Sugar Cane Alley
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Movie Reviews of Sugar Cane Alley
Movie Review: Fantastic story!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have grown up watching this movie and am now glad that I own it on DVD. It's one of my all time favorites. It successfully projects pride and respect that Caribbeans often have and are at times misunderstood for by others. Poverty does not equate necessarily one's morals, ethics and life skills. There is much emphasis on education and utilizing the resources large or small to achieve one's goals and live a better life. Many with a Caribbean background can relate to some of the idiosyncrasies that Ma Tine has such as children should not look at adults in the eye. Many of us I'm sure can relate to the switch spanking.
The village of Rue Casse Negres is composed of adults who were born free on the island but are still slaves to the sugar cane plantations. The story takes place post abolition showing its effects on blacks. It provides a realistic portrayal of how though poverty makes live hard, it need not be identified with. I usually find that I don't like books that have been depicted into movies, however this is the only exception. Both the book and the movie are capable of standing on their own. Just be aware that if you read the book first, the movie is different adding portions that were not in the book. In this movie for example, Jose's mother is deceased. In the book, she is alive and a
Movie Review: Respect
Summary: 5 Stars
A story about an 11 year old boy, Palcy, who was sent to live with his grandmother. Writer-director Euzhan Palcy tried to show you how important education and respect was growing up in the 1930's in a black community in Martinique. Palcy's grandmother believes he is a smart boy and he won't get anywhere working on the sugar cane fields. She will do anything to make sure he gets a good education. That means giving up her job on the Sugar cane fields and moving to a new city so Palcy can get the education he deserves. This movie shows the respect children had for there parents, and how much the parents will do to make sure there children are taken care of. After working long days on the Sugar cane fields parents come home and make sure there children have enough to eat and clothes to wear. This movie also shows how much a community sticks together and looks after one another. When an old man was missing the whole community go together to find him. This was a great movie. It touchs your heart and makes you think.Movie Review: Forget the subtitles - This is a great movie for anyone to see.
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed this movie. Seeing a story of what life was like during that time in the Caribbean really showed me that black people are the same no matter where we are. This move is about a young man growing up in a sugar cane field and he is very smart and talented. He has the family support he needs around him, and with his intelligence and determination, he wins a scholarship to a top school in the island's main town. What makes it more powerful is that by the time he achieves all this success, his father figure and mother figure die. It is almost as if they were meant to be in his life to carry him to that point and then leave the earth because they did they came to do.
I don't care that the movie was in French with English subtitles, I really wish that people made more movies like this. Very good movie.
Movie Review: Finally on DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm delighted that this film is finally on DVD. A 'growing up' tale of a boy and his grandmother's determination to see him leave the sugarcane plantations and achieve a better life.
Memorable film making, this is not a complicated story, but clearly deeply felt by the writer/director, and it has a old fashioned depth and pace to it that contrasts vividly (to this film's advantage) with Hollywood's empty flashiness.
It reminds me in some ways of another little-known gem and growingup tale, Allen Fong's Father and Son, a Hong Kong movie.
One quibble - why change the name?
A big hand however for making this available on DVD and resisting the temptation to dub it for American audiences, who apparently don't like sub-titles...
Movie Review: Sugar Cane Alley
Summary: 5 Stars
The original film is in French, and its title translates as "Black Shack Alley." But I guess somebody decided that wasn't PC enough for English-speaking audiences, so for us it's Sugar Cane Alley. Oh well. It's a great film regardless.
Set in modern-day Martinique, this is more of that unflinching realism I like to laud. Also a damn lot of fun. Mischievous 11-year-old Jose is a joy to watch. His grandmother is determined he won't work the fields the way everybody else does. From such a simple-sounding premise comes real life, in your face, in a film you'll watch more than once if you buy it.
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