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Black
Snake Moan |
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Year:
2007 |
Rated:
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Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin
Timberlake, John Cothran, S. Epatha Merkerson, David Banner |
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Directed
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Written
by: Craig Brewer |
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Music
by: Scott Bomar |
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Studio: Paramount Classics |
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| By Joe De Matteo
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Black Snake Moan is a story about the power of
the human being. The power to tear a
person down, rip them to shreds and spit them out
into nothingness; nothingness that still lives and
breathes, still has to get up each day and get to
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there is the power that a human being has to love.
That one four-letter word holds the real power when
it's energized by God.
Wait now. You're right. It's that old
battle between Good and evil. It's laid out
for us by Son House, in his explanation of the
Blues, which is woven through the film
When a human being works through this kind of
love, that human can heal the wounds that a hundred
have inflicted, even the worse wounds; the self
inflicted ones.
Laz, Samuel L. Jackson, knows what it is to be
brutalized, he knows the blues.
Rea, Christina Ricci, hell, she's so beat up she
doesn't know the sky from the ground. |
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| But the blues are a funny thing,
they teach you compassion, they teach you love, the
dig-your-heals-in kind of love. The music is
wonderful, heartfelt blues. Jackson is perfect; all
the baggage he carries from his other rolls, come
together to help you understand Laz, though Laz is
not a character you've seen before. Ricci,
well, I'm afraid to say too much and be switching
this from a discussion of love to one of lust.
Jokes aside she works her heart out in this film,
and she tells a seamless story. She'll
introduce you to a new person, Rae. And you'll
know all the gory details about Rae's sad, pathetic
and brutal life.
I loved her. There are so many people to
love in the film.
I remember being a boy and seeing T bone Walker
on this little black and white TV we used to have.
He was singing the blues - maybe the first memory I
have of my favorite kind of music. He was
singing about sad things, how life and love were
beating him up. He finished the last sad line
on a down-beat, stepped back from the microphone and
gave a little laugh. That has always been the
blues to me, that laugh. It was like a puff of
steam coming out of Mamma's pressure cooker.
When it all gets so bad, and it's been bad for so
long, it becomes normal; it is your life. And when
this emotion translated from a feeling to
words and music, and that translation is right that
other people respond to it - "me too" to
it, well, it translates back into an emotion and
that just might works it's way into the
light of day in the form of a small laugh.
Black Snake Moan is a keeper. |
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COMMENTARY |
Joe D.Super |
This is an excellent film on so many levels. The music
is great, Samuel L. Jackson even entertains us with surprising, to
me, anyway, out bursts of song. The story is on solid ground, and
though the story could go in many different directions, its a
positive story about good rescuing someone from evil. The
overall sound and look of the movie is perfect, as is the dialog,
and the acting is first class.
The next time I see Black Snake Moan will be
in my viewing room. I've pre-ordered the DVD.
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