Mel's Passions

It does not seem unreasonable to suppose that Gibson would develop some bitterness towards the Jewish community in the wake of their terribly unfair treatment of The Passion of the Christ. But it seems more likely to me that Mel always had these feelings, thinly veiled, and the literati's over-reaction to Passion was driven by in-the-know awareness of his anti-Semitic mindset. Generally I agree with Udolpho's take on this - the film ought to stand on its own. The unbearably patronizing stance of all those who assured us that the movie would poison our dim Christian minds opened a vast new front in the culture wars that we didn't need - a whole lot of bitterness, anger and resentment over nothing.