love can overcome the black snake moan

Rating: 10/10 (15 March 2007)

I have just seen this movie and loved it. I am looking forward to seeing it again. Now just to make sure you understand how good i felt this movie was; I am a total movie maniac, I see all the movies that come out. Genre doesn't really matter much. Although I don't have much patience for the teen movies, or the cheesy - so called - horror films as of late, I do end up seeing just about all of them for one reason or another. Letting you know my movie addiction is important because even though I visit this site often to get information, this is my first time actually writing a comment on this site. I read some of the comments on Black Snake Moan and am thankful I didn't read them prior to my viewing this movie. So, I didn't have any expectations - good or bad. I actually felt this movie. The music, acting, and story line really goes through you. At times I felt thankful to the actor(s) for trusting their innermost feelings of fear, shame, heartbreak, and struggles to me. Even though I know it was a movie, it was so believable I felt as if a friend was confiding in me their deep feelings and was swept away with empathy. What a true movie of strength and courage. Not like the movies there are today where courage is shown through a gunfight or forced down your throat as if you have to be held by the hand and forced to feel. This movie lays it all in front of you and the way its performed, everything is told through the script and music ... it's real. I am grateful to the actors and directors for making this film. I am grateful for the respect given to me as a person, a patron seeing a movie that tells the truth seemingly without mockery for once.