UJeff Daniels ungene Ukubulala i-Mockingbird .UJuliet Cervantes Ibhalwe ngaphezulu nguAaron Sorkin ngendlela ebhala ngayo yonke into, engenantlonelo, uqwalaselo oluneenkcukacha kunye nomxholo owawuphawuleka kubo bobabini uHarper Lee noHorton Foote, owaguqulela ezona ncwadana zinkulu zaseMelika kwimiboniso bhanyabhanya yowe-1963, inguqulelo entsha ye-Broadway yoncwadi lukaLee oluthandekayo ubuncwane Ukubulala i-Mockingbird ndishiyeke phantsi (kancinci) kwaye ndidanile (uhlobo). Kodwa nangona ibingenalo ifuthe ebendilithembile, ukubekeka kwam kuncinci xa kuthelekiswa novuyo endinalo lokuba umsebenzi omkhulu woncwadi uviwa kwaye uyaxoxwa kwaye uphinde waphinda. Imveliso ebonwayo eShubert Theatre, ekhokelwa ngokuzithemba nguBartlett Sher, ineentsilelo, kodwa ziyaphaphatheka ekukhanyeni komsebenzi onomvuzo.
NjengoAtticus Finch, igqwetha ledolophu encinci elinamava amancinci olwaphulo-mthetho kodwa ingqiqo enkulu yokuthembeka, isidima kunye nobulungisa othatha umsebenzi wokukhusela umntu omnyama omsulwa otyholwa ngokudlwengula umfazi omhlophe phakathi kokungazi kakuhle hick eAlabama ngexesha loxinzelelo olukhulu, uJeff Daniels akekho nguGregory Peck. Ulungile njengokuba ebekwenye indawo, mncinci kakhulu ukuba angadlala indima, amagama akhe asemazantsi ashukumayo kwi-carlatured drawl ye-muffled movie-actor mumbling, kunye namandla akhe nobulumko obukhuthaza abantwana bakhe ababini abangenatata ukuba bamnqule ubomi babo bonke yiza uhambe, kodwa uhlala ukholisa.
Abantwana, intombazana eneminyaka emithandathu egama linguScout kunye nomntakwabo uJem oneminyaka elishumi, badlala ngokugqibelela nguMary Badham noPhilip Alford kwiscreen, kunye nomhlobo wabo osenyongweni uDill (esekwe kulutsha uTruman Capote, ochithe ubuntwana Ehlotyeni kunye noHarper Lee), akusadlalwa ngumoya ofanayo, amandla kunye nomtsalane kumdlalo bhanyabhanya. Babenokukwenza njani oko? Ngoku sele bengabantu abadala (uCelia Keenan-Bolger, uWill Pullen noGideon Glick) bejonga emva kwiziganeko ezibumbe ulutsha lwabo ngokubonisa ngomdlalo wokukhumbula.
Endaweni yokubukela ngentlonelo evela kwi-balcony yegumbi elishushu, elingenamoya eMaycomb (enyanisweni idolophu yaseMonroeville apho iindwendwe namhlanje zityelela useto lobomi bokwenyani kukhenketho olukhokelwayo) abantu abadala, ababiza iindleko njengabantwana, bazula-hamba kwiseti, bancike kwi ibhokisi yejaji, ndibukele emagxeni amangqina kwaye ndinika ingxelo ngesenzo ngendlela endiyifumene iphazamisa.
Umdlalo awusakhokeleli kulingo lodlwengulo, kodwa uqala ngalo. Yonke enye into, ukusuka kummelwane oyikisayo oyimfihlakalo uBoo Radley ojika abe ligorha, ekugqibeleni ukusilela okutyhafisayo kuka-Atticus ukusindisa ummangalelwa omnyama otyholwayo uTom Robinson kwisiphelo esibuhlungu, kuyenzeka njengophando lomsebenzi wobuxoki. Akukho nto ilahla inkumbulo kaCollin Wilcox njengoMayella Ewell, owahlukumezeka, intombazana emhlophe ekhangela uthando kwiindawo ezingalunganga zokufihla ukuphathwa gadalala kukayise, amandla endawo apho uAtticus ajongene neKu Klux Klan eneentloni ngokwamkelwa komntwana ohamba isikolo nabantwana babo.
Kwaziswa abalinganiswa bamabanga aphakamileyo ababengekho kumdlalo bhanyabhanya. Eminye imiboniso icinyiwe yipensile yokuhlela ka-Aaron Sorkin. Ke kutheni ndincoma Ukubulala i-Mockingbird kwiqonga? Ububele nobabalo lwendoda ekholelwa ngokwenyani ukuba kukho ukulunga kuyo yonke indoda sisisifundo esifanele ukusijongwa ngabantu bayo nayiphi na iminyaka, ngakumbi kwilizwe eliphazamisayo njengale sihlala kuyo ngoku. U-Atticus ukholelwa kumalungelo alinganayo kubo bonke, ngaphandle kobuhlanga, inkolo okanye iakhawunti yebhanki. Uyakholelwa emthethweni kunye noxanduva lomntu wonke onesidima, olungileyo noluntu ukuwugcina. Umdlalo unika ithuba kwisizukulwana esitsha, esincinci ukuba sabelane ngamaxabiso kunye nemigaqo ebekwe ngomnye wababhali abathandwayo kwiileta zaseMelika. Ngamava angafanele ukungahoywa. Izizathu zokuba isizukulwana esidala siphinde siqwalasele ubugcisa okanye ukuveza isizukulwana esincinci ukuze sikubone okokuqala zininzi. Eli lixesha lokuqala ndingakhange ndishukunyiswe ziinyembezi Ukubulala i-Mockingbird, kodwa yile yam ndinako ukuyiphatha.
