You mean it's an unreasonable complaint, but you didn't wish to state it so reasonably? as it were. You have a problem with people expressing outrage at the media elites for failing to recognize one of the best produced and most influential motion pictures of the last however many years, in Gibson's The Passion of Christ? Just as a film, it's a cut above many of the other nominees. Clearly something else is at work, here. And the obvious suspicion is that there is a Catholophobic bias among these same media elites. They are BLACKLISTING this film, denying it any opportunity for recognition. They are shunning the film because of its content, not that it was bloody, but that it was a film reasonably faithful to the Passion story, and Jesus Christ.
It is something about which one OUGHT to be outraged. It's religious discrimination in its worst form, and imposed in conspiratorial fashion by not one, or two, but various individuals and supposedly professional organizations. Wake up. Take off the blinders. Exit the matrix.
The tragedy is that some of the biggest fans of these organizations, from the Oscars on down, are found even here on FR. They contribute to this system, to this blacklisting, by their own enthusiasm for the sham of awards. What is called for, instead, is that 'freepers' shun the Oscars, and the Golden Globes, and that others do, as well. They won't 'get the message'. These BLACKLISTERS will bankrupt their own industry before they confess their own bigotry or do anything positive to remove it; just like liberal newspapers would rather shut their doors than give a conservative columnist even a single inch of print to tell the other side of the story. But even if the media elite will refuse to learn, it's they who should be shunned. And too many on FR will not understand that.
It's been brought up here by someone that if Gibson were to take his proposal for his film to the Vatican it would have been rejected since his view does not match the one currently held by the Catholic church. Sometimes it isn't a wide conspiracy but merely people with different taste.
Can't expect anything else from them. "The Passion...." is an affront to their view of the world. Of course it also challenged the liberal Catholic view, which is only tolerated because it --as Jacques Maritain--put it, "geneflects," to the world. Many years ago I read in Harper's/The Atlantic Monthly an article by a liberal Jew named Kaufmann, who said he always thought of the Passion in terms of a Hollywood "happy ending." Gibson's portrayal of the Passion, however, is so brutally realistic, however, that one can feel the nails being driven into the flesh. Hard to keep in mind the thought "it's only a movie." That's why liberal Christians hate it. They want to focus on the sermon on the Mount and, maybe, on the Resurrection. The first is about the liberal rabbi that they revere. The Resurrection can be explained away. But a Roman execution? Too real. too real, too real.
Very well said.