NDLI: Mel Gibson’s Big Gamble: The Passion of Christ

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Author	Hutch, Richard
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	Mel Gibson’s film is a creative reworking of opportunities provided by migrating to Australia as a boy and a life-long desire to be reconciled to his father, Hutton Gibson. If the film is read as a study in psychology and biography, then biblical and theological critiques, along with contemporary politically correct stances towards what Gibson did, can be set temporarily aside in search of a larger trajectory of meaning implicit in the film. The embodied nature of the film, along with other violent films in which Gibson starred in the past three decades, points to wellsprings of “power in the blood.” Violence becomes an idiom of reconciliation with authority. Gibson’s relationship to his father plays a major role in such a reading of the film. A continuous reconciliation with his father is evident not only in thematic continuities over the course of Mel Gibson’s professional acting career and starring roles. It also structures the director’s construction of Christ’s Passion. A desire “not to be forsaken” gives rise to this idiosyncratic and controversial film, itself a cinematic statement about Gibson’s own personal spiritual torment.
Starting Page	337
Ending Page	340
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00312789
Journal	Pastoral Psychology
Volume Number	53
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15736679
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Publisher Date	2005-01-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Gibson’s Passion psychobiography reconciliation spirituality Religion Sociology Psychology Clinical Psychology Cross Cultural Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Religious Studies Social Psychology Applied Psychology

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