Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:50 pm
Without having seen the film, I pretty much agree with the above quotes posted by Starflower.
Kenneth Turan on NPR said, in light of Mel's attempt at comment on
our current civilization, that Mel is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Another thing to note is that in US pop culture, a major motion picture is often how certain social issues are brought into the conversational currency of everyday life. It shows how easily the public is manipulated
by wealthy pop stars. All the issues brought up by the film have been
known about by thoughtful people for years...but they haven't been
on network tv or in a Gibson movie, so they have not entered the awareness of ordinary folks here.
Now we have "Blood Diamonds," too. So regular people will be talking about that for a couple of weeks.
Remember Passion of the Christ? Churches were buying blocks of hundreds of tickets and renting buses to take the flocks to the movie.
How stupid.
Kenneth Turan on NPR said, in light of Mel's attempt at comment on
our current civilization, that Mel is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Another thing to note is that in US pop culture, a major motion picture is often how certain social issues are brought into the conversational currency of everyday life. It shows how easily the public is manipulated
by wealthy pop stars. All the issues brought up by the film have been
known about by thoughtful people for years...but they haven't been
on network tv or in a Gibson movie, so they have not entered the awareness of ordinary folks here.
Now we have "Blood Diamonds," too. So regular people will be talking about that for a couple of weeks.
Remember Passion of the Christ? Churches were buying blocks of hundreds of tickets and renting buses to take the flocks to the movie.
How stupid.
