[Vision2020] Mel Gibson and Anti-Semitism

[nickgier at adelphia.net]

Greetings:

My radio commentary this week was on Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ."  I'm in Seattle this week but I bet that the Nuart will be showing this film, perhaps the most anti-Semitic gosple film ever made.  My complete film review can be read at http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/madmax.htm.

Here are excerpts from three critics:

Leon Wieseltier condemns the movie is a "profoundly brutalizing experience. Children must be protected from it. . . . This film makes no quarrel with the pain that it excitedly inflicts. It  is a repulsive, masochistic fantasy, a sacred snuff film.”

Catholic Mary Gordon states that “the dominant tone in the film is one of rage-inducing voyeurism.”

William Safire charges that the movie “is the bloodiest, most brutal example of sustained sadism ever presented on the screen.”

A panel of scholars (Protestants, Catholics, and Jews) requested that Gibson edit out the worst parts but his response was the same as Doug Wilson's response to his critics, and we all know how nice that was.

Nick Gier