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...known being Elijah Muhammad's Muslim movement. Nourished by the Negro's frustrations over the continued existence of racial discrimination, this movement is made up of people who have lost faith in America, who have absolutely repudiated Christianity, and who have concluded that the white man is an incorrigible 'devil'. "King had tried to represent something in the middle, as he put it, a "more excellent way of love and non-violent protest." He did so with a courage and eloquence that responded in quality to DuBois' poignant fear about his son's future. A great deal of social turmoil...
THOMAS is highly suspicious of this and mutters that the intruder could be the devil himself, for all we knew. This point us toward the film's deeper, religious level. Martin is indeed more than a Tartuffe who dispenses hypocritical banalities left and right. Underneath the treacly outside is a hard brimstone core, something profoundly evil When he is finally alone in the house with Patricia, he possesses her in a horribly cold-blooded manner, only to engage in a long heated prayer session with Mrs. Bates an hour later...
...compared with Nazi Germany, "Uncle Joe" Stalin's Russia seemed by far the lesser of two evils. "I can't take Communism, nor can you," said Roosevelt to Ambassador Joseph Davies in 1941. "But to cross this bridge [i.e., beat Hitler], I would hold hands with the devil...
Given this, it is surprising how fresh and purely elemental a Western Barbarosa is Director Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. The Devil's Playground) is Australian, so instead of being overwhelmed by the burden of a cinematic and cultural past, he strips away the accumulated layers and gets at the core of Western legend. In this respect Barbarosa's strength and vitality recalls the poignant Westerns of another outsider. Sergio Leone, but without their cutting edge of nastiness...
...song and dance sequence in the mostly unnecessary second act breaks up the repetition of these stationary tableaux. May's dance with the Devil and her bawdy-voiced burlesque manage to supply the flamboyance that the actress lacks...