Saturday 31 August 2013

Blues Brothers

(1980)

RATING:100%
FORMAT:DVD

Natural Sense of Rhythm

Less than the sum of its many fabulous, musical comedy parts, this is a strange product of White Hollywood. Showing Whites as both White supremacist and lacking in spontaneity & rhythm.

Here, Whites express themselves here through violence (Nazism); Blacks through music (the Blues). This latter fact explains the clear reverence for the famous Black musicians on show; concluding that Whites can only play ersatz Blues – not the real thing. (Perhaps this accounts for the expensive commercial failure of this movie & its massive cult status?)

The theme of racial harmony through music never really gets off the ground because of poor characterization and arbitrary plotting, but the high production values carry the day.

This movie contains marvelous music, a car parc worth of smashed automobiles and a psychotic “woman scorned”. What more could you possibly want?

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