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THE RICE THRESHER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1998
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Thandie Newton (right), Oprah Winfrey (center) and Kimberly Elise stand there and look poignant in Beloved.
Morrison novel transfers well to film
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the movie. Most of the urgency of
Beloved comes from the fact that the
audience doesn't know what or who
the haunting spirit represents, or
what or who theijmysterious stranger
who turns up one day, calling her-
self Beloved, could be.
But in the end, Beloved steals
the show. Thandie Newton, as Be-
loved, is simply horrifying. I have
never seen anything (outside of the
rare 'Twilight Zone" episode or a
good-because-it's-so-bad B-movie)
that rivals her inspired portrayal of
this dark character.
Newton doesn't hold anything
back. She drools, brazenly displays
full-frontal nudity and speaks in
tongues which I can only assume
are not hers—because if any woman
is capable of making noises like that,
then I pray that I never meet her.
There are even multi-layered
novel-like themes threaded through-
out the film adaptation of Beloved,
such as the tenuous balance that
exists between swallowing and be-
ing swallowed by the past, rebirth
symbolized by water, nature as a
place of origin, innocence and evil,
and salvation and demise.
The' nature theme is a little bit
too prevalent though — after two or
three completely random close-ups
of butterflies or beetles, I started to
feel as if the cinematographer was
banging me over the head with na-
ture shots.
Even with the excess of nature
shots, the sheer mastery of the cin-
ematography and musical score in
most of the shots in Beloved turn
even awkward moments into works
of art.
There is a definite s^nse that a lot
of money was poured into the mak-
ing of this movie. The sets and cos-
tumes are authentic, even charm-
ing. And the acting is first-rate.
If you want to rattle the cage of
your mind a bit, go see Beloved. For
all of its hijinks and hauntings, it is
still at heart a powerful story of our
nation — a nation that, like Sethe,
grapples with how to confront the
past without being torn apart.
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Stoler, Brian. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, October 16, 1998, newspaper, October 16, 1998; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth246630/m1/15/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.