Good tale of the blues.

Rating: 7/10 (18 February 2008)

I have to say that "Black Snake Moan" is a pretty powerful film though it's tough, gritty, and shows sadness and sorrow it shows what the blues is all about and lets it get to our souls. Set in the rural deep south in a small town atmosphere a young girl named Rae(Christina Ricci) who's been abused and mistreated sexually as a kid is now a young adult who's turned into a white trash trailer park slut who's sleazy and very sexually experienced. The pain starts again when Rae's boyfriend gets called off to fight in war as Ronnie(Justin Timberlake)goes away. Then on the other side enter Lazarus a man who's feeling his pain after his wife has left him for another man the blues are coming down upon him. Then one day Lazarus makes a discovery of a badly beaten up Rae along the countryside and he decides to take her in. And what will develop is a very strange and somewhat odd love relationship really a tough and gritty bond of friendship. Yet in the end an understanding and love respect for the blues is developed as both Rae and Lazarus learn to take sadness from one another and grow it into happiness and maturity slowly. The performances are tremendous from Jackson and Ricci as Samuel is tough and fiery plus Ricci is very erotic and sexy in a trashy and dirt way. Overall one of the more underrated films of 2006.