sammie

From the opening scene, a flash-forward to Sammie stumbling into church, bloody and half-catatonic, we already know he’s right.

Danger hangs in the air like the clouds over the fields where Sammie works barefoot, mud squelched between his toes.

There’s dread in the hoodoo mysticism that blues voices like Sammie’s have — voices with the power, like Orpheus, to unite the living and the dead.

Sammie can’t wait to perform there.

Early on, the twins tell Sammie he can drive their red car home in the morning — and again, from that very first intro shot, we know that will happen but without the twins in it.