"a jazz singer ーsinging to his God."
世界初のトーキー映画は、ユダヤ人家庭における聖俗の融和を描いた物語でした。
トーキーとは言え、字幕仕立ての部分も多いため、"you ain't heard nothin' yet!"が飛び出した時の感動はひとしおです。
トーキーという新天地を開拓し、親子の和解、仕事と家庭の両立も描いた本作は、There's no way like the American wayな一本です。
"In every living soul, a spirit cries for expression ーperhaps this plaintive, wailing song of Jazz is, after all, the misunderstood utterance of a prayer."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet!"
"Maybe he's fallen in love with a shiksa."
"ーbut there's something, after all, in my heart ーmaybe it's the call of the ages ーthe cry of my race."
"More than me?"
"Here he belongs. If God wanted him in His house, He would have kept him there."
"He's not my boy anymore ーhe belongs to the whole world now."
