Arts & Entertainment
Movie sacrifices logic
By Geoff McMurtry
Staff Reporter
Writer-director Zhang Nuan
xin’s “Sacrificed Youth,” playing
at the Sheldon Film Theater as part
of the University Program
Council’s Foreign Film Series, is
an endearing and somewhat incon
sistent look at a young girl’s diffi
cult transition when she is thrust
into an unknown world.
Film Review
While Nuanxin’s film obvi
ously had a lot to say, in several
instances the director seemed to
forget just exactly what it was.
Based on the Zhang Manling novel
“Such A Beautiful Place,” the story
centers on a teen-age urban school
girl sent to work at a rural village
during China’s oxymoronic Cul
tural Revolution. Complex issues
of social isolation, coming of age,
political repression, jealous unre
quited love and competition
among ethnic groups are treated
with varying degrees of compe
tence and success.
The young girl is at first a loner
and an outcast, not fitting in with
the carefree, open, yet superficial
attitudes and lifestyles of the girls
her age in the village. Besides
being of a different ethnic back
ground, she is quiet, thoughtful and
shy. She’s also unconcerned with
her clothes or appearance, which
are tantamount to the village girls.
While admirably ambitious,
“Sacrificed Youth” contains too
many visual and narrative non
sequiturs to be completely con
vincing. This is unfortunate, be
cause much of the film is excellent
— especially an outstanding per
formance by Li Fcng/.hu as the
young girl.
Moments like these arc unfortu
nate and tend to trivialize the im
portant backdrop of the film rather
than emphasize it. Also, scenes
occasionally end too suddenly,
with no continuity or sense of di
rection, adding only confusion to
the already complicated plot.
But “Sacrificed Youth” is still
an interesting film, if not a fasci
nating one.
Admission is $2.75 w ith student
ID, and $3.75 without. Screenings
for “Sacrificed Youth” will lx:
Sunday at 3, 7 and 9 p.m.
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Bands to perform for fund drive
By Richard Egger II
Staff Reporter
Six local bands will perform Satur
day night at the Malone Community
Center, 2030 U St., for a fund-raiser to
benefit Youth for Nuclear Freeze, a
Lincoln organization dedicated to
educating area youth on various im
portant causes.
For a $3 donation of $3, which will
be used to support YNF’s efforts and
activities, one can dance to the sounds
of Elysium Crossing, Peer Puppet,
Trout Mystery, New Brass Guns, 13
Nightmares and Mannequin Beach,
which will appear between 6:30 p.m.
and midnight.
Youth for Nuclear Freeze was
formed three years ago by 17-year-old
Lincoln High School student Charlie
Hammer as a forum for youths to
express their ideas and opinions on the
nuclear issue.
The group has weekly meetings on
Thursday evenings at the Unitarian
Church, 6300 A St., to discuss current
issues pertinent to their organization.
In mid-1986, YNF branched itself
into three committees, adding the is
sues of Centrj1 America and ecology
to the group’s concerns.
Hammer said anyone under 23
years old can become a YNF member.
Hammer said the group has 100 to
150 members. Only 30 to 35 attend the
weekly meetings, he said.
Hammer said the most important
thing about Youth for Nuclear Freeze
is its existence.
“Without it, few people would be
informed or do anything about the
problems voiced through our organi
zation,” he said.
Camper Van Beethoven rs rock requiem
By C»eoff McMurtry
Staff Reporter
Rock is dead. Camper Van
Beethoven came to the Nebraska
Union Centennial Room not to praise
it, nor even bury it. They came to prod
the body with a stick a little, just to
make sure.
Concert Review
As the lights dimmed on the expec
tant crowd, looking to the side of the
stage tor the band s arrival, strange
musings wafted from the back of the
room. A light, curious sound powered
by banjos, balalaikas, mandolins and a
trombone was heard.
Displaying the eclectic virtuosity
and quirky, winning sense of humor
that has made them the best band in
America, Camper played, literally, on
stage for slightly more than an hour,
including four encores.
In addition to Camper favorites
like “Good Guys and Bad Guys,”
“Take the Skinheads Bowling” and
“Lassie Went to the Moon,” an inter
esting collection of covers reared their
long-forgotten faces. During a lov
ingly fractured rendition of Pink
Floyd’s interminable “Interstellar
Overdrive,” the unmistakable melody
of that ancient German folk classic,
“Ach Du Licber Augustine,” occa
sionally crept in before disappearing
again into the ha/.e. Status Quo’s mid
’60s psychedelic classic “Matchstick
Men and You” was given reverent
treatment, escaping almost com
pletely intact, while at other times a
riff or two of Led Zeppelin sneaked
past while no one was looking.
As long as the king is dead, long
live Camper Van Beethoven,
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