Craig Brewer is the director of "The Stream of Bustling". Black Snake Moan is almost inextricably linked behind the scenes of "The Stream of Bustling". It can be said that Craig Brewer cannot enter the picture without music. After watching the film, I searched for the highlights. Sure enough, in the interview, Craig Brewer claimed to be a little drunk one day. He felt the "black snake" in the singing of the blues musician Skip James in "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues", so he conceived the whole picture. story. At the same time, the title Black Snake Moan comes from the song of the same name by the famous blues master Blind Lemon Jefferson, with a tragic color.
If Black Snake Moan has any breakthrough contribution, it is the charm of BLUES that runs through the entire movie. Vocals, guitars, real "rap", soul music, and some folk songs...every song, even every measure of music, fits the plot, and matches every emotion in the plot, making it superb!
Sometimes, it is the music that expands the emotions and gives the audience a "moving" feeling that is beyond the plot. At least in this film, competent performances and extreme stories are not enough, the magic is music. Black Snake Moan's "experiment" of Blues music can be recorded in history like those great music movies. Its soundtrack is exquisite and vivid, and the story will gradually be forgotten.
The story of a black old man locking up a white girl is a gimmick. The general plot is like this: Christina Ricci's Ley has an unstoppable sexual desire and a wild form, and all of this is related to her childhood shadow and the current stumbling relationship. Samuel L. Jackson plays a bar singer who has an unfaithful wife and is left alone. The loneliest time was when the old and the young met and saved each other.
The cliché thread: the prodigal woman is good, and the old man seeks new hope in life. What makes the story a little creative is that the way of expression is slightly extreme. The lonely old and young girls in the play have the same mentality when they meet: life is not heaven or hell, there is no world.
In the end, Black Snake Moan only wanted to explain one problem-the idea of not being heaven and hell is abnormal. If you return to the world obediently, there is hope in life.
Except for the extreme performance, the whole movie is very mediocre, and the details are even the plot of a third-rate soap opera: cheating, arguing, depression, being misunderstood by the beloved woman, lingering flashbacks, and being comforted in the inspirational song... .Wait~~The
actors played well, Samuel Jackson worked hard on the guitar very effectively, and Christina Ricci had a very reliable grasp of the mentality of a madman, even though it sometimes went too far. In an interview, Christina Ricci talked about the heroine, saying that it was a mentality that "people take away their dignity very early, but you ask them to do things with dignity". Very appropriate, Christina Ricci is performing this kind of mental state~~~
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