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1984 - North Shore News

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Dark side of human nature

THE MURDER case ts as plain as black and white.
Negro Master Sergeant Vernon C. Waters left the
bar almost dead drunk. He staggered towards the
army base. Along the way two white officers in a
jeep met him by the bridge and ended up in an
argument with him. Water’s body was later found
with two military calibre slugs in it.

But if there is one thing
that director Norman
Jewison’s film A Soldier's

Story soon proves itself not
it is simple. Jewison’s
study

to be,

dramatic into. racial

TWO MOTHERS, former teacher Rae Schidlto of North Vancouver

artist Janet Lee from Vancouver,
Guide to Vancouver,

By COLIN LAM

bigotry proves itself to be a
colorful mixed cast of ex-
cellent acting, classic cinemo-
graphy and a bold universal
theme exposing a dark side of
human nature.

A Soldier’s Story is set in

Louisiana, 1944, on a US.
army base Fort Neal. Uncle
Sam has segregated the

NEWS photo Stuart Davis
, left, and graphic

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troops into black and white
units, waiting for a chance to
go overseas to fight the Ger-
mans. When Master Sergeant
Waters (Adolf Caesar) is
found murdered, the _ pen-
tagon sends a black officer,
Captain Richard Davenport
(Howard Rollins Jr.) to
investigate.

Davenport arrives in the
small southern town outside
the base to find the usual
assortment of stores and side-
walk benches neatly labelled
for the use of Blacks and
Whites. In fact, everything
on the base is neatly labelled
‘jn the same manner.

Including the assumption

the Black troops that the

hite officers killed Waters,

loward Rollins Jr. portrays
the mvestigating officer with
an uncanny sense for the
dramatic and the humorous
that the part demands.

His character takes the au-
dience on a journey that pro-
bes the complicated and
often hateful relationship
between the worid of the
White and Black soldier that
existed in that time. Most of
all, he allows us to grasp the
simple element of truth about
human nature that lies below
all men, regardless of the col-
or of their skin.

Adolf Caesar as the
murdered Master Sergeant
turns in his own brilliant per-

formance as a man torn bet-
ween his army career, his
deep lying frustrations about
the restrictions placed on his
own people, and his
perverted convictions on how
to mght the wrongs that
bigotry has bred.

Director Jewison has taken
the film A Soldier’s Story
from the Pullitzer Prize win-
ning novel A Soldier’s Play
by Charles Fuller and given
us an Academy Award winn-
ing movie.

Full of twists, suprises, and
honesty, the film picks at the
very soul of racial relations
and the gometimes thin
thread th binds shem.
When that thread snaps,
everyone loses. A Soldier’s
Story is now showing at the
Varsity Theatre.

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