Plot by Imdb:"In Mississippi, the former blues man Lazarus is in crisis, missing his wife that has just left him. He finds the town slut and nymphomaniac Rae dumped on the road nearby his little farm, drugged, beaten and almost dead. Lazarus brings her home, giving medicine and nursing and nourishing her like a father, keeping her chained to control her heat. When her boyfriend Ronnie is discharged from the army due to his anxiety issue, he misunderstands the relationship of Lazarus and Rae, and tries to kill him."
Second movie in his "music movie trilogy" after "Hustle and Flow" and before his future country music movie called "Footloose", this is a down south, hot and sweaty movie about sin and redemption. Behind its disguise as an exploitation movie, it deals with very deep subject as the guilt and auto-punishment that people who have been suffering from abuses inflict on themselves and the way society perceives them. It is mixed here with a very special background as the story takes place in the South of the USA, birthplace of the Blues and home of a still very profound racial divide. The blues in this movie represents a "religion" for the godless, as it is. A mystical direct line to our beliefs, hopes and despairs. Casting is uber-great: Jackson is perfect, Ricci is touching and sexy as Hell, and Justin Timberlake proves, once again, that he's a great actor. The sexploitation elements are working great as catalyst of the hate/love relationship between a nymphomaniac girl and an old sinner full of wisdom. That's the beauty of it: the Blues is here for you, whoever you are, and whatever you have done. Blues is redemption to the soul.
Hallelujah, my brothers ! A director makes a movie about one of my favorite music and makes it good.
And there is a half-naked chick chained almost all along the picture ! (yeah, I know, I'm a sinner)
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