From Mississippi to Malaysia-- a fascinating adaptation of William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning." Social structures are here seen through the eyes of Kesuma, a boy who senses in his father what he fears he might become. A portrait of masculinity constrained by history and circumstance.
Also a film that channels the presence of "empire" (and its contradictions) in Faulkner's novels, as well as his depictions of modernization as a slow an staggered process from which many are excluded.
