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Show Wednesday, October 3, 1990 THE SIGNPOST (TMT The Art White Season' exposes Apartheid's ugliness CONVOCATIONS By C. Mark Howard Arts Editor of The Signpost The second CAB film slated for Autumn Quarter is Euzhan Palcy's disturbing, "A Dry White Season." This will show Oct. 3 through Oct. 6 each night at 8:00 in the Wildcat Theatre for the reasonable price of $1. "A Dry White Season" takes a ugly look at Apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning "sseparateness" and describes the blatant creed of racism and segregation instituted by the South African government to keep blacks underfoot and separate from the lives of the privileged whites. The film begins innocently enough with two boys laughing, wrestling, and kicking a soccer ball around; one is black and the other is white, neither of them caring what color the other is, they are just doing what boys love to do. Palcy puts this gentle image at the first of this film, allowing it to sink into the subconscious and lurk there hauntingly throughout the rest of "A Dry White Season." Palcy shows the lives of two not-so-different South African families; one white, the ' other black. Donald Sutherland plays, Benjiman, a well-to-do history teacher with a loving wife, a married daughter, and a young, athletically popular son. They live in a nice, comfortable house with a black gardener named, Jordon. Benjiman is a compassionate man who gives of his own money to help Jordon pay for the education of his two sons. Jordon works very hard within the system trying to provide a better life for his two sons. Benjiman revels in his family and believes his world to be unstained. The trouble starts when Jordon's oldest son is apprehended and caned by the police just because he was playing near a black demonstration and couldn't run fast enough to get away from the police. Jordon brings the whipped boy to Benjiman's house and pleads for help in removing the indictment from his son's record, but Benjiman, although shocked, says they can do nothing. When the same boy is caught up in another demonstration and this time is taken into custody because he stopped to help a little girl, he is beaten to death by the police trying to force information out of him. Jordon tries to locate his son in prisons, hospital, and morgues but cannot find even his body. He again turns in desperation to Benjiman who again is shocked but says they can do nothing. Jordon does finally succeed in persuading Benjiman to make some inquiries. Benjiman finds out the boy is dead but the police refuse to release the body. Upon hearing the news, Jordon vows to recover his son's body even as Benjiman tries to dissuade him. Jordon, in his attempts at recovering his boy's body, starts asking questions and building a file of evidence incriminating the police as murderers. The police soon burst into his house in the middle of the night and haul him away to jail. Jordon's wife then approaches Benjiman and asks for his help once more. Benjiman acquiesces but soon finds his path to truth a morass of bureaucracy and political evasion. Jordon's death while in police (See SEASON page 12) Best Buddies It's a chance to share your time, friendship, talents, skills with persons with mental retardation and to meet WSU students like yourself who value service as well as success. HOT C0EG)OE TM Tim" 1 ' ' 'ii-'wwwmT 1,11 n.-u.,vmtmmminMvmm A new chapter of Best Buddies will begin here at WSU this fall 90. For more information call Quinn Richins: 626-6349 Organization meeting Oct 4, 6:30 PM Union Building Theater. TJL. 1 r V! r i y "An absolute treat . . . only the devil could remain untouched after seeing it. " Jack Lemmon Oct. 4 Lee Foster and John McGough Lee Foster, John's Mother, will speak about the trials of having a down syndrome child. John has had a movie made about how he has been accepted by the community in which he lives. The movie documents how John has used his loving abilities to make friends with everyone in the community. k. A r Old "Marie Calender's" building on Harrison Blvd. BREAKFAST LUNCH DINNER Mon. - Thurs. 7:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Fri. - Sat 7:00 a.m. - 11:30 p.m. "Closed Sunday" convenient 2 minutes from cripus The "in place" after the game |