Help Me Get One More

Once I viewed the previews of Mel Gibson’s new film, Hackshaw Ridge, I decided not to see it. The luridly graphic war images were far too off-putting. Until a Franciscan priest friend told me that he planned to see it as soon as he could opened. His reply to my stunned Why? was that it was ‘a completely different take on war.’ Hence, my husband and I were in the audience on opening day. Most reviewers are writing about the “Mel Gibson comeback” and the “madness and majesty” of this movie. A far different reception than that received by The Passion of Christ.