Word: sung
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...entire song. But the real musical underlay is Cajun, a musical cross-fertilization of Acadian immigrants driven from Nova Scotia by the British and Africans brought to rural Louisiana by slavery. Which explains both Zydeco's compelling rhythmic patterns and the fact that several of Chenier's numbers are sung in Cajun French...
...from a return to adolescence and ideal love (matched in from by the carnival figures and the unnatural falsetto) to a life of chronic depression ("And I was crying, baby, crying like a child," in a pain-wracked natural voice) to a vision of sexual redemption worthy of Lawrence, sung in the dread/voodoo accents of a Jamaican deejay...
Welcome to John Sayles' going-away party for the the idealism of the Nixon years. Not much "happens" in Secaucus. Some songs are sung, a few partners change, and the whole gang is falsely arrested for mur dering a deer - or, as one of them describes the charge, "Bambicide." Sayles has appropriated the discursive, episodic format of many recent films (and the spirit of that charming, intelligent Swiss com edy Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000), but he constructs individual scenes with the deftness of a Billy Wilder. His dialogue often circles back...
...from a return to adolescence and ideal love (matched in from by the carnival figures and the unnatural falsetto) to a life of chronic depression ("And I was crying, baby, crying like a child," in a pain-wracked natural voice) to a vision of sexual redemption worthy of Lawrence, sung in the dread/voodoo accents of a Jamaican deejay...
...from a return to adolescence and ideal love (matched in from by the carnival figures and the unnatural falsetto) to a life of chronic depression ("And I was crying, baby, crying like a child," in a pain-wracked natural voice) to a vision of sexual redemption worthy of Lawrence, sung in the dread/voodoo accents of a Jamaican deejay...