Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus

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Audience Member Pretentious horse shit Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus is a narrow minded view of the American south as seen through the eyes of pseudo hipsters. This "documentary" includes some beautiful imagery of southern landscapes but ruins it with useless dialogue and staged interviews. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member The music is amazing. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member At its best, the music documentary can bring the best out of its subject like Woodstock or Chet Baker in Let's Get Lost. It can also illuminate indulgence in its subject like Metallica's Some Kind of Monster. Usually, the music biopic treats someone or a genre as its central character but in Andrew Douglas' mesmerising Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, music plays a strangely peripheral role but one which the film could not function without. The main character is the American South and our guide is Jim White, a bluesman who has had not a little success around the globe but who we learn feels his real home is the south, a place where he feels close to God. As a largely lapsed Christian country, some British viewers may choose to judge the 'cast' of this documentary as evangelical nut-jobs but with the genial White for company, we feel strangely empathic to the men and women who give their lives completely and totally to god. Well, when they're not out drinking, dancing and shouting. This is a complex south, part True Blood, part Badlands but with religion running through its core. Music comes with blues and country singing contemporaries of White who perform in strange locations throughout the film's journey and they emphasise the hold that tradition has on these people. The film is warm yet haunting at the same time and all our emotions seem to be channelled through White as he asks nothing of us but merely to observe, we can even judge if we want. By the end, we judge kindly and are still humming long after the credits have rolled. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member This is an elliptic but fascinating and probably educational (not to mention nice to look at and listen to) "documentary" about southern life and culture. It is one of those films that is just so unique that you can't really compare it to anything else. Almost like an Errol Morris movie. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member με Dave-Eugene Edwards! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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