I honestly don’t know whether we were meant to.Īs a minor walk on the weird side, I’m giving this one 2 1/2 stars. I, like those around me, were laughing at the most dramatic moments. The film is played with passionate conviction from its cast but this is a soap opera on crack. Unlike Craig Brewer’s wonderful film Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan loses its way. The title Black Snake Moan apparently refers to depression and if you believe that, I own a large bridge in Sydney you might like to buy. This film is as nutty as a semi-trailer loaded with Snickers bars. As you do.īefore you can say Stockholm Syndrome, a bizarre bond forms of this bondage. However when she’s recovers, Lazarus continues her captivity because she needs moral correction. Because she’s wandering feverishly, he chains her to the radiator. Rather than take Rae to hospital, Lazarus takes her in. Jackson, Lazarus is a bluesman and farmer on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Played with white of eye and foam on the lips by Samuel L. One fateful day she is bashed and left for dead outside the home of Lazarus.
As soon as he’s out the door, Rae is satisfying her uncontrollable desires with an African-American pimp. Christine Ricci is Rae, a white trash nympho whose man Ronnie, played by Justin Timberlake, is about to ship out to Iraq, despite his nervous condition.
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Her first movie was 'Kallukkul Earam' (Tamil, 1979) was directed by Bharti Raja. She acted in 175 movies in total-121 Telugu, 39 Tamil, 6 Hindi, 5 Kannada and 4 Malayalam movies. The film is a true oddity, with A-list actors all fired up in service of brazen pulp. She is a darling to Telugu movie audiences. Instead, like Grindhouse and Snakes On A Plane, a studio has poured millions into what is essentially a self-aware exploitation or B-movie. If Craig Brewer had written Black Snake Moan 30 years ago, it would’ve been made on a miniscule budget, with a no name cast, and probably achieved cult status on the drive-in circuit.
Sometimes I wonder how a movie gets made.