Shen Yaozi in the autumn of Gengchen

John Coffey is a man with a clear conscience and supernatural abilities. He was mistaken for a murderer and sentenced to death for attempting to use his powers to save two abused and dying little girls. The prison guard who executed him, the protagonist of the film, truly understood him but was powerless to help. The conscience was sentenced to death, which is the author's great irony towards humanity, who claim to be the wisest of all creatures.

In this world, some possess the skills to save the world but lack the benevolence (like unscrupulous doctors). Some have the benevolence to save the world but lack the skills (like clay bodhisattvas). Some have both the skills and benevolence to save the world but lack the wisdom (like John Coffey in the film). Therefore, many things are not very harmonious. Only those who are as enlightened as Buddha can possess benevolence, skills, and wisdom simultaneously, which is not easy.

The film is set in the United States around the 1930s and 1940s, where everyone talks about God. Westerners once firmly believed in God, and Easterners had similar beliefs. Whether it is gods, Buddha, God, the Creator, or bodhisattvas, for the multitude of beings, they are just mysterious, distant impressions, symbols, and places of comfort. However, the true "God" is not easily understood or explained through knowledge or language.

God exists, and He is everywhere. Like the spiritual master of each small world within every body. Only those as simple as a child can intimately sense the most spiritual and wonderful divine consciousness that flows between heaven and earth and all things. Only then can one truly understand the meaning of "God loves the world" and "Bodhisattva responds to cries for help."