Black Snake Moan

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Black Snake Moan

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Black Snake Moan

Christina Ricci, John Cothran Jr., Justin Timberlake, S. Epatha Merkerson, Samuel L. Jackson

A God-fearing bluesman (Jackson) takes to a wild young woman (Ricci) who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it.

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  • djdemersseman
    December 1, 2009
    djdemersseman
    Ahh, the blues. Justin Timberlake, kill yourself.
  • SirPant
    September 29, 2009
    SirPant
    Excellent film, a real surprise! Ricci & Jackson work really well together but its Samuel L who really steals the show with a knock-out performance. It annoys me that people are comparing to his role in Pulp Fiction though, the only similarity is that he reads a passage from the ...( read more)bible! Anyway, great film!
  • ladyp1964
    June 6, 2009
    ladyp1964
    fantastic performance both by Christina Ricci and Samuel Jackson - Ricci particularly impressive. I had problems with the texts in places but then I often do with the Afro American accent - that's more a personal problem than one of the filming. It wasn't quite the film I was e...( read more)xpecting after seeing the trailer but still a very good film.
  • mrpopcorn
    October 6, 2008
    mrpopcorn
    One thing this movie had that I didn't expect so much was power. The scenes were wonderfully crafted to evoke as much emotion as possible. A help to this was the great musical sound of the blues. Just a guitar and a voice that pound their way into your brain.

    We all know that Sa...( read more)muel L. Jackson is basically some sort of God sent to earth to better it with his greatness. Christina Ricci did an equally amazing job.
  • sononothing
    September 8, 2008
    sononothing
    The first thing that I have to warn you about Black Snake Moan is that Samuel L. Jackson should never be allowed to sing on film for as long as he lives.

    Black Snake Moan is about a Tennessee blues singer (Jackson) whose wife just left finding a young girl (Christina Ricci who ...( read more)is no longer Wednesday Addams) left for dead on the side of the road near his house. He nurses her back to health, but eventually decides to chain her up in his house so that he can save her soul from the addiction that haunts her.

    The movie opens with Rae (Ricci) having sex with Justin Timberlake before he leaves for his tour in the service. She then proceeds to have sex with a crack dealer in a motel room. Then she goes to a party where she gets high and drunk, leading to some random guy having sex with her while she is wearing football pads. Finally she almost has sex with yet another guy but laughs at the size of his equipment, causing him to beat her and leave her on the side of the road.

    Honestly, this film seems like an excuse for Christina Ricci to have simulated sex and Samuel L. Jackson to drop "mother fucker" a dozen times in a song. Jackson and Ricci are well cast and are good in their roles, but the plot seems to lag, especially the ending. The concept was great, but the execution was tainted.
  • panmac
    December 30, 2009
    panmac
    Black Snake Moan

    Girl from small town has boyfriend on long terms apart from her. Is left in arms of gangsters and ad a product of substance abuse, she falls into the care of a man recently defacto.

    Samuel l. Jackson, As an ex musician and a person that holds himself up ok in...( read more) the community considering its the blues he was good at back in the day, manages to care little enough for her and enough for the people around him, that a domestic dramatic situation of intertwined journies becomes benificial to both persons and eventually their respective lives.

    This movie was set in too deepest darkest swamp country for the modernest of 'town' accessability to all things modern (more and more accessability for more things, to the everyday person), but you'd think these days a girl like with that niativity/resilliance put together with those kinds of accessable things modern that she's got to have somthing ahem contageous.
  • ghosttrigger
    December 29, 2009
    ghosttrigger
    i really liked it and loved the mix of blues with the story line
  • photomaestro
    December 29, 2009
    photomaestro
    I don't like the movie, but I have to say that Christina Ricci was really hot.
  • shortstuff1984
    December 28, 2009
    shortstuff1984
    This is definitely one of the oddest films I have seen!
    The film is about two broken people who find a healing in each other. Samuel L. Jackson plays Lazarus whose wife has just walked out on him and Christina Ricci plays Rae who has no self respect, after having that taken from...( read more) her in her abusive past. Fine performances from all, yes - even by Justin Timberlake!

    However, despite the films good performances and dark subject matter I curiously never quite emotionally connected to it...
    The film was too surreal and stylised for the serious issues it deals with. So though the films concept is great the way it was executed wasn't (e.g. making a cartoon icon out of tragic Rae played by Ricci).
    I also did not care for the films music either which features heavily in some of the key scenes, but that's just my personal taste.
  • Marischa2
    December 23, 2009
    Marischa2
    a great film of healing.
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