Review of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) by Tom M — 20 Jul 2008
Magnificent film; immensely entertaining (such subtle humour) and ultimately very profound. This is the third and definitely the best Jarmusch picture I have seen.
RZA's score is superb, appropriately meditative, ghostly and haunting. The whole thing seems a remarkable coming together of talents - Whitaker, Jarmusch and Wu-Tang - pooling resources to produce an odd, requiem-like crime film, proposing a Zen outlook.
And this pivotal bit of dialogue I instantly recognized as being sampled (*very* appropriately) in Burial's dubstep elegy "Gutted".
"Me and him we're from different ancient tribes.
Now we're both almost ancient.
Sometimes, you've got to stick with the ancient ways.
The old-school ways.
Do you understand me?".
This review of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) was written by Tom M on 20 Jul 2008.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai has generally received very positive reviews.
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