The Passion / Braveheart
After reading many reviews and criticisms of The Passion and having seen the movie, the one thing that I am suprised by is the lack of any parrallels drawn from Mel Gibson’s latest movie and Braveheart. If I were an upstart critic I think I’d be very tempted to point out that Mel might have some sort of thing for on screen torture and brutality.
In both movies we have martyrs being brutalized by oppressive powers that don’t want change towards the very end of the movie. I think both scenes played out similarly too — with cuts to the life that is flashing by.
Yeah, that’s pretty much it… I guess that answers my question as to why no one wrote about this. It doesn’t exactly take up a 1,000 word column.
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