 Isn't that cleaner? Yeah. Instead of what I'm using now. I think it's better now. Okay. Can you see your teeth? Oops. Welcome to Scoonsville. Hi. This is our reaction, our initial reaction to just finishing watching the Green Mile. Yeah. Yeah. We just literally just finished watching it. Literally just finished it when we set up. Yeah. We're going to do this after, to get the initial response right after watching a movie. Yeah. I've seen it I think once or twice before and every time it wreaks havoc on me. This is the first time you've seen it. Yeah. It did the same to me. It was, it was tough to get through. Napkins strewn about the floor. Tissues. Tissues. Yeah. Yeah. There's still kind of pain in my heart. When movies are particularly deep or painful, I'm a crier basically. Yeah. And that movie was just really tough. I don't even fully know why because I mean, I've seen a lot of sad movies, but I saw it the first time in high school and I had to pause it probably three times near the end, just because I just couldn't take it. Yeah. And I think, I think what it is is that it's about a three hour movie and it's a movie that is able to take all that time to really get you to not even necessarily like all the characters, half the characters are not likeable at all, but they get you to understand the characters and they're so interesting and, and real and physical characters, you know, if that makes sense. And so when something happens, the more you get into the movie, it just impacts and it just builds in such a beautiful way that especially the last half of the movie, I think it's just, yeah, I find it really hard. I challenge anyone to, to, to not be invested in it. I can speak. Okay. Michael Clark Duncan plays John Coffey. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just incredible with how. He really captured that role perfectly. You feel when he says that he feels like shards of glass digging into his heart or his brain from all the pain that people cause on themselves. Like, you know. Yeah. Because I mean, that's, that's the thing. The, the miracle, I guess that, that are his supernatural powers. Such that he's like an empath 2.0. Because empaths are like that, you know, they, speaking from experience here, take on a lot of people's emotions, even if they don't want to. And so that's really his life, right? And I wasn't even a sewage when, when he passes, when he's about to get electrocuted, he's like, well, you know, or, or when he's bringing me peace. I want to see that. Yeah. Was it when he was getting electrocuted or when, when Paul asked whether or not what he could do for him? Yeah. Yeah. Paul asks him, should I break you out of here? And he's like, you know, I really, I just want peace, you know, and, and I get it because, because of that, those supernatural powers. I get it. It's hard to live life in that way where you can, you really, it's not even just being empathic. It's that you can actually see events that are painful. Yeah. That happen to other people. You know, whenever you come into contact with someone, you're able to see what they went through. Yeah. And, and you live with that. So I can only imagine how hard it was for him. And I, and I understand in the end when, in the movie, when he says that, well, you know, I just don't want to go through that anymore. It's like shards of glass. I just feel like, I don't know. I just wish he could have gotten it better. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's, it's that. Who am I even to say? I know. Like, what's better? I think you always feel those two things of wanting him to live, but also realizing he's right when he says, let's go through with it. And it would be hell on earth to be on death row for anyone, but for him, again, you know, 10 times worse because not only does he feel the pain of those that maybe are innocent or are genuinely remorseful and want to atone for what they did. And then those that are just, for whatever reason, become so, you know, horrible to the core that you have to absorb all that. Yeah. I mean, the even, I think the movie tries to give you as much poetic justice as it can with having the two despicable characters get their comeuppance. Yeah. It's only kind of a slight return in, you know. One of the things we talked about, he's how, how lonely he's been in his life and how he never had friends. He was, he didn't have friends and I can only imagine someone who looked like him. Yeah. Even though you can tell that he's tender and sweet, he's also a huge guy and just a very menacing character. Yeah. And I also doesn't really have a lot of, like you could say skills apart from his extreme tenderness and empathy. Exactly. So he's kind of just wanders around. Yeah. Really unable to be helpful apart from his one gift. Yeah. I can imagine that he wasn't really, he didn't really have a lot of smooth interactions in life. And so if you're already someone like that, with that kind of supernatural empathy, I feel of course life would be so difficult. I mean, the movie was great. Probably better that it ended the way that it did. What do you think? I mean, I like the ending. Not only is it extremely emotional, but you know, you do get the, the come up in a pretty satisfying way with Percy, the one despicable character getting to go to his, what they call mental care hospital, but not, you know, as a patient, not as someone who works there because he has nepotism connections, you know? Yeah. And then while Bill, while that was the way and getting shot by a kind of a possessed Percy was kind of the way that they could both get, you know, be like at the same time kind of by possessing Percy, that's what then kind of made him kind of unable to explain all the stuff that happened so that the other characters were able to do what they need to do and not get in trouble for it. And I like the, I do like the part at the end where even though Tom Hanks' character is a good guy, he's always trying, in a way he still feels like he did still need to pay, his atonement is for living, outliving everyone he cares about, which is hard to do over and over again because as much as he says John Coffee wanted it and he would have let him go, he still did at the end give the order to have him get killed. So, I mean, of course, each time I watch it, I cry, first time most I've ever cried, sober, but this time, I can't remember if the last two times I watched it, but this time I was even getting, getting teary with Edward, was it Lacroix? I can't remember this last name or something, Lacroix. And the part where he's going to get electrocuted and he's talking about the Mr. Jingles and yeah, so that's good for me too, this time. It's interesting, I guess the thing, one thing I really like about the movie is how they don't really tell you, they don't tell you what these people did except John Coffee with the girls, that they say he killed the girls, but of course later we found out that they didn't. Yeah, you don't really get to find out what the prisoners did. And I like that because it allows you as a viewer to form your own opinions of these people. I remember when Edward is about to get electrocuted, he apologizes for it and talks about how he wishes he could take it back and even when he was still alive and he really just didn't seem like someone who belonged there. And it's really hard to, for me personally, knowing that he actually did do something, it's hard for me to reconcile the empathy I feel for him. Just because I saw how tender he was in that movie was just a soft guy. And of course John Coffee with the please don't put the mask on me. Yeah, that was really tough. Okay, battery died. Why I liked, another reason I liked the fact that we're not told what the prisoners did is because it, for me, was a... I think a big theme of that movie is that everyone has a past. No one is wholly good or wholly bad. Yeah. Holy, I mean that's completely. Yeah, and then I think we were just saying the other great theme of it is about mortality and facing everyone has to face death. And it's obvious people on death row have to think about it a lot more and it happens sooner I suppose and they know when it's happening versus people that don't know when their time will come. But in the end, let's say at the end everyone's walking their own green mile. Which is also just saying everyone also is on their own journey too. Everyone's on their own. So that's why, again, be kind of people because you don't know what kind of journey they've been on or all the things they're going through. Yeah, I felt that he really didn't deserve and I wished that there would have been a happy ending for him. And I don't want to say, I have this thing sometimes with movies they really try to just get all of these emotions out of you and kill off the character you love. They make you love the character and then they kill them off, right? And sometimes I'm like, this is just for show. They really didn't have to do that. They could have kept him alive. That happens too in life. But what happened to John Coffey also happens in life, isn't it? And I guess it also made more sense. I feel like if he was really someone with, if he was really a miracle with those supernatural powers, I think he probably would have... I think he's done what he was meant to do. Yeah, he feels that way and he just wants peace. He wants the peace that he deserves and that he looks for in people that he's never found. So, yeah, I guess if I'm looking at it that way, it's probably more realistic. Yeah. Just a lot of beautiful moments in the movie too between Tom Hanks's character and his wife, between, I guess, the warden and his wife and then also, you know, just the other guards and yeah, just a lot of... Yeah, I guess we got to give it a rating. 10 out of 10. Yeah, I give it a... Perfect ripe tomatoes rating. All right, well, should we say goodbye? We should say goodbye. Yes, goodbye.