To: K-list
Recieved: 2004/02/26 20:36
Subject: [K-list] The Passions of a Christian Snuff Film
From: Paul Perner
On 2004/02/26 20:36, Paul Perner posted thus to the K-list:
Good K People, please let me rest on your
collective shoulder for a moment.
It's been a very strange couple days.
I went to visit my recovering (from auto accident)
Christian friend got talked into going to a Bible
study where I ended up getting prayed over. It
was a beautiful experience, actually, with the
"speaking in tongues" psycho babble and all.
(I roll my eyes).
But then they started talking about the new Mel
Gibson movie as through it were the Second Coming.
Sorry, try as I might, I just don't believe in atonement.
The next morning I go to intern at the clinic. I get
off the subway on the boulevard and see the all the
preparations the awards - security befitting the UN,
giant gold statues, red carpet from one end of the
street to the other. I felt like, "I'm never going to pay
to see another movie in my life... these people don't
need another dime from me."
Then I get to clinic and I'm heartened to hear some
of the staff members in the break room talking about
protesting Bush's anti same sex marriage amendment
proposal. But then that darn movie comes up and the room
gets divided. The staff is mostly lesbian and gay, but
it didn't matter. The great Jesus' blood guilt thing has
seeped into even the very liberal, GLTG community.
I go home and read the news. Ok, call me old fashioned,
but I still find the New York Times the best source of
debate on this side of the pond. Their Ed. and Op-Ed.
writers eloquently expressed what I've felt all along.
The crucifixion was an execution, plain and simple.
I knew it was only a matter of time before someone in
Hollywood would cash in on it as public death has been
a spectator event for centuries.
Add one part Romans, one part Jesus, two parts
state of the art sound and cinematography, mix it
in a bowl of Good vs. Evil and you have a dualistic,
emotional nuclear bomb.
I think I'll pass on this one.
In a couple hours I'll be walking across the boulevard
again with my ambivalence about Christianity and
how big money has made "majors" out of "indies" by
using the same mass marketing techniques.
I ponder the $9.00 theater ticket. I guess it's all just
free speech and free enterprise doing what it's
meant to do.
Sacred, ancient Hollywood Scripture echoes:
"Never give a sucker an even break."
Book of Fields, Verse 9, Chapter 7.
Somehow, the old fellow with the big nose
and top hat warms my heart charka the way
Mel Gibson never could.
Paul
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