Set in a rural Georgia town during the 1940s, the story begins with a budding romance between seventeen-year-old Horace John Boyd (Joshua Boone), nicknamed Bayou, and sixteen-year-old Leanne Harper (Solea Pfeiffer). Despite this, there are terrors at every turn for the two African American lovers. For Bayou, the possibility of being lynched, tortured, beaten and killed is real and terrifying. Every day could be his last because of a widely held belief in the concept of a "superior race" that is somehow more intelligent and beautiful. For Leanne, however, those terrors are slightly different. Despite being part of the African American community, she has something that Bayou doesn't: the ability to pass as white. Ultimately, her decision to take advantage of this particular characteristic breaks everything apart.
The film's appeal stems from the fact that it is a character-driven narrative that brings the darkest aspects of human morality to light. I applaud Perry for never losing sight of that and for creating a film that touches upon many aspects of race and identity without being overwhelming.
A Jazzman's Blues
2022
Action / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
A Jazzman's Blues
2022
Action / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
Plot summary
A tale of forbidden love and family drama unravels 40 years of secrets and lies against a soundtrack of juke joint blues in the Deep South.
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February 03, 2023 at 10:36 PM
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Not typical Tyler Perry. Need to watch for ending
Good buildup but no payoff in the end
Tyler Perry is not known for high-quality material, but this movie pleasantly surprised. It was pretty solid until the end.
I was engrossed in the story even if it wasn't necessarily original. The acting was good, the music was pleasant, and the story was compelling enough to keep you engaged while being uncomfortable awaiting the inevitable tragedy to come in the end.
And while you knew a tragedy was coming, you still hoped there was some kind of resolution. There was none. It was just a buildup to a tragedy. So underwhelming. I was surprised at how lacking the ending was. Then I remembered it's a Tyler Perry project, his art is still a work in progress I think it's fair to say.
Bad ending
This is one of the better Tyler Perry movies but the ending is still bad. And the plot is questionable! It's about a woman that fell in love with a black man but then moved away and started passing for white. The woman ends up returning south with her white husband to the same town where her black lover, his mom, and several other people that know her true identity live. At many times through out the movie she threatens to tell her white husband of her true identity. And to do that would be an absolute death sentence for her. To me, this movie is over sensationalizing a true thing that many black peoples had to do to survive in the racist south. Those that passed for white had to leave town forsaking friends and family and NEVER returned to places where people knew their identity. Then at the end the black man main character is very successful up north and returns south where he knows they are looking to kill him and he turns himself in to the white mob and they hang him. The whole plot was sensational that the seriousness of the ending did not match. It's a no for me.