Review of The Jazz Singer (1927) by Stcenterprise . — 16 Sep 2015

This film takes place in New York in the early 1900-1920's. I believe this presents an accurate depiction of the times of the culture in the 1920's that does not look created or manufactured but looks real.

This was a really good movie for a film that is a silent film with a few places that incorporate songs. In some cases I felt like complete silence made the scene much stronger than having music at all.

I liked how some of the text slides had background images. That was a pleasant surprise.

What I liked about this film is how the locations set decorating all looked very real and believable rather than looking staged which I found impressive for a film made in this era.

The acting in this film I was also impressed with because there was something very believable about this film. Like some of the motions and body movements made this look so believable. It did not look fake.

There is something real about how this film presents the sets, acting reactions, set decorating.

I think it is interesting how some of this is speed up and others are filmed or presented at a normal pace.

The singing has voices while the rest has just background score music.

This film is a strong as it is because this film touches and ask questions about choices about dealing with life issues, Rebellion from the culture you were born from, love, redemption, comedy, success, escape, finding own way, religion, race, culture and even Death. This film has a Realism that I can not explain why it all works together.

This film brings up how to deal with following culture acceptance verse family acceptance, verses relationships to family and religion and how far do you go before crossing moral issues.

This film touches on choices of Job carrier doing the play April Follies vs. religion and family.

What I found ironic for its time was a Jewish person putting on make-up to dress as an African American which seemed odd since they were both considered not the best to be considered in America back in the 1920's. They were considered undesirable or not preferred races of the day.