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Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Alice Walker's popular novel produces – like much of the director's work – a powerfully ambivalent response. This desperate attempt to make the Big Hollywood Statement about the experience of black women in the American South – the first of several such projects in the Spielberg canon – is undeniably sticky, overwrought, sanctimonious and manipulative. Yet, there is an equally undeniable emotional force to the film, communicated through Whoopi Goldberg's performance, and the entrancingly Utopian vision of a singing, dancing, loving Paradise-on-Earth. MORE Spielberg: Catch Me If You Can, Hook, The Lost World, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, The Terminal, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Munich, The Fabelmans © Adrian Martin January 1993 |
