Reception
Columbia Pictures debuted The Beast to a limited number of theaters, resulting in limited box-office exposure, and was virtually unheralded by the advertising media. Despite dismal box-office revenues, the film garnered widely-varied criticism—if any—over topics such as the effects of war on humanity, ethnic differences and technical merits. Due to its release during the end of Soviet hostilities in Afghanistan, owing to the directly-related nature, the film went largely unnoticed by the public and critics. The film enjoyed an unexpected surge in cult-popularity following its release to DVD in 2003.
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“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
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