| Subject: Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," now that I've seen it |
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Date Posted: 20:53:43 02/28/04 Sat
My Other Half and I took in Mel Gibson’s movie “The Passion of the Christ” on Saturday 28 February 2004, in direct and intentional disobedience of the Religious Left.
I will not pretend to predict what it will show you, if you choose to see it. It shows the viewer what Mel Gibson and others put their hearts into showing us—and it shows each person things that one brings into the theater. So, no one else can ‘understand’ this movie for another.
I will tell you the alleged “anti-Semitism” issue is a bull-shipment. Gibson went IMHO to the absolute limits of his conscience NOT to make his movie about that.
Our “unbiased©,” “Mainstream®” Media have wallowed in their selective indignation over Gibson’s depiction of the violence, but their protests lack the ring of truth. It was not a children’s-book period of Human history for Jew, Roman, or follower of some mysterious Holy-man the formers’ “Vichy” leadership feared might de-stabilize things. “Cruel-&-unusual punishments,” circa First Century A.D., was an oxymoron, as it had ever been, and Gibson portrayed it honestly, based on painstaking research—nothing more. BUT, one might wish to see it first without one’s small children.
The movie transported me. It reached in and pulled at things. It showed me things-expected—and unexpected. At least one of its languages seemed to expect a reply at times, which defies rational explanation but there it was.
The movie will almost certainly show each viewer something different but as intense. I would choose to see it again, even without political entities I detest—instructing us that we shouldn’t. I cannot imagine wishing I hadn’t seen it, regardless of my beliefs—or presuming to tell anyone else why not to see it.
RKBA! Regards, all.
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