‘Black Snake Moan’ Download and Reviews
“Black Snake Moan” Movie Details
Black Snake Moan tagline: Everything is hotter down south.
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| Directors: Craig Brewer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 out of 26,582 votes |
“Black Snake Moan” Movie Review
“Black Snake Moan” Plot Summary
A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it.
The Best Movie I’ve Seen All Year
I just saw this movie at the Atlanta Premiere (2/14/07) and it was fantastic. Craig came out for a brief Q&A session afterwards and was very gracious. The cinematography was lush, no other way to describe it. It absolutely captured the small-town South in terms of its feel, seeing this movie was like being there. It’s difficult sometimes to divorce big names from characters and see the actor as the character he/she is supposed to be playing, but not in this film. In very short order Jackson, Ricci, and even Timberlake had me believing. In short, a superb effort, and one I’d highly recommend.
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‘Brazil’ Download and Reviews
“Brazil” Movie Details
Brazil tagline: It’s only a state of mind.
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| Directors: Terry Gilliam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 out of 70,585 votes |
“Brazil” Movie Review
“Brazil” Plot Summary
A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.
One of my favorite films of all time
This film is a treasure to me, so I’m really not sure how objectively I can talk about it. I also don’t know if there’s anything to be said that hasn’t already been said before. But whatever, I will just comment on some of the things that strike me particularly about the film.
First of all, it seems to me that at least cinematically dealing with a dystopia in a satirical or comedic way is far superior to doing so in a more straightforward manner. This film is far more interesting than ‘1984′ or any of the other films that have tried to capture a serious pessimistic view of future society.
I’ve always felt like the song ‘Brazil’ fit into the film very well — it suggests a kind of ridiculous Utopian or exotic romanticism, blown completely out of scale. There are several scenes in the film that visually portray this concept, such as the shot of the futuristic street which turns out to be only a tiny model which an old drunk with a Guinness is glaring at. Sam Lowry himself is a very dull person to begin with, as Jill Layton’s reaction to him indicates. He believes, at least in his conscious mind, that he doesn’t want any conflict or excitement in his life. ‘Not even dreams’ he says — but of course the truth we see is quite different, and it eventually unhinges his life and his mind. I think I’m not alone in sympathizing with this. Our lives can get so monotonous and so dreary, but we do convince ourselves that we’re happy. ‘It’s what you wanted, isn’t it?’ says Mr. Kurtzmann.
Some of my favorite bits — when Mr. Kurtzmann hits his hand on the table (‘what a pathetic creature I am!’), Harry Tuttle’s first appearance and his escape on the wire, the dinner scene where you have the explosion and then the waiters are setting up screens to block the diners’ view of the bloody mayhem.
Basically I think in this film what you have is a scary story about how dangerous it is in the modern world to be a dreamer. But rather than simply terrify us, Gilliam is giving us a chance to laugh at the existential absurdity of it all.
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