![]() If you're into the hood setting for films, you can't go wrong with Snow on Tha Bluff. This shows a side of life in America that most people rather just look the other way from. It's a short movie about dope dealing and killing people, so it's not for everyone. Shit like this happens everyday in countless cities. I don't know if these are truly real events or not, and it doesn't really matter because it is true regardless. This movie shows the hood life like few are able to do. Movies like Snow on Tha Bluff prove that there are still avenues for it. What's good about this movie is how real it feels with the handheld camera approach. Life turns on him when one of the gangsters he ripped off starts coming after him. This includes: robbing drug dealers, selling those drugs he sold, drinking and among weed on the street, providing money for his baby momma and son, and avoiding the police. After he robs some people looking to buy drugs and takes their camera, he decides to tape all his goings on. Snow on Tha Bluff is a pretty unknown film that chronicles the life of Curtis Snow. With well placed scenes and direction character Snow gradually turns from an inarguably unlikable character to someone who's situation we learn to sympathize with. ![]() Snow on the Bluff left a bitter taste in my mouth about the harsh reality of what is. Eventually the movie turns towards an inescapable feeling of bleakness and hopelessness which puts everything into focus. At some point the main characters, scenes and sequences become more or less than low life ghetto thug filth. On the song, which is titled after a January 2011 film about a robbery in Atlanta, Cole delivers a single continuous verse that speaks. ![]() Just when the viewer is ready to dismiss this movie as forgettable, something special but almost indescribable occurs. But it is likely that it was staged either by Curtis himself or by the Director at a later point of time to make the ending look cool. Its seems as though most mature viewers wont be highly impressed with drug usage, car chases, shootouts and violence but the perspective of it all is what makes this a diamond in the rough. The fears that he had before (in making the call in public) appear to be gone by the time he finished the call. I've seen a million "hood documentaries" and ghetto crime dramas that offered little purpose, clarity, or resolve, but Snow on the Bluff is a story that delivers on that level. The characters aren't attractive by any means but honesty is what delivers. Its not sexy and it doesn't playcate to the audience, its raw and uncut. Its gritty and gutter but at the same time bleak and empty. Probably not since Boyz in the Hood has such an honest portrayal of inner city "street life" been executed. ![]()
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