PAGE TWO Film Echoes Kafka Nightmare THlE1MIlCIGAfNDAILEY SATURDAY. DECEMBER 4'. IN - _--. _ . - --i W/ A.' 1IT fA.YI it CA- ~Uti "G Ay,1Out I x 'RETURN FROM ASHES': Misuse Film's Promise Hatcher, Hershey Clash on Protestors By PAUL SAWYER At The Cinema Guild Twenty guests are coming to a, luxurious dinner party, but in response to some mysterious com- pulsion, the servants all leave before the party begins. Stranger still is the fact that once the party is over, none of the guests wants to leave. After twenty-four hours of chatting and sleeping, it becomes apparent that no one has been able to make himself leave the drawing room, and the guests realize that they are trapped, the victims of a fantastic failure of will. The strong ones urge action; others try to reason it out and draw up plans; the weak ones whimper about why nothing is be- ing done; but no one dares venture outside of the room. And so they settle down to face a long ordeal of starvation, thirst and moral disintegration. In this manner, without a single special effect or external prop, Luis Bunuel, writer and director of "The Exterminating Angel," turns a casual dinner party into a Kafkaesque nightmare, a modern parable that is as simple in situa- tion as it is multifarious in its implications. Indicts Society Bunuel's parable, with its sev- eral possible interpretations, in- dicts modern society (or at least the djecadent Spanish upper class) on essentially two counts: it is vacuous and it is sick. The posi- tion of civilized man in the film is at best ambiguous. Living in the tradition-bound and organization-oriented society that he does, he has become in- capable, Bunuel is saying, of shak- ing off sterile patterns of thought and behavior and of acting de- cisively on his own. Yet the point is stressed throughout that men need the restraints of decency and morality commonly associated with civilization in order to save them from savagery. Religion Attacked Religion receives probably the most scornful attack of the film. Occult rites, masonic rituals and propitiations of the Virgin as at- tempted by the guests seem to merge into a general pagan mum- bo-jumbo. The Exterminating An- gel himself is a painting on one of the doors who resembles the torch-bearing angel that kept Adam and Eve from Paradise. At; the end, the guests overcome their mental block and leave the house only to have the whole process start over again at mass the next day. Bunuel spends the greater part of the film depicting the moral and physical degradation of the guests through a long series of incidents. He makes fairly eco- nomical use of the moral cancer cliche (several of the guests be- come afflicted with a debilitating cancer-like condition), but he dwells too long on the man-is-an-I animal cliche. Since the style of direction is subdued throughout,' it is not surprising that the film drifts rather aimlessly at these points. He is far more successful, how- ever, in observing the utmost real- ism of detail and credibility of characterization, which are allow- ed to play against the ever more fantastic nature of the situation. It is this ironic balance-the film's most striking parallel with Kafka -that is the essential element of its success. By DAVID KNOKE remains have never been identi- his presentation is equally self- (Continued from Page 1) fied. centered, cold and devoid of Look Alikes warmth. in the appeal then the decision3 At The Michigan Teater Miss Thulin intervenes into .the The basic problem with the could be altered." -- - lovers' life by posing as "Miss movie is, again, an unbalanced Hatcher, amplifying a joint1 This is the story of one woman's Roberts," such an identical look- script which forces the actors in- statement made Wednesday by homecoming, the attempt of a alike with the deceased Dr. Woolf to cumbersome situations from Vice-President Cutler and Vice-1 physically a n d psychologically that Schell and Eggar plot to have which they are unable to extri- President for Academic Affairs scarred inmate of the Dachau her impersonate the woman and cate themselves with any degree Allan Smith, said, "I don't think concentration camp to return to claim the inheritence for a three- of verisimilitude. you should draft a student because the pre-war innocence that no way split. When Dr. Woolf event- he protests . . . the draft should longer exists. ually reveals her true identity, the The movie does not make not be used as a punitive measure." Ingrid Thulin, as Dr. Woolf, a efforts of the lovers turn toward enough of the ethical and psy- Clear Necessity Jewish radiologist deported in the problem of doing her in and chological context in which these "A student should be drafted 1940 from Paris and her chess collecting the money. people operate. By seeking to out of a clear-cut necessity bum gigolo Stanislaus Pellerin !please the public's acquired taste Selective Service must not be al- bumgiglon Stnlaus elle i 3 As for the acting, Miss Thulin for sex-and-sadism the directors lowed to become an instrument for yMaxmilian Schell), delays 13yggives the only plausible perform- have missed an opportunity to ex-punishing dissent," Hatcher said. herself in the household. ance; she is in perfect control of plore the nature of the homeless Hatcher said he felt students During the interval, her tep- a role which does not do justice and the uprooted, the guilt and had a right to protest. "They have stepdto her talents. In her soulful eyes complicity of the involved and un- a right to be actively concerned daughter (Samantha Eggar) and the audience peers into the depths involved alike. about the Viet Nam situation- Schell, believing her dead, have ! futl rgd n ua osalot of other people are." been carrying on an affair. of untold tragedy and human lossTyically the dverti t The menage-a-trois turns on that survived the horrors of the Tyically, tnh heaertseenWhile noting that the students Nazi juggernaut. focuses on the bathroom scene be- m have i~nn,.,4i hr the fact that the woman's rela- tives have all been exterminated, Eggar Typecast leaving her sole heir to 300 mil- Miss Egar, late of "The Collec- lion francs. Schell and Eggar are tor," shows signs of becoming unable to lay claim to the for- single-track screen personality. tune, however, as a clause in the She portrays the step-daughter Napoleonic Code prevents the in- with a thoroughly catty bitchiness heritence of property from per- which is too unreal. Schell is a sons presumed dead but whose perfect compliment to her in that tween Miss Eggar and Schell, de- scribing it as "the most shatter- ing scene ever filmed." Promo- tional zeal aside, the scene has very little point except as a gro- tesque vehicle for doing away with Miss Eggar; indeed, rather than shatter, the episode just seems to bubble all over. uy oavel dseen unwsine tncer use of civil disobedience tactics II POTTERS UGUILD. CHRISTMAS SALE SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5 201 H ill St. 10 A.M.-3 P.M. Il H ILLEL joins in the invitation to hear DR. MOSHE DECTER Author, Editor, Specialist on "The Situation of the Jews in Russia" TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 4:15 P.M. 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All welcome. a service charge -atall other times. eluding Indust. hygiene & toxicology, ; -__- --- --- ---plan to attend the Health Service be- air pollution control & radiation pro- Hatcher said the case was being; adequately dealt with by the courts. He said he is in full agreement with the vice-presidents who said in their statement that the change in status was "unwise and potentially discriminatory.' He said he would "hate to see: the University lose any students for this war for any reason." Hatcher said he was particularly disturbed that "the draft should be used to punish student dissent." Expressing his hope that the draft will be administered in a fair manner, Hatcher said he hoped Selective Service would not intentionally, "take the 'bad guys.~ Other Developments u In other developments, four, Democratic state congressmen sent identical letters yesterday to Holmes, charging that the Selec- tive Service System was pursuing a "dictatorial and unrepresentative draft policy." The letters were signed by Con- gressmen Charles Diggs (D-Michi- gan), and State congressman Thomas W. White, Raymond Hood and Coleman A. Young, all De- troit Democrats. Read Dail Classifieds The four criticized Holmes for his part in the reclassification of four students who took part in the sit in. "Your office has become the punitive arm of society and as such has infringed on the tradi- tional separation of governmental power as you become a judiciary," the letters said. Across Campus SATURDAY DECEMBER 4 10:30 a.m.-The Department of Speech Players will give their performance of "Henry VI Part I" at Trublood Auditorium. 2:30 p.m.-"Henry VI Part II" at Trueblood Auditorium. 7:00 p.m.-"Henry VI Part III" at Trueblood Auditorium. 7 and' 9 p.m.-Cinema Guild present "The Exterminating An- gel" in the Architecture Audi- torium. 8:30 p.m.-Handel's Messiah; will be performed by the Univer- sity Choral Union and members of the Detroit Symphony Orches- tra conducted by Lester McCoy at Hill Auditorium. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5 2:30 p.m.-The Department of Speech Players will give their per- formance of "Henry VI Part III" at Trueblood Auditorium. 4:30 p.m.--Katherine Pino will give a degree flute recital in the Recital Hall of the School of Music. 7 and 9 p.m.-Cinema Guild presents "The Exterminating An- gell" in the Architecture Audi- torium. Ph. 483-4680 NWaHceOWCARPENTERRA NOW SHOWING 40 I~. 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