the thin line between optimism and delusion…

I have a few more thoughts on the Passion movie, I saw Mel Gibson on Jay Leno last night and it made me think of some stuff i left out. I think that Mel Gibson is such a brave person for putting his faith on display for the world. I know for me, my faith is one of the most personal things in my life, and although I like to talk about it to people, it is so very personal. I end up feeling attached to people I talk to about my faith, and this is dangerous sometimes, not necessarily a bad thing, but just a scary thing. So I am very impressed with this man. More importantly, I was amazed by the audience of the leno show last night, they were unbelievably supportive of Mel, and they cheered for him and laughed with him like he was their best friend in the whole world and they wanted to make sure he wasn’t being bullied, and they wanted to make sure he was being supported. It was really unbelievable. It was the kind of audience you would have expected if they had all known Mel personally and liked him. I guess that is what people feel like after watching the movie, because he opened himself up to people, they now feel a connection and an investment in him. It was so different from how Diane Sawyer treated him. Jay seemed really impressed, and I don’t know anything about Jay’s faith, but he seemed to have appreciated the movie in a similar fashion to how I appreciated it. My favorite thing that was said, Jay was talking about the movie and the way the violence affected him, and he said, “when you watch most violent movies, you feel like you are the one inflicting the pain, you are the one throwing the punch. But with this movie, the violence makes you feel like you are the one being punched, and that is the difference.” I thought this was a very appropriate analogy. okay, I am going to class.