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_Page 12, News, Tuesday, June 30, 1992 Visiting Thunder Bay? Shopping? Site Seeing? Skiing? Find comfort at Paradise Motel * Very clean rooms at Budget rates * Close to all major attractions * Variety of family restaurants within one block * Picnic Area *Reservations - phone ahead (807) 475-8628 Bob & Leslie Swan (mgr.) 221 W. Arthur Street (Highway 11 - 17B) Thunder Bay, Ontario PZESP7 Vandals cause senseless damage The flower bed in front of the CIBC in Terrace Bay was vandalized last week, as the newly planted flower beds were pulled out and stepped on. ges as eee ams priate oe 5 Te SY A se RY Gee, SN CO ee OS oe NS ee eT ee ee eee 7 tN SENEND SENSES SNES cs es Se ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee eee ee ee ee es Get Back the Equivalent Discount to the PS.T. & G.S.T. YES! Whatever you choose: from fashions to furniture... .. you'll get this special _ discount. Don't you miss out on Northern's Collosal Cash Break! ONLY HEY SCHREIBER YOU'LL SAVE 15% ON EVERYTHING IN THE STORE Northern Customer Service is Our First Priority FRIDAY , JULY 3RD SATURDAY [Bteiedby SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! JUST 2 DAYS Northern Insights-- Clearcut falls short continued from page 5 The scriptwriters Clearcut either didn't grasp that funda- mental message in the book, or made no effort to bring it to the screen. The result is a hollow movie, full of horribly violent scenes--Arthur shooting out the brains of a police officer; Arthur stripping all the skin off the mill manager's leg-- sup- posedly to "teach others like him that if they kill Indians with their poisons, they'll get skinned for it." Violence like that gives the movie an "R" rating, but con- tributes little to our under- standing of Arthur. The vio- lence in the book is the actions of Wisekedjak, the trickster who eventually had to be stopped. The violence of the movie tells us nothing, except perhaps to leave white audi- ences with the impression that Arthur is an insane psychopath. If financial gain was what the backers of Clearcut had in mind, they haven't pulled that off either, because it's ultimate- ly just a bad "B" movie. From what I've read, Clearcut didn't do well on the box office circuit, and has yet to return a profit to Telefilm Canada, the Ontario Film Development Corporation, First Choice (the cable movie channel) and it's other finan- cial backers. Perhaps if they had tried to bring the real story to the screen--the parable of Wiseked- jak-they would have made money because they would have had a much better story to tell