February 17, 2004

  • Amazing how everyone gets sick the day after a long weekend.  I made it in to work, and now I have to cover for everyone that is out.  This is after I couldn't sleep a wink last night for some reason or another.  I saw some special edition of Nightline, where Diana Sawyer interviewed Mel Gibson, who directed "The Passion of the Christ".  I didn't know there was so much controversy about the movie.  Accusations have been made that Mel Gibson is anti-Semitic, to which he had a very good answer.  He said something to the effect of "To be anti-Semitic would be un-Christian."  I've been wanting to watch the movie, and everyone on the show made the comment that the movie is violent.  It has an R rating, and Gibson himself said that he wanted the audience to be shocked by the ultimate sacrifice made by Jesus Christ.  I guess the Pope even has been sitting on the fence regarding the movie, as the Vatican made a statement regarding the movie and then retracted it.  The statement was something like, "It is as it was."  Seems interesting.  Well, I can't knock it before I see it, so I'm going to watch it before I pass any judgement.