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August 14, 2020
At the Movies: Strong acting lifts up languorous ‘Barbarians'
By JOCELYN NOVECK
AP National Writer
AP National Writer
Coetzee's allegorical novel reflects on themes of power, war, torture, the evils of colonialism and the need humans have to demonize others in order to subjugate them.
Watching Mark Rylance play a man of basic decency getting swallowed up by an evil world — and a sadistic Johnny Depp — in “Waiting for the Barbarians,” I absent-mindedly jotted down in my notes: “Nobody does basic decency like Mark Rylance.”
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