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TO VANCOUVER to see Cry Freedom, the movie about
Steve Biko, who died 10 years ago at the hands of the

South African police. It gives

the anti-South African

crowd orgasms, but tells blatant lies even though it claims

loudly to tell the truth.

The film was made in Zim-
babwe by Richard Attenborough,
the Brit drip who mage Gandhi,
“Dickie,” as he is called, is
always trying to put the world to
rights, he coming from a radical
family, as he says.

This latest effort is pure pro-
paganda, a charge to which he
sniggeringly . admitted in New
York. In his view, though, pro-
paganda in a liberal cause is no
crime. Still, the. movie shouldn’t
tell outright whoppers.

hands of the police. But that
country is not on the movie hit-
list.

The opening shot shows the ar-
my moving in on the shantytown
of Crossroads to the sound of
ominous incidental music.
Crossroads (which | have visited)
is a nest of black gang warfare.
But there is no mention of that.
The message is that this is
apartheid. ;

No decent black homes are
shown, even though black living

“Countless prisoners have died at the hands of the

police in the USSR without the Dickies of the world
becoming upset about them, and such crimes are not
restricted to the dictatorships. In Australia in recent
years, 64 aborigines have died while in the hands of

the police.’’

What is true is that Biko was
killed by the South African cops.
The leader of the Black Con-
sciousness Movement, he was in
custody, beaten up, packed into a

.van and found.dead on arrival at

hospital.

A harrowing story. But such
stories are not confined to South
Africa. Countless prisoners have

‘* died at the hands of the police in

the USSR without the Dickies of
the world becoming upset about
them, and such crimes are not
restricted’ to the dictatorships. In’
Australia in recent years, 64
aborigines have died: while in the

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standards are higher in South
Africa than anywhere on the con-
tinent. All is squalor. And it is
from squalor that we cut to a posh
house owned by whites. A smart

-woman advances with a drink in

her hand. Fair-haired kids frolic
in the pool, the rotten little devils,
having a good time while Rome
burns.

But wait. This is the home of
liberal white editor Donald
Woods (played by Kevin Kline).
So he’s OK. Intelligent. Friendly.
Handsome. In contrast, the bad-
guy police are either heavy-jowled
pigfaces or vacant-eyed dimwits. I

ols tery

was reminded of wartime pro-
paganda films in which the Ger-
mans are all heel-clicking morons.

Woods befriends Biko, por-
trayed by Denzel Washington as a
kind of white liberal in blackface.
In fact, Biko was a revolutionary.
In the movie, for example, he is
made to say ‘‘The land belongs to
all.” In life he argued that the
land belonged to blacks and to
them alone. Damn the whites and
everyone else.

My witness is Mr. Muntu
Myeza, a Biko confederate who
has been raising hell in London
about the false image given to his
hero. Myeza thinks it is wrong to
rob Biko of the respect due to him
as a revolutionary tough guy.

The most blatant lie, however,

is that the South Africans killed
700 schoolchildren in the Soweto
“uprising’’ of June, 1976. But the
academic study South Africa, A
Plural Society In Transition, writ-
ten by four professors and
published in 1985 by Butterworth
Press, shows ‘nat 576 people died
that year in nation-wide riots. Not
all of them were blacks and no
special mention is made of
children. Perhaps Dickie gat his
‘information’? from Zimbabwe.

Critics who know nothing
about South Africa have already
repeated the fiction of the 700
children, which must please
Dickie the propagandist to no end.

Cry Freedom is a mere skeleton
of truth. Woods the editor is real,
for instance, and was ‘‘banned,”’
a gross stupidity on the part of
Pretoria.

Woods left South Africa (his
“escape’’ is made to look as if he
was on the run from Alcatraz),
wrote a book, and acted as movie
adviser to Attenborough. But the
end result is fit only for
simpletons or the ignorant. Also,
it has few entertaining moments.

But | wouldn’t mind betting
that Cry gets an Oscar, it being
Hollywood liberal-trendy.

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