#Way of the samurai 1 review movie
Are movie critics so hammered by absurd plots that they can't see how truly, profoundly weird "Ghost Dog" is? The reviews treat it matter of factly: Yeah, here's this hit man, he lives like a samurai, he gets his instructions by pigeon, blah. The whole story is so strange, indeed, that I've read some of the other reviews in disbelief. But then it's strange, too, that Ghost Dog lives like a medieval Japanese samurai. It seems strange that a black man would devote his life to doing hired killing for a group of Italian-American gangsters after having met only one of them. When the mob bosses want Ghost Dog rubbed out, they're startled to discover that Louie doesn't know his name or where he lives their only contact is the pigeons. Ghost Dog insists on being paid once a year, on the first day of autumn. He orders hits by sending Ghost Dog messages by carrier pigeon. The mobster is named Louie ( John Tormey).
He got into this business because one day a mobster saved his life-and so, since he follows The Way of the Samurai, he must dedicate his life to his master. What's your diagnosis? Ghost Dog ( Forest Whitaker) is a killer for the mob. The Haitian speaks no English and Ghost Dog speaks no French, so they simply speak in their own languages and are satisfied with that.
Actually, he does talk: to the little girl and to a Haitian ice cream man. "He has no friends and never talks to anybody," according to the mother of the little girl in the movie.
He lives in a shack on a rooftop with his pigeons. It helps to understand that the hero of "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" is crazy.
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