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Gibson's The Passion and graphic violence in fiction 2/19/2004 12:36:58 PM
Mel Gibson's The Passion of Jesus Christ has just been released. One of the issues many people have with this movie is that it portrays the brutal crucifixion in shocking detail. This is good. Sometimes a work of art must be graphic to convey a wider truth.
I confess I have sympathy for Gibson and his movie. My own little book, Dog Days in Bedlam, has been criticized for being too graphic. It is true my novel has a few scenes involving violence and sex. Such scenes were necessary. The story takes place in the violent, lawless days just before the flood of Genesis. Humanity had sunk to such a level of depravity that God was forced to cleanse the world through flood. My book tries to portray this era, and hopefully lets the reader see the justice in God's judgment. And even though my hero Hershel dies a martyr's death, and Ofra, his lady love, suffers mightily too, they triumph through their courage, love and faith.
