Poor Mel Gibson! They say he's an alcoholic, they say he's violent, they say he's a lot of things that don't define him. He's talented, he used to be very good looking, he had a vision. He is a good actor, strangely. He has funny names. Born in the state of New York in 1956, from an Irish mother (née Reilly), and an Australian of an Irish descent, he was baptized Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson. "Mel" and "Colm-Cille" are Irish saints names. He has another ten brothers, and when he was twelve, his … [Read more...]
Edge of Darkness
Edge of Darkness is a movie with another actor I appreciate a lot. I like him as an actor and filmmaker, because he is a real artist, no matter his flaws in his private life. Are we appreciate less the inventor of the History of Religions as a science, who was somehow a nazi in his native country, his political obedience considered a "young age's flaw", or Celine, or Oscar Wilde, both pro Hitler in their times? I don't believe so. On the contrary, I think people or critics avoid to mention it. … [Read more...]
Let’s “Regulate”
France likes to present itself as "one of America’s principal rivals around the world", so with the seizure of "the most electable French person" and locking him up, according to an American lynch mentality not enough unapproved (like arresting the dictator of Panama and throwing him in a jail in Florida, or awarding Saddam Hussein's revolver to George W. Bush, or the bombing of places where Qaddafi is thought to hide and killing his son and grandchildren), France have fallen within the pattern … [Read more...]