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...BALI AND ANGKOR-Geoffrey Gorer- Little, Brown...
...Bali and Angkor Author Gorer's forthright denunciations of some of the abuses of Far Eastern Imperialism make spirited reading. But his latent mysticism, barely called into being in Africa, flowered under the influence of the gentle Balinese, the witches of Java, the monstrous ruins of Angkor Wat. Hence the book is less one of description of far places than an exposition of the author's theories of the nature of the mystical experience, its social and spiritual significance...
Legong is a romance that takes place on the island of Bali. The actors are natives and the story is a simple one--about a charming Balinese who falls in love with a musician only to lose him to her sister...
...that the acting is undistinguished would be to miss the point of the film--the chief feature of which is the superb photography. Bali is, of course, a paradise for workers in color, and the cameraman for Legong made the most of his opportunities. Maidens bathing at dawn in pale green pools, beats putting out to sea at dusk, cockfights, dances and gaudy funerals appear in all their natural beauty of color and action...
...have intimated, quite a promising plot. It has love and jealousy and suicide, (even a dance-though-your-heart-be-breaking sequence), but all on a rather simple scale. Or, to put it in a nutshell, we don't find the Balinese very stimulating mentally. Go expecting beautiful Bali girls and breathtaking photography and you will not be disapponted. That's quite a lot, after...