Wednesday, April 25, 1973
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Hallucinatory Bertolucci
The Daily Tar Heel
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A lion sits on a platter with an apple in
its mouth, ready to be devoured. This is
only one of the many strange images in
Bernardo Bertoluccf s film, "The Spider's
Stratagem." Those people who know
Bertolucci only from "The Conformist"
will be surprised and perhaps awed by
hallucinatory style of this film.
Based on "Theme of the Traitor and
The Hero" by the Spanish writer Borges,
it concerns a young man who visits a
town to discover why his father had been
killed many years before. His father was a
famous anti-facist and it is assumed that
the facists killed him. The town is fresh
with the growth of spring, but,
paradoxically, it seems to have died.
Practically everyone in the town is over
sixty years old.
As the young man tries to find
information, the town becomes
threatening. Someone locks him in a
barn, someone else wakes him up to
punch him in the face. When he asks
questions, he is told "We are all friends
here." Three of his father's friends tell
him their story of the death, and he
realizes that they have agreed on a story
beforehand.
As he comes closer to the truth, he
seems to be taking his father's place.
There are several flashbacks in which the
father appears, played by the same actor
as the son, but the other characters are as
old as they are in the present. Past and
present seem to merge. In the end the
young man finds out the secret, and so he
must not be allowed to leave. As he waits
for his train, it is announced that it will
be ten minutes late, then twenty, then
forty. Finally foliage grows over the
tracks, and we realize that he is trapped
in the town forever. The spider's web has
been spun around him.
Bertolucci has filmed all this as a
nightmare. His bravura camera
movements are breathtaking m
themselves and they have been edited
into a truly poetic succession of images.
In this he is greatly helped by the
photography. This is surely the most
luciously beautiful color film of the year,
capturing perfectly the verdure of the
gardens and the shadowy menace of the
town.
Claims have been made that this is
Bertolucci's best film. This may not be
true, but it is more mature than "Before
the Revolution," less shallow than "The
Conformist," and more consistent than
"Last Tango in Paris." At any rate
missing the first run of a Bertolucci film
would be like missing the latest Fellini or
Bergman.
Showings are a 7 and 9 Wednesday and
Thursday, Friday at 7 and Saturday at 1,
3, 5, 7, 9 in Murphey 111. The print is
excellent.
STUDENT SERVICES COMMISSION
ALL REFRIGERATORS
MUST BE RETURNED
APRIL 26-27 1 :00-8:00 p.m.
RETURN LOCATIONS:
North Campus Residents: W. Cobb Basement
James Residents: James Coffee House
All Other South Campus Residents: Morrison Lower Parking Lot
All Refrigerators MUST Be Cleaned and Defrosted
Before They Are Returned
by Robert Ely
Feature Writer
This is the last Wiretap column until next fall.
Typing course: Several letters and telephone calls have been
received from persons interested in a University sponsored
typing course. As mentioned in past columns, this course
could be taught and administered similar to the reading
improvement program now offered by the Guidance and
Testing Center.
Those interested in such a course should leave their names
and . phone numbers in the Wiretap box at the DTH. These
names will be given to Dr. James W. Little, director of
Guidance and Testing, so that he may have an indication of
interest from which to proceed in making tentative plans.
As always money is a problem. Little said recently the
Center might be able to provide typewriters and space. A
teacher for a trial course would not be exorbitantly expensive,
but would probably have to be paid from other sources.
Little is interested in the idea and seemed willing to help
establish the course so it's up to those of you who need it to
show your interest. .
Campus mail: Everybody's Grandmother probably said
once, "vjpu get what you pay for." Apparently, such wisdom
was never more applicable to anything than it is to the campus
mail service.
A letter from a Hinton James resident reads, 'The US.
Postal Service is a paragon of efficiency compared to the
campus mail.
"On March 5 I received a letter asking me to go for an
important interview on March 2. The only thing campus mail
brought me on time was a letter telling me that I had not been
selected for the job for which I had missed the interview."
Neither rain, nor sleet, etc. Campus mail probably just needs
a motto of their own. Why don't all you dissatisfied customers
write them and suggest one. It might force a little
self-evaluation, providing they receive the letter.
Triangle spring festival: Take note. Union Activities Board.
Three students have an idea that Duke. State and UNC could
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Wiretap began as a reader question" answering service.
Response to the column has been good. Thanks to those who
kept the cards and letters and kickbacks coming in.
Now that it has been established, the column should evolve
to more of an action-line than it is presently. To those who
need problems solved. I offer this advice. Secretaries rule the
world. You have to get by them first in order to get much of
your information. Their attitude is often indicative of their
boss's. :s?s
The ubiquitous University bureaucracys?will always be
frustrating and discouraging. Not only js'it frustrating to
students, but to everyone connected with the University,
especially those individuals who collectively are that
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Don't be too quick to point an accusing finger. The
department or person whom you blame for inaction may be as
incapacitated as you are by the bureaucracy:2 t
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