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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Wilde’s struggle has echoes in some countries today, says ”Happy Prince” director Everett

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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

BERLIN - British actor Rupert Everett said his Berlinale entry about the exile of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde in the 1890s was an expression of homosexuals’ tragedy which is still present in some parts of the world today. “The Happy Prince”, written and directed by Everett, is a biography of Wilde’s exile in Paris after he was convicted of gross indecency in 1895 for having sex with a man during a Victorian clampdown on homosexuality. Everett, who also plays the leading role, said Wilde’s story illustrates the struggle of people turned into outcasts for their sexuality that was still happening in some countries such as Russia, Uganda and India. “The slow motion assassination of Oscar Wilde from the moment he went to prison to the moment he died is a story that possibly goes on in some parts of the world, still,” Everett told Reuters TV. In the “Happy Prince”, Wilde - the most popular playwright in London in his time remembers his old life, plays, fame and family, before being imprisoned for two years of labour. Once released, humiliated and sick, the film tracks Wilde’s move to Paris, from where he never returned to Britain. Prison and exile could not stop Wilde’s free

spirit. He resumes his destructive affair with the flamboyant young Lord Douglas, who eventually abandons him. Only a few devoted friends stay with Wilde when his sickness prevents him from producing any more work. He dies penniless, away from his children, but not alone. Homosexual acts were not decriminalised in England until 1967. In 2017, thousands of gay and bisexual men who were convicted of crimes under former sexual offence laws, including Wilde, were pardoned. “It’s a typical example of English grandeur that it is using the wrong word because ‘pardoned’ is not what’s necessary, ‘apology’ is really necessary,” Everett said. However, Everett believed his film showed how far some countries have come in accepting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people in such a short time. “It’s a story that could give us a certain elation that we made such a journey from 100 years until now, where we have such freedoms,” he added. (rtr)

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Director,actor and screenwriter Rupert Everett and actress Emily Watson pose during a photocall to promote the movie The Happy Prince at the 68th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, February 17, 2018.

Film at Berlin festival shows 2011 massacre on Norwegian island

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Director and executive producer Erik Poppe and cast members pose during a photocall to promote the movie Utoya 22.juli (U - Jully 22) at the 68th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, February 19, 2018.

BERLIN - Director Erik Poppe says his latest film is part of the healing process in the aftermath of one of Norway’s most horrifying events - the massacre of 69 people, many of them teenagers, at a youth camp on the island of Utoya. Poppe’s “U-July 22”, premiering at the Berlin film festival, is a retelling of the shootings by a far-right gunman on July 22, 2011. Filmed on another island close to Utoya in one take, it follows “Kaja” - a fictional teenager as she runs for her life through woods, along beaches and in the sea. The audience sees her desperately searching for her younger sister, comforting a dying teenager and singing to herself as she cowers in fear against a cliff. Shots ring out, but the gunman is only fleetingly visible, from

a distance. Poppe said some had criticised his movie as coming too soon, but young survivors of the attack had told him he should not wait. “I would say that if it doesn’t hurt to watch this movie then it’s too late, so I would say for sure it’s hard but it’s also a part of the healing process,” Poppe said at a news conference. “We decided to make fiction for ethical reasons so the parents, sisters and brothers don’t need to see and think: Is that my sister or my brother? Is that my daughter?” he said, adding that psychologists had been on location to help actors and residents of the island where it was filmed. “Looking around Europe today, realising neo-fascism is growing day by day, we need to remember what

took place out on that island, what right-wing extremism can look like.” Survivor Ingrid Marie Vaag Endrerud said at the news conference the film’s story was one many Norwegians found impossible to tell. “When I try to explain what I experienced, I am only able to tell it from a distance and that’s where film and the art of film can tell a story another way that writing or speaking cannot,” she said. “This is hate in its purest form and as society we have to stand against it.” Andrea Berntzen, 19, who plays Kaja, remembers being scared at the news of the massacre when she was 12. When she heard about the making of the film she initially felt it was too soon, but later changed her mind. (rtr)

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Demonstrators lay on the ground at a rally for gun control outside of the White House in Washington, DC, U.S. February 19, 2018 in this still image from video.

U.S. students plan protests, Washington march, to demand gun control after mass shooting

PARKLAND - Stunned by the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history, students mobilized across the country on Sunday to organize rallies and a national walkout in support of stronger gun laws, challenging politicians they say have failed to protect them. Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a former student is accused of murdering 17 people on Wednesday using an assault-style rifle, joined others on social media to plan the events, including a Washington march. “I felt like it was our time to take a stand,” said Lane Murdock, 15, of Connecticut. “We’re the ones in these schools, we’re the ones who are having shooters come into our classrooms and our spaces.” Murdock, who lives 20 miles (32 km) from Sandy Hook Elementary School where 20 children and six adults were shot to death five years ago, drew more than 50,000 signatures on an online petition on Sunday calling on students to walk out of their high schools on April 20. Instead of going to classes, she urged her fellow students to stage protests on the 19th anniversary of an earlier mass shooting at Colum-

bine High School in Colorado. Students from the Florida high school are planning a “March for Our Lives” in Washington on March 24 to call attention to school safety and ask lawmakers to enact gun control. They also plan to rally for gun control, mental health issues and school safety on Wednesday in Tallahassee, the state capital. The students were expected to meet with a lawmaker who is seeking to ban the sale of assault-style weapons like the AR-15 allegedly used in the school shooting. The demands for change by many still too young to vote has inflamed the country’s long-simmering debate between advocates for gun control and gun ownership. Students from the Florida school have lashed out at political leaders, including Republican President Donald Trump, for inaction on the issue. Many criticized Trump

for insensitivity after he said in a weekend Twitter post that the FBI may have been too distracted with a Russia probe to follow leads that could have prevented the massacre. “You can’t blame the bureaucracy for this when it’s you, Mr. President, who’s overall responsible,” David Hogg, an 18-year-old Douglas senior, said in a phone interview. ’LISTENING SESSION’ The White House said Trump planned to host “a listening session” with high school students and teachers on Wednesday, but did not specify which students or school would be involved. Democratic leaders vowed to redouble efforts to fight the nation’s powerful gun lobby to reduce violence from firearms. “We’re the adults. We’re the leaders in this country who are supposed to keep our children safe - and again and again, our country has let

them down,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez said on Twitter. The suspect in the Parkland shooting, Nikolas Cruz, 19, faces multiple murder charges in the deaths of 14 students and three staff members, and the wounding of more than a dozen others in a rampage that eclipsed Columbine as the country’s worst mass shooting at a high school. Cruz was reported to have been investigated by police and state officials as far back as 2016 after slashing his arm in a social media video, and saying he wanted to buy a gun. Authorities determined, however, he was receiving sufficient support, newspapers said on Saturday. In addition, the Federal Bureau of Investigation admitted on Friday that it failed to investigate a warning that Cruz possessed a gun and the desire to kill. A couple who opened their home to Cruz after his mother’s recent death saw no signs he was planning a rampage, according to the Sun Sentinel in south Florida.

Kimberly and James Snead told the newspaper they knew Cruz had guns, and that they made him lock them in a safe. They thought they had the only key, they said. Cruz faces charges that could bring the death penalty. Prosecutors have not yet said if they will seek capital punishment. Four people still hospitalized with wounds from the shooting were in fair condition on Sunday, a spokeswoman for the Broward Health system said. School officials in Broward County said on Sunday they were aiming to have staff return to the high school campus by the end of the week. They did not say when classes would resume. (rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.