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Tomato, to-mah-to. On Skin, politics, anxiety and money are the very definition of 21st century American sex, in which desire and guilt dance their eternal lambada to the frantic beat of the electro-media. In Skin's world, come-ons for sex chat compete for TV time with pictures of abducted girls on Amber Alerts. In Skin's world, D.A. Thomas Roam (Kevin Anderson) runs his re-election campaign on an antismut crusade, while his target, Larry Goldman (Ron Silver), quips, "If the voters are so much against porn, why do I live...
...Small North Koreans have received life sentences for crimes as simple as singing a South Korean pop song or spilling ink on a photo of Kim Jong Il. Often, up to three generations of a prisoner's family are sentenced along with the culprit, on the theory of guilt by association...
Some critics of the film (notably Frank Rich of the New York Times) argue that the Gibson’s Catholicism is out of touch with contemporary Catholic thought, since the Second Vatican Council absolved the Jews of the guilt of murdering Jesus. This criticism is not accurate. All four gospels depict the Jews of the time, or at least various Jewish authorities, as responsible for Jesus’ death. The Gospels state that the Romans actually executed Jesus, but that the Jews put them up to it and are to blame for it. Nothing that was said or done...
...when they do so, does the movie make clear that these are people who lived long ago and who are not speaking for anyone other than themselves? Or does the movie imply, as all medieval passion plays unmistakably implied, that Jews of all generations somehow bear the guilt of murdering Christ and that Jewish “Christ-killers” are with us still? This is the question that needs to be asked in deciding whether the movie and Gibson are anti-Jewish...
...seems money buys everything, even innocence or guilt...