Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home, the Committed Artists, the Earth Players, the Bahumutsi Drama Group and the other black groups featured in the festival work largely in the dark. Since theaters are nonexistent in South African townships, the companies operate like the mystery players of medieval England, wandering from shantytown to shantytown and staging their dramas in churches, schoolrooms or whatever space is available. And since printed texts might be considered subversive, they commit little of their improvised theater to paper...
...Harem paints a poignant picture of two boys, Pat and Madjid (Remi Martin and Kader Boukhanef), who commit aimless acts of delinquency, wandering through the streets of a French village with nothing to depend on except their friendship. Through this portrait, the film also addresses some essential questions in society, from racism to poverty to the meaning of life...
...forced until our backs are against the wall, we will have no alternative but to stand up in self-respect and say to the world: You won't force South Africans to commit national suicide. Leave South Africa to the South Africans." Just as South Africa's black Anglican Archbishop-elect, Desmond Tutu, had told the West to "go to hell" the week before, now it was South Africa's white President, P.W. Botha, saying virtually the same thing. The defiant stands on both sides of the embattled nation's apartheid clash focused on the same subject: sanctions. While Tutu...
...earth may be green but the West is definitely white. In fact that is what upsets Ronald Reagan so much about the crimes that the South Africa government commits. These guys are so, so, so white. I mean, who cares about the atrocities the Contras commit in the jungles of Nicaragua? And plus they're fighting with a Cardinal's backing...
Lead people to commit acts of sexual violence...