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\Passage to India/(Continued from Page 8)to be played out later In the cavesof Marabar.Lean’s use of monkeys to frighten the young woman away from the temple send her fleeing her own a mal drives as much as she flees herevolutionary predecessors. She rushes to the safe asezuality of British civilisation and confirms her engagement to the stuffy magistrateThe central riddle of the film, Mcentral riddle of the film, and one that has dumbfounded literary scholars since the book was written years ago, is what happened inthe caves of Marabar.THE EXPEDITION to the cavespicnic organised by Dr. Axis,skillfully played by Victor Banerjee as a child-likeinnocent who is anxious to please his new friendsall of India was anxious to please its colonial oppressors.The trip brings together James Fox as a university professor and friend of Dr. Aziz, Alec Guinness asa wise philosopher, and the twowomen - each to face a personal test of character.By the end of the expedition thecalm of Colonial rule and the challenges of the meeting of East andTheater season features ShakespeareAmerican Players theater, a pro-fasei/uial thnefnat as4o wmmih fhnfresident director, stated that the uled for Saturday, and booking of the1.4 -4X11— ft.—West collide thunderously. The undertone of revolution — both personal and public - surfaces when Dr. Aziz is accused of raping Adela in the caves of Marabar.By the time the case comes to trial,India proclaims itself grown up, released from the parents it worshipped.Viewers never really know what happened in the caves, but reverberations from the day’s events pose questions about civilization versus animal instincts, and culture versus freedom - all in the context of a beautifully-moving film classic.
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Oak Forest Star
Oak Forest, Illinois, US
Sun, Jan 27, 1985
Page 89
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