i be astound and dismay by the number of reviewer on this site who do not get the point of black snake moan . it not about black or white relationship or old or young relationship and though i think director craig brewer deliberately throw in both element to tweak imagined taboo . it not about sexual abuse or sex addiction and though christina ricci character and rae and typifies those . it not about folk religion in the black community and though religion play a large role . it not a love story and though there be not one and but two happy couple at the end . and it certainly not about the south and where everything be hot and though it set in the south and it undeniably hot while holy smoke and even the tag line writer do not get the point . black snake moan be a parable about mississippi delta blue while who feel them and who write them and who play them and what theyre play about and how it heal them . it a though the film producer sit down with a blank slate and ask and ok and if we be go to help people understand what the blue be really about and what would it look like . so they set it in the rural south . then they dream up two character and one whose wife leave him to live with his best friend and the other who go off to war and his badly abuse girl sleep with everybody in town . then and we throw in grizzled worldliness touch just a little by folk religion ( they know jesus want their life and and though they respect him and they know they can not give him that ) and some violence between men and woman and and lot and lot of steamy sexual image and include ready to go over the top . a black man in a sleeveless undershirt hold a half naked white girl captive on the end of a 40 lb chain . fill it with authentic delta blue sound and make it about a genuine blue picker and use music a the main healing element in the plot and slap clip of blue man son house on both end and and voila you have a modern parable about what the blue be all about . even the film climax be not character conflict and but the whole town dance steamy dance to hot and raunchy blue . of course and there a bit of a dilemma here . rae ( ricci ) be be destroy by uncontrollable lust and and be be heal by lazarus ( jackson ) homey religion and steadfastness ( and do not forget the chain . ) but then and be show the restored rae dance raunchily to blue at the end . be this an expression of a restored and healthy life force and or just more of the same trashy behavior that ruin her in the first place . brewer want it both way and but blue really be about sex and violence and not to mention depression . i suppose he would say blue give healthy expression to both ( sex and violence ) without unleash either . i have my doubt . not for the first time and samuel l jackson play so well that we forget be watch samuel l jackson while the man be unbelievably good . he even pick some of his own tune in the film and and his playing be authentic and dirty and and hot . christina ricci isn not usually this good and either . grant and half her job be do by the costume that wasn not there and her slinky figure and but she a marvelous combination of cynical lust and rebellion and and vulnerability while bravo to her and she arrive . i be impress by the country preacher and john cothran and jr. i have to check the database to assure myself that he a professional actor and not a genuine country minister . parent need to be aware of what theyre get if their kid bring this one home . the language be pretty far off the chart and the first half hour be full of graphic sex and and woman be violate in a dozen way during the course of the film ( lazarus mean well and be decent and but honestly and chain a woman to the radiator . ) plus and ricci spend half the movie dress for sex while if you have get teenage boy and they will be lick the screen halfway into the film . i do not recommend this for kid of any age . adult only and please . that be say and black snake moan be informative and accurate about blue and folk religion and and sexual abuse and and tell a tale that redemptive in lot of way . it unorthodox and but well worth the time . and and my goodness and be the sound track hot .