I wish Mel would do a film on ABL's life or on VCII.
It would be a great service to transmit the true cause of the crisis to a world-wide audience. The Conciliar Church would go apoplectic.
I think that, with the Macchabees film, that is exactly what he is doing. :scratchchin:
Think about it, the Hellenisation of the Israelites, the cowardice and worldliness of the most eminent citizens, the wickedness and boldness of the pagan Antiochus Epiphanes, the abomination of desolation, the abandonment of the old ways and the ancient manly disciplines of the religion of the Old Testament, the miraculous restoration, etc. The sect of the Latrocinium and their propagandists will say that it is all a metaphor for religious people (Jєω and Christian alike, of course !) combatting the effects of saecularism (not the saecularists themselves, of course, since "my uncle and my brother are both agnostics, and my aunt is divorced and remarried, and they're all nice, good people..."). But I doubt, having seen the Passion and Apocalypto, that the very troubled Gibson, a genius filmmaker and director, will stoop to such clumsy and facile workmanship when he has such fine material in his hands.
I would like to see this film, especially if he spares none of the details found in the Scriptures. Violence can be very damaging to the Christian's mind and sentiments, especially the younger ones, but if Catholic men are ever going to be worthy to call themselves the sons of those who fought to defend the Holy Land during the holy pilgrimages to Jerusalem centuries ago, our more mature members need to understand that these sorts of affairs can get pretty bloody and that sometimes, when the enemies of God make it morally impossible to continue attempts at persuasion because their continuation damages the common good, they can only be met with cold steel and an equally steely resolve to courage.