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...other hand, Mel Gibson, wearing a bald wig and a manner both fussy and insistent, is wonderful as the psychiatrist who restores Dark to a semblance of health. Robin Wright Penn is equally compelling as Dark's estranged, emotionally ambiguous wife. And it's good to be in touch, even in a somewhat diminished form, with one of the most potent works of modern pop culture. --By Richard Schickel
...forthcoming movie The Passion by Mel Gibson has already elicited much comment (Arts, “Scholars Challenge Gibson’s ‘Passion,’” Oct. 17). The criticisms generally focus on two points: the movie does not accept the theological reforms introduced by Vatican II and the movie claims to be an accurate historical reconstruction but in fact is not. But the critics, no less than Gibson, need to exercise care...
Making light of the death threats, Fredriksen says, “I felt nervous because I was on Peter Jennings and they had a shot of me walking my golden retriever. I don’t think Mel would kill a golden retriever but I had that thought that I might be endangering his life...
...film have argued that, despite the history of the passion play, modern audiences will be able to stomach potentially anti-Semitic material with an open mind. But Fredriksen is particularly pessimistic about The Passion’s potentially detrimental effects. At the end of “Mad Mel,” she concluded that “once its subtitles shift from English to Polish, or Spanish, or French, or Russian,” violence would be inevitable...
...Mel Gibson’s film meets the fate of 99 percent of religious films produced out of Hollywood, it will be archival fodder in eighteen months,” says Gomes. “The medium of film is just not subtle enough in a way to deal with the substance of theological and biblical issues that they try to debate. They make the Bible into a movie and in doing that you take all of the risks of filmdom and none of the benefits of the Bible...