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...incensed colonials and an outraged, critical press after his tropical stories were published, it is undeniable that Asia unlocked some deep well of creativity in Maugham. Hastings makes the unimpeachable case that posterity will remember Maugham, first and foremost, for these undeluded, worldly-wise, sometimes shocking tales of white colonist-planters exiled in the steamy jungle. In later years, when he visited Mexico and Central America, he was to write that these countries did not give him a fraction of the inspiration that he got from Asia. There is a just measure of reward in the fact that if anyone...
...various gruesome and elaborate killing mechanisms. On the other, it wants to be an incisive analysis of the faults of our country’s current legal system. Gray inserts a few not-so-subtle shots of a William Penn statue to imply a moral connection between the just colonist and Clyde. (The only real connection seems to be that they were both in jail at some point...
...Shot on location in the actual village inhabited by the Duras family, The Sea Wall tempers its denunciation of colonialism with personal melodrama and the disillusionment of a poor white colonist, who once believed in France's mission civilisatrice but has realized the harsh truth of empire-building. Its 115 minutes feel overlong at times, but given the fact that most moviegoers' impressions of this period and place were formed by the 1992 Academy Award - winning fantasy Indochine, the visceral reality check provided by The Sea Wall is novel - and welcome...
...About 14 at the time, her reaction speaks for itself: she banished all thought of the settlers, staying clear of Jamestown for the next four years. The English, though, weren't finished with her. In the spring of 1613, when Pocahontas was nearing 18, she was kidnapped by a colonist-sailor. Her father paid most of the ransom--a gaggle of English prisoners, guns and a boatload of corn--but the white men kept the girl just upriver from Jamestown. There the planter John Rolfe, a prosperous widower, soon found himself battling an attraction he deemed alternately sinful and sublime...
...came to his conclusion - "booksellers, defend your lonely forts" - it hit me: a white haired gentleman trying to halt something new because it runs against something established, urging the retrograde upon people who should know more than any others that retrogression is patently not in their interest. Novelist as colonist! A governor speaking to his soldiers. Guard your lonely forts indeed...