Lots of other quality work followed all of which I currently forget, (I wonder why), until he bought us the wonderful passion of the christ where we get a glimspe of what’s going in the gibson mind (it aint pretty).

I prefered to hold to my image of gibson as a talentless, vacuous ‘non’ personality, but now we are given a disturbing insight into the disturbing world view of Mr Gibson.

It’s not surprising that his vision/version of christianity and christs story went down so well with the fundermentalist looney tune nutters who are now dominating and running your country. It played into the ‘self pitying’,self aggrandising ‘the world is against us’ mindset of these fundermentalist bigots.

The conflagration scenes shot with such glee must have filled them with a sense of righteous indignation serving in their minds as a symbolic representation of their plight in this ‘heathen’ society.

The ‘villians’ of the piece would have sat well with the world view of many of them, confirming the ‘untrustworthyness’ of ‘them there jews’.

To praise this piece of tripe is to display a level of ignorance that is hard to fathom.

As a film it’s narrative is trite and full of ‘over wrought’ set piece events bought together with no convincing effect.
And as a piece of ‘historical’ documentation it is full of inaccuracies.
It even fails as a film from a religious prespective documenting christs last moments. Without showing any proper regard to the teachings and life of christ, his death loses all context.

Mel gibson producer of the year! Mickey mouse for president more like… no wait sorry you’ve already got him as president.

Marc Bowker
http://www.AlterEgoComics.com