Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Breathed's inflated mind, this must have looked like a good idea. Unfortunately, it looks horrible on paper. A little Black girl from the ghetto, Ronald Ann, is transported into an avante garde land of socially-conscious weird beings. Ronald Ann, who totes a headless doll, made appearances in the last year of "Bloom County," but her character was smothered beneath her role as the Voice of Liberal Consciousness. She was never anything more than an easy way to get a point across. Ronald Ann had none of the subtlety or independence of, say, Oliver Wendell Jones, Breathed's Black...
...words are prophetic. Sutherland is indeed without a people Moreover his wife gives voice to what must be the fundamental anxiety of Afrikaaners. Of the country's Black majority, she says "They'll swallow...
...Brando's role is surprisingly small. For most of the movie, the action switches back and forth between the repression of Black protest in the town ships and the gradual disintegration of Sutherland's family, most of whom are exasperated by his crusade against apartheid...
...also refrains from the sort of moral harangue which is certainly warranted by apartheid but which might make a less effective movie. In particular, Palcy, who is Black uses moderation in contrasting the affluent white lifestyle so obviously different from the lives led by Blacks...
...film's score supports its weighty subject matter. Most viewers will recognize the distinctive sound of Hugh Maskela and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, who provide a stirring aural backdrop to the colorful panoramas of township protest...