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...seriousness… There is increasingly a choreography of violence, a way of aestheticizing it, that makes it more acceptable and worthy of recognition.” The problem with films like “Apocalypto” (and its forerunner, “The Passion of the Christ??) is that although they try to be serious, they invariably drown in the ‘aesthetics of violence’ and forget to explain the motivation or relevance for the violence...
...source in a historical event, the viewer doesn’t become skeptical or alienated when body parts start to fly. Gibson’s revisionist take on history is too fanciful to give “Apocalypto” or “The Passion of the Christ?? the same firm grounding...
Gibson didn’t shy from gore in “Braveheart” or “The Passion of the Christ?? and he certainly doesn’t here either. The moment you see a white waterfall, you know it’s only a matter of time before it is stained with red, and a cornfield just wouldn’t be a cornfield in a Gibson movie without a field of corpses behind...
Chocolate-dipped macaroons. Fresh mozzarella. Coconut shrimp, for Christ??s sake! Yes, there was female empowerment. Yes, there was the satisfaction of finally realizing a long-awaited goal. But at the opening of the Harvard College Women’s Center last Thursday, it was the spread of gourmet eats and other plush amenities that had people really impressed. Revelers were rewarded for their trip through a sweaty hall under Canaday B with the swank center itself, all cushy couches, tasteful lighting, and, perhaps most importantly, a hell of a lot of free shit. FM collected...
...quotes enlightened philosophes, concelebrates with rabbis and patriarchs, and is quite fond of neo-Platonic reasoning in his homilies. He even repeatedly quotes passages in the Qur’an. In short, he seeks to bring the Church closer to other religions in building a Christianity more akin with Christ??s teachings than the one that ordered the Crusades and the Inquisition long centuries...