As I watched snow on tha bluff, my mood about the film transitioned from dismissive and disgusted to being completely in love with this movie and it's incredibly powerful subliminal messages. To put the film in a nutshell, it was a story about notorious street gangs from "The Bluff" a known dangerous hood in Atlanta GA which means "You bet not be coming here". We follow them and our protagonist snow through their daily rituals of : sniffing, huffing, or smoking various drugs. Killing and robbing others in their community. We even get a nice glimpse of a day at your average low scale trap house. The highs within the story are when snows baby mama'sare killed by rival drug dealers , and drive by shootings and what not. But not all of the storyline was gangbanging seriousness! Many footages were of them hanging out with friends at the local liquor stores.
The movie is hauntingly real. It's key element is realism which grabs the audiences treat within the first 5 seconds of the film. With the attraction of realism in the film the disadvantage of it was the disturbance it caused viewers. Some audience members like myself basked in that discomfort and the lack of preserving images made the movie exciting and horrific. While on the other hand that discomfort turned some people off to the film. Comments that many images were disturbing and that soul stirring disturbance was mutual amongst many that saw the film and, especially after it was known that very few parts of it was staged.
Little can be said about the technical advances of the film, as it was shot entirely by film-maker amateur street thugs on a camera stolen by the story's protagonist. All in all it was a great watch and through and through I recommend it to all amateur film watcher junkies.
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