And they know about his "guilt", as well as about his death ... How would you do? How would you feel? How did the people around Christ feel themselves - healed and apostles ?. The analogy, despite the special effects of the updated version of the New Testament (and, perhaps, the Legends of the Grand Inquisitor) seems quite appropriate. Do not misunderstand that it is not a new Christ (he does not bear the New Word, as well as the old one), and not even the apostle, he is "only" a tool of resistance to evil, a miracle of the Lord for healing bodies and souls, a way of testing people's faith, which they pass only partially (and passing the test - employees of the "green mile" - the corridor for suicide bombers).

Third: sometimes the disease can be better than a healthy life. Again a choice: a short life, in which there may be pain and fear, or healing, which gives almost immortality? From the point of view of the philistine world outlook, the answer is obvious. But the protagonist of the rest of the 30-ies. and up to the present life is forced to live with consciousness ... (spoiler) and survive all their loved ones, even children ... And this happiness? At least sadness.

The only pity is that both Darabont and American cinema as a whole can not afford to be restrained and try to do without the vexes and classic tear-pullers. In any case, sentimental manifestations are excessively inordinate. With regard to Hollywood commercial drama, there is always a need for a remote control that would regulate the number of tears on the screen, replaying, especially with regard to evil (although Rockwell is convincing), would work with zoom, etc. After all, without these superfluous techniques, cinema, more looking into eternity, but it turned out - with peeping into the purse.