A film about jazz made by the best black director in America by far conveys the essence of jazz: the carnival of the moment and the sadness of fate. A jazz musician film that shows the black strength of Hollywood. Denzel. Washington plays a self-centered jazz trumpet player who wants to control everyone around him, including the two women in his life. In his self-directed and self-acting work, Spike Lee explores the living situation of black artists through the hero's entanglement between love and career, emphasizing the rich feeling of picture color and musical sensibility. The director's father, Bill Lee, is in charge of the music for the film. "Mo' Better Blues" was originally called "A Love Supreme" from the classic album title of John Coltrane. In the film, Spike Lee brought in Denzel Washington Washington and Wesley Snipes as the protagonists, and based on the biographical history of many jazz musicians, he made up the creative entanglements and triangles in which the two musicians worked together and struggled.
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