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During the vigil, event organizer M. ScottMurphy '92 made a short speech paying tribute toStephen Biko, an anti-apartheid activist who wasbeaten to death in a South African prison...
Right above Stevie Wonder's great lines sits a passage of Steven Biko's testimony that eloquently discusses the meaning of Black consciousness. Now, if I were Stevie Wonder, I'd feel pretty silly comparing my two-line cliche that sold a bunch of records to monumental statements made by one of the best known martyrs to the cause of racial equality...
...editor unwittingly displayed sound judgment by putting Stevie Wonder between Biko and "Anonymous," for I suppose that that is where Wonder will land when historians and literary critics evaluate his impact...
...would deny that Stephen Biko's story is an important one. No one would deny that apartheid's opponents need all the support they can get. No one would deny that the bottom line, so far as Universal Pictures is concerned, is making a few million bucks. The critics forget that panning a movie about Biko is not equivalent to supporting apartheid. It's just an acknowledgement that another wealthy company has made another lousy movie about something genuinely important...
...Once Biko dies, barely an hour into the film, Woods carries the narration; he plots his escape to any land that will publish his Biko biography. The police threaten his cute family with errant gunfire and toxic T shirts, and the viewer is meant to recoil from these domestic atrocities. Of course they are horrid, yet their intended impact reinforces, in dramatic terms, the Afrikaners' credo: white lives mean more. Piling on bogus suspense devices as Woods snakes his way toward freedom, Attenborough lets the venality of South African imperialism degenerate into a staid chase film: The Brady Bunch Flees...