[kenth]

My main objection to "The Passion" is that Gibson has used the tools at his disposal to disguise sadism as piety. My tools, meanwhile, are words.

But it takes more words than there is commonly room for in a newspaper to encompass all the fine print. Otherwise, I would have cited Soviet theories of montage to explain how Gibson turned that despicable historical figure Pontius Pilate into a sympathetic character and the Jews into an undifferentiated, bloodthirsty mob.

Due to space limitations, film reviews are like compressed files. Not all readers are able to "unstuff" them.

It's such a shame that we aren't all as intelligent as she to be able to see through Gibson's use of film to lead us around emotionally. It is a shame too that the newspaper doesn't afford her enough space to be able to use enough small words that we could understand.

Never mind that she could have done this here instead of whining about her unaccepted criticism.

[Calvin Locke]

Libs are mad because Pilate is Klintonian

and

...I would have cited Soviet theories of montage to explain how Gibson turned that despicable historical figure Pontius
Pilate into a sympathetic character...

Hey Jami! Go try to read some of Mo Dowd's Monicagate Era stuff.

And Jami, BTW, didn't The Greatest Story Ever Told have Pilate making a reluctant, but "social" decision too?

("Slave! Water! I want to wash my hands!")