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Sunday Star Times
March 7, 2004
Mel's SM-BD porn
Letter to the Editor
by Denis Hall, Wellington
Among
all the international pontificating and claims of anti-Semitism attached to Mel
Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ (February 29) it seems that a key
aspect has been missed - perhaps deliberately. He has made a succession of
movies with the same theme. An innocent is unjustly treated, hurt, or even
killed.
Mel is rightly angered and must bring the wrath of righteousness down upon the
perpetrators. In the process our hero (until now he has always been played by
Mel), is captured by the baddies, tied up, tortured, whipped, beaten,
humiliated and almost killed.
The whipping scenes have always been as graphic as possible in the fashion of
the time. See Mad Max 1, 2 and 3, Lethal Weapon and Braveheart. But our brave
Mel always escapes to wreak terrible vengeance on those who whipped, tortured
and humiliated him. I have to say the unsayable. It all looks like a classic
homosexual sado-masochistic bondage fantasy to me.
The more cynical among us, some Marist old boys, see a connection between all
this and the huge problem of homosexual abuse, perpetrated by priests, now
being exposed in the Catholic Church. I would characterise it as, dare I say
it, "religious porn".
Mind you, The Passion of the Christ was filmed in the Sassi in