Posted on 09/05/2016 10:48:04 AM PDT by NRx
Director: Mel Gibson; Starring: Andrew Garfield, Teresa Palmer, Vince Vaughn, Sam Worthington, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths. Cert tbc, 131 mins.
What could have possibly attracted Mel Gibson to the story of Desmond Doss, a man whose unconventional religious beliefs made him a pariah among his peers, but who, once the system had learned to grudgingly accommodate him, worked wonders and saved souls through sheer force of conviction? Desmond was a committed Seventh Day Adventist and pacifist who served as a US Army medic at Okinawa, saving 75 lives without ever lifting a weapon – and the curiously ideal subject for what is unquestionably going to be viewed as Gibson’s comeback movie.
Hacksaw Ridge is a fantastically moving and bruising war film that hits you like a raw topside of beef in the face – a kind of primary-coloured Guernica that flourishes on a big screen with a crowd. It is Gibson’s first film as director since Apocalypto in 2006 – and, more pertinently, since a string of scandals and public disgraces toxified his career in the years that followed. Its story of an outcast finding redemption through superhuman levels of suffering is pure Gibson: you could even call it the third part of an unofficial trilogy that also takes in Apocalypto and The Passion of the Christ (2004), except you sense Gibson will return in future to this story again and again, perhaps because of a deep-seated suspicion it may also be his.
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Still haven’t found it, have you?
Well, keep looking.
Whatever vices Mel Gibson may struggle with, sensible political convictions is not on that list. I seriously doubt the man has a liberal bone in his body. He is loathed by the Hollywood elite.
Your logic ? No. And I suspect I won’t.
Gosh.
It’s been, what, 70 years since World War 2?
And they release a film about a Soldier who won’t carry a rifle just when the trial for Bergdahl is heating up?
Coincidence.....you bet.
I should have posted that to the multiple people degrading the thread with a religious discussion but I took the lazy way out and posted it to the OP.
It was not directed at you, but at everyone on the thread who was turning this into a religious discussion when the focus should be on the hero, and his religion maybe only to the extent that it shaped him, as you can’t separate his conscientious objector status from his religion.
I heard Doss speak and read his biography. He was pretty clear about the abuse he took.
He did say that the outright abuse ended after he received his formal medic training and started taking part in tactical exercises and showed he could physically keep up with the others and could treat their wounds. But he said he was still largely isolated from the others. Ironically, given the direction this thread has taken, one of the first to truly befriend him was a Roman Catholic soldier.
He says he truly became accepted once they actually got into combat and he really started proving his worth. And after the events at Hacksaw Ridge, when he was in the hospital, he mentioned he’d lost the Bible his wife had given him. When word got back to his company, the men scoured the area until they found it.
Incidentally, he said that the blows, the insults and the isolation was not the worst thing that happened to him. He said the most painful thing during all the time he was being harassed was to hear the other men use the name Jesus Christ as an exclamation and say G— D-—.
I missed that part. Thanks for pointing it out to me.
Berghahl wasn’t a conscientious objector. He was a deserter. And you’re seriously trying to equate these two men? Disgusting.
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