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from life. Other scenes - of horseplay and genuine struggles - gradually build up our new. of the personalities of these Ini- Other scenes in the movie Ire more everyday. I am sure it took great patience on the pert of the filmmakers to obtain the about of the bears fighing for trout, but the Tene plays like a moment stolen The animals live in a high range of maintain pastures (the film was shot in the Dolomitee and the Canadian Arctic). We are always aware of the vast sweep of nature, of the fact that the grizzly is the moat deadly animal for hundreds of miles - except, of course (as Bnmhi’a mother once wanted), for nun. Two hunters penetrate into this wilderness, encounter the bears, and in a very quiet scene of great drama, arrive at a kind of truce. The actors have little to do in a traditional theatrical sense, but the presence of the lead hunter (Jack Wallace) is fully convincing m "the movie's key scene. The movie opens with the birth of a bear cub. It follows the cub through the traumatic experience of the death of its mother, and then it shows the cub being adopted by an adult male grizzly, who protects it and endures it during the first summer of its Bear he uses almost none - except for the brief statements of two hunters, whose words are not meant to be language, but simply the sounds made by the animal named man, Thisisnottteutefantaryin which bears tie bicycles and play house. It is about life in the mid, and it does an impressive Job of seeming to show wild bears m their natural habitat. I write "seeming" because I know the movie was made with trained bears, and parts of certain scenes were even fabricated using ani. mated models. But film is an art lf Illusjon2 and the illusion in The real thing. The movie was directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, whose Quest for Fire (1982) was an effective film recreating man's earliest days. He and little lan- guage in that movie, and in The Bear/a movie about the first fee} of} bear eutr'adtfetime. Chronide Special I was out at the zoo the other day, gawking through a plate glass window " a family of gorillas who were going about ( their busineu with sublime indif. ference to mine. One fellolw over in the m was meticu oualy sorting through tirileofstraw,ktokirioetrtr. thing he had nialaid. M adoleo» cents were tumbling over each other in rough play. It was a touching domestic scene. until without any warning the big male gorilla came charging di- rectly at me and slammed against the glass with a fearsome roar. The glass was thick, the inci- dent was over in a moment, but for the length of that moment I felt the k8 of instinctual re- sponse that has been bred into as from prehistory. I knew fear, because a wild beast wanted to kill me. And it. in respect for that reality that ia at the heart of The realistic look at the wild "newsman non-Wed. 7-9 p.111: fftdrlsGi.>rtfir.m.; Sun. 8-9 p.m. WEDNESDAY SPECIAL SOUP, SALAD & DESSERT . ROLL a BUTTER FISH & CHIPS 't5 .95 TUESDAY SPECIAL SOUP. BALAD&DBBtmm'-ROLLaBTrrmm RIB EYE SPEAK ‘7.25 MONDAY SPECIAL a refreshing change" of place . . . SANTA ARRIVES SOUP.SALAD&DESSERT-ROLL&BUTI’ER BABYBEKFIJVERWMIFRIEDONIONORBACON 17 Erb St. East (at Regina) Waterloo iii}? mm"" , ”I Ptrttmttrtt our mind. d ,__,_,,W, a. ." 1sH ., mrmnesit-titoettt,iia'e'hSter 1m “I.“ - I: 886-4300 ‘6.25 Horseshoe Restaurant WHAT”?! ' IN KITPHENER AT.. IN WATERLOO AT: 150 King St. Ill. 41 King St. N. mum-lemurs: taanoGttioitUii 145-2976 Two CONVENIENT LOCATIONS I 746-597 I