11/30/2023 0 Comments Ghost dog![]() ![]() It is a movie with Jarmusch's intriguing unlocatability of tone. In between tuning up his weaponry and slouching with Antarctic cool around the tough city streets, Ghost Dog studies an ancient samurai text in his ascetic lair, and its lessons and saws are periodically flashed up on the screen as captions. ![]() ![]() A little of the unreadably deadpan in that remark - and something of its flourish - is detectable in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Jarmusch's arresting new serio-comedy about a professional killer, Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker), who lives alone in a rickety loft, and communicates with his single employer, a wheezing Mafia hood, by means of the carrier pigeons he keeps.Īlways, he devoutly follows the way of the samurai warrior. It is now some years since Jim Jarmusch was asked by an interviewer if he was not in some way the white Spike Lee, and he gravely replied that this title would be an "honour".
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