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Article: `Black Snake Moan'.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- February 27, 2007
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Byline: Roger Moore
"Black Snake Moan" is lurid, Southern-fried pulp fiction, a film sweaty with sex, feverish with religious passion. Set in the familiar but almost-lost rural South of seedy juke joints, in-the-spirit churches and dirt farms, at its heart it is a morality play about the eternal struggle between the flesh and the Holy Spirit.
Director Craig Brewer ("Hustle & Flow") is trying to visualize the blues, the lowdown, dirty blues, with men battling temptation and weakness in the form of a woman who has "the itch." He's made a film that is laughably archaic and old fashioned, shot-through with the raunchy candor of modern-day indie cinema. It's ...