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Article: You just can't look away: Black Snake Moan is as subtle as a car wreck. And as hard to ignore.(Movies)
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- Esquire
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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AMERICAN MOVIES HAVE BECOME SO TIMID, so pathologically leery of giving offense, that unapologetic trash wielded with bulldozing conviction now has the power to inspire something like awe. Black Snake Moan, Craig Brewer's follow-up to last year's Sundance sensation Hustle & Flow, comes as close to exploitation heaven as any studio-based film made in the past 20 years. You watch it unfold--detonate, more like--with giddy incredulousness, stunned that somebody actually had the guts to put such supercharged images on the screen. That doesn't automatically make it a great movie, but it does make it a valuable one, especially in a culture given to endless hand-wringing over ...