Hacksaw Ridge
Hollywood had shelved Mel Gibson as one of the worst ill-repute -- as antisemitic -- and it's been awhile since we've heard from him. And it looked like for a moment in the film that it might contain little inferences here and there that didn't distract from the plot, but basically let Hollywood know how he'd felt about that. There's a character in the film, you see, who's nicknamed Hollywood, and we meet him early on, well before they get to the war zone. He's very beautacious and full of himself, and he wilts when under pressure. Classic attack upon liberals; close to classic antisemitic attack against Jews. But he's not revealed as empty and worthless. Really, he ends up basically just average, as an average soldier, who performs but also gets dismayed in fear too. And in this film that actually counts for a lot, because Gibson is with them all, the great and merely adequate soldiers, and soldiers of all ranks too (officers can b...