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...director and screenwriter, Lee ventures where no man has been--he probes the problems of intra-racism in the Black community and the difference between the privileged and the underprivileged. These divisions are clearly demonstrated in the movie by the split between the Mission College students who strive to emulate the larger white society and those who accentuate the look and essence of their Blackness...
...Intra-racism among Blacks does exist, and it is a problem that can be traced back to slave days, when darker-skinned Blacks were forced to work in more strenuous jobs than lighter-skinned Blacks. For years, some Blacks have straightened their hair, lightened their skin, and more recently changed their eye color to blue or green in order to conform to the white standard of beauty. The problem has never been so clearly portrayed on screen as it was in Lee's movie...
...addition to airing some touchy intra-racial conflicts, the movie has a good deal of nasty, misogynistic business. Besides the several exaggerated catfights there's an especially disturbing scene where Jane is forced to have sex with Half-Pint, the runt of the Gamma pledges (played unremarkably by Lee himself) as part of his initiation. All the audience has in the way of explanation for this type of slanted portrayal (Lee even stoops to the tired fat-women-are-funny gag) is the film's surreal epilogue contained in the last sequence...
...trip also underscores the change in intra-German relations. For years the two states were bitter cold war enemies, unable to reach even a basic agreement recognizing each other's de facto national existence until 1972. Today, while still separated by an 863-mile border bristling with armed patrols and barbed wire, the two states have settled into a wary but increasingly pragmatic relationship, held together by more than 70 bilateral agreements governing everything from postal communications to electricity sharing. "German-German relations used to be much worse than East-West relations in general," says Wolfgang Berner, deputy director...
...Says Walter Schutze, director of Franco- German studies at France's Institute for International Relations: "It will be the consecration of Honecker as an independent leader." Furthermore, many of the several million Germans who fled the East and now live in West Germany are offended by elaborate displays of intra-German fraternity, including Honecker's reception...