Saturday, March 2, 2019

Skin


Oscar-winning short film Skin sets racial animosity in a wholly irrational world. Its story is startling; its message unclear and so unpersuasive. The characters are moved deliberately toward the ironic climax but narrative shortcuts make the conclusion little more than clever.


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August Wilson's Century Cycle -- Gem of the Ocean

  August Wilson seems to have had a lot on his mind when he wrote Gem of the Ocean -- history, religion, folkways, maybe even politics, but ...