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...Beloved, the highly-anticipated adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel, slavery is explored in a subtle, almost metaphorical fashion. It is an exercise in psychology, exploring the mind of Morrison's steel-willed protagonist Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), a former slave who now lives as a free woman in Ohio in the 1870s. Beloved is a handsome, classy production that is distinguished in every possible way, but it is also a cold film. The screenplay grapples admirably with Morrison's convoluted narrative but can never get to the heart of it. The saving grace of the movie is the renowned cast...
...function with. For 16 years she has been denied the growing process and everything is new to her, everything is an experience. I believe Beloved symbolizes betrayal. Sethe betrayed her when she was just a baby and, on a higher level, she represents all the betrayals of slavery. Toni Morrison told me that Beloved is "the you in you; the part of yourself that you can never betray...
...Well, initially I was terrified because I had read the book twice and I still had no clear idea of who Beloved was. I talked to Toni Morrison about it and she told me to do whatever I wanted with the character. I realized then that it was okay to develop my own interpretation as long as I was doing justice to the book. In terms of preparation, I mostly researched case studies of abused children. I knew Beloved had to be a painful figure, never cute, and at times she would be grotesque because that is the only...
...films like Amistad, slavery is used as a visual bulldozer, meant to overwhelm viewers through its shocking brutality and painful inhumanity. In Beloved, the highly-anticipated adaptation of Toni Morrison's lauded Pulitzer Prize winning novel, slavery is explored in a much subtler, almost metaphorical fashion. It is an exercise in psychology, exploring the mind of Morrison's steel-willed protagonist Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), a former slave who now lives as a free woman in Ohio in the 1870s. Sethe is a strong woman of fierce determination but she is haunted, both literally and figuratively, by the pain and horror...
...journal Winfrey kept while filming the movie Beloved-excerpts that detail her insecurities as an actress and her pedagogical relationship with Jonathan Demme, the movie's director. He's a wonderful filmmaker, she writes, but more importantly, he has faith in Oprah. The on-screen adaptation of the Toni Morrison novel comes to theaters Oct. 16 and is the reason why Time's editorial staff developed a sudden interest in the woman whose name and face have become synonymous with losing weight and feeling great...