Possible explanations could be the director's downright racist remarks. It's also important to note that The Green Mile takes place in the 1935 South and under no circumstances would Coffey have gotten a fair trial. Now we have Coffey, who seems to have been sent by God to save white people. The point of all this is for Coffey to correct and save the beliefs and souls of white people, regardless of their racist beliefs. It is this type of representation that constructs binarism in a film. This representation grounds the viewers' minds and lets them know that black people are different and that they are only there to help white people achieve their goals at the cost of embarrassing stereotypes. In this film, the fact that Coffey is portrayed as magical is not a complement to black people. This rather infantilizes black people and offends them, because it suggests that black excellence is unheard of and the only way it could happen is if it comes from a supernatural.