I got over most of my issues with the war. I'm thinking I just needed to let them soak for a bit. Now I'm going to try to stay away from that stuff since it seems like everyone is writing about it (I can see why - it's on everyone's minds) and I don't really feel like adding too much to that trend.

So last night I was on my way to bed and I decided I should watch something as I went to sleep. I made the poor choice of choosing The Green Mile. This movie was way underrated and I forgot how good it is. Yes, it's slow and meandering, but I like that in films about both the depression. Those were slow and meandering times. Not to mention the film takes place in the South which I hear is a slow and meandering place (regrettably I've never been to the Southern US to experience this myself - it's on my list.)

The film is very pretty and the acting is excellent. Most importantly it gripped me. This lead to my watching almost all of it (it's more then three hours long, I watched about two and half) and staying up quite past my bedtime. Also the film deals with some pretty intense issues to have kicking around your head while you try to go to sleep. Death row is always a tough issue, but this film really humanizes the prisoners and is quite graphic in showing their executions.

The one thing I find distracting is they have this thing that one of the guards is a really big guy. But then one of the prisoners is a straight up giant. I know that David Morse and Michael Clarke Duncan are not small people (especially the latter), but to make them look even bigger they play lots of tricks with the camera and the sets. This is very similar to the way they make the hobbits look small in the Lord of the Rings movies. This never looks quite right and my brain gets distracted either trying to figure out why it doesn't look quite right or trying to figure out how they did it.

Like I said above, I was reminded how much I like this movie. I doubt that I'll forget about it again for a long while.

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