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Old Sep 22nd, 2004, 06:50 PM   #16
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People choose not to see the film because essentially it is not not not a product of a spiritual heart but is instead a somewhat anti-semetic money making scheme. Reviving a medieval practise of attempting to shock an audience via embedded guilt-mongering techniques is really not the best way to reach the people. It certainly worked amongst some people but it really isn't fair to have a go at people who have chosen not to see it. It is brutal propaganda and really doesn't deserve a place amongst modern cinema or even modern society.
The hypocrisy surrounding the situation is that it preaches spiritual hatred and retribution through pain, which is only a message fundamentalist groups interpret within spiritual materials.

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yet they only choose to read what they want and do what they want and not look at the whole thing
That is exactly what Mel Gibson chose to do. I'm not having a go at anyone here by the way, just the film itself. Sorry for dragging things off topic.

Which apparently great movies have I never seen? Quite a few.

Raging Bull, Apocalypse Now (although familiar with the content, I've never had time to watch the film in its entirity), A Clockwork Orange. Also, like Rei, I have never seen Mission Impossible, The Green Mile and Saturday Night Fever. But those are out of choice. Ahahaha.
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