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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT January 12,2000 • the Seahawk 15 THE ASSOCIATION FOR CAMPUS ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS Lifted iVle ...t — LIVE IN CONCERT SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 2000 WARWICK CENTER BALLROOM AT 7:00 PM “COME AND BE BLESSED BY THE WONDEROUS SOUNDS OF THIS SPECTACTULAR GOSPEL CHOW’1 ADMISSION IS FREE PLEASE BRING FAMILY AND FRIENDS University of Nonh Carolina at Wilmington • Division of Student Affairs • University Union Brought (0 you by the Association for Campus Enteitainment. ACE is a service of the Student Government Association. UNCW coniplies vt'ith all provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you have special needs and would like to participate in this program, please contact the UNCW Activities & Leadership Cemw at 962-3827. l&^BtdronApls. ly&Teiiiiis Williams, from paqelS; them to write about how a particular landscape has shaped their lives. Basi cally, they will explore the nature of story through personal narratives.” Phil Furia, professor of creative writing tried to help make her transi tion from Utah to North Carolina easier. His efforts were aided by Williams’ per sonality. “She exudes warmth, energy, and enthusiasm. I’m sure she’s like that in class,” Furia said. Williams is extremely excited about the reading on Friday and hopes there will be a big'turnout. “This is my first reading I’ve given in North Carolina and I have enormous respect for the fac ulty here at UNCW.” Newsweek identified Williams as someone likely to make “a considerable impact on the political, economic and environmental issues facing the west ern states in this decade.” Williams said she is interested in how society can breath life back into universities. “I want to know what is the nature of obsession and passion,” she said. Although she grew up out west, Wil liams said she is very fond of the south “There are great similarities between the south and west. There’s a deep sense of family and tradition that is tied to the land and both areas choose to live in tnese places or neart. Controversial “Dogma” satirizes trappings, not faith by MEGAN O’BRIEN A&E editor Kevin Smith, independent director of cult favorites like “Clerks,” “Mallrats” and “Chasing Amy” recently released “Dogma,” his most ambitious film to date. The film played January 3-6 at Thalian Hall’s Cinematique series, and will be shown at the end of March as part of ACE’s Screening Room series. The film will be followed by a lecture from Kevin Smith on March 30. Smith’s other films focus on relation ships between human beings, “Dogma” looks at the relationships between more ethereal beings, from the relationship between supernatural beings, humans, the dead and God. Loki (Matt Damon) was the Angel of Death for God, flooding the world for Noah and his menagerie and destroying Sodom and Gomorrah. His friend Bartelby (Ben Affleck) got him drunk and convinced him that maybe mass genocide was not necessarily a good thing, so Loki tells God that he quits. God expels them from Heaven until the end of the world, and then they will sit outside the gates of Paradise. They hang out in Wisconsin until the end of the twentieth century, when they receive a newspaper article about a small Catho lic church in New Jersey. Cardinal Glick (George Carlin) has decided to revamp the Church’s image for the one- % I! File Photo/ The Seahawk Matt Damon and Ben Affleck star in hand look at modern religious beleifs hundredth anniversary of his parish. As a part of this publicity, Glick re-insti tutes “plenary indulgence,” a little known church law that says all who walk through the church doors are cleansed of sin. Bartelby and Loki see this as a loophole, a way to prove God wrong and “go home.” The plotline then shifts from the an gels to an abortion clinic in Illinois, where Bethany (Linda Fiorentino), a Catholic, is having a crisis of faith. Dogma, a movie which takes an off- That all changes when the Metatron (Alan Rickman) visits her, an angel who speaks for God since God’s voice will kill any human who hears it. The Metatron tells Bethany that she must stop Bartelby and Loki from entering the church since proving God wrong would negate all existence. Bethany begins her quest when she meets the “prophets” Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith), the well-loved characters from Smith’s earlier movies. They begin the trip to New Jersey, and meet various incarnations, spirits and demons on the way. The film satirizes dogma, hypocrisy and self-righteousness that often accom pany extreme religious feelings. While parts are silly and unnecessary, like the Golgothan monster made out of excre ment that pops out of a toilet in a strip club, and the use of profanity seems excessive, other scenes are funny and even moving at times. While this film has the participation of famous actors like Rickman, Fiorentino and Damon, I enjoyed Smith’s portrayal of Silent Bob particularly. Bob really lives up to his name, speaking only once in each of the films, and must show his emotions through facial expressions, which are as character-building as Jay’s profuse swearing and Bethany’s “Why me?” monologues. Affleck and Damon play best friends as they did in their first major film “Good Will Hunting,” but they are psycho, and it is really enjoy able to watch the transformation of logi cal Bartelby to a raving lunatic, and homicidal Loki into a resigned on looker. Chris Rock makes an appear ance as the thirteenth apostle and Rickman’s performance as the Metatron was one of the best in the film. While the film could be seen as blas phemous or even heretical, I found that it affirmed more than it mocked. Smith satirizes only the trappings of faith, not faith itself.
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