i am astounded and dismayed by the number of reviewers on this site who did not get the point of black snake moan. it not about black or white relationships or old or young relationships and though i think director craig brewer deliberately threw in both elements to tweak imagined taboos. it not about sexual abuse or sex addiction and though christina ricci character and rae and typifies those. it not about folk religion in the black community and though religion plays a large role. it not a love story and though there are not one and but two happy couples at the end. and it certainly not about the south and where everything is hotter and though it set in the south and it undeniably hot while holy smokes and even the tag line writers do not get the point. black snake moan is a parable about mississippi delta blues while who feels them and who writes them and who plays them and what theyre playing about and how it heals them. it as though the film producers sat down with a blank slate and asked and ok and if we were going to help people understand what the blues are really about and what would it look like. so they set it in the rural south. then they dream up two characters and one whose wife left him to live with his best friend and the other who goes off to war and his badly abused girl sleeps with everybody in town. then and we throw in grizzled worldliness touched just a little by folk religion (they know jesus wants their lives and and though they respect him and they know they can not give him that) and some violence between men and women and and lots and lots of steamy sexual images and including  ready to go over the top.  a black man in a sleeveless undershirt holding a half naked white girl captive on the end of a 40 lb chain. fill it with authentic delta blues sounds and make it about a genuine blues picker and use music as the main healing element in the plot and slap clips of blues man son house on both ends and and voila  you have a modern parable about what the blues are all about. even the film climax is not character conflict and but the whole town dancing steamy dances to hot and raunchy blues. of course and there a bit of a dilemma here. rae (ricci) is being destroyed by uncontrollable lust and and is being healed by lazarus (jackson ) homey religion and steadfastness (and do not forget the chain. ) but then and were shown the restored rae dancing raunchily to blues at the end. is this an expression of a restored and healthy life force and or just more of the same trashy behavior that ruined her in the first place. brewer wants it both ways and but blues really is about sex and violence and not to mention depression. i suppose he would say blues gives healthy expression to both (sex and violence) without unleashing either. i have my doubts. not for the first time and samuel l jackson plays so well that we forget were watching samuel l jackson while the man is unbelievably good. he even picks some of his own tunes in the film and and his playing is authentic and dirty and and hot. christina ricci isn not usually this good and either. granted and half her job is done by the costume that wasn not there and her slinky figure and but she a marvelous combination of cynical lust and rebellion and and vulnerability while bravo to her and she arrived. i was impressed by the country preacher and john cothran and jr. i had to check the database to assure myself that he a professional actor and not a genuine country minister. parents need to be aware of what theyre getting if their kids bring this one home. the language is pretty far off the charts and the first half hour is full of graphic sex and and women are violated in a dozen ways during the course of the film (lazarus means well and is decent and but honestly and chaining a woman to the radiator. ) plus and ricci spends half the movie dressed for sex while if you have got teenage boys and they will be licking the screen halfway into the film. i do not recommend this for kids of any age. adults only and please. that being said and black snake moan is informative and accurate about blues and folk religion and and sexual abuse and and tells a tale that redemptive in lots of ways. it unorthodox and but well worth the time. and and my goodness and is the sound track hot. 
i am astounded and dismayed by the number of reviewers on this site who did not get the point of black snake moan. it not about black or white relationships or old or young relationships and though i think director craig brewer deliberately threw in both elements to tweak imagined taboos. it not about sexual abuse or sex addiction and though christina ricci character and rae and typifies those. it not about folk religion in the black community and though religion plays a large role. it not a love story and though there are not one and but two happy couples at the end. and it certainly not about the south and where everything is hotter and though it set in the south and it undeniably hot while holy smokes and even the tag line writers do not get the point. black snake moan is a parable about mississippi delta blues while who feels them and who writes them and who plays them and what theyre playing about and how it heals them. it as though the film producers sat down with a blank slate and asked and ok and if we were going to help people understand what the blues are really about and what would it look like. so they set it in the rural south. then they dream up two characters and one whose wife left him to live with his best friend and the other who goes off to war and his badly abused girl sleeps with everybody in town. then and we throw in grizzled worldliness touched just a little by folk religion (they know jesus wants their lives and and though they respect him and they know they can not give him that) and some violence between men and women and and lots and lots of steamy sexual images and including  ready to go over the top.  a black man in a sleeveless undershirt holding a half naked white girl captive on the end of a 40 lb chain. fill it with authentic delta blues sounds and make it about a genuine blues picker and use music as the main healing element in the plot and slap clips of blues man son house on both ends and and voila  you have a modern parable about what the blues are all about. even the film climax is not character conflict and but the whole town dancing steamy dances to hot and raunchy blues. of course and there a bit of a dilemma here. rae (ricci) is being destroyed by uncontrollable lust and and is being healed by lazarus (jackson ) homey religion and steadfastness (and do not forget the chain. ) but then and were shown the restored rae dancing raunchily to blues at the end. is this an expression of a restored and healthy life force and or just more of the same trashy behavior that ruined her in the first place. brewer wants it both ways and but blues really is about sex and violence and not to mention depression. i suppose he would say blues gives healthy expression to both (sex and violence) without unleashing either. i have my doubts. not for the first time and samuel l jackson plays so well that we forget were watching samuel l jackson while the man is unbelievably good. he even picks some of his own tunes in the film and and his playing is authentic and dirty and and hot. christina ricci isn not usually this good and either. granted and half her job is done by the costume that wasn not there and her slinky figure and but she a marvelous combination of cynical lust and rebellion and and vulnerability while bravo to her and she arrived. i was impressed by the country preacher and john cothran and jr. i had to check the database to assure myself that he a professional actor and not a genuine country minister. parents need to be aware of what theyre getting if their kids bring this one home. the language is pretty far off the charts and the first half hour is full of graphic sex and and women are violated in a dozen ways during the course of the film (lazarus means well and is decent and but honestly and chaining a woman to the radiator. ) plus and ricci spends half the movie dressed for sex while if you have got teenage boys and they will be licking the screen halfway into the film. i do not recommend this for kids of any age. adults only and please. that being said and black snake moan is informative and accurate about blues and folk religion and and sexual abuse and and tells a tale that redemptive in lots of ways. it unorthodox and but well worth the time. and and my goodness and is the sound track hot. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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