12/17/01 all i can do with this film be improvise on my impression . i wasn not give the change and do not know the score and and be not school in the genre . i always have problem follow chord change anyway ( trumpet player and yknow ) and so i be pretty well limit to do the basic keep the tune in mind and ad lib around that . what jam me up about this incredibly moody black and white blue piece be the knot it give me in my head and heart in try to figure out whether to go with the ensemble or pick out a path along the tune ( story . ) i guess i go with the tune a usual while i keep get lose on the change too deep and extensive and over my head and probably . still and it be a gas to try to keep pace . i admire the actor play to the theme and story line . i do not see some thing or heare thing others seem to represent i do not feel the light skin gal be try to pass as much a she be either oblivious to the color issue or be try to ignore it at first represent later she come back fight . the brooding light skin young man ( his trumpet noodling mas ludicrous ) be ambiguous and ambivalent and and perhaps his best feature remote . what and i thought after the shadow curtain close on this provocative piece be the foundation of a thing like this . be it a way of find reality by set up a stage and people it with expressive character and give them a melody and theme . be it any more real or truthful than a well craft script without the benefit of edit and revise . be improvisation heroic and artier . moreso than craft work . where be there great or clear truth represent in retrospective art or craft or in fabrication and reformation . well and i be still lose in this question . i love the film while it get me lose in a cool blue foggy evening and where i just have to go home and get out my horn . guess what . i break out in a twelve bar blue riff and tried and true couldn not make myself stray from the tune . reality be just too scary . jaime say give them a 7 and more . i be on break .